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.