Richard L. Baskerville is a Board of Advisors Professor of Information Systems and past chairman in the Department of Computer Information Systems, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. His research specializes in security of information systems, methods of information systems design and development, and the interaction of information systems and organizations. His interest in methods extends to qualitative research methods. Baskerville is the author of Designing Information Systems Security (J. Wiley) and more than 200 articles in scholarly journals, professional magazines, and edited books. He is Editor-in-Chief for The European Journal of Information Systems and serves on the editorial boards of Business & Information Systems Engineering (Wirtschaftsinformatik), and the Information Systems Journal. A Chartered Engineer, Baskerville holds degrees from the University of Maryland (B.S. summa cum laude, Management), and the London School of Economics, University of London (M.Sc., Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems, Ph.D., Systems Analysis).

Shirley Gregor is Professor of Information Systems at the Australian National University, Canberra, where she is Director of the National Centre for Information Systems Research and Associate Dean Research in the College of Business and Economics. Professor Gregor’s current research interests include the innovative and strategic use of information and communications technologies, knowledge systems, human-computer interaction and the philosophy of technology. Professor Gregor has published in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of the Association of Information Systems, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, European Journal of Information Systems and Information Technology & People. Professor Gregor was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honour’s list in June 2005 for services as an educator and researcher in the field of information systems and for work in e-commerce in the agribusiness sector. She is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems. She was a Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly 2008-2010 and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Association of Information Systems 2010-2013.

Jos van Hillegersberg is a full professor of Business Information Systems at the School of Management and Governance, University of Twente. He is head of department of the Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems Group (IEBIS). His interests are service innovation through ICT and improving collaboration in business networks using innovative ICT such as multi-agent technology, services and open system architectures. He published in international journals and conferences on topics such as ERP, Business Agility, business process outsourcing and ICT and supply chain integration. He is leading several research and university-industry collaborations in both national and international consortia. Before joining the University of Twente, he was on the faculty of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus university, working on component based software systems, IT management, global outsourcing and agent systems for supply chains. He also worked at AEGON as component manager for the setup of an Internet Bank and at IBM on artificial intelligence and expert systems. Jos van Hillegersberg serves in several program committees and advisory boards in the information systems field. He is a member of the AIS and ACM.

Robert Winter is tenured chair of business & information systems engineering at University of St. Gallen (HSG), director of HSG's Institute of Information Management, academic director of HSG's Ph.D. in Management programme and was founding academic director of HSG's Executive Master of Business Engineering programme. He received Master degrees in business administration and business education as well as a doctorate in social sciences from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. After eleven years as a researcher and deputy chair in information systems in Germany, he joined HSG in 1996. His research areas include situational method engineering, enterprise architecