Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Publication Date

2024

Keywords

Academic Conferences, Hybridization, Virtual Attendance

Abstract

Academic conferences provide a needed opportunity for academic community members to come together and share ideas. COVID-19 forced AIS to host conferences remotely for two years. From that experience, we learned a few things about virtualizing our conference activities including the potential for virtual conferences to widen participation and membership. In this paper, we reflect on that learning through a lens informed by reviewing published work on conference hybridization. We also make recommendations for how future conference chairs can think about AIS conferences. Changing how our conferences are delivered is risky, but simply returning to the old normal is also risky. As an association studying IT, discovering and championing the role of technology in conference experiences would seem to be a risk worth taking.

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First published in Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 54, 960-976. © Association for Information Systems. https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.05437.

DOI

10.17705/1CAIS.05437

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