France Bélanger 

France Bélanger is University Distinguished Professor, R. B. Pamplin Professor, and Tom & Daisy Byrd Senior Faculty Fellow in the Pamplin College of Business, as well as Affiliate Faculty in the Hume Center for National Security and Technology at Virginia Tech.

Her research focuses on digital interactions between individuals, businesses, and governments and the related cybersecurity and privacy issues. Her award-winning work has been published in leading journals, including Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal for Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, various IEEE Transactions, and many others.

She is ranked in several most cited author lists, including among others, the top 1% most influential authors across all disciplines and times (Stanford Study) and top 100 most cited IS researchers based on H-index (University of Arizona). She received several international research awards over the years, including the 2013 INFORMS Design Science Award for Outstanding Research Stream and 2020 Lifetime Academic Achievement Award from the International Institute for Applied Knowledge Management.

In 2022, Woxsen University (India) honored her academic career by funding the France Bélanger Chair in Information Systems.

She has served as Senior or Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, as well as Associate Editor and Guest Editor for many other journals. She is on the Distinguished Editorial Advisory Board for the International Journal of Information Management.

Her work has been funded for more than US$1.5 million by agencies, institutes, corporations, and research centers, including the National Science Foundation. She was named Fulbright Distinguished Chair in 2006 (ISEG, Portugal), Erskine Fellow in 2009 (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), KoMePol-IT Fellow in 2017 (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany), and Visiting Professorial Fellow 2020-2023 (University of New South Wales, Australia).

In 2022, she launched an outreach program called ‘Voices of Privacy’ to educate society about information privacy issues and solutions.

Hsinchun Chen

Dr. Hsinchun Chen is a University of Arizona Regents’ Professor and the Thomas R. Brown Chair Professor in Management and Technology. He is also a Fellow of ACM, IEEE and AAAS. He received the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award in 2006, the INFORMS Design Science Award in 2008, the AIS Impact Award in 2020, and the IEEE Big Data Security Pioneer Award in 2022.

Chen had graduated 36 Ph.D. students over the past 30+ years, most of them placed at peer Research I institutions. Three of his Ph.D. students won the prestigious ICIS ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award (Z. Huang 2005, S. Samtani 2019, R. Ebrahimi 2021).

Chen served as the lead Program Director of the Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Program at the NSF for 2014-2015. He is author/editor of 20+ books, 320+ SCI journal articles, and 220+ refereed conference articles covering artificial intelligence, digital library, data/text/web mining, business analytics, security informatics, and health informatics. His overall h-index is 105 (47,000+ citations for 600+ papers according to Google Scholar), among the highest in MIS and top 50 in computer science.

Chen founded the Artificial Intelligence Lab at The University of Arizona in 1989, which has received $60M+ research funding from NSF, NIH, NLM, DOD, DOJ, CIA, DHS, and other agencies (100+ grants, 50+ from NSF, as PI). He has served as Editor-in-Chief, Senior Editor or AE of major ACM/IEEE (ACM TMIS, ACM TOIS, IEEE IS, IEEE SMC), MIS (MISQ, DSS) and Springer (JASIST) journals and conference/program chair of major ACM/IEEE/MIS conferences in digital library (ACM/IEEE JCDL, ICADL), information systems (ICIS), security informatics (IEEE ISI), and health informatics (ICSH).

He is also a successful IT entrepreneur. His COPLINK/i2 system for security analytics was commercialized in 2000 and acquired by IBM as its leading government analytics product in 2011. The COPLINK/i2 system is in use in 5,000+ law enforcement jurisdictions and intelligence agencies in the U.S. and Europe, making significant contribution to public safety worldwide.

He is internationally renowned for leading research and development in the health analytics and security informatics communities.

Kieran Conboy

Kieran Conboy is a Professor in the School of Business & Economics and is a co-Principal Investigator in the Lero Irish Software research centre. He previously worked for Accenture Consulting and the University of New South Wales in Australia. He is also on the board of the Irish Research Council, and has previously been Head of the School of Business as well as Dean of Business, Public Policy & Law at NUI Galway.

Conboy has published more than 150 articles in leading international journals and conferences including Information Systems Research, the European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, the Journal of the AIS, IEEE Software, the International Conference in Information Systems and the European Conference in Information Systems. He is an editor of the European Journal of Information Systems and has chaired international conferences in his field.

Conboy teaches information systems innovation, agile and lean project management, portfolio management, and contemporary models such as crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. He has advised and published widely in the areas of management and workplace innovation, and particularly in the area of agile and lean processes in software organisations.

He has worked with organisations such as Microsoft, Atlassian, Cisco Systems, Suncorp, and Fidelity Investments, as well as many SMEs. Conboy has also advised international public sector organisations in the health and education sectors.

He is the Principal Investigator of a Science Foundation Ireland project in the area, involving 11 research fellows and Ph.D researchers, and has received over €8m in research grants from industry, the European Commission, Enterprise Ireland and the Irish Research Council.

Conboy also advises on funding agency policy and practice and has advised the E.U. Commission as well as national funding bodies in Ireland, the U.S. and Australia. He is now leading an Irish Research Council funded project to adapt, implement and validate the use of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing techniques in the grant award policies and mechanisms of Science Foundation Ireland, Enterprise Ireland as well as the IRC.

Anindya Ghose

Anindya Ghose is the Heinz Riehl Chair Professor of Technology and Marketing at NYU’s Stern School of Business. He is the author of TAP: Unlocking The Mobile Economy which has been translated into five languages (Korean, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Japanese and Taiwanese). He is a Leonard Stern Faculty Scholar the Ghose MBA Scholarship named after him. He has been a professor at the Wharton School of Business.

In 2014, he was named by Poets & Quants as one of the Top 40 Professors Under 40 and by Analytics Week as one the Top 200 Thought Leaders in Big Data and Business Analytics.

He is the youngest recipient of the INFORMS ISS Distinguished Fellow Award. In 2017 he was recognized by Thinkers50 as one of the Top Management Thinkers globally. In 2019, he was recognized by Web of Science citation Index in the top 1% of researchers over a 10 year period (2008-2018). In 2020, he was recognized by the INFORMS ISS with the inaugural Practical Impacts Award. He is a Department Editor of the IS Department of Management Science. He was a Senior Editor of ISR between 2012-2021.

He has been the Chair or served in the Thesis Committee of 26 Ph.D students and 4 post-doctoral students in North America, Asia and Europe. He has made significant contributions in the economics of internet platforms and digital marketing and received 26 Best Paper awards and nominations. His papers have accumulated more than 19000 Google Scholar citations, an h-index of 53 and an i-10 index of 101.

He has been retained as an expert witness by some of the biggest law firms in the world such as Gibson Dunn, Kirkland Ellis, Freshfields Bruckhaus, Skadden Arps, Wilmer Hale, Cooley, Wilson Sonsini, and has provided expert testimony in some of the most high profile litigation matters in financial securities, antitrust and competition, trademark and copyright infringement, and merger appraisal cases involving firms like Alibaba, Apple, Facebook, Google, Snapchat, Tinder and Yahoo. He serves as an Advisor to start-ups and VC funds in the US, India, Hong Kong, Netherlands, South Korea, Singapore, and China.

Natalia Levina

Natalia Levina is a Professor of Information Systems and George & Edith Heyman Faculty Fellow at New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business.

Levina’s research focuses on understanding how people span organizational, professional, cultural, and other boundaries in building and adopting new technologies. She uses qualitative fieldwork as well as computational methods and diverse organizational theories in her research.

Her current projects include investigating AI adoption in professional work, diverse modes of open innovation, governance processes in crowdsourcing communities, and the impact of blockchain technologies on society. Her research has been published in Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Journal of Management Information Systems, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, and other outlets.

Levina has held several editorial positions at Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, and Information & Organization journals. She has co-founded and chaired AIS Special Interest Group (SIG) on the Grounded Theory Method (GTM) and has taken on other leading roles with AIS, including serving as a program co-chair for the ICIS conference and the ICIS doctoral consortium. At NYU Stern School, she leads the Ph.D. program in Information Systems and has served as an inaugural director for the Fubon Center for Technology, Business, and Innovation.

Levina has also been appointed Distinguished Research Environment Professor at Warwick Business School. Her teaching portfolio includes undergraduate, MBA, and EMBA courses on digital strategy and innovation and a doctoral seminar on Technology in Organizations.

Levina received her B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics and M.A. in Mathematics from Boston University. She received her Doctor of Philosophy in Information Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management.

Shan-Ling Pan

Shan Ling Pan is Scientia Professor and AGSM Scholar at the School of Information Systems and Technology Management, UNSW Sydney where he is currently the Deputy Head of School (Research). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Warwick.

Pan’s research interest is the enabling roles of digital technologies in innovation and sustainability. As a phenomenon-based researcher, using qualitative methods, Pan has documented some of the most valuable digital transformation best practices arising from businesses, cities, remote villages, and government agencies in their rapid development over the last two decades. He frequently travels to developing economies where he studies the indigenous practices of information systems.

