The Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) is an annual conference for

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s and

information technology Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields within information and communications technology (ICT), that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, data processing, data and information processing, and storage. Inf ...

academics and professionals sponsored by the

Association for Information Systems The Association for Information Systems (AIS) is an international, Not-for-profit organization, not-for-profit, professional association for scholars of Information system#As an academic discipline, information systems that was established in 1994 ...

. AMCIS is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious conferences for IS/IT in the

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, and provides a platform for panel discussions and the presentation of

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

information systems research papers. The conference attracts over 600 submissions each year, and those that are selected for presentation appear in the ''AMCIS Proceedings'', which are distributed to hundreds of libraries throughout the world. The first AMCIS conference took place in 1995 in

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and is notable for being the first IS/IT conference to utilize electronic paper submissions. Since that time, AMCIS has been held every August in different cities and attracts between 800 and 1,200 registered delegates every year. In 2006, AMCIS was held in Acapulco, Mexico, thereby marking a major milestone for the conference insofar as it was the first time AMCIS has been held outside of the United States. In 2008, AMCIS was held in Toronto, Canada, and, in 2012, in

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. A Portuguese-language track was added in 2008. This continued in 2009 at the San Francisco conference and was a large component of the 2010 Lima conference.

AMCIS venues

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