Martin Santana, Ph.D. Professor of Information Technology. Universidad ESAN. Co-Chair of the Information Technology Management track, BALAS 2006 Annual Conference, Lima. Co-Chair, Forum on Information Technology Innovations for Competing in the International Business Arena, sponsored by Peru's Export Promotion Commission (PROMPEX), 2005, Lima. Member of the IT Faculty panel, CLADEA´s Doctoral Consortium, 2003. Chair of the ESAN e-Government Symposium, 2002, Lima. Program Co-Chair of the Entrepreneurial Leaders Summit, 2001, Lima. Organizer of the workshop on Emergent Technologies in Business Schools in Latin America, as part of the International Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute, 1999, Athens.
 

Ajay Vinzé, Ph.D. Davis Distinguished Professor and Director (CABIT), W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. Program Chair of the Security Symposium 2005, Information Security in the Knowledge Economy. Program Co-Chair of the Annual Workshop on e-Business. Program Chair and organizer of the Security Symposium 2004 and 2003. Chair of the Bio-Terrorism Roundtable discussion (2004).

 

 

Program Co-Chairs

Dorothy E. Leidner, Ph.D.  Randall W. and Sandra Ferguson Professor of Information Systems and Director of the Center for Knowledge Management, Baylor University. Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair, AMCIS 2004. Associate Editor, ICIS 2004. MIS Camp Co-Chair, AMCIS 2002. Faculty participant for the Doctoral Consortium, ECIS 1998. Faculty coordinator, ICIS 1998. Member of the Program Committee, ICIS 1999 - 2002. Program Committee, ECIS 2000.

 

Joyce J. Elam, Ph.D. Executive Dean, College of Business Administration, and James L. Knight Eminent Scholar, Professor in Management Information Systems, Florida International University. Her research on the areas of strategic use of information technology to support both individual and group decision-making has been published in journals such as Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Research, Operations Research and MISQ. She currently serves on the editorial board of Strategic Information Systems and is a past editor for MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research.

George Marakas, Ph.D. Professor of Information Systems and Coordinator, Doctoral Programs in IS, University of Kansas. Author of 2 textbooks and co-author of other 3 has published extensively in recognized academic journals. His research interests are focused on systems analysis and design, end-user computing, data mining and visualization and CASE integration and management, among others. Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair, AMCIS 2006 and 2001. Former MIS Camp Co-Chair, AMCIS 2007. Program Review Committee, ICIS 1994, 1997, 1999 and 2002.
 

Ellen Christiaanse, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems, Amsterdam Graduate Business School, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her research interests include on-line supply chains, electronic channels and the leveraging of expertis4e and information as an asset in inter-firm settings, in particular B2B exchanges. Currently on leave at ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain. Program Committee and Standing Committee of ECIS for several years. Junior Faculty Chair of ICIS 2004 and organizer of the JAIS workshop. Editorial boards of JSIS; JAIS, ESJ, ISJ and frequent reviewer for MISQ, ISR, SMR among others.

Josep Valor, Ph.D. Professor of Information Systems, IESE, Spain. Chair of the ICIS Executive Committee, Chair of the ICIS Site Selection Advisory Committee. Conference Chair of ICIS, the International Conference of Information Systems held in Barcelona, Spain, 2002. Chair of the ICIS Executive Committee, June 2003-June 2004. Member of the editorial board of Information and Management. Reviewer of many conferences, including ICIS and ECIS.
 

Ramiro Montealegre, DBA. Chair of the Systems Division and Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Recipient of five consecutive annual teaching excellence awards for outstanding teaching at the University of Colorado. Member of the Program Committee for conference: “Social Exclusion—Societal and Organizational Implications for Information Systems,” IFIP 8.2, August 2006, Limerick, Ireland. Member of the Program Committee for conference: “Designing Ubiquitous Information Environments,” IFIP 8.2, August 2005, Cleveland, Ohio. Program Chair, Conference: “IS Challenges in the Rise of Globalization”, Athens,  2003.

Guillermo Rodriguez Abitia, Ph.D. Director of the IT and Electronics Technologies Development Center. ITESM, Mexico. Conference Chair, AMCIS 2006. Track Chair, AMCIS 2005. Track coordinator and MIS Camp Panel, AMCIS 2004. Paper reviewer AMCIS 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004. Track coordinator AMCIS 2003.

 

 

Jaime Serida, Ph.D. Vice president, Universidad ESAN. Ph.D. in Management Information Systems – University of Minnesota. MBA, ESAN, Perú.  Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering. Director of the Entrepreneurship Center ESAN. Past Academic Director ESAN.

 

 

Roberto Evaristo, Ph.D., Faculty member at the University of Illinois. Over 30 papers published in refereed journals and over 70 at several conferences in North America, Europe, Latin America and Africa, as well as participation in 3 panels at ICIS, 1 at AMCIS and 1 at ECIS. Roberto has also won andAIS 2004 Award for Innovation in Information Systems Education, Honorable Mention. Organized three international conferences. Coordinator of AIS Sponsored SIGCCRIS (Special Interest Group in cross-cultural research in IS) and of the first international database for researchers interested in cross-cultural research in IS.

Norberto Hoppen, Ph.D. Université Pierre Mendès-France, France, Professor of Information Systems at the School of Management of the Federal University at Porto Alegre, Brazil. Research sponsored by CNPq, the National Research Council of Brazil. Co-chair of the 8th Internacional Conference of the Association of Information Systemas – SIG/DSS International Society for Decision Support Systems – DSS2005; Co-chair and track coordinator of the XVI Encontro Nacional de Programas de Pós-Graduação - ENANPAD, Brazil, 1992; Reviewer of many conferences, including ENANPAD, CLADEA, BALAS, AIM and AIS.

Sponsorship Chair

Jorge Talavera, Ph.D. Executive Director, Latin American Council of Management Schools (CLADEA) and President, Universidad ESAN, Peru.  Conference Chair, BALAS Conference, Lima-Peru, 2006. Program Chair, Global Forum on Management Education, Santiago de Chile, 2005. Program Chair, CLADEA´s annual conferences 2005 and previous seven years in various Latin American countries and Spain. Member of AACSB International Affairs Committee, Dr. Talavera has a very long and successful experience in the organization of international conferences all of whom have met their economic parameters.

Steven Hornik, Ph.D. CPA since 1983. UCF Fellow of the Academy for Teaching, Learning and Leadership University of Central Florida. Exhibits co-chair for AMCIS 2003 in Tampa, Florida and Treasurer for the Creative School Parents Association (University of Central Florida pre-school) for the 2003/2004 academic year. Reviewer of the 7th Annual SAIS Conference 2004.

 

 

Program Review Chair and Proceedings Editor