-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CfP: BITWorld - 17th International Conference on Business IT, May 19-21, Las Vegas, USA Datum: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 07:56:02 -0500 Von: Spyridon Samonas ssamonas@vcu.edu An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

*CALL FOR PAPERS* ** BITWorld 2015 ** **** 17th International Conference on Business Information Technology **** *May 19-21, 2015, LAS VEGAS, USA* *Papers submission deadline: February 15, 2015* *http://bit-world.us* http://bit-world.us/

*Background*

The year was 1997 and a bunch of colleagues had gotten together in the CSA Bar at Cranfield University, UK. The game of darts was in full swing. An idea popped â?? how interesting would it be to organize a Business Information Technology conference at a location where traditionally such conferences never venture to be. Very quickly New Delhi as a location was suggested. An email was sent to Professor Gordon Davis at the University of Minnesota to be the inaugural keynote speaker. And without much ado, we had an event at our hands. Professor Rekha Jain of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad became the local organizing chair.

In years to come the conference grew from strength to strength and events were organized in South Africa, Egypt, Ecuador, Mexico among other places. For the past few years though, BITWorld was co-hosted with CITED in Nigeria, CoDE in Thailand and China and CISTM in India. The next event is being decoupled from the co-hosts and will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada on*Â May 19-21, 2015*. We look forward to carrying forward a rich tradition of BITWorld events in 2015 and beyond. BITWorld includes a full program of papers, presentations, keynotes and publishing events, and aspires to bring together academics, researchers and practitioners from all over the world to engage in dialogue and exchange ideas on the latest developments and challenges in Information Technology.

*Scope and Aims*

The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in studying and discussing a range of leadership challenges as these might relate to their particular businesses and industry. Such dialogue will facilitate the development of agendas for further research and development. We invite you to consider submitting your research papers, workshop or tutorial proposals for consideration. Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Big Data and analytics - Leading technical teams through organizational change - Key issues in managing IT related change - IT Leadership development theories and practices - Developing and sustaining IT competencies - Identifying future IT leaders - Challenges in aligning IT and business - Gaining strategic advantages from IT - Strategic planning for IT - Governance practices in IT - Applications of Systems Theory to business IT - Managing the IT function for business value - The influence of politics and culture on IT decisions

*Submission Details:Â * Participation can be in the following categories (but not limited to):

Industry Participants:Â If you have an interesting story to share we welcome your participation. We can guarantee an engaging participation from the floor, where you can discuss and talk freely about what you have been thinking. We just require a title of your presentation, a few lines describing your topic area and a brief biographical note (about 100 words).

Academic Participants:Â We encourage you to submit an abstract, a full paper, a research note, or a case study. Submission details are available at:Â http://www.bit-world.us http://www.bit-world.us/

Submission deadline:Â February 15, 2015 Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2015

*Program Committee*

*Conference Chairs* Spyridon Samonas, PhD Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Rahul Singh, PhD University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA

*Program Chair* Helena Lindskog, PhD Linkoping University, Sweden

*Track Chairs* _Big Data & Analytics_ Markos Zachariadis, PhD Warwick Business School, UK

_Technology in Entrepreneurial Ventures_ David Coss, PhD Virginia State University, USA

_Management Systems in Business IT_ Dionysios Demetis, PhD University of Hull, UK

-- *Spyridon (Spiro) Samonas, Ph.D.* Post-doctoral Fellow in Cyber-security Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness Virginia Commonwealth University Kearney House, Room 207 921 West Franklin Street P.O. Box 842028 Richmond, Virginia 23284-2028 Telephone: (+1) 804-828-7482 Fax: (+1) 703-997-2516 _http://wilder.vcu.edu/faculty/samonas.html_