The 2020 Schedule is available here. The virtual conference schedule is not being published, but sent individually to the registered participants.
2019 schedule is available here for reference
2019 Keynote Speakers
Professor Wynne Chin
University of Houston, USA
Talk Title: Managing a Successful Career as an Academic – The Role of Family, Work, & Personal Life Balance
Wynne W. Chin is the C.T. Bauer Professor of Decision and Information Sciences in the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston. He received his A.B. in Biophysics from U.C. Berkeley, MS in Biomedical/Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University, and an MBA and Ph.D. in Computers and Information Systems from the University of Michigan. Wynne has taught previously at the University of Calgary, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan and has been a visiting fellow at Queens University, City University of Hong Kong, University of Canterbury, and the University of New South Wales. Wynne’s research focuses on structural equation models related to Information technology adoption, sales force automation, IT service satisfaction and electronic meeting support systems where he has developed measures for group cohesion, satisfaction, and consensus. Wynne has published in journals such as Information Systems Research, Data Base, Journal of Management Information Systems, MIS Quarterly, and Decision Sciences. Wynne is on the editorial board of JAIS, Structural Equation Modeling journal, Journal of Information Technology, and previously Information Systems Research, Data Base (co-editor) and MIS Quarterly. Wynne has received best paper awards from the Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management in 2003, the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (IT division) in 1993 and 1998, a MIS Quarterly Reviewer of the Year in 1996, a Management Science Outstanding Reviewer award in 1996, and the First Biennial Award for Outstanding Ph.D. dissertation from the International Communication Association’s Communications and Technology Division. He is one of the foremost exponent of the Partial Least Squares Path Modeling technique with his PLS-Graph software released in 1990 used by more than 9000+ researchers worldwide, ranked by two separate journal articles as one of the top 10 researchers in both IT Adoption/Acceptance and Human Computer Interaction, and received a World Class University (WCU) Professor designation in conjunction with Sogang University in South Korea. Wynne’s research has received over 48,000 citations, a top ten most cited article in MIS Quarterly and top five most cited in Information Systems Research, a Google Scholar H index of 54 that places him among the most impactful researchers in his discipline, and ranked third overall in first authored articles published in the top two IS journals – MISQ and ISR for the period from 1990 through 2016. He was awarded a Fellow of the Association of Information Systems in 2013. Born and raised in San Francisco, Wynne currently resides in Houston, Texas.
Professor Varun Grover
University of Arkansas, USA
Talk Title: Innovative Theory in a Big Data World
Varun Grover is the David D. Glass Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor of IS at the Walton School of Business, University of Arkansas. Prior to this, he was the William S. Lee (Duke Energy) Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at Clemson University. He has published extensively in the information systems field, with over 400 publications, 250 of which are in major refereed journals. Over ten recent articles have ranked him among the top five researchers globally based on a number of publications in the top IS journals, as well as citation impact. Dr. Grover has an h-index of 85 and around 34,000 citations in Google Scholar. In 2013, Thompson Reuters recognized him as one of 100 Highly Cited Scholars globally in all Business disciplines. He is Senior Editor for MISQ Executive, Editor of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems Section on Path Breaking Research, and Senior Editor (Emeritus) for MIS Quarterly, the Journal of the AIS and a number of other journals. Dr. Grover’s current work focuses on the impacts of digitalization on individuals and organizations. He is a recipient of numerous awards from USC, Clemson, AIS, Academy of Management, DSI, the OR Society, Anbar, PriceWaterhouse, among others for his research and teaching, and is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems. He has had the privilege of being extensively involved with Ph.D. students, serving as an advisor to over 40 Ph.D. students and as Co-Chair of numerous doctoral consortia at both the International Conference on Information Systems and Americas Conference on Information Systems. He has been invited to give numerous keynote addresses and talks at various institutions and forums around the world.