Program

Awards Schedule

Monday, December 15

Keynote & Awards Session

Location: Broadway A-E
Time: 10:45-12:30

 

    • AIS Leadership Excellence Award
      • Jen Easterly | Former Director, US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
    • AIS LEO Award
      • Patrick Chau | Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University
      • Frantz Rowe | Universite de Nantes
      • Veda Storey | Georgia State University
    • AIS Fellow Award
      • Roman Beck | Bentley University
      • Hsing “Kenneth” Cheng | University of Florida
      • Kai-Lung Hui | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
      • Gerald C. Kane | University of Georgia
      • Joe Nandhakumar | Warwick Business School
      • Daniel O’Leary | University of Southern California
      • Guy Paré | HEC Montréal
      • Jan Pries-Heje | Roskilde University
      • Gal Oestreicher-Singer | Tel Aviv University
      • Jianliang (Leon) Zhao | School of Management and Economics Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
    • AIS Impact Award
      • Regulatory Impact
        • Tom James | Welsh Government
        • Daniel Rees | Swansea University
        • Rod Thomas | Health Innovation South West
        • Denis Dennehy | Swansea University
      • Communal Impact

        • Ting Li | Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
        • Zherui Yang | IE Business School
        • Andy Tao Li | University of Technology and Science of China
        • Sean Xin Xu | Tsinghua University
        • Cheng Yi | Tsinghua University
      • Regulatory Impact

        • Signe Agerskov | IT University of Copenhagen
        • Asger Balle Pedersen | IT University of Copenhagen
    • AIS Senior Scholars Best IS Publication
      • Ricarda Schlimbach, Bijan Khosrawi-Rad, Tim C. Lange, Timo Strohmann, Susanne Robra-Bissantz; Design Knowledge for Virtual Learning Companions from a Value-centered Perspective. – Communications of the Association for Information Systems
      • Ojelanki Ngwenyama, Frantz Rowe, Stefan Klein, Helle Zinner Henriksen; The Open Prison of the Big Data Revolution: False Consciousness, Faustian Bargains, and Digital Entrapment. – Information Systems Research
      • André Sagodi, Benjamin van Giffen, Johannes Schniertshauer, Klemen Niehues, Jan vom Brocke; How Audi Scales Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing – MIS Quarterly Executive
      • Isam Faik, Avijit Sengupta, Yimeng Deng; Inclusion by design: Requirements elicitation with digitally marginalized communities. – MIS Quarterly
      • Thorsten Schoormann, Frederik Möller, Leona Chandra Kruse, Boris Otto; BAUSTEIN—A design tool for configuring and representing design research. – Information Systems Journal
      • Kevin Bauer, Rebecca Heigl, Oliver Hinz, Michael Kosfeld; Feedback Loops in Machine Learning: A Study on the Interplay of Continuous Updating and Human Discrimination – Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Tuesday, December 16

Awards Lunch

Location: Broadway Ballroom
Time: 12:00 – 13:45

AIS Virtual Awards of Excellence, an ICIS Tradition

January 19, 2026 | 17:00 (UTC-5)

Celebrating outstanding achievement across the AIS Community

Join us for a prestigious event to recognize the recipients of the:

The following recipients will be recognized:

AIS Leadership Team Award

  • Hope Koch | Baylor University
  • Susanne Strahringer | Dresden University
  • Xue Yang | Nanjing University, China
  • Vladimir Zwass | Journal of Management Information Systems Editor in Chief

AIS Early Career Award

  • Zhi (Aaron) Cheng | London School of Economics
  • Marta Stelmaszak Rosa | University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Randy Wong | University of Auckland
  • Jiaheng Xie | University of Delaware

AIS Mid-Career Award

  • Christoph Breidbach | The University of Queensland
  • Warut Khern-am-nuai | McGill University
  • Zhijie Lin | Tsinghua University
  • Vilma Todri | Emory University
  • Chong Wang | City University of Hong Kong
  • Jingjing Zhang | Indiana University

AIS Technology Vision Award

  • Monica Garfield | Bentley University
  • Traci Carte | Illinois State University
  • Michael Dohan | Lakehead University
  • Alanah Mitchell| Drake University
  • Alan Dennis | Indiana University

    AIS Technology Challenge Award

    • Ramona Ionescu | Virginia Tech

    AIS Outstanding Contribution to Education Award

    • Ramesh Venkataraman | Indiana University

    AIS Education Award for Innovation in Teaching

    • Noel Carroll | University of Galway
    • Daniel O’Leary | University of Southern California
    • Xingwei (Nancy) Yang | Toronto Metropolitan University

    AIS Best Conference Paper in IS Education Award

    • Janaina Aniceto | Université Laval
    • Jacqueline Corbett | Université Laval

    AIS Ting Peng Liang PACIS Young Scholar Award

    • Jiayuan Zhang | Tsinghua University

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