Community Meeting 1: IS Young Talent Event for IS Doctoral Students

Description

The IS Young Talent Event for doctoral students of the WI 2025 is aimed at doctoral students in Information Systems or related disciplines who are interested in an academic career. The 3-hour event is sponsored by the association “Die WI e.V.”.

Why take part in the Young Talent Event?
The aim of the Young Talent Event for Doctoral Candidates is to show interested doctoral candidates potential paths in science and give them the opportunity to find out more about specific areas of focus. In this way, we want to support doctoral students in deciding for or against an academic career and help them to set the right course as early as possible. Furthermore, we want to promote the exchange between postdocs, junior professors and doctoral students.

Program
At the event, postdocs and junior professors will give short presentations on their academic careers and specific areas of focus. Following the presentations, there will be an informal exchange between the speakers and participating doctoral students. Finally, doctoral students will have the opportunity to discuss their research topics and doctoral progress in a professional and personal context and to network with each other in the Doctoral Student Corner. The session is intended as a loosely moderated networking event based on various topic and progress tables. Afterwards, we will go together to the Welcome Reception for a relaxed exchange with the other conference participants.

15:30–16:00: Welcome speech
16:00–16:30: Impulse-Keynote Jason Thatcher
16:30–17:15: Short presentations
17:15–18:30: Roundtables

The event will be held in German.

Speaker Kurzbeschreibungen

Maike Greve

Maike Greve is Assistant Professor at the Department of Digitalization at Copenhagen Business School. She holds a PhD from the University of Göttingen, where she previously completed her Master’s degree in Applied Statistics and her Bachelor’s degree in Business Education.

Maike’s research focuses on the digital transformation in the healthcare sector. A particular focus is on the challenges of handling sensitive health data and mobile health applications, especially in countries of the Global South.

Her research has been published in Electronic Markets, the Journal of Public Health, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Computers & Security and leading IS conferences, among others.

Maike is actively involved in the ID community, including as track chair, associate editor, workshop organizer and reviewer.

Markus Weinmann

Markus Weinmann is Professor of Business Analytics and Director of the Institute for Business AI at the University of Cologne. In his research, he investigates how organizations use data and algorithms to make better decisions and create business value – with a focus on digital platforms, algorithmic decision-making and behavioral analytics. His work has appeared in renowned journals such as Management Science and MIS Quarterly, where he is also an Associate Editor.

He heads the Master’s program in Business Analytics and Econometrics in Cologne and teaches machine learning and statistics in a business context. He also regularly conducts training courses on “AI for Managers”.

Previously, he worked at the Rotterdam School of Management and held academic positions in Asia and Europe. He has lived and worked in Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, Liechtenstein and the Netherlands and advises companies on data-based decision-making and the use of AI.

Tobias Brandt

Tobias is Professor for Digital Innovation and the Public Sector at the University of Münster. He holds a PhD from the University of Freiburg and was subsequently Assistant Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management.

His research focuses primarily on the role of digital innovation at the interface between business, the public sector and civil society. This includes, for example, work on data-driven services in smart cities, the formation of platform ecosystems, the interplay between digitalization and sustainability and the digital transformation of public administration.

As a start-up founder himself, he is actively involved in strengthening start-up awareness in the university landscape and organizes various formats to bring practice and science together.

Andreas Janson

Andreas Janson is a postdoc and habilitation candidate at the University of St. Gallen. He conducts research in the field of digital services and holds a doctorate from the University of Kassel. His work has been published in leading journals (e.g. ISR, JAIS, EJIS) and has received numerous awards, including Best Paper Awards from AIS, HICSS and DESRIST.

Andreas Janson is Principal Investigator of competitively funded third-party projects (e.g. SNF, Innosuisse, BMBF) and is one of the most productive management researchers under 40 in the German-speaking world (16th place according to Wirtschaftswoche/KOF).

He is heavily involved in the academic community, including as co-organizer of the WI Young Researchers Meeting 2023, AIS Vice President for Education Curations and Review Coordinator of WI 2017 and ICIS 2019. For his commitment, he was awarded AIS Distinguished Member Cum Laude in 2022.