Over the last few days, several members of our department attended the 46^th ICIS – The International Conference on Information Systems 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee, one of the most prestigious conferences in the Information Systems community.

• Prof. Jan vom Brocke took part in the panel “A discussion with the AIS presidents”. Together with his co-authors André Sagodi, Benjamin van Giffen, Johannes Schniertshauer, and Klemen Niehues, he received the AIS Senior Scholars Best IS Publication Award 2025 for their paper “How Audi Scales Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing – MIS Quarterly Executive”.
• Shariga Sivanathan presented her research with Michael Schüngel and Tobias Brandt on digitalization initiative in healthcare at the pre-ICIS workshops SIG Health and SIG Adit. As part of the AIS Entrepreneurial Innovation Fellowship, she also presented her research with Tobias Brandt on failure of digital ventures. In addition, she was served as lead chair for the AIS Doctoral Student Corner and played a key role in organizing all activities for the PhD students. Shariga received the AIS Doctoral Student College Volunteer Service Award 2025 for outstanding service and was elected as the next AIS Doctoral Student President.
• Dr. Timo Strohmann joined the SIG AI workshop, contributing to discussions on trustworthy conversational agents in finance. He also received the AIS Senior Scholars Best IS Publication Award 2025, together with his co-authors Ricarda Schlimbach, Bijan Khosrawi-Rad, Tim C. Lange, and Susanne Robra-Bissantz, for their CAIS paper “Design Knowledge for Virtual Learning Companions from a Value-centered Perspective”.
• Daria Stumkat presented her research in the IS for Sustainability track, focusing on how IT strategy and sustainability strategy can be aligned in organizations.
• Robin Killewald contributed to the MSQE workshop on future of AI.
• Ronja Dobler and David Stanlein participated at the Paper-a-Thon and the SIG Green Workshop.

Furthermore, Fumi Kurihara and Josephine Moritz from the Flow Factory joined the ICIS to exchange ideas and connect with the international IS community.