Professor Jan vom Brocke

Jan vom Brocke is the Chair of Information Systems & Business Process Management at the University of Münster and a Director of ERCIS – The European Research Center for Information Systems. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Liechtenstein and has been named a Fellow of the AIS, an Academic Research Fellow at MIT Center for Information Systems Research, a Fellow of the ESCP Center for Design Science in Entrepreneurship, a Schoeller Senior Fellow at Friedrich Alexander University (FAU), and a Distinguished Professor at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Anne Josephine Flanagan

Anne Josephine Flanagan is Vice President for Artificial Intelligence at the Future of Privacy Forum, a Washington DC-based non-profit with offices globally. FPF serves as a catalyst for privacy leadership and scholarship, advancing principled data practices in support of emerging technologies.  Anne leads FPF’s portfolio of projects exploring the data flows driving algorithmic and AI products and services, their opportunities and risks, and the ethical and responsible development of this technology.

An international policy expert in Data and Artificial Intelligence, Anne is an economist and strategic technology governance and business leader with 18+ years’ experience on five continents, including in the EU and the U.S.

Anne spent over a decade in the Irish government and EU institutions, including developing Ireland’s technical policy positions and diplomatic strategy in relation to EU legislation on telecoms, digital infrastructure, and data. She has represented Ireland in the EU Digital Single Market Strategic Group at the European Commission, the Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society at the Council of the European Union and was responsible for foundational work on the EU’s Digital Single Market, including the EU’s early approach to AI governance.

Since moving to the U.S. in 2019, Anne has held several senior positions in technology policy, where she has helped senior technology business leaders shape responsible and sustainable technology development through her research, advice, and expertise. At the World Economic Forum, she developed and led a global portfolio of work on Data Policy and later led cross-product policy strategy for Reality Labs Policy at Meta Platforms Inc. in San Francisco, California.

Anne holds a Masters in Economics and Political Science from Trinity College Dublin, a Masters in International Relations from Dublin City University, and a Masters of Business Administration from Trinity College Dublin.

Edwina Fitzmaurice

Edwina is the Client Technology, Chief Customer Success Officer, Principal Partner. Edwina leads Customer Success and Product Management for EY’s Client Technology business unit. Her responsibilities include enabling client centricity in line with EY’s NextWave strategy to transform the business through technology and data. Edwina works across the firm’s leadership team to identify, build, deploy and adopt high-impact CT solutions, products and platforms designed to meet and exceed the expectations of our engagement teams and clients. Edwina has been a CIO, COO and CEO in financial services businesses and holds board positions on industry innovation organizations. She was formerly the GCSP for Xerox, a G360 account and the Global Consulting Markets and Business Development Leader.

Professor. Iris Junglas

Dr. Iris Junglas is the Noah T. Leask Distinguished Professor of Information Management and Innovation in the Supply Chain and Information Management Department at the College of Charleston. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia, as well as an undergraduate and master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Koblenz, Germany. Over a 20-year career, she has worked for a variety of IT consulting firms, including PricewaterhouseCoopers and Accenture where she worked under the tutelage of Jeanne Harris (co-author of the book “Competing on Analytics” together with Tom Davenport) as a Research Fellow for the Institute of High Performance.

Iris’ research sits at the intersection of technology innovation and business analytics. Overall, Iris has published more than 50 refereed journal articles in the field of Information Systems, including outlets, such as the European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of the Association of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Management Information Systems Quarterly and Management Information Systems Quarterly Executive. In 2017, Iris won the AIS best paper award for her work together with Oliver Müller, Jan vom Brocke, and Stefan Debortoli on “Deriving business value from unstructured data” for which the authors developed a text mining tool, freely available at MineMyText.com.

Iris is a Senior Associate Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems, an Associate Editor for the Communications of AIS, and a board member of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems and Management Information Systems Quarterly Executive. She has just completed a Fulbright Scholarship at Maynooth University in Ireland where she researched the “Internet of Things.” She has taught at the undergraduate, graduate, Ph.D., and executive level, inside and outside the US, in English and in German. In 2018, she won a graduate teaching award for her work with MBA students.

Iris has lived in Germany, Switzerland, and Ireland. In the U.S., Iris seems to like the “ston” towns as she has lived in Houston, Boston, and now lives in Charleston. Iris loves oil-painting and repairing things.

Education

Ph.D. degree in Business Administration with a specialization in Management Information Systems and a Minor in Artificial Intelligence, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2003

Master’s and undergraduate degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Business Administration (Dipl.-Inf.), University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, 1998

Fulbright Scholar at Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland, 2018/2019

DAAD Scholar at Otto-Beisheim School of Management, WHU, Koblenz, Germany, 2015

Fellow of the University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein in Business Analytics, since 2011

Courses Taught

• Information Management
• Business Analytics

Publications

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Meske, C., Junglas, I. and S. Stieglitz (2019). Explaining the Emergence of Hedonic Motivations in Enterprise Social Networks and Their Impact on Sustainable User Engagement – A Four-Drive Perspective. Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Volume 32, Issue 3, p. 436-456.

Junglas, I., Goel, L., Ives, B. and J. G. Harris (2018). Innovation at Work: The Relative Advantage of Using Consumer IT in the Workplace. Information Systems Journal, Volume 29, Issue 2, p. 317-339.

Rehm, S., Goel, L. and I. Junglas (2017). Using Information Systems in Innovation Networks: Uncovering Network Resources. Journal of the Association of Information Systems, Volume 18, Issue 8, p. 577-604.

Junglas, I., Koch, H., Sundararajan, A. and P. Wang (2017). Shared Responsibility and Blurring Boundaries: Strategic Implications of the Sharing Economy. Management Information Systems Quarterly Executive, Volume 16, Issue 4, p. iii-i

REFEREED PROCEEDINGS
Zaza, I. and I. Junglas (2017). Conceptualizing IT Self-Service Engagement: A Grounded Theory Approach, Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 10-12, Boston, MA.

Zaza, I. and I. Junglas (2016). IT Self-Service Engagement: A Theory of Trying Perspective, Proceeding of the International Conference on Information Systems, December 11-14, Dublin, Ireland

OTHER NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Rehm, S. and I. Junglas (2017). Kybernetik and Digital Transformation, In: Kybernetik und Transformation – Regelung und Kommunikation in Organisation und Gesellschaft, Rehm, S.-V. and T. Fischer (eds), Wirtschaftskybernetik und Systemanalyse, Band 31, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin

Matthew Mullarkey

Matthew T. Mullarkey is the Director of the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) Program for the USF Muma College of Business and an Instructor in the School of Information Systems and Management (SISM). Mullarkey received a Ph.D. in Business Administration with a concentration in Information Systems from the University of South Florida, an MBA from the University of South Carolina, an MS in Systems Management from the University of Southern California, and a BS in Engineering from the United States Military Academy (West Point).

Mullarkey’s areas of research interest include design science research and action research in the evaluation and creation of information systems, smart cities, IoT, healthcare, social networking, and data science. Mullarkey teaches using case based discussions that engage Doctoral, MBA and MIS undergraduates in complex business decisions that typically involve a technology component. His case study based capstone courses emphasize critical thinking, business analysis, and the impact of information technology and systems on real‐world, business decision‐making. Mullarkey is the Editor‐in‐Chief of the USF Muma Case Review and an editor and reviewer for a number of academic journals.

Mullarkey is a 2019-2020 recipient of the Fulbright Scholar Award, 2018 recipient of the USF Faculty Externship Award, 2017 recipient of the USF Muma College of Business Outstanding Faculty Community Engagement Award, and 2015-2016 ISDS Undergraduate Teacher of the Year Award. Mullarkey was named a 2019-2021 Extraordinary Research Scientist at North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.

Cornel Klien

Cornel Klein leads the corporate research program at Siemens Foundation Technologies on the validation and engineering of intelligent and autonomous systems and manages large collaborative research projects. In this role, he is closely connected with external partners in the Siemens research and innovation ecosystem, including funding agencies, universities, startups, and industrial R&I initiatives.

He has extensive expertise in communications, cyber-physical and embedded systems, software and systems engineering, as well as in application domains such as automotive, mobility, and smart cities/buildings. Cornel has also served as project manager and co-author of several foresight studies, including The Software Car, which explores the impact of digital transformation on the automotive industry, and Embodied Intelligence: Driving the Digital Transformation 2.0“

Cornel holds a Master’s and a PhD in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich.

Alistair Russell

Alistair is CEO of the management consultancy, Laing Russell. Laing Russell was established in 2018 as Alistair concluded the sale of his previous organisation, CIO Connect. Alistair and his colleagues work with organisations to develop their digital capability. At CIO Connect, Alistair was SVP, Advisory Services for over 15 years, leading the business and their work with Chief Information Officers and teams across Europe, Asia Pacific and North America. Laing Russell’s clients span all sectors.

Prior to CIO Connect, Alistair was Director for Executive Education at Durham University Business School. Alistair was with PA Consulting Group for 12 years. At PA, alongside practice leadership, he led consulting projects focused on organisational, systems and cultural change. Alistair qualified as a chartered engineer and started his career with ICI, holding a number of project and engineering management positions.

Alistair is business mentor to the CEO and Founder of a manufacturing sector tech. start-up, Business Growth Mentor to the CEO of a regional professional services firm, mentor to charity leaders through the Cranfield Trust and leadership mentor to students through the Durham Leadership Academy.

Dr. Christoph F. Strnadl

Dr. Christoph F. Strnadl is CTO and a Secretary General of the Gaia-X European Association for Data and Cloud AISBL, an international Brussels-based organization defining and implementing standards to enable federated and trusted data and digital service ecosystems.

Educated as a research scientist in Theoretical Physics he has been working as strategy consultant and business manager at Atos for 10 years. He then joined Software AG in 2005 where he held various technical leadership positions in central and eastern Europe, and at the global level, finally as Deputy CTO, playing a key role in global technology strategy development, cross-product innovation, and thought leadership. There Christoph contributed to large-scale, high-impact initiatives, including Gaia-X, Mobility Data Space (MDS), and various IoT and data space projects. Before joining the Gaia-X AISBL in 2024, he led the efforts of the IOTA Foundation, a Berlin blockchain/DLT association, of defining and implementing a technology adoption department.

An Austrian citizen, he holds a summa cum laude Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the Technical University of Vienna and a post-graduate certificate in management science from the University of Huddersfield, UK. He is a recognized public speaker with over 300 appearances and co-author of or contributor to several books on the cloud-to-edge (C2E) continuum and its monetarization, data and service platform concepts and implementations, business process management, and IT law.

Dr. Anita Mirijamdotter

Dr. Anita Mirijamdotter holds the position of Senior Professor at Linnaeus University, Sweden. In that role she serves as Head of Subject, which involves disciplinary responsibility for Informatics research and education, including its development, and leading the Informatics research group. She is also co-founder of the Linnaeus University Systems Community, and part of the research team of Data-driven Business Innovation, which also hosts the Knowledge foundation funded International guest professor in data driven business innovation. Anita’s research and teaching span a wide range of topics, with a particular focus on Systems Thinking Methodologies and Models, Digital Business Models, and Participatory Action Research in change management. Further, Anita has extensive experience delivering higher education across the globe, including countries in the Balkan Region, such as Kosovo and Albania. An Erasmus + KA2 funded project, PhDICTKES (2019-2023), concerned the development and implementation of National Research School in ICT for Kosovo Education System. A later grant where Anita is co-applicant, is the EU Horizon 2021 MSCA Doctoral Network project ENTRUST, which includes financing of eleven PhD students placed in five European countries. Further, she is also a member of the Steering Committee for GATE – Graduate School of Advanced Technology and Enterprising. Of special significance, Anita was awarded Linnaeus University prize 2024 for outstanding supervisor in doctoral education.

Dr. Mihai Bilauca

Dr. Bilauca is the most senior adviser to the Minister on ICT and Digital Transformation. Mihai is responsible for driving the government’s digitization agenda for DHLGH with in collaboration with local authorities and agencies under the DHLGH’s remit.

Mihai worked in various roles in ICT Management for UPC Romania and for Limerick City & County Council in various roles, heading the Digital Strategy, ICT, Change Management, Customer Services, Urban Innovation and EU Programmes departments.

In his spare time Mihai continues his academic research in smart cities, mathematical programming, optimization modelling methods and publishes in ACM and other leading computing science journals and conferences. Mihai received a Master of Science (M.Sc.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from University of Limerick, Ireland and the software engineering degree from “Ștefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Romania.