SINGAPORE, April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) today announced KDD 2021, the group's flagship conference, will take place virtually Aug. 14-18. The premier interdisciplinary data science conference, KDD 2021 will bring together researchers and practitioners from data science, machine learning, big data and artificial intelligence to fuel the innovation of tomorrow. Nominations for the annual ACM SIGKDD awards, which will be announced at the conference, are being accepted now through May 1. Based out of Singapore this year, conference organizers are focusing on equity across time zones â offering key content twice, on eight-hour intervals, to cover a multitude of attendee locations.