Pan’s research has been recognised by a number of ranking sources, including the Stanford University’s list of top 2% scientists in the world and the AIS Research Ranking.

Pan has published widely in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of the AIS, Information Systems Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, and among others.

He has served the IS community through his work on editorial boards (MISQ, ISR, JAIS, ISJ, JSIS, EJIS). He is currently senior editor at JAIS and JSIS.

His most significant AIS service include PACIS 2020 and 2021 Conference Co-chair, PACIS 2017 Program Co-chair, and ICIS Track Co-chairs.

In recognising his impact-centric research achievements, in 2020, Pan was awarded the inaugural AIS Impact Award. For his leadership in technological innovation and contributions to the IS community, Shan has received the AIS Technology VISION Award in 2020 and 2021.

He would like to take this opportunity to thank the AIS Fellow Award selection committee along with his mentors, colleagues, and students over the years from the National University of Singapore and UNSW Sydney.

Jeffrey Parsons

Jeffrey Parsons is University Research Professor and Professor of Information Systems in the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada. He previously served as associate dean (research) and PhD program director at Memoral University and has been a visiting professor at Wharton and at the University of Queensland.

His research interests focus on how to better represent human conceptualizations of the world in data and he has been active in research on conceptual modeling, crowdsourcing, information quality, data repurposing, and recommender systems.

His work on these and other topics has appeared in top journals in several disciplines, including MISQ, ISR, Management Science, JAIS, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Nature, and Conservation Biology. His research is funded by both the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

His research has received numerous awards, including MISQ paper of the year (2019), AIS Senior Scholars Paper Award (2020), and the INFORMS Design Science Research Award (2014). He has been recognized as a Schoeller Senior Fellow (2019) from the Schoeller Research Center (Nuremberg, Germany), Distinguished Research Fellow from TU Dresden (2022), and ER Fellow from the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (2018), and has received an Outstanding Contribution Award from the AIS Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design (SIGSAND).

Parsons has served as a Senior Editor for both MIS Quarterly and the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and as an Associate Editor for Information Systems Research. In addition, he has taken on many conference organizing roles. Among these, he co-chaired the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (2021), the Workshop on Information Technologies and System (2001), and the Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (2016) conferences, and served as Program Co-Chair of AMCIS (2008). In addition, he twice served as a mentor at the ICIS Doctoral Consortium (2021, 2009) and twice co-chaired the Doctoral Consortium of DESRIST. He is currently co-chairing the ICIS Junior Faculty Consortium and will be Conference Co-Chair of AMCIS 2025.

Stacie Petter

Stacie Petter is a professor of management information systems at the Wake Forest University School of Business. Her research focuses on the impacts of information systems on individuals and organizations, with an emphasis on responsible research.

Much of her current research focuses on questions related to the intersection of information technology and social issues, including human trafficking, social inclusion and exclusion, and the design of work.

Her research appears in outlets such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, among others. She has been identified as one of the top 100,000 most cited scholars in the years 2019, 2020, and 2021, and her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the IBM Center for the Business of Government.

Petter has served as editor-in-chief of The DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems and on the editorial boards of journals such as AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, AIS Transactions on Replication Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, MIS Quarterly, and Information Systems Journal.

Petter has served in a range of leadership roles for the Association for Information Systems, including Program Co-Chair for the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) in 2013, AIS Council Vice President of Region 1 in 2015-2020, co-creator of the AMCIS Mid-Career Workshop in 2014, among others.

Petter has received numerous awards for her service to the community, including the MIS Quarterly Best Reviewer and Best Associate Editor awards, the Sandra Slaughter Outstanding Service Award, and the AMCIS Outstanding Conference Service Leadership Award. She is also a conference co-chair for the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2022 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Sumit Sarkar

Sumit Sarkar is the Charles and Nancy Davidson Chair and Professor of Information Systems in the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. He also serves as the Director of the PhD program at the Jindal school.

He received his PhD in Computers and Information Systems from the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester, his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, and B. Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

His research interests are in personalization and recommendation technologies, data privacy, information quality, sponsored search, the sharing economy, digital platforms, reasoning under uncertainty, and software release strategies. His research has appeared in Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Operations Research, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, The INFORMS Journal on Computing, Journal of the AIS, and several other journals and conference proceedings.

Sarkar currently serves as a Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly, and on the editorial board of Management Science, the ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, Risk and Decision Analysis, and Information Technology and Management, among other journals. Previously, he has served as a Senior Editor for Information Systems Research, on the Advisory Board of the Journal of the AIS, a Program Co-Chair for the International Conference of Information Systems in 2001 (ICIS 2001), Co-Chair for the Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 1999), Conference Co-Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC 2009), and the President of WITS (2013-2015).

He has been a visiting faculty member at the National University of Singapore, the Indian School of Business, the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, and a visiting scientist at IBM Research Laboratories. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Information Systems Society at INFORMS and a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Ulrike Schultze 

Ulrike Schultze is Professor in Business Information Systems at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Her research explores the complex relationship between digitalization and work practices.

In particular, Schultze seeks to understand what the sociomaterial practices associated with information technology produce, especially with respect to work-related and societal change. While she has studied the work practice implications of knowledge management technology and of Internet-based self-service technology, her more recent research explores the implications of social media on personal identity. Online protest movements represent a key empirical context in Schultze’s identity research. Her remaining digitalization research includes the shared platforms and the sharing economy.

Schultze frequently relies on multi-method research designs, which include ethnographic observations, interviews and surveys. Her research has been published in leading IS journals, including ISR, MISQ and JAIS. She has served on numerous journals’ editorial boards including MISQ, ISR and EJIS, and is currently a Senior Editor at JAIS, JIT and I&O. Dr. Schultze has also taken on significant leadership roles in AoM-OCIS, IFIP 8.2, ECIS 2014/2023 and ICIS 2015.

Schultze holds a Bachelors’ and Masters’ degree in Information Systems from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She earned her PhD in Management, with a concentration in Information Systems, from Case Western Reserve University.

Keng Siau

Keng Siau is the Head of the Department of Information Systems and Chair Professor of Information Systems at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also a Chair Professor (Affiliate) of the School of Data Science at the City University of Hong Kong. Siau received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia and his M.S. and B.S. (Honors) degrees from the National University of Singapore.

From 2012 to 2021, he was Head (“Dean Equivalent”) of the AACSB-Accredited Business Programs at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Before joining the Missouri University of Science and Technology in June 2012, he was Edwin J. Faulkner Chair Professor and Full Professor of Management at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). He was also the Director of the UNL-IBM Global Innovation Hub. Siau is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Database Management (SCI and ABDC’s A journal). He is also a Senior Editor of the Industrial Management & Data Systems journal. He served as the North America Regional Editor of the Requirements Engineering journal (2010-2016). He was the Vice President of Education for the Association for Information Systems (AIS) from July 2011 to June 2014.

Siau has more than 350 academic publications. According to Google Scholar, he has a citation count of more than 18,500. He is consistently ranked as one of the top information systems researchers globally based on his h-index and productivity rate. He is on Stanford University’s list of the top 2% most-cited scientists in the world (he is ranked in the top 1%). He has been involved in projects totaling more than US $6 million, and his research has been funded by NSF, IBM, NSFC, and other business organizations.

Siau has received numerous awards for teaching, research, service, and leadership. He was a recipient of the prestigious International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Outstanding Service Award in 2006, IBM Faculty Awards in 2006 and 2008, IBM Faculty Innovation Award in 2010, AIS Sandra Slaughter Service Award in 2019, and AIS Award for Outstanding Contribution to IS Education in 2019.

Sean Xin Xu

Sean Xu is Starr Endowed Chair Professor at School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. He obtained a Ph.D. degree at University of California, Irvine in 2005. Since his doctoral study, Xu’s research has focused on IT business value, and worked on two topic areas: digital enablement and IT governance. He led a number of research projects with government agencies (National Science Foundation of China, Hong Kong General Research Fund) and corporations (JD, SAP, Walmart, People’s Insurance Company of China, China Telecom, China Southern Airline, ANTA Sports, among others), with research grants that totaled USD 2.6M as principal investigator plus USD 3.2M as co-investigator. His research papers appeared at Management Science, MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Information Systems Research (ISR), Journal of MIS, Strategic Management Journal, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Journal of Management Studies, among others.

Xu has actively conducted service jobs for the academic community, including editorial roles at journals (MISQ Senior Editor, ISR Associate Editor) and coordination for a large number of conferences. He engaged in developing the information systems community in the Asia-Pacific Region, serving as the Vice President of the Association for Information Systems China Chapter (CNAIS) since 2013, and now serving the President role of CNAIS.

His work has been recognized by the field. ISR named him “Best Associate Editor” in 2013. He won the MIS Quarterly Best Paper Award for 2013. He was nominated for the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in 2018, 2016, and 2009. He won the Vernon Zimmerman Best Paper Award at the Asian-Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues in 2007, two Best Paper Awards at ICIS in 2002 and 2003, and a Best Paper Award (International Track) at the 2004 Americas’ Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS).

Xu has immersed himself in education innovations. At the post of the school’s Associate Dean, he worked with his colleagues in designing and launching new Master’s programs featuring how new technologies empower business and management, including high-tech product management (MBA), business analytics, fintech, CFO and big data, digital economy, and green finance.

Manju Ahuja

Manju Ahuja received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and currently holds the Frazier Family Professorship in Information Systems at the University of Louisville.

Ahuja has been ranked among the top 50 researchers in the field of Information Systems worldwide by a variety of sources. She appears on the Stanford University’s list of top 2% scientists in the world. She serves as Senior Editor at Information Systems Research. She was a Senior Editor at the MIS Quarterly during 2014 – 17 and the Journal of AIS during 2017 – 19. She has served in other editorial roles at several premier journals including Management Information Systems Quarterly (Associate Editor, 2010 – 13), Information Systems Research (Associate Editor, 2006 – 08), and Management Science (Guest Editor).
Ahuja is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from Academy of Management’s OCIS division for 2020. She was OCIS Division Chair and Program Chair during 2011 – 12 and 2009 – 10.

Ahuja has held visiting scholar appointments at institutions across the world, including HEC Paris, University of New South Wales, Bocconi University, National University of Singapore, University of California, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She has received four National Science Foundation grants totaling more than $2,000,000 for her research on IT workforce issues. Her research has been cited by publications such as Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, Times of India, LSE (London School of Economics) Business Review, Strategy+Business, Computerworld, and others.

Her most significant AIS service include ICIS Junior Faculty Consortium co-Chair, ICIS Mid-Career Workshop co-Chair, ICIS Track co-Chair, and Placement chair (ICIS and AMCIS). She will be Program co-Chair for ICIS 2025. She has contributed to IS research on virtual teams, gender in IT workforce, remote work, work-life balance, and social networks. She recently co-authored a book on work-life balance of distributed knowledge professionals. She is currently involved in research on issues related to AI ethics, effects of mobile technologies, gig economy, and Future of Work.

Michel Avital

Michel Avital is a professor of digitalization at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. Previous appointments include being an associate professor at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and an assistant professor at his alma mater, Case Western Reserve University.

As an advocate of openness and an avid proponent of cross-boundary exchanges and collaboration, Avital focuses his research on the relationships between the digital innovation ecosystem and organizational practices. He studies how emergent technologies are developed, applied, managed, and used to transform and shape organizations.

Most recently, he has been examining blockchain-enabled innovation, transformation, organization, collaboration, and business models. He has published more than 100 articles on topics such as blockchain technology, crowdwork, sharing economy, data economics, open data, open design, generative design, creativity, innovation, appreciative inquiry, and the social fabric of organizations.

Avital is currently a senior editor of both the Journal of Information Technology and the European Journal of Information Systems as well as an editorial board member of five other leading IS journals. He serves in various organizational capacities for major international conferences and other topical conferences on digital technology and organization studies, including program chair for ECIS 2014; doctoral consortium chair for ECIS 2013, 2020, and 2021; and numerous appointments such as track chair, track associate editor, program committee member, and faculty mentor. Furthermore, Avital is a longtime member of the Standing Committee of AIS Region 2/European Conference of Information Systems. Being passionate about nurturing the next generation, Avital has supervised 34 doctoral students and currently serves on the board of the PhD school at Copenhagen Business School.

As a technology aficionado and digital entrepreneur, Avital works with start-ups, legacy organizations, and government agencies that strive to leverage emerging technologies into generating value and future-proofing their respective positions.

Ming-Hui Huang

Ming-Hui Huang is Distinguished Professor of AI and service at National Taiwan University. Her PHD is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the first and only Asian-based lifetime fellow of European Marketing Academy (EMAC), International Research Fellow of the Centre for Corporate Reputation, University of Oxford, and Distinguished Research Fellow of the Center for Excellence in Service, University of Maryland.

She specializes in interdisciplinary research, with publications encompassing both academic and managerial journals in Information Systems, Marketing, and Strategy, such as Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Sciences, Information & Management, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Journal of Service Research (JSR), Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS), Marketing Science, International Journal of Research in Marketing (IJRM), Journal of Consumer Psychology, and Journal of Retailing. She is Editor-in-Chief of JSR, the 8th highest-cited business journal, Associate Editor of Information & Management and Communications of the Association for Information Systems, and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Marketing, JAMS, IJRM, International Journal of E-Commerce, and Journal of Strategic Information Systems. She actively serves the IS community, is the conference chair of PACIS 2022, was Vice President for Asia/Pacific Region of AIS, program co-chair of ICIS 2012, junior faculty consortium co-chair of ICIS 2018, and doctoral consortium co-chair of PACIS 2010, among many other AIS services.

She also plays a leadership role in related disciplines: served as Chair of the INFORMS Service Science Section, Asian Officer of the AMA (American Marketing Association) Service Special Interest Group, and conference co-chair of the 2013 INFORMS/AMA Frontiers in Service Conference. She served as Director of the Management Research program at the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, which is the major source of funding of basic research in the fields of information systems, marketing, and management science.

Atreyi Kankanhalli

Atreyi Kankanhalli is Provost’s Chair Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Analytics at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She has served as Assistant Dean for Research and for Undergraduate Studies. She obtained her B. Tech. from IIT Delhi, M.S. from RPI, New York, and Ph.D. from NUS. She has visited at the London School of Economics, University of California Berkeley, and ESSEC Business School.

Kankanhalli conducts research in the areas of online communities and digital (including man-machine) collaboration, digital innovation and transformation for sectors, such as healthcare, sponsored by government and industry grants. Her work has appeared in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Research Policy, Journal of Management Information Systems, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of AIS, and been presented at leading conferences including ICIS, and Academy of Management Meeting. She has more than 160 publications, with more than 16,000 citations.

Kankanhalli regularly serves on program committees and chairs tracks for conferences such as ICIS, PACIS, ICEGOV and ICKM. She serves or has served on the editorial boards of prestigious journals including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Journal of AIS. She is Senior Editor at the MIS Quarterly and at the AIS Transactions on TRR and HCI. She has been Program Chair for ICEGOV 2018, PACIS 2015, BDAH 2014, and ICIS 2021. She has served or is serving on the AIS finance committee, as OCIS international representative at large, and as AIS Region 3 Vice President.

Kankanhalli was awarded the ACM-SIGMIS Best Doctoral Dissertation award and runner-up for the MISQ Reviewer of the Year award. She is a recipient of the IBM Faculty Award and Smarter Planet Industry Skills Innovation Award. She has received several best paper awards and is listed among the leading IS researchers globally for more than a decade. Most recently she has been recognized in the Singapore 100 Women in Tech list.

Lars Mathiassen

Lars Mathiassen is Professor of Computer Information Systems and co-founder of Center for Digital Innovation at Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. He conducts research on the development, use and management of information technology in organizational contexts across industries. His research is based on engaged scholarship with practicing professionals, using action research and case studies to contribute both practical and theoretical knowledge. He has published extensively in leading academic journals and in practitioner journals, and he has co-authored several books for students and practitioners.

Throughout his career, Mathiassen has collaborated closely with younger researchers to help them design and practice engaged scholarship. He has co-authored research publications with more than 70 younger researchers from a variety of institutions and countries, he has frequently served as faculty on doctoral consortia, and he has published several papers on how to design and publish engaged scholarship. Building on his collaboration with practicing professionals across different industries, Mathiassen founded and is Academic Director for the Doctor of Business Administration program at Georgia State University, offering a practitioner-doctorate to experienced, working business professionals. The program has graduated more then 170 DBAs.

Mathiassen was co-founder of Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, he has served as senior editor for MIS Quarterly, Information & Organization and Journal of Information Technology, and he currently serves as senior editor for Engaged Management ReView. Trained as a mathematician and computer scientist at Aarhus University, Denmark, Mathiassen has a PhD in Informatics from Oslo University, Norway, and a Doctor Tech in Software Engineering from Aalborg University, Denmark. In addition, he holds Honorary Doctorates in Social Sciences from Umeå University, Sweden and in Sciences from Copenhagen University, Denmark.

Ojelanki Ngwenyama

Ojelanki Ngwenyama is a critical social scientist who studies digital technology and social organization. He is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa; Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Canada; and Emeritus Professor of Information Systems, University of Cape Town. He is a regular Visiting Professor at Université de Nantes, and University of Münster. Since 1996, he is Docent at University of Jyväskylä.

Ojelanki was Professorial Research Fellow, Deakin University Business School; Professor at Aalborg University, Aarhus University and Virginia Commonwealth University; Visiting Professor of Informatics, University of Pretoria. He served on the faculties of Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and Schulich School of Business, York University.

Ojelanki holds a PhD in Computer Science, State University of New York, Binghamton; and MBA, Syracuse University. In 2009, he was awarded D.Phil (HC) Faculty of Engineering, University of Pretoria. Ojelanki was Andrew Mellon Professor in South Africa and Velux Visiting Professor, Copenhagen Business School; and National Research Foundation Professorial Research Fellow, School of Computing, University of South Africa.

Ojelanki is a member of IFIP WG 8.2 and served as organizing, program and general chair for several conferences. He has published more than 85 journal articles in journals including MISQ, ISJ, EJIS, JAIS, I&M, DSS, IJPE and EJOR. He has served on the editorial boards of MISQ, ISJ, EJIS, JAIS and ITD. He supervised more than 30 PhD students in North America, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. Ojelanki co-chaired the 2021 ECIS Doctoral Consortium. His involvement in mentoring PhD students also includes: 2019 ECIS Doctoral Consortium, 2015 NITIM PhD school, 2010 IRIS Scandinavian PhD Summer School, 2006-2010 IS PhD School, 2006 IFNWEST Ph.D. School, 2004-2006 Ph.D. Summer School, 1999 ECIS Doctoral Consortium, 1999 Doctoral Consortium of the KPMG Ph.D. Project, 1998 IRIS Scandinavian PhD Summer School, 1997 Doctoral Consortium of the KPMG Ph.D. Project, and 1991 Dutch Ph.D. Summer School.

Raghav Rao

Dr. H.R. Rao is the AT&T Distinguished Chair in Infrastructure Assurance and Security at The University of Texas at San Antonio Carlos Alvarez College of Business. He holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer Science. Prior to UTSA, Rao was the SUNY Distinguished Service Professor at the University at Buffalo. He graduated from Purdue University.

He has co-edited four books, including Information Assurance Security and Privacy Services and Information Assurance in Financial Services. He has authored/co-authored more than 200 technical papers, of which more than 150 are published in archival journals. Rao and his colleagues have received best paper and best paper runner up at ISR, AMCIS and ICIS.

Rao was the inaugural recipient of The Bright Internet Award for his contributions to the information systems discipline by KMIS. Rao received the Information Systems Society Distinguished Fellow Award for outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline. He and and colleagues facilitated the first panel that focused on women and cybersecurity in the Secure Knowledge Management workshop at Buffalo in 2004 and also the first IFIP workshop in Ghana, Africa in 2019. Rao was awarded the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Outstanding Service Award for significant service contributions to the field of information systems and information systems security. He was inducted into the UTSA Academy of Distinguished Researchers in 2019.

Rao has received funding for his research from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense and the Canadian Embassy. He has also received the Fulbright fellowship for 2004 and 2022. He has been distinguished visiting faculty at UTS, Sydney, Sogang University, Korea, IIM Bangalore, Amrita U, Mangalore U and Myra School of Business, India and Swansea University, UK.

He is (or has been) co-editor in chief of Information Systems Frontiers, advisory editor of Decision Support Systems, associate editor of ACM TMIS, associate editor of ISR and senior editor at MIS Quarterly.

Maung Sein

Maung Kyaw Sein is a professor of information systems at University of South-Eastern Norway and Hoyskolen Kristiania, Norway.

After working in practice, he earned a Ph.D. from Indiana University. In a nomadic academic career spanning 33 years, he has served at several universities in USA, Norway, Sweden, Thailand, and Finland as permanent faculty, visiting professor or visiting scholar.

Maung has published extensively in, among others, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, The Information Society, European Journal of IS, and Information Systems Journal. His editorial experience includes Senior Editor of Journal of AIS, Associate Editor of MIS Quarterly, Communication of AIS, and guest-editing special issues of Journal of AIS, Communications of the ACM, and Scandinavian Journal of IS. He serves on Editorial advisory boards of several journals. He is a co-winner of the best AIS Conference paper in IS Education.

Maung has co-chaired the Doctoral Consortium at ICIS and ECIS, served on the Program Committee at ICIS and ECIS, and has been a mentor at Junior Faculty Consortium at ICIS. He is the current chair of the AIS Research Conduct Committee, co-founded AIS SIG on e-Government and is the current Chair of AIS SIG on Global Development. He is a past President of IFIP 9.4 (ICT for development).

Maung’s current mission is two-fold. The first mission is to make AIS, and the field of IS more inclusive. Vital areas such as ICT for Development continue to lie in the fringes of the mainstream IS discourse. This motivated him to co-edit a special issue of JAIS and co-author the editorial “Flipping the Context: ICT4D, the Next Grand Challenge for IS Research and Practice”. He regularly conducts workshops and seminars in developing countries. The second mission is to further the cause of action-oriented research which creates or alters reality and not just study existing reality. He has carried this mission to other disciplines such as Construction Management where he has held workshops in their top conferences and published in their top journals. He is inspired by the words of Greta Thunberg, “hope does not come from words, it comes from action”.

Pär Ågerfalk

Pär J. Ågerfalk is a Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden, where he holds the Chair in Computer Science in Intersection with Social Sciences (a.k.a. Information Systems). He received his PhD in Information Systems Development from Linköping University and has held full-time positions at Örebro University, University of Limerick, Jönköping International Business School, and Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre. Most recognised for his work on open-source software and distributed agile development, Ågerfalk’s research addresses various aspects of the orchestration of digital practices. He currently focuses on digital innovation, digital agency, sustainable development, e-health, and how pragmatism can inform systems development and conceptual modelling. His work has appeared in several leading journals and conferences in the information systems fi eld, including MIS Quarterly, Journal of the AIS, and ICIS, and he is currently editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Information Systems. Ågerfalk serves or has served as Program Co-Chair, Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair, and Ancillary Meetings Co-Chair of ICIS, as well as General Co-Chair of ECIS and IRIS/ SCIS, Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair of ECIS, and Program Co-Chair of MCIS. He is a former Co-Editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, and founding Chair of the AIS Special Interest Group on Pragmatist IS Research (SIGPrag).

Brent Gallupe

Brent Gallupe is Professor Emeritus of Digital Technologies at Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Canada. He received his PhD in MIS from the University of Minnesota in 1985. Gallupe served as co-chair of ICIS 2007 in Montreal, and on the AIS Executive Council for four years as the ICIS representative. He chaired the ICIS Executive Committee that recommended rotating ICIS among the three regions. He has also served as an AE for MISQ and on the editorial boards of other IS journals. Gallupe has published a number of papers in IS journals including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information Systems Journal and Communications of the Association of Information Systems. In addition, he has published in IS-related journals such as Management Science, Academy of Management Journal, and Journal of Applied Psychology. An early paper in group decision support systems (GDSS) is considered one of the most influential papers published in Management Science in its fi rst 50 years. He might be best known for his initial ground-breaking research in GDSS and electronic brainstorming (EBS). Gallupe has contributed to the IS fi eld both in Canada, and in New Zealand where he held a Visiting Professorship at the University of Auckland for 28 years. In Canada, he was a Section President and Accreditation Council member of the Canadian Information Processing Society. He was also the Division and Program Chair of the Information Systems Division of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. In addition, he advised most IS programs at Canadian universities regarding their curricula. In New Zealand, he helped establish programs of GDSS research, advised over 50 IS Master’s theses, co-supervised 5 PhD theses, and mentored and co-authored papers with a number of New Zealand IS faculty. Gallupe’s current research interests are in the areas of Management of AI in Organizations, IT-enabled Transparency, and Collaborative Technologies. When he isn’t working on IS-related activities, he can be found fixing his old English sports car (1962 Triumph TR4), making maple syrup, or designing and making stained glass panels.

Wei (Wayne) Huang

Wei Huang (Wayne) is a National Yangtze Chair of Information Systems and is Dean of College of Business at Southern University of Science & Technology (SusTech), Shenzhen. He has more than 33 years’ full-time teaching/research experience in top-tier research universities of the world. Prior to join SusTech, he worked full-time at University of New South Wales (Australia), National University of Singapore (NUS), Harvard University, Ohio University, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Huang’s research interests include Business analytics, Using IS/IT to support decision-making & collaboration. He has published, among other 180 research papers, in MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), ACM Transactions, Decision Support Systems, Europe Journal of Operations Research, and IEEE Transactions. His research papers have been cited by top-tier journals like Management Science, MIS Quarterly, ISR, JMIS, IEEE Transactions, and presented in top-tier international AIS conferences including ICIS, AMCIS, ECIS and PACIS. His research paper received the world’s ESI top 1% citation recognition. His research has been funded by the Australian Research Council, Harvard Research Grant, NSF of China, National University of Singapore (NUS). Within AIS, Huang has been a PACIS council member of the AIS (2008-2011, 2011-2014, 2019-2022), the founding President of the AIS Special Interest Group (AIS SIG-ISAP, for over 15 years, won Outstanding SIG Award in 2017), an associate/senior editor of PAJAIS (an offi cial AIS journal for over 6 years), and one of the few key founding members of China AIS Chapter from its start over 15 years ago. Huang has served a chair/co-chair and keynote speaker for numerous international academic conferences, and served most major AIS conferences including ICIS (8 years), AMCIS (6 years), and PACIS (more than 10 years). He has been involved in IS education and scholarly development at more than 30 universities in 15 countries via the AIS SIG-ISAP platform and AIS China Chapter. He was been awarded the AIS “Sandra Slaughter Outstanding Services Award” in 2018.

