[IRIS] Announcement of Keynote Speakers for pre-ICIS OASIS Workshop

[Markus Zimmer]

Dear all,

we are happy and excited to announce that Prof. Brit Ross Winthereik from IT University Copenhagen and Prof. Jannis Kallinikos from London School of Economics have agreed to serve as the keynote speakers for this year’s pre-ICIS IFIP 8.2 OASIS workshop on “Criticality and Values in Digital Transformation Research”. Brit Ross Winthereik will talk about “The Citizen from Hell – Towards Socially Thick Experiential Computing.” Jannis Kallinikos will talk about “The Data Lens: Technological Innovation and Institutional Change”.

The workshop takes place on Saturday, December 10 at IT University Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark. Besides the keynotes, the workshop involves roundtable discussions and poster sessions. Further, we will end the day with the annual business meeting of the IFIP 8.2 Working Group. Thus, if you are interested in discussions on criticality and values in digital transformation research, or in IFIP 8.2 in general, feel free to join our workshop. We would be happy to have you! More information and future updates (e.g., exact room at ITU) on the event page: https://ifipwg82.org/node/1532

Brit Ross Winthereik is Professor at Denmark’s Technical University in the Dept of Technology, Management and Economics, Division of Responsible Innovation and Design. She holds a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and has been one of the founding members of the Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies. Her main area of expertise is social studies of digital infrastructures. Her current research revolves around public sector digitalization in Europe with special attention to how digital technologies shape citizen-state relations.She leads the Nordforsk sponsored project Infrastructures for Partially Digital Citizens, which focuses on informal digital support work. She is co-author of Monitoring Movements: Recursive Partnerships and Infrastructures (MIT Press, 2013), co-editor of Electrifying Anthropology (Bloomsbury, 2019), and of Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis (Duke, 2021).

Jannis Kallinikos is professor of Organization Studies at Luiss University, Rome, Italy where he holds the Cisco Chair on Digital Transformation and Data-Driven Innovation. His research focuses on the impact of data and digital technologies on organizations, economic institutions and practices. He has published widely in Management, Information Systems and Sociology journals and written several monographs including The Consequences of Information: Institutional Implications of Technological Change (Edward Elgar, 2007) and Governing Through Technology: Information Artefacts and Social Practice (Palgrave, 2011). He has together with Paul Leonardi and Bonnie Nardi co-edited Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World (Oxford University Press, 2012). A forthcoming book of his (co-authored wich Cristina Alaimo) with the title Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy is scheduled to appear by MIT Press in late summer 2022. Kallinikos has earlier been professor in the Department of Management at The London School of Economics and Political Science. Since 2019, Kallinikos is advisor of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for the nomination of Nobel Prize candidates in Economics.

If you join, we appreciate your registrations to the workshop via the ICIS registration site: https://icis2022.aisconferences.org/register/

In case you only wish to join the workshop (without ICIS registration), we can provide you with the following link: https://aisnet.org/event/icis2022ancillary

We look forward to meeting you in Copenhagen!

The OASIS 2022 Workshop Co-Chairs

Markus Zimmer, markus.zimmer at leuphana.de<https://mailto:markus.zimmer@leuphana.de>
Xenia Vasilakopoulou, polyxeni.vasilakopoulou at uia.no<https://mailto:polyxeni.vasilakopoulou@uia.no>
Miria Grisot, miriag at ifi.uio.no<https://mailto:miriag@ifi.uio.no>
Marko Niemimaa, marko.niemimaa at uia.no<https://mailto:marko.niemimaa@uia.no>
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