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Call for papers & Important Dates

Program Co-Chairs

Digital Collaboration and Coexistence

Please join us in Lisbon, Portugal for ICIS 2026 themed: Digital Collaboration and Coexistence

We invite papers that study the integration of technology into modern work, social, and personal life. Understanding the ways in which technology permeates life and mediates experiences contributes to our understanding of the macro and micro aspects of human existence. In addition to papers directly addressing the conference theme, we offer a variety of specialist research tracks that explore key areas of the digital economy, digital organizing in all its forms, the increasingly digital social life in which society is engaged, and the fully emergent digital entertainment milieu that surrounds us.

Submit your best work to the conference.  Full details of all the tracks can be found on the website.  

BENEFITS OF THE CONFERENCE TO JOURNAL PAPER SUBMISSION CYCLE

One of the key benefits of submitting your best upcoming work to ICIS is that AIS conferences are a springboard towards journal publications. There are numerous benefits to authors of leveraging the conference to journal submission cycle of a paper. Click here to learn more.

Key Dates

Submission Opens: February 11, 2026
Submission Deadline: May 1 (Fri.), 2026, by 23:59 WEST (UTC +1) – Lisbon
Acceptance Notification: July 27, 2026
Final Paper Deadline: (completed, short, teaching cases, panels, PDW) September 1 (Tues.), 2026, by 23:59 WEST (UTC +1) – Lisbon
Final Acceptance Notification: September 25 (Fri.), 2026, by  23:59 WEST (UTC +1) – Lisbon

 

Tracks

  1. Conference theme: Digital collaboration and coexistence
  2. General topics
  3. Future of work
  4. Sustainability and environmental issues
  5. Responsibility and ethics
  6. Societal impacts
  7. Data management and analytics
  8. Cybersecurity and privacy
  9. Blockchain, DLT, and Fintech
  10. Computational design and evaluation
  11. Design, development, and project management
  12. Implementation and organizing
  13. Human technology interaction

14. User behavior and engagement
15. Innovation and entrepreneurship
16. Organizational strategy, governance, and transformation
17. Platforms, sharing economy, and crowds
18. IoT, public IS, and infrastructures
19. Healthcare and wellbeing
20. Economics of digital, social, and mobile commerce
21. Policy and regulations
22. Digital learning and pedagogy
23. Research methods, theories, and philosophy
24. Social media
25. Panels
26. Professional Development Workshops (PDWs)

Panels, Professional Development Workshops and TREOs

ICIS 2026 will also include Panels, Professional Development Workshops for research and teaching and TREOs.

Join us in Lisbon, Portugal in December 2026 for a landmark conference experience, a chance to meet new friends and reunite with old ones, and the opportunity to learn from the latest and leading scholarship in the field.

Best Paper Awards

Award
Criteria
Process
Best Paper in Track Award
  • Completed Research Paper
  • Could be conceptual, design, method, or empirical paper
  • Associate Editors (AEs) and/or Track Chairs (TCs) nominate papers
  • TCs select one paper from their track
Best Overall Conference Paper Award – in Honor of TP Liang
  • Completed Research Paper
  • Could be conceptual, design, method, or empirical paper
  • PCs or their delegates select from among Best Paper in Track award recipients
Best Design Science Award – in Recognition of Nunamaker-Chen Award
  • Completed Research Paper
  • Research employing IS design science methods or techniques.
  • Associate Editors (AEs) and/or Track Chairs (TCs) nominate papers
  • PCs or their delegates select from among track nominations
Best Short Paper Award – in Honor of TP Liang
  • Short Paper
  • Innovative
  • AEs and/or TCs nominate papers
  • TCs select one paper from their track
  • PCs or their delegates select from among track nominations
Best Student Paper Award – in Honor of TP Liang
  • Completed Research Paper
  • First author is a student
  • Could be conceptual, design, method, or empirical paper
  • AEs and/or TCs nominate papers
  • TCs select one paper from their track
  • PCs or their delegates select from among track nominations

Journal Publication Policy

The AIS Policy on Conference and Journal Publication encourages conference papers to be published in journals. This policy applies to AIS conferences (there are no copyright issues to prevent your AIS conference paper from being published in any journal (AIS or not), and to AIS journals (there are no restrictions preventing you from submitting your conference paper to an AIS journal). Many non-AIS journals have similar policies, so you can submit your AIS conference paper to them. The policy and list of non-AIS journals with similar policies, is available at the Policy page.