This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, BDA 2024, held in Hyderabad, India, during December 17–20, 2024.The 16 full papers and 12 short papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions. These papers have been categorized under the following topical sections: Image Classification; Graph Analytics; Big Data Analytics; Applications; Data Science; Health-Care Analytics; eLearning; Prediction and Forecasting.