To access the app via your mobile device, visit https://crowd.cc/s/3scXy.

The online version of the mobile app is available at https://event.crowdcompass.com/icis2019.

Childcare Facility Location

Location Information:

• 18 minutes from the ICM by Uber or Taxi
• 30 minutes the ICM by public transportation.  The closest metro station to the childcare location is Marienplatz, which is also the central metro station in Munich.

Check out the events here: https://archives.aisconferences.org/icis2019/mucx/

The MUCx events support fundraising for the ICIS 2019 TUM/Bentley Travel Grant Program!

Through a unique silent auction called Munich Experience, ICIS 2019 attendees can bid on exclusive events to experience Munich—events that go beyond typical sightseeing activities. These events cover three categories: Industry & Tech, Culture & Sport, and Startups.

Surplus that is generated from MUCx will be used to fund travel grants for doctoral and academic members through the ICIS TUM/Bentley Travel Grant Program.

Visit https://archives.aisconferences.org/icis2019/mucx/ to learn more. More events will be added to the current offering, so check back often!

The Genealogy project will be debuted at ICIS 2019 in Munich. To make this possible, we need input from all PhD graduates. Please take 3 minutes to complete the form listing your Doctoral Chair name as well as the names and emails of your committee members. We will email each person you list to ask their permission to be included. Participation is voluntary.

Celebrate our 25^th anniversary by helping us build a genealogy of our field. Complete the form here. 

The Paper-a-thon begins with an intense two-day working session where researchers are organized into interest-related project teams to collaborate under the mentorship of prominent IS scholars. This initial two-day workshop phase concludes with each group pitching their research projects to a panel of journal editors, who will select up to three papers to be presented on the last day of ICIS. After ICIS concludes, one or more of the presented papers may be invited for a fast-tracked review process for possible publication in Journal of AIS. For an exceptional project, the resulting paper could appear in publication as quickly as six months.

Pre-ICIS: Applying — If the event is appealing to you and you can commit to attending in full, you are highly encouraged to apply—there are no restrictions on who can apply to the Paper-a-thon. The application process consistent of completing a survey (at https://semtsinghua.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bBialUYlD1o0at7) in order to identify what interests, abilities, and resources you can contribute to a project team (e.g., data, methods, perspectives, and domain expertise). We encourage participants to arrive with ideas about potential projects, yet we also ask that you remain open-minded to project ideas that emerge through collaboration with your project team and the mentor.

The application deadline is September 15th, 2019, 11:59 p.m. Munich time (UTC +2). The agenda for the Paper-a-thon is described at https://archives.aisconferences.org/icis2019/submissions/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-25. You should only apply to participate in the Paper-a-thon if you can commit to attending both days.

Nominations should be submitted no earlier than midnight San Francisco time (UTC -7), July 10, 2019, and no later than 5pm (UTC -7), July 31, 2019. The candidate’s Ph.D. advisor or department chair should submit the nomination. Only one nomination can be made from an institution.

The ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Competition is chaired by H. Raghav Rao and Heng Xu and the judges include the faculty members who participated at the ICIS 2018 doctoral consortium and other faculty members from the discipline who would be appropriate given the content of the submissions.

Questions about this competition may be addressed to the co-chairs.

ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible for the 2019 competition, dissertations must have been completed in the time period from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019. Authors must have successfully defended their dissertations and should have received the final approval and all required sign-offs on their dissertation document by the June 30, 2019. The author should have earned their PhD in Information Systems, and the dissertation needs to address an important issue in the field of IS. Dissertations that are not related to information systems phenomena will not be considered.

Works under consideration for publication may be submitted if they otherwise meet the submission criteria. Authors will retain full copyright of the submitted papers and dissertations.

SUBMISSION PROCESS

Submissions must be received by 5pm (UTC -7), July 31, 2019. Documents received after that date, and/or submissions without all of the appropriate documentation, will not be reviewed.

