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IS SECTION / AMERICAN ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATION. |
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2009 Information Systems Section Mid-Year Meeting January 7-9, 2009 |
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The Information Systems Section of the AAA will hold its 2009 Mid-Year Conference in Charleston, South Carolina. The meeting will include a plenary speaker, pre-conference workshops, panel discussions, research and education paper sessions and forums, and education workshops. The 7th annual AIS New Scholar Consortium will precede the meeting. Make plans now to join us in January! Register on-line at: http://aaahq.org/meetings/2009IS_online.htm
Hotel Information Doubletree Guest Suites Charleston—Historic District Charleston, South Carolina 29401 Fax: 1-843-577-2697
The Doubletree Guest Suites is located on the corner of Church and Market Streets in the heart of the Charleston Historic District, next to Charlestown’s City Market. The hotel is steps from famed restaurants, King Street boutiques, antebellum mansions, "Rainbow Row", Waterfront Park, Charleston's High Battery, historic homes and gardens, theatres, carriage rides and more...
Block Rate: A limited number of rooms have been reserved for the conference rate of $119/night, single or double. Reservations are guaranteed by credit card number or advance deposit for first night’s stay PLEASE make your reservations as early as possible to take advantage of this special room rate by calling 1-843-577-2644 and be sure to reference the American Accounting Association. This rate is available until December 8, 2008.
Note: we cannot guarantee that any additional rooms will be available in the hotel once our block of rooms is sold out, even if the block is sold out before the cut off date. You should make your reservations as early as possible to help ensure your accommodations. To help us meet the room block requirement, please stay at the Doubletree Guest Suites in Historic Charleston
Charleston International is 20 minutes away. Valet parking: $19.00/day
Meeting Information · AIS New Scholar Consortium. The 7th annual AIS New Scholar Consortium will kick off with a reception on Wednesday evening, January 7th. The consortium is open to all AIS and IS doctoral students and to AIS professors who received their Ph.D. after January 1, 2005. Consortium attendees will meet on Thursday, January 8th and will receive advice from seasoned AIS faculty for successfully starting an academic career. The IS section will once again waive the registration fee for the entire meeting for doctoral students who are members of the IS section. This is made possible by a grant from the KPMG Foundation. Attendees may register for the Consortium along with their meeting registration through the AAA online registration system.
The Journal of Information Systems Research Development Workshop is scheduled for Thursday afternoon. The purpose of this Workshop is to promote research by Ph.D. students and faculty new to AIS research. Workshop participants will discuss drafts of their working papers with members of the JIS Editorial Advisory and Review Board and with other workshop participants in order to receive detailed feedback to further refine their papers for future journal submission. There is no obligation for the authors to submit their completed work to JIS, although JIS is one high quality journal outlet that does welcome conceptual, theoretical, and empirical AIS and IS papers.
Workshop on IT Governance and Assurance (WITGA). For the first time, the Section is hosting a half day WITGA on January 8th, from 1:00-5:00 p.m. The workshop will provide a forum for faculty interested in researching and teaching IT governance, controls and assurance. The section is cooperating with ISACA (www.isaca.org) and the IT Governance Institute (www.itgi.org) to run the workshop. The workshop will include presentations by faculty and ISACA/ITGI thought leaders. ISACA/ITGI leaders will provide WITGA with an update on recent developments in IT Governance, including COBIT, VALIT, IT Control Objectives for SOX and Basel II and the forthcoming COBIT/Risk framework as set out in the ITGI document “Enterprise Risk: Identify, Govern and Manage IT Related Risk” forthcoming in late 2008. This aspect of WITGA will include guidance on embedding the various teaching and learning resources from ISACA into the AIS and auditing curricula. Faculty are encouraged to contribute teaching innovations, curriculum designs, case studies, class exercises, research ideas, research papers and work in progress. We are interested in hearing how faculty are going about teaching or researching IT Governance and Assurance from a variety of perspectives through panel discussion or short presentations (each 15-20 minutes).
· Concurrent Sessions. The 2009 meeting will have concurrent sessions featuring both academic research papers and education research papers.
· Research Forum. This is an opportunity for authors to discuss their papers in an informal setting.
· Attention AIS Educators. Attention AIS Educators! This year will be an entire day of activities for AIS educators on Friday January 9th, in addition to education paper sessions scheduled during the conference. Watch the Section web page for an announcement of the workshop topics.
· Strategic and Emerging Technologies Section Involvement. The Strategic and Emerging Technologies Section of the AAA will join the IS section in this meeting. Some concurrent sessions will feature papers solely from the Strategic and Emerging Technologies Section.
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