What Can Stay, What Should Go, What Do We Need to Change for Our Future Scientific Conferences?
The global Covid-19 pandemic has not only influenced the way we work and collaborate on our research but also how we present and exchange novel contributions at scientific conferences. Governmental lockdowns and (inter)-national travel restrictions have forced conference organizers to move from offline conference venues to virtual platforms quickly. Our discipline, the Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE) community, is an interdisciplinary field involving the more conference-driven computer sciences and the more journal-oriented social science. Thus, the impact of Covid-19 on—and the (needed) experience with—new conference formats require a differentiated discourse on the role of the future of our scientific conferences. Hence, we aim to contribute to a discussion on (1) what can stay offline / as on-site conference formats, (2) what we can learn from the experience with (new) online formats, and (3) what do we need for our future scientific conferences in the BISE community?
@article{doi:10.17170/kobra-202112095208,
author ={Leimeister, Jan Marco and Stieglitz, Stefan and Matzner, Martin and Kundisch, Dennis and Flath, Christoph and Röglinger, Maximilian},
title ={Quo Vadis Conferences in the Business and Information Systems Engineering (BISE) Community After Covid},
keywords ={004 and Pandemie and COVID-19 and Konferenz and Wissenschaft and Wirtschaftsinformatik},
copyright ={http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
language ={en},
journal ={Business & Information Systems Engineering},
year ={2021-07-06}
}