International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) is an annual international conference for academics and research-oriented practitioners in the area of

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. Previously known as the Conference on Information Systems (CIS), ICIS is the flagship conference of 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 ...

, an international professional organization serving academics in information systems. ICIS was founded in 1980 at the

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, and the first conference was held in

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the same year. Starting in 1990, when it had its first international venue in

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, ICIS has been traditionally held outside of North America regularly. ICIS currently rotates between the Americas (AIS Region 1), Europe/Middle East/Africa (AIS Region 2), and Asia/Australia (AIS Region 3). ICIS is usually scheduled in early December and lasts for four days. The conference is preceded by the ICIS Doctoral Consortium,ICIS Site Selection Criteria
/ref> held off site, usually in a nearby resort. The consortium brings together senior faculty from Information Systems (many of whom were participants in past consortia) and ~40 doctoral students, selected from ~120 nominations (each university or institution is allowed to nominate only one participant).

Past and Future Conferences

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* {{Authority control Information systems conferences Academic conferences Association for Information Systems conferences