Mary Lacity

Mary C. Lacity is Walton Professor of Information Systems and Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at The University of Arkansas. She was previously Curators’ Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She has held visiting positions at MIT, the London School of Economics, Washington University, and Oxford University. She is Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly Executive and serves on the boards of Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of the British Blockchain Association, and Management and Business Review. She, along with colleagues, made fundamental contributions to information technology and business process outsourcing research, including the boundary conditions for transaction cost economics. Her recent research focuses on improving business services using Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Cognitive Automation (CA), and Blockchain technologies. She has conducted case studies and surveys of hundreds of organizations on their adoption journeys. She has given keynote speeches and executive seminars worldwide and has served as an expert witness for the US Congress. She is the recipient of the 2019 AIS Best Information Systems Publications Award, 2019 AIS Outreach Practice Publication Award (with Leslie Willcocks), and the Paul Gray Award for the Most Thought Provoking Paper in 2016 (with Shaji Khan and Erran Carmel). She was inducted into the IAOP’s Outsourcing Hall of Fame in 2014, one of only three academics to ever be inducted along with Peter Drucker and Leslie Willcocks. She has published 30 books, most recently, Blockchain Foundations for the Internet of Value (2020) and Becoming Strategic with Robotic Process Automation (2019). Her publications have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, MIS Quarterly, MIS Quarterly Executive, IEEE Computer, Communications of the ACM, and many other academic and practitioner outlets. According to Google Scholar, her work has been cited over 19,000 times, with an h-index of 58.

Annette Mills

Annette Mills is a Professor in Information Systems at the UC Business School (University of Canterbury, New Zealand). She is the Head of Department for Accounting and Information Systems, Chair of the Professors and Heads of Information Systems, New Zealand (PHIS-NZ) group, past Associate Dean (Academic) and past-Chair of the IS group at UC. Since joining UC, she has had a leading role in growing IS from 4 courses (in 1998) to include a B.Com major in IS, Master in Business IS, and contributions into Health Science, Data Science, and Environmental Science. Her research emphasises people’s engagement with IT focusing on behavioural and social aspects of IT use and its impacts. She has published in MIS Quarterly, Communications of the AIS, Information and Management, Journal of Knowledge Management, Information Systems Frontiers, and Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, among others. Annette has served the IS community through contributions on editorial boards including DATA BASE, IT & People, Australian Journal of IS and Journal of Global Information Management, alongside ad-hoc reviewing for JAIS, IJIM, EJIS, ISJ, IT for Development, BMC Medical Ethics, Int’l J of Medical Informatics, and Pacifi c Accounting Review. She has also served on executive committees for AIS/affi liated conferences as Junior Faculty Consortium Co-Chair (ICIS), Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair (ACIS), Program Co-Chair (ACIS, Conf-IRM), and numerous times as Track Co-Chair (ACIS, PACIS, Conf-IRM), as well as on the AIS Finance committee (2010-2012) and as VIP Communications for the AIS-SIG on Adoption and Diffusion of IT (since 2010). Annette enjoys working with students, and has supervised over 15 IS PhD and Master thesis students with two PhDs recognised as exemplary, receiving the New Zealand Best IS Doctoral Thesis Award (2015) and Certifi cate of Achievement (2014). She is a graduate of the University of Technology (Jamaica) and University of the West Indies (Jamaica), a Commonwealth Scholar, and holds a Postgraduate Certifi cate in Tertiary Teaching (University of Otago), and PhD in Information Systems from the University of Waikato. She would like to take this opportunity to thank her mentors and colleagues in the AIS community for their support and most importantly, their inspiration.

Fred Niederman

Fred Niederman serves as Shaughnessy Endowed Professor at Saint Louis University. His PhD is from the University of Minnesota in 1990. He serves as editor in chief for Communications of AIS. He has published peer reviewed studies in Basket of 8 journals including MIS Quarterly, Journal of AIS, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, and Journal of MIS. He serves on the editorial boards for the DATABASE for Advances in MIS, and Journal of International Management. His areas of interest include: philosophy of science applied to IS, IS personnel and workforce, computer mediated teams and groups, project management, and research methods. He served as first author for “On the Co-Evolution of Information Technology and Information Systems Personnel,” which has been recognized as a ‘publication of the year’ by AIS in 2015 co-author of the inaugural Paul Gray Award for Communications of AIS, thought provoking paper of the year in 2014, and co-author of “Representing Meta-theory in Management Information Systems Studies,” paper of the year for DATA BASE. He has twice been awarded “senior editor of the year” recognition by Journal of AIS. He has provided research presentations on six continents. His areas of research interest include: IS personnel, IS project management, philosophy of science applied to IS, effects on IS of mergers and acquisitions, global IS, and group collaboration and teams. He has edited or co-edited numerous special issues on a wide variety of topics including agile development and project management for Project Management Journal and “Breakthrough Ideas” for Communications of AIS. His service accomplishments include: co-program chair of ICIS in 2010; co-initiator of the AIS junior faculty consortium; participation in 19 doctoral student committees; chair 2017 to present of ACM special interest group on MIS; and coordinator for the AIS college of senior scholars 2013-2016. He is proud to be counted as a member of the “circle of compadres” for the KMPG PhD Project.

Gabe Piccoli

Gabriele Piccoli is the Edward G. Schlieder Chair of Information Sciences and a member of the Cultural Computing group at the Center for Computation and Technology at Louisiana State University (USA). He is also on the faculty at the University of Pavia (Italy) where he received his Laurea in Economia e Commercio. He holds an MBA and PhD in Information Systems from LSU. His academic, teaching and consulting interest has traditionally been in the area of Strategic Information Systems and Customer Service Systems. His recent research focuses on value creation and appropriation with digital resources and on competition within aggregators. Prior to returning to LSU and the University of Pavia, he held tenured academic positions at Cornell University (USA), the University of Sassari (Italy) and the Grenoble Ecole de Management (France). He is an advocate for practice-oriented research and the current Editor in Chief of MIS Quarterly Executive. Piccoli served the IS community through his work on editorial boards (MISQ, Decision Sciences), council positions (ICIS Executive Committe), conference committees (e.g.,

Program Co-Chair Chair and Review Chair at ICIS, Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair at ECIS, Conference Chair at ITAIS, Mini-Track Co-Chair at HICSS), and Special Interests Groups (founding member of SIG DITE). He would like to take this opportunity to thank the AIS Fellow Award selection committee along with his mentors and many friends in the Association of Information Systems.

Matti Rossi

Matti Rossi is a professor of information systems at Aalto University School of Business. He is a past president of the Association for Information Systems. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Business Administration from the University of Jyväskylä. He has worked as a visitor at NYU Stern School of Business, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Georgia State University and Claremont Graduate University. He is a past president of AIS and he has been actively involved in AIS activities as a Region 2 representative, served on IRIS board, and was instrumental in developing the IRIS community into an AIS regional chapter. He strongly believes in regional and local chapter work of AIS as a means of global inclusion on both professional and societal levels. He is the past editor in chief of Communications of the Association for Information Systems and coordinating editor of Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. He currently serves as a senior editor for JIT and an advisory board member for ISJ and CAIS. He has served in editorial boards of MISQ, JAIS, SJIS, JDM, Database. He was a co-chair of DESRIST 2007, 2008 and 2014 and program co-chair of DESRIST 2013 and DESRIST 2020, program co-chair for ECIS 2011 and 2016, organizing chair for IRIS 2004, technology chair for ICIS’98, track chair for several ICIS and ECIS conferences and minitrack chair for HICSS 98 – 21. He has been involved in the development of two research prototypes and further commercial products, which are sold by MetaCASE Consulting Plc, where he is a founder and minority ownere. He has been a member of the board of OSS developer QT Company Plc., Syncron Tech. He was the winner of the 2013 Millennium Distinction Award of Technology Academy of Finland for open source and data research. He has been the principal investigator in several major research projects funded by the Academy of Finland and European Union. His hobby is fi shing, where he practices what he preaches by applying too new digital technology, which often results in a more sustainable catch.

• Jan vom Brocke

  Jan vom Brocke is Professor of Information Systems, he holds the Hilti Endowed Chair of Business Process Management and he is Director of the Institute of Information Systems at the University of Liechtenstein. His research focuses on business process management and related aspects of digital innovation and transformation, and he has published, among others, in MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Journal of the Association for Information  Systems (JAIS), Journal of Information Technology (JIT), European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Information Systems Journal (ISJ), Communications of the ACM (CACM), and MIT Sloan Management Review (SMR). He is the founding President of the Liechtenstein Chapter of the AIS, past VP Education of the AIS (2014-2017), founding editor of the AIS Global IS Education Report, founder of EduGloPedia.org, the Global Encyclopedia for IS Education, co-founder and co-editor of Science2Practice.org, an initiative to communicate research findings to practitioners, and Advisory Board member of SIGGreen. Jan has served many of the AIS journals, including JAIS, CAIS and JITTA, and he has organized tracks, doctoral consortia and panels at all major AIS conferences incl. ICIS, ECIS, AMCIS, PACIS and ACIS. Specifically, Jan has been Conference Co-Chair of ECIS2015 in Münster as well as Co-Program Chair of ECIS2019 in Stockholm. Jan has been involved in IS education and scholarly development at 25 universities in 13 countries, and he has been awarded the AIS Innovation in Teaching Award 2013 and the AIS Outstanding Contribution to IS Education Award 2017. Also, he has been awarded the AIS Technology Challenge Award 2015, the ICIS Best Paper Award 2015, the AIS Senior Scholars` Best Publication Award 2016, and the ICIS Best Theory Paper Award 2017. His students won international prices, such as the Accenture Campus Challenge, SAP DemoJam, and the Liechtenstein Young Researcher Award, multiple times. They have also been recognized Lindau Nobel Prize Laureate Young Researchers. His group`s research has been reported, among others, by the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Mail, and Forbes. Together with his wife, Christina, Jan has two kids, Moritz and Marieke, and the family has attended many unforgettable AIS conferences together.

