Workshops
Information and Process Support for Responsive and Innovative Business (ICID-2026 IPS)
This workshop focuses on the intersection of contemporary business challenges and advanced information technologies. It aims to explore how conceptual modelling, software solutions, enterprise architecture, and sustainability-oriented information systems can support business innovation, efficiency, and strategic development.
Contributions are invited on topics including, but not limited to:
- Conceptual Modelling for Complex Systems: Ontologies, domain-specific languages, and modelling techniques, capturing business semantics and sustainability metrics for effective collaboration between artificial and human agents.
- Software Support for Business Innovation: AI-driven decision support systems, business process management (BPM) suites, and custom software for solving specific business problems.
- Agile Enterprise Architecture: Frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, ArchiMate) adapted for digital transformation, enabling organizational agility and strategic alignment.
- Information Support for Sustainable Development: Systems and processes for collecting, analyzing, and reporting ESG data; digital platforms for circular economy; and ensuring transparency in supply chains.
- Cross-Domain Case Studies: Interdisciplinary case studies demonstrating the successful integration of these domains in real-world settings.
Co-Creating Innovation – Academic-Industry Collaboration in Industry and Manufacturing (ICID-2026 AIC)
This interactive workshop explores how universities and companies in industry and manufacturing can co-create innovation by combining sector expertise, corporate entrepreneurship, and project-based education. It connects academic knowledge with real production challenges through collaboration between researchers, educators, industry leaders, and practitioners.
The session focuses on hands-on company projects and international student teams, highlighting the role of IT and AI in project-oriented education and smart industrial solutions. It builds on the experience of Stanford Design Thinking, emphasizing human-centered design, rapid prototyping, and close industry engagement. Special attention is given to cultural and institutional contexts, recognizing that sustainable innovation depends on people, practices, and organizational values as much as technology.
The workshop will be mostly on-site, featuring invited industry leaders, practitioners, and industry-oriented academics. Selected best presentations will be included in the conference proceedings.
The goal is to develop practical partnership models that foster competencies, entrepreneurial thinking, and long-term innovation in industry and manufacturing.
ICID 2026 Early Career Research & Student Workshop – Growing Ideas Together (ICID-2026 ECRS)
Starting a research journey can feel uncertain – but it should never feel lonely. This workshop is created as a welcoming space for young scholars to explore, test, and grow their ideas together.
We invite Bachelor, Master, and PhD students to share their projects, early concepts, prototypes, and work in progress. Not only finished results, but questions, experiments, and even half-formed thoughts are welcome. The goal is not evaluation, but conversation.
Participants will receive constructive feedback from peers, mentors, and international researchers, connect across disciplines and cultures, and experience research as a collaborative and creative process. The workshop encourages openness, curiosity, and courage to try.
We see research as something built together – through dialogue, exchange, and community. Many strong ideas begin as sketches. This is the place where they take their first steps.
The workshop will be held in a hybrid format – primarily on-site, with selected online presentations to ensure broad international participation.
Learning Across the Ecosystem: How Large Platforms, Vendors, and Startups Co-Design Corporate Systems Education in the Era of AI (ICID-2026 AI-LCE)
We are currently preparing an edited volume titled Aligning Education and Industry Research: Innovative Methodologies Propelled Through the Usage of Corporate Information Systems in Education, to be published by Springer. The book examines how enterprise technology platforms and artificial intelligence are transforming education, applied research, and new models of academic-industry collaboration.
To extend this work beyond a purely descriptive perspective, we are launching a broader discussion on alternative ways of integrating corporate information systems into teaching and research. This dialogue will continue at our conference workshop, where professors, researchers, vendors, and industry practitioners will present real cases, methodologies, and implemented solutions drawn from practice.
In line with the theme Learning Across the Ecosystem, the conversation will not be limited to established leaders such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Workday, or Salesforce. It will also include mid-sized and niche vendors, specialized providers, and startups. We approach them as parts of a shared ecosystem where stability, scale, agility, and experimentation complement each other, and where all participants learn from one another.
The best contributions and presentations from the workshop will be invited for further development and inclusion in the edited book.
All on-site presentations will be streamed to Zoom. The presentation’s language is English.
The schedule will be posted later.