[AISWorld] Call for Participation - ECIS 2013, Utrecht, The Netherlands June 5-8, 2013

[Remko Helms]

~Apologies for cross postings ~

Call for Participants - 21st European Conference on Information Systems 
- June 5-8, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Theme “Beyond Borders”
We are happy to invite the global IS community, both academics and 
practitioners, to the Netherlands and especially to Utrecht. The year 
2013 is of special interest, as we will celebrate the 300th anniversary 
of the Treaty of Utrecht, signed in 1713. This treaty restored the power 
balance in Europe and initiated a relatively peaceful era. The Treaty of 
Utrecht also inspired the ECIS 2013 conference theme: “Beyond Borders”. 
Within ECIS 2013, “Beyond Borders” promotes having an open mind towards 
new ways of doing research and establishing novel partnerships for 
conducting research.
The 300th anniversary will be celebrated with many different kinds of 
cultural festivities, providing an exciting cultural experience for ECIS 
participants, and making a visit to Utrecht compelling. Besides this, 
Utrecht has a beautiful historic city with canals and other historic and 
scenic attractions making it a stunning venue for an international 
conference.

ECIS as annual meeting place
The European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) is providing a 
platform for over twenty years now for both researchers and 
practitioners. Main purpose of the conference is to be a meeting place 
for fellow researchers and practitioners, working in the highly dynamic 
field of Information Systems (IS). In line with its tradition, ECIS 2013 
features a topical, diverse and exciting set of conference tracks:
• Accounting Information Systems and ERP
• Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management
• Business Process Management
• Cloud Computing and Services in Global Settings
• Data Governance and Data Quality Management
• e-Health
• Enterprise Systems and Change, Competencies and Organizational Learning
• Enterprise Transformation
• Evolution of Public Sector ICT
• Green Information Systems
• Human-Computer Interaction
• ICT and Sustainable Global Development
• Information Technology Project Management
• Inter-Organizational Systems, Information Infrastructures and 
Innovation Dynamics
• IS Curriculum, Pedagogy and Enrollment Issues
• IS Economics
• IS Innovation, Adoption and Diffusion
• IS Security and Privacy
• IT Governance & Sourcing
• Methods, Tools and Human Factors in IS/IT Development and Management
• Openness as an IS/IT Strategy - Open Data, Models, Platforms, and Sources
• Personal Data Markets
• Persuasive Systems Design
• Service Engineering and Service Management
• Social Media and Society
• Teaching Cases
• Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems

Within these tracks there will be scientific debates on the research 
that will be presented, in total there will be over 200 presentations. 
But there is more! Research in progress will be presented as posters and 
for the first time at ECIS the presenters will present their work in a 
poster Slam session. Five panels have been selected on diverse topics, 
amongst others a CIO panel and IS history panel, where the panellists 
together with the audience go into a debate. Furthermore, junior faculty 
can work on their writing skills in the tutorials offered by the Journal 
of the AIS and European Journal of Information Systems. Last but not 
least there will be interesting keynote presentations and we are proud 
that we can announce that one of the speakers is: Rens Buchwaldt, the 
CIO of FloraHolland. FloraHolland is the biggest flower and plant 
auction in the world and often used as a case in IS textbooks. We hope 
that will join us at ECIS 2013 in the scientific debate and the exchange 
of new and exciting ideas.

Pre-ECIS workshops
Before the conference there will be seven Pre-ECIS workshops:
June 4, 2013
* E-Government 2.0: Case studies and experience reports
* Interactive Environments and Emerging Technologies for eLearning 
(IEETeL 2013) (half a day)
* Large-scale communication systems in search of better theories and 
methods (half a day)
* Reinterpreting the relation between technology and organizations: A 
Sociomaterial perspective

June 5, 2013
* Building up or Piling Up? The Literature Review in Information Systems 
Research (half a day)
* Digitization in Business Models and Entrepreneurship (DiBME 2013)
* Enterprise systems and development networks: towards a research agenda
You can register for the workshops together with your conference 
registration on the ECIS 2013 website.

Social Events
The two main social events for ECIS 2013 are the Opening Reception and 
the Conference Dinner. The opening reception will take place in the 
evening of June 5th, 2013 in the historic University Hall of Utrecht 
University (opposite Dom Church and Dom Tower). The conference dinner 
will take place in the evening of Friday June 7th, 2013 in the Jans 
Church in the city center of Utrecht. Participation to both events is 
included in the conference registration fee.

Important Dates
Early Bird registration: till April 6th, 2013
Student volunteer application: April 10, 2013
Regular registration: till May 16th, 2013 (late registration from May 
17th onwards)
Workshops: June 4-5, 2013
Opening reception: June 5th, 2013
Conference: June 6 – 8, 2013

Information and registration
More information on http://www.ecis2013.nl where you will also find a 
link to our Registration system (Participation –> Registration). Please 
note that Early Bird registration ends April 6th, 2013. Conference 
updates are published in the news section as well as on Facebook: 
www.facebook.com/ecis2013.

We are looking forward to welcome you in Utrecht,

The ECIS 2013 program chairs and committee
Jos van Hillegersberg, University of Twente, The Netherlands, program 
co-chair
Sarah Spiekermann, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, 
program co-chair
Ronald Batenburg, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, program co-chair
Regina Conolly, Dublin City University, Ireland, program co-chair
Eric van Heck, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, program 
co-chair
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, general chair
Remko Helms, Utrecht University, organizing chair