• Andrew Burton-Jones

  Andrew Burton-Jones is a Professor of Business Information Systems at the UQ Business School, University of Queensland. He has a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) and a Master of Information Systems from the University of Queensland, and a PhD from Georgia State University. He conducts research on systems analysis and design, the effective use of information systems, and conceptual and methodological topics.  His teaching interests are in systems analysis and design, IT risk management and audit, and the business value of IT.  Prior to returning to UQ, he was on the faculty of the University of British Columbia.  He has served the IS community through his work on editorial boards (MISQ, ISR, JAIS, I&O, AMD, JDM), council positions (for AIS and for the OCIS Division of AOM), and conference committees (e.g., Track Chair at ICIS, Program Co-Chair at PACIS and AMCIS, Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair at PACIS, and Junior Faculty Consortium Co-Chair at AMCIS).  Prior to his academic career, he was a senior consultant in a big-4 accounting/consulting firm.  He would like to take this opportunity to thank the AIS Fellow Award selection committee along with his mentors, colleagues, and students over the years from Georgia State University, University of British Columbia, and University of Queensland. 

• Guoqing Chen

  Guoqing Chen received his Ph.D. from Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) in 1992, and currently is EMC Chair Professor of Information Systems at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. Professor Chen was appointed the national Chang-Jiang Scholars Professor in 2005. He has numerous high-quality publications worldwide on both technical and behavioral information systems, including his recent studies on the “make” and “use” aspects of business analytics. Some of his publications appear in such journals as ACM TKDD/TMIS, Communications of ACM, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, IEEE TFS/TNN, Information & Management, INFORMS JOC, Journal of AIS, Journal of ASIST, Journal of MIS, MIS Quarterly, etc. He also developed a series of Harvard Business School cases on Chinese firms. Professor Chen has been principal investigator for a number of research initiatives such as NSFC major projects on emerging e-business and business analytics, and international collaboration projects with teams from Belgium, Czech, Germany, UK, USA, etc. He served as chair/co-chair and keynote speaker for many academic conferences. He was recipient of the Award for Outstanding Achievements on Management in 2007 by Fudan Foundation, and IFSA Fellow in 2009 by International Fuzzy Systems Association. The courses Professor Chen taught at Tsinghua include Management Information Systems, Managing in the Age of Big Data, Advances in Information Systems, and Data-Models-Decisions. He received several Tsinghua and national awards on Excellence in Teaching. Many of his students were granted Excellent Dissertation/Graduate at the university, city and national levels. Professor Chen has been engaged in AIS activities in many ways, including various roles in ICIS conferences, co-chair of PACIS, etc. In particular, he served as founding president of China Association for Information Systems (CNAIS) in 2005-2013, which is AIS China Chapter and has developed well over years as the mainstream platform for the growth and impact of MIS community in China and the globe. In addition, Professor Chen has played a leading role in the development of information systems discipline and education in China, such as the expansion, curricula and national quality standards of MIS programs.

• Robert Davison

  Robert Davison is a Professor of Information Systems at the City University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on the use and misuse of information systems, especially with respect to problem solving, guanxi formation and knowledge management, in Chinese organisations. He has published over 200 articles in a wide variety of our premier journals and conferences. He is particularly known for his scholarship in the domain of action research. He primarily teaches MSc and MBA students in the areas of IT consulting, Knowledge Management and Global Information Systems. Within the AIS, Robert chaired the research ethics committee for many years. He currently chairs the IFIP’s WG 9.4 (Social Implications of Computing in Developing Countries) and is the Editor-in-Chief of both the Information Systems Journal and the Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. Robert travels extensively, seeking to understand how people in different contexts and cultures make sense of their lives with IS. Professionally, he seeks to enhance the inclusion of scholars from the global south within our community. To this end, he frequently travels in developing countries where he offers research seminars and workshops, engaging with local PhD students and scholars. As a researcher and as an editor, he champions local and indigenous perspectives.

• Ramesh Sharda

  Ramesh Sharda is the Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, Watson/ConocoPhillips Chair and a Regents Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. He has coauthored two textbooks (Analytics, Data Science, & Artificial Intelligence: Systems for Decision Support, 11th Edition, Pearson and Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science: A Managerial Perspective, 4th Edition, Pearson). His research focuses on analytics/data science and has been published  in major journals in management science and information systems including Management Science, Operations Research, Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Decision Sciences Journal, EJIS, JMIS, Interfaces, INFORMS  Journal on Computing, ACM Data Base and many others. He is a member of the editorial boards of journals such as the Decision Support Systems, ACM Data Base, and Information Systems Frontiers. Specific focus areas of his current research include health analytics and addressing deleterious effects of applications of data science/AI. Ramesh serves as the Faculty Director of Teradata University for Academics, a group of thousands of faculty and students from over 110 countries sharing teaching and learning resources in analytics/data science. He received the 2013 INFORMS Computing Society HG Lifetime Service Award, and was inducted into Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame in 2016. At Oklahoma State he cofounded the PhD in Business for Executives program. Ramesh has served AIS in many capacities, including Conference co-chair for AMCIS 2009 (San Francisco), AMCIS 2016 (San Diego), member of AIS Council, ICIS Track chair, etc. He cofounded SIGDSA and currently serves as the Chair of its Executive Advisory Board. He is also serving as the Chair for ICIS 2020 Advisory Committee. He initiated the Big XII+ MIS Doctoral Consortium to allow research institutions in the midwest to get their PhD students and faculty together each year to exchange research ideas and career advice. This event that has been running successfully since 2003. Ramesh is a Fellow of INFORMS.

• Jason Thatcher

  Jason Bennett Thatcher holds the Milton F. Stauffer Professorship in the Department of Management Information Systems at the Fox School of Business of Temple University. Dr. Thatcher’s work appears in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Applied Psychology, and other outlets. He has served as Senior Editor at MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research. 

• Cathy Urquhart

  Cathy has been a major force in popularising and shaping grounded theory in the information systems field. One of her works on GT, written in 2001 as a new PhD graduate, ‘An Encounter with Grounded Theory’ gained early attention and was used in research methods classes in the discipline. Her ISJ work with Lehmann and Myers – Putting the Grounded Theory Back in Theory – was also influential. Her book Grounded Theory for Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide published by Sage in 2012 is well cited within and without the discipline. She is invited worldwide to present on grounded theory, in locations such as South Africa, Canada, Australia, Finland. She most recently presented in the Renowned Scholars series at Copenhagen Business School. Cathy is also an ICT4D researcher, supervising a number of PhD students in ICT4D. With Maung Sein and Sundeep Sahay, she co-edited a special issue for JAIS on ICT4D in 2017. Cathy is currently a SE for EJIS, and a guest editor for the new JAIS CFP on Social Inclusion. She has also served as a SE for MISQ and as a guest AE for MISQ.  Cathy has been active in the IS community since the early nineties, starting with her program chairing ACIS in 1993 through to co-program chair of ICIS in 2015. She has also served on AIS Council as VP for SIGs and Member Services, and approved a number of SIGs that remain influential eg SIGGTM, SIGSI, SIGGreen, SIGGlobDev. She has always been a voice for equality and diversity in our community, and was instrumental in helping set up SIG Social Inclusion, SIG GlobDEv, SIGGreen and SIG GTM, expanding the diversity of the research community of the AIS and incorporating 21st century concerns that we need to respond to in our research. She was also instrumental in the reshaping of the Women’s Breakfast towards a network in 2011. As co-convenor of ICIS Womens breakfast, with Eleanor Loiacono, she moved the breakfast from an annual networking opportunity to an all year round network that includes mentoring, and is a founder member of the AIS Womens College. 

• Jane Webster

  Jane Webster received her PhD from New York University and holds the E. Marie Shantz Chair in Management Information Systems at the Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Canada. Jane has served as a senior editor for MIS Quarterly, Program Chair for the International Conference on Information Systems, and VP Publications for the Association for Information Systems. Jane has published over 100 research papers appearing in outlets such as the Academy of Management Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, Information and Organization, Information Systems Journal, Information Systems Research, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Organizational Behavior, MIS Quarterly, and Organization Science. Her research investigates the impacts of technologies in the support of distributed work, organizational communication, employee recruitment and selection, employee monitoring, training and learning, and human-computer interaction issues. However, she might be best known for her editorial with Rick Watson on writing literature review papers (MISQ, 2002). Over the last 10 years, Jane’s passion has been to study ways in which to encourage more environmentally sustainable behaviors in organizations. One of the ways she has done so is by applying gamification to the issue – and this has allowed her to come full circle from her 1989 thesis concerning computer playfulness in the workplace. This passion has also translated to her personal life, where she gave up her car five years ago, enjoys doing hippy things like making her own washing soap, and has almost transformed from being a vegetarian to a vegan.

• Debbie Compeau, Washington State University

  Deborah (Debbie) Compeau is the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research and the Hubman Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at Washington State University. Prior to joining WSU, she held faculty positions at The University of Western Ontario (2000-2015), University of Calgary (1998-2000) and Carleton University (1991-1998). She has also held visiting positions at Queen’s University (Kingston, ON) and ESSEC Business School. 

  Her research focuses on the interaction between people and information technologies (IT) in organizations. Her specific interests include information technology-related self-efficacy, user training and learning and the adoption and implementation of IT. Recent projects have focused on the implementation of IT in healthcare settings. She has taught information systems at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels. She is an author of more than 30 teaching cases and has conducted workshops on teaching with cases in the U.S., Canada, France, and Germany.

• Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic, UNSW Business School

  Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic is a Professor of Information Systems at the UNSW Business School, Sydney, Australia. She has served as a Presiding member of the UNSW Business School and as Head of School of Information Systems and Technology Management. 

  She has published over 165 peer-reviewed articles in the leading international journals, edited volumes and conferences in Information Systems (IS), including MIS Quarterly; Information Systems Journal; Journal of Information Technology; European Journal of Information Systems; Journal of Strategic Information Systems; IT & People; Communications of AIS; Decision Support Systems and Information and Management. Her work focused on qualitative interpretative IS research, based on ethnographic and field studies of IS development, use and implications; she has also engaged with the critical theoretic perspective to study negative social consequences of IS phenomena and ethical implications of digitization and datafication. More recently she has been exploring sociomaterial and process approaches seeking to overcoming the limits of traditional research paradigms. Her research has been funded by the Australian Research Council.
  

   

  Dubravka has developed and taught across a range of UG and PG programs. She initiated and led the development of the shared PhD research methods courses in the UNSW Business School, including Qualitative research methods course that she has co-taught for the last decade. She has supervised to completion 32 PhD students in total (16 PhD students since joining UNSW Business School in 2002). She was the recipient of the Business School “Outstanding Research Supervision Award for 2010”.
• Mark Keil, Georgia State University

  Mark Keil is a Distinguished University Professor at Georgia State University where he is the John B. Zellars Professor of Computer Information Systems in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business.  He holds B.S.E., S.M., and D.B.A. degrees from Princeton University, M.I.T. Sloan School, and Harvard Business School respectively.  His research focuses on IT project management and includes work on preventing IT project escalation, improving IT project status reporting, identifying and managing IT project risks, improving project control, managing IT implementation projects, and overcoming barriers to system use.  He has published over 100 refereed journal articles in outlets such as: MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Sloan Management Review, and California Management Review. 

  Keil currently serves as a Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Management Information Systems.

• John Mooney, Pepperdine Graziadio Business School

  John Mooney is Associate Professor of Information 
  Systems and Technology Management and Academic Director of the Executive Doctorate in Business Administration at the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School. Previously, Dr. Mooney served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Department Chair for Strategy, 
  Entrepreneurship, Information Systems and Decision Sciences, and as Associate Dean for Academic Programs. Prior to joining Pepperdine, he was on the faculty at the UCD Schools of Business from 1987 to 2001. He was a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research from 2010-2011. 

  In 1994, Mooney created the ISWorld Listserv (now AISWorld) and participated in the development and hosting of web-based resources for the global IS community over the next decade. In recognition of these efforts, he was the 2009 recipient of the AIS Technology Legacy Award. He was elected as the AIS Council Representative for Region 2 from 1998-2001. In 2004, he was elected as AIS Vice President for Chapters and Affiliated Organizations. During his tenure, he led a major initiative to cultivate country chapters that resulted in the formation of the Benelux, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, MidWest US, Peru, Poland, and Turkey chapters and the incorporation of IRIS as the Scandinavian Chapter.

  He currently serves on a number of editorial boards including MIS Quarterly Executive and the Journal of Strategic Information Systems.
• Sudha Ram, University of Arizona

  Sudha Ram is Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of MIS, Entrepreneurship & Innovation in the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona.  She has joint faculty appointments as Professor of Computer Science, member of BIO5 Institute, and Institute for Environment.  She is the director of  the INSITE: Center for Business Intelligence and Analytics at the University of Arizona.  Dr. Ram received a Ph.D.  from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985.  Her research is in the areas of Enterprise Data Management, Business Intelligence, Large Scale Networks and  Big Data Analytics.  Her work uses different methods such as machine learning, statistical approaches, ontologies and conceptual modeling. Dr. Ram has published more than 200 research  articles in refereed journals, conferences and book chapters.  

  She has received more than $60 million in research funding from organizations such as, IBM, Intel Corporation, SAP, Ford, Raytheon Missile Systems, US ARMY, NIST, NSF, NASA, and Office of Research and Development of the CIA. Dr. Ram served as the senior editor for Information Systems Research, and is currently  a senior editor of Journal of AIS and on the editorial board for many leading Information Systems journals. She is also a co-editor in chief of the Journal on Data Semantics and a founding editor for Journal of Business Analytics. She is a cofounder of the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS) and serves on the steering committee of many workshops and conferences including the Entity Relationship Conference (ER).  Dr. Ram has published articles in such journals as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Expert, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information Systems, Information Systems Research, Management Science, and MIS Quarterly. 

• Jan Recker, University of Cologne and QUT Business School

  Jan Recker is Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow, Chaired Professor for IS and Systems Development at the University of Cologne, and Adjunct Professor at the QUT Business School. He previously held positions such as inaugural Woolworths Chair of Retail Innovation and Leader, Digital Innovation Research Group, at Queensland University of Technology and Visiting Professor, Wuhan School of Software.

  His research focuses on Digital Innovation, Systems Analysis & Design and the role of IT for Environmental Sustainability. Being a field researcher, he has worked with a large number of organizations in a variety of sectors, including Woolworths, SAP, Hilti, Commonwealth Bank, Federal Police, federal and state governments, technology startups and others. Jan has written over 200 journal articles, conference papers and books. His research has appeared in leading information systems, management, software engineering, project management, computer science, and sociology journals. He has also written popular textbooks on scientific research and data analysis in information systems, which are used by over 500 institutions across 60 countries for research training. He has held visiting scholar positions at the University of British Columbia, Humboldt University Berlin, University of Mannheim, The University of Liechtenstein, Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Oulu, University of Hamburg, Vlerick Business School, Vienna University of Business and Economics, Nanjing Institute of Technology, and others.

  Recker has held various service roles. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Communications of the Association for Information Systems, one of two flagship journals of the AIS, and has served in that position since 2015. He is also currently Associate Editor for the MIS Quarterly and has also served in associate and/or senior editor roles for journals such as the Information Systems Journal, the European Journal of Information Systems, and the Journal of IT Theory and Application.

• Veda Storey, Georgia State University

  Veda C. Storey is the Tull Professor of Computer Information Systems and Professor of Computer Science at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. Her research interests are in intelligent information systems, data management, conceptual modeling, and design science research. Dr. Storey is a member of the AIS College of Senior Scholars and an advisor to the Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems. She has served as a program co-chair for the International Conference on Information Systems, a member of the executive committee, a member of the Senior Scholars Best Paper Awards committee, and a member of the Sandra Slaughter Award committee. 

  Storey is also a member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference of Conceptual Modeling, where she has the honor of being an ER Fellow and a recipient of the Peter P. Chen Award.  She received the Georgia State University 2018 Teaching Innovation Award for her work on experiential and interdisciplinary teaching.  Dr. Storey was granted her Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia and holds a degree in Flute Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music, University of Toronto.  She wishes to thank her kind colleagues who nominated her for this award and the members of the selection committee who bestowed this honor.

• Youngjin Yoo, Case Western Reserve University

  Youngjin Yoo is the Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Professor in Entrepreneurship and Professor of Information Systems at the Department of Design & Innovation at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. He is the faculty director of xLab at Case Western Reserve University, a multi-disciplinary public-private partnership for digital transformation. He is also WBS Distinguished Research Environment Professor at Warwick Business School, UK. and a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, UK.  He has worked as Innovation Architect at the University Hospitals in Cleveland, overseeing the digital transformation efforts at one of the largest teaching hospital systems in the country. He has taught digital innovation strategy at Indian School of Business, Aalto University in Finland, and KAIST in Korea. He was also a research associate at NASA Glenn Research Center. 

  He has received more than $4.5 million in research grant from National Science Foundation, NASA, James S. and John L. Knight Foundation, the Department of Commerce, and National Research Foundation of Korea. His work was published at leading journals including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Organization Science, the Communications of the ACM, and the Academy of Management Journal. His research work focuses on the unique nature and consequences of digital innovation. He was Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly, the Journal of AIS, the Journal Information Technology, and the Journal of Strategic Information Systems.

Susan Brown, University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management

Professor Susan Brown is the MIS Department head at the Eller College of Management at Arizona State University. She has served in an editorial capacity for a number of journals including Co-Editor-In-Chief for AIS Transactions on Replication Research, Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly, Associate Editor for Decision Sciences, Editorial Board Member for the Journal of the AIS, Editorial Board Member for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Associate Editor for Information Systems Research, and Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly. She has also been involved with major AIS conferences in a variety of roles, including doctoral consortium, mid-career faculty workshop, junior faculty consortium, track co-chair, and AE. She has had similar roles at AMCIS as well, and has had active roles in SIGADIT, SIGCPR and IFIP.

Brian Fitzgerald, LERO-The Irish Software Research Centre

Brian Fitzgerald is Director of Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre, where he previously held the position of Chiel Scientist. He also holds an endowed professorship, the Krehbiel Chair in Innovation in Business & Technology, at the University of Limerick (UL), and served as Vice President Research at UL from 2008-2011. He has also held visiting positions in Italy, Austria, Sweden, US and UK. He holds a PhD from the University of London and his research interests lie primarily in software development, encompassing open source and inner source, crowdsourcing software development, agile and lean software development, and global software development.

His publications include 15 books, and over 150 peer-reviewed articles in the leading international journals and conferences in both the Information Systems and Software Engineering fields, including MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Information Systems Research (ISR), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) and ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methodology (TOSEM).
Prior to taking up an academic position, he worked in the software industry for about 12 years, in a variety of sectors (including finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, bespoke software development) in a number of countries (Ireland, Belgium, Germany). He has been very successful in winning competitive research grants from a variety of funding agencies, including the EU, Science Foundation Ireland and Enterprise Ireland.

Kai Lim, City University of Hong Kong

Kai H. Lim is the Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor of Information Technology Innovation and Management and Director of PhD Program and Chair of Research Committee at the Information Systems Department, City University of Hong Kong (CityU), which houses one of the largest Information Systems Department with more than 70 fulltime PhD students currently enrolled. He received his PhD from the University of British Columbia in 1996. His research interests include cross-cultural issues related to information systems management, IT-enable business strategy, e-commerce, social media, mobile commerce and e-Health.

Kai served two terms as a Senior Editor of MISQ (2011-2016) and served on the editorial board of ISR (207-2011), MISQ (2002-2005) and JAIS (2002-2011). His research has appeared in premier journals, such as MISQ, ISR, JAIS and JMIS.

Since 2000, Kai has served various roles in ICIS and PACIS, including Co-Chair and Faculty Mentor for Doctoral Consortium, Faculty Mentor for Junior Faculty Camp, Program Committee Member/Track Co-Chair, Associate Editor and Reviewers. He is also an Honorary Professor of Fudan University, China (2013-present) and Wuhan University, China (2012-2015). Kai frequently delivers speeches and mentors junior colleagues in different parts of the word, especially China, to foster the growth and development of the AIS community.

Jeanne Ross, MIT

Jeanne W. Ross directs and conducts academic research that targets the challenges of senior level executives at MIT CISR’s more than eighty global sponsor companies. She studies how firms develop competitive advantage through the implementation and reuse of digitized platforms. Her work has appeared in major practitioner and academic journals, including MIT Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, MISQ Executive, MIS Quarterly, the Journal of Management Information Systems, IBM Systems Journal, and CIO Magazine.

She is co-author of three books: IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain (2009), Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution (2006) through Harvard Business School Press, and IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results (2004). She has served on the faculty of customized courses for a number of major corporations, including PepsiCo, McKinsey, General Electric, TRW, Pfizer, News Corporation, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, IBM, and Credit Suisse. She regularly appears as a speaker at major conferences for IT executives.

Jeanne earned a BA at the University of Illinois, an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is a founding senior editor and former editor in chief of MIS Quarterly Executive.

Sue Newell, Sussex University

Sue Newell is a Professor of Information Systems and Management, at Sussex University in the School of Business, Management and Economics (BMEc). She is also currently the Head of the Department of Business and Management. She has most recently worked at Bentley University in the USA and at Warwick University in the UK. She has a BSc (first class honours) and PhD from Cardiff University, UK. Sue’s research focuses on understanding the relationships between innovation, knowledge and organisational networking (ikon) – primarily from an organisational theory perspective. She was one of the founding members of ikon, a research centre based at Warwick University.

Sue is the Director of Studies (UG and PG) in the Department of Business and Management at BMEc, Sussex. Previously she was the Director of the PhD Program at Bentley and led the effort to design, develop and implement two new PhDs – one in Business and one in Accountancy. This was the first PhD program to be implemented by Bentley, and its implementation involved gaining internal faculty support as well as external authorization from the various accrediting bodies, including the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, NEASC, EQUIS and AACSB. The skills and abilities to take these leadership role were developed in previous administrative assignments – Research Director (Nottingham Businress School, UK), Director of External and Executive Programs (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK), Master’s Program Director (Aston University, UK).

Sue has taught at all levels — undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate and executive — and focuses on designing innovative courses that emphasize the practical relevance of solid theorietical foundations. She has substantial experience of curriculum innovation and development.

Suprateek Sarker, University of Virginia

Professor Sarker teaches courses on data management, systems analysis and design, management of IT in organizations, and qualitative research approaches.
His research, which is largely qualitative in nature, has been published in such journals as MIS Quarterly; Information Systems Research; Journal of Management Information Systems; Journal of the Association of Information Systems; IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management; European Journal of Information Systems; Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Journal; Journal of Strategic Information Systems; Journal of Information Technology; Information Technology & People; MIS Quarterly Executive; Communications of the AIS; Communications of the ACM; ACM Transactions on MIS; ACM Database, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication; IEEE Software; Decision Sciences Journal; and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, as well as the Institute for the Study of Business Markets.

He serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including Journal of the AIS (as editor-in-chief), Decision Sciences Journal (as a senior editor), MIS Quarterly (as a senior editor emeritus), Journal of MIS (as a member of the Board of Editors), and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (as an editorial board member). He is also a past editor-in-chief of Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research.

Professor Sarker holds (or has held) visiting professorships or visiting scholar positions at the University of London (United Kingdom), Aalto University (Finland), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), Vaxjo University (Sweden), National Economics University (Vietnam), Cesar Ritz University Center (Switzerland), University of Mannheim (Germany), University of Oulu (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan), and University of Sydney (Australia, upcoming), among others.

Diane Strong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Diane Strong is a professor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Robert A. Foisie School of Business. Her research interests include Healthcare Information Systems and Technology, Data and Information Quality andEnterprise Systems and their uses in organizations. At WPI, she teaches business data management, managing the IS function, IS Management and more.

Strong earned her MS and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and has had many articles published in IEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, MIS Quarterly, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information & Management, Organization Science, and more.

Strong has served in several capacities for the Association for Information Systems, as an active member of many SIGs, a member of the AIS Council, and most recently as conference co-chair of AMCIS 2017.

She has been recognized with the WPI Chairman’s Exemplary Faculty Award, the WPI Trustees Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Scholarship, and more.

Eric Wang, National Central University, Taiwan

Eric T.G. Wang is Information Management Chair Professor at National Central University, Taiwan (ROC). He received his Ph.D. degree in Business Administration, specialized in computer & information systems, from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester. His research interests include electronic commerce, outsourcing, organizational economics, and organizational impact of information technology.

Wang has published more than 70 journal papers with many in such top journals as MISQ, ISR, Management Science, JMIS, JAIS, and Decision Sciences. Among many topics Eric has worked on, the most notable is research related to interorganziational information systems and supply chain management. Since the publication of his well-known paper, (1995), “Electronic Data Interchange: Competitive Externalities and Strategic Implementation Policy” (with Abraham Seidmann) in Management Science, Eric has continued to work on the research issues related to interorganizational information systems and supply chain management. His later related works have appeared in such journals as MIS Quarterly, Journal of MIS, Decision Science, and many others, contributing economic reasoning to the theoretical development in IOS and SCM. His papers in this area have been widely read and cited. In addition, Eric’s research on ERP and then later project management has also developed such theories as country-of-origin and the cascading effect of ERP implementation. His work in this topic has also published in many prestigious journals such as Journal of MIS, Journal of AIS, European Journal of Information Systems, and others. Overall, Eric’s publication record has allowed him to win various most prestigious national research awards. He also won many best paper awards at various conferences such as PACIS, E-CASE, and APDSI.

Wang has served on the editorial board of many local and international journals. He has been as an Associate Editor of Information & Management since January 2012, and a Section Editor of Asia Pacific Journal of AIS. Eric also served on the editorial board of Journal of AIS for two years (2011-2012). In addition, Eric currently serves on the editorial board of almost all leading local journals in Taiwan, e.g., Journal of Information Management, Journal of E-Business, Sun Yat-Sen Management Review, Journal of Management and Systems. He helped found the Journal of E-Business, which now is one of the two top IS journals in Taiwan.