Thursday, Oct. 11th - ROOM: Aula Computer, collegio Cairoli, piazza Cairoli 1

17:30 - 19:30: Doctoral Consortium Workshop: "Developing Surveys for IS research" (Chair: Eusebio Scornavacca)

Friday, Oct. 12th - ROOM: Aula Computer, collegio Cairoli, piazza Cairoli 1

09.00-09.30: Opening session
09:30-11:00: PhD Students' Presentations and Coaching Roundtable with the Faculty (PART 1)
11.00-11.15: Coffee break
11.15-12.45: PhD Students' Presentations and Coaching Roundtable with the Faculty (PART 2)
12:45-13.00: Closing session

WELCOME ADDRESS
Conference Chairs: Pietro Previtali (University of Pavia) and Maddalena Sorrentino (University of Milano)
Programme Chairs: Alessandra Lazazzara (University of Milano) and Francesca Ricciardi (University of Torino)

Keynote session chair: Marco De Marco (Uninettuno University, Rome)
KEYNOTE: "The Digital Company"
Speaker: Jörg Becker, head of the Department of Information Systems of the University of Münster and of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS). He is Professor for Information Systems and directs the Chair for Information Systems and Information Management. He holds an honorary professorship at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics (NRU-HSE) in Moscow and is member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. He was granted doctorates honoris causa (Dr. h.c.) from the Universities of Turku (Finland) and Voronesh (Russia). From 2008 to 2016, he served the University of Münster as Pro-Rector for Strategic Planning and Quality Assurance and he was CIO of the university. His research interests cover Information Modelling including Reference Modelling for Data and Processes, Management Information Systems, Hybrid Value Creation, Business Process Management, E-Government, and Retail Information Systems. Jörg has published in renowned outlets, including MIS Quarterly (MISQ), European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE), Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Information Systems Journal (ISJ), and Business Process Management Journal (BPMJ). He has authored and edited numerous books, including Retail Information Systems, Process Management, Modernizing Processes in Public Administrations, and Reference Modeling. He is editor-in-chief of Information Systems and e-Business Management.

KEYNOTE: "How to foster a European high tech digital industry in the next future"
Speaker: Gianpiero Lotito, since 2010, is the founder, with Mariuccia Teroni, of FacilityLive, a startup that is launching on the international market a next generation search engine. FacilityLive owns patents in 43 countries including USA (benchmarking Google as “prior art”), Europe, Japan and Israel. Nigel Kendall, technology editor of The Times, defined it “a technology that could change everything on the Web”. FacilityLive is Gartner Cool Vendor 2014 for CRM Customer Service and Support and part of Gartner's Enterprise Search Global mainstream. Gianpiero is a technologist, with a musical career behind, working for over twenty years on innovative projects in the publishing world and on technologies applied to content. He taught Multimedia Publishing at the University of Milan and wrote books and articles on technology for major Italian editors like Bruno Mondadori and Kataweb-L'Espresso. Gianpiero is Anitec “Ambassador” of the “E-Skills for Jobs 2014” project, which is under the Grand Coalition for digital jobs of the European Commission.

Social dinner at "Collegio Cairoli"