ICIS encourages submissions from different countries. However, the language of all submitted materials must be English. The following 3 items of documentation are required and they must be submitted as a single “zip” file:

• A paper derived from the dissertation. The initial screening of submissions will be based on a purposefully written paper designed to highlight the significance and contribution of the research. If the dissertation consists of several essays, the paper should tie the essays in a coherent manner. The paper is expected to cover the whole dissertation research and should address: (i) the rationale for the dissertation, (ii) the research objective / questions, (iii) theoretical development and hypotheses, as appropriate, (iv) overview and justification of the research design and methodology, (v) key findings, and (vi) discussion of the contribution and implications of the research. Submissions where the paper only covers part of the dissertation research or is one of several essays from the dissertation will not be considered. The paper should be:
  • Single-authored (i.e., the paper must be written by the student);
  • Absolutely no more than 4,000 words in length, excluding the cover page, tables, graphs, references, and an abstract of no more than 200 words in length;
  • Formatted according to the MIS Quarterly manuscript guidelines;
  • Written in English;
  • Preceded by a cover page that includes a title and the student’s name, institution, and email address.
• The complete dissertation.
• A letter from the student’s dissertation advisor or department chair. The letter should attest that: the paper is based on the student’s dissertation; the dissertation has met all requirements for graduation with a doctoral degree and has been successfully completed during the time period from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019; the paper and the dissertation are regarded by the dissertation committee as being representative of the best level of their department’s doctoral work; the paper derived from the dissertation meets the following criteria: the paper is the work of the student under the guidance of the thesis supervisor (s) (name (s)); it represents high research standards, in terms of theory and methodology; it makes an original and substantive contribution to the understanding, development, or use of information systems.

Submissions should adhere to the following guidelines:

• The candidate’s Ph.D. advisor or department chair should submit the nomination.
• All three items must be submitted as a single package in the form of a zip (compressed) file. Name the zip file “Candidate’sFirstName_LastName“. Email the zip file to the following address: icis2019dissertationaward@gmail.com (Please note that this has a limit of 10MB as the maximum attachment size per email. Only in the case your zip file is larger than 10MB, you may break the submission package in two separate zip files and send two emails). If you do not receive a confirmation of receipt by August 5, 2019, please send a query to xu@american.edu (with cc to mgmtrao@gmail.com). Please put in the subject line “Candidate’sFirstName_LastName DISSERTATION AWARD SUBMISSION”.
• The package should be received before 5pm (UTC -7), July 31, 2019. Late arrivals will not be considered.
• Receipt of electronic materials will be acknowledged by email by the co-chairs.

REVIEWING PROCESS AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNERS

A panel of judges, consisting of the ICIS 2018 doctoral consortium Faculty and possibly some other IS Faculty, will review each submitted application. The initial evaluation of the dissertation will be based on the paper derived from the work (as detailed above). The key evaluation criteria will be the significance of the issue being investigated and the contribution of the research undertaken. This evaluation will be used to select those submissions that merit more detailed assessment as finalists for the award.

The overall winner of the award will be selected by the competition co-chairs and the panel members. As this is an award competition, no reviews will be provided to the candidates or the nominators.

The winner of the dissertation award competition will be announced in December 2019 at ICIS in Munich, Germany.

Panel of judges:

• Martin Bichler, Technical University of Munich
• Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic, University of New South Wales
• Wynne Chin, The University of Houston
• Kai-Lung Hui, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Mark Keil, Georgia State University
• Natalia Levina, New York University
• Deepa Mani, The Indian School of Business
• Fred Niederman, Saint Louis University
• H. Raghav Rao, University of Texas at San Antonio
• Olivia Sheng, The University of Utah
• Sunil Wattal, Temple University
• Heng Xu, American University
• Nan Zhang, American University

This award is given to the student who is the sole or primary author on a paper accepted by the Program Committee for the annual conference. To be eligible for this award, an individual must still be a student (i.e., still enrolled at the institution where the student pursues graduate work) at the time the paper will be presented at the conference, and this status should be made clear in the conference submission and conference registration.

The best student paper award recipient receives a $1,500 award and recognition at the ICIS annual conference in December.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Health IT/healthcare ecosystem
• Information/digital infrastructure and innovation ecosystems
• Innovation platform and ecosystem
• Internet of things ecosystem
• IS-enabled innovation ecosystems in the public sector
• IT/IS and entrepreneurial ecosystem
• Participation in innovation ecosystems
• Product innovation ecosystem
• Social innovation ecosystem
• Theory of digital innovation ecosystem
• Artificial intelligence ecosystem
• Community innovation, cloud computing, blockchain ecosystem
• Digital business, digital innovation, drone, ecosystem
• Automation and augmentation of work
• Meaning of work in digital workplaces
• Management of work and workers in a digitized work environment
• New forms of technology-enabled work arrangements
• Emerging new careers and patterns of careers
• Digitalization and job mobility
• Digitalization and the future of occupations
• New practices and forms of leadership in digital workplaces
• Digital innovation
• Digital entrepreneurship
• New ventures creation
• Digitizing of Innovation Processes
• Digital innovation management
• Data-driven business models
• Platform innovation
• Entrepreneurial activity in digital ecosystems
• Societal implications of digital innovation and entrepreneurship
• Mass-Scale Innovation Collaboration

Eligibility:

1. Papers must be accepted ICIS 2019 submissions
2. First authors of eligible papers must be a student at the time of the ICIS 2019 conference (Dec 2019).
3. Topic areas must be connected to the domain of entrepreneurship
4. Applicants must indicate in their submissions form that their paper submission is a student paper eligible for consideration for the Kauffman Award.
5. Applicants must have no current existing financial relationship (i.e., grants, contracts) with the Kauffman Foundation.

Criteria:

For this award, the awards committee will evaluate a set of papers that are nominated by program track chairs and program chairs. The best student paper will be selected based on importance of the topic to the:

• Relevance and importance of the topic to the study of information systems and innovation topics related to entrepreneurship
• Scholarly contribution to the state of existing knowledge
• Relevance to practice

The best paper award recipient receives a $1,500 award and recognition at the ICIS annual conference in December.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Health IT/healthcare ecosystem
• Information/digital infrastructure and innovation ecosystems
• Innovation platform and ecosystem
• Internet of things ecosystem
• IS-enabled innovation ecosystems in the public sector
• IT/IS and entrepreneurial ecosystem
• Participation in innovation ecosystems
• Product innovation ecosystem
• Social innovation ecosystem
• Theory of digital innovation ecosystem
• Artificial intelligence ecosystem
• Community innovation, cloud computing, blockchain ecosystem
• Digital business, digital innovation, drone, ecosystem
• Automation and augmentation of work
• Meaning of work in digital workplaces
• Management of work and workers in a digitized work environment
• New forms of technology-enabled work arrangements
• Emerging new careers and patterns of careers
• Digitalization and job mobility
• Digitalization and the future of occupations
• New practices and forms of leadership in digital workplaces
• Digital innovation
• Digital entrepreneurship
• New ventures creation
• Digitizing of Innovation Processes
• Digital innovation management
• Data-driven business models
• Platform innovation
• Entrepreneurial activity in digital ecosystems
• Societal implications of digital innovation and entrepreneurship
• Mass-Scale Innovation Collaboration

Eligibility:

1. Papers must be accepted ICIS 2019 submissions
2. Topic areas must be connected to the domain of entrepreneurship
3. Applicants must indicate in their submissions form that their paper submission is eligible for consideration for the Kauffman Award.
4. Applicants must have no current existing financial relationship (i.e., grants, contracts) with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Criteria:

The awards committee will evaluate a set of papers that are nominated by program track chairs and program chairs. The best paper will be selected based on importance of the topic to the:

• Relevance and importance of the topic to the study of information systems and innovation topics related to entrepreneurship
• Scholarly contribution to the state of existing knowledge
• Relevance to practice