[AISWorld] Conf-IRM 2017 May 17-19 Santiago de Chile - Conference Program Online

[Felix Tan]

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***** Draft Program Now Online ***** 

2017 International Conference on Information Resources Management; 
Conf-IRM is an AIS Affiliated Conference and hosted by the 
Faculty of Economics & Business (Facultad de Economía y Negocios); 
University of Chile in Santiago 
http://confirm2017.fen.uchile.cl/   

Theme: Democratization and Participation: People's Roles in the Digital World; 
May 17-19, 2017 at the Universidad de Chile Santiago de Chile

DRAFT PROGRAM, see
http://confirm2017.fen.uchile.cl/docs/Program_Draft_Sessions_V1_web.pdf 

TO REGISTER, visit:
http://confirm2017.fen.uchile.cl/index.php/registration  

Regular registration: from April 16 to May 10, 2017 
Late registration: from May 11, 2017

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Prof Gabriel Purón Cid, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C.
Title: From Leaderless Revolution to Citizen-Centric ICT-enabled tools for Democratization and Participation in Latin America;

Mr Marco Orellana, CIO of CODELCO - Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile, the Largest Copper Producer in the World

PAPER DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP (NOW OPEN to all registered delegates) 

A Paper Development Workshop (PDW) is planned for the morning of Wednesday 17th May. This will be in a round-table format. Authors of selected papers from the conference have been invited to participate in the PDW. 

The following senior scholars have agreed to be mentors, including:
   Professor Patrick Chau, University of Hong Kong, China
   Professor Anol Bhattacherjee, University of South Florida, USA
   Professor Fred Niederman, Saint Louis University, USA
   Professor Alexandre Reis Graeml, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil

JOURNAL EDITORS PANEL (open to all registered delegates) 

Scholars with editorial responsibilities in some of the supporting information systems journals will participate in an Editors Panel on Wednesday 17th of May at 1pm:

Prof Anol Bhattacherjee, Journal of the Association of Information Systems 
Prof Fred Niederman, The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems 
Prof Patrick Chau, Information & Management 
Prof Alexandre Graeml, Revista Eletrônica de Sistemas de Informação

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Conference Co-Chairs
Ariel La Paz, University of Chile, Chile lapaz at fen.uchile.cl; 
Felix B Tan, Excelsia College - Sydney, Australia felix.tan at excelsia.edu.au 

Program Co-Chairs
Aurora Sánchez, Catholic University of the North, Chile asanchez at ucn.cl; 
Maria Alexandra Cunha, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil alexandra.cunha at fgv.br 
Alfonso Rodriguez, University of Bio Bio, Chile alfonso at ubiobio.cl;

Publications and Proceedings Co-Chair
Lech Janczewski, The University of Auckland, New Zealand lech at auckland.ac.nz

Conf-IRM Executive Committee
Gerald Grant, Carleton University, Canada (co-chair); 
Jairo Gutierrez, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand: 
G. Harindranath, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK; 
Lech Janczewski, University of Auckland, New Zealand; 
Sherif Kamel, The American University in Cairo, Egypt; 
Felix B. Tan, Excelsia College - Sydney, Australia (co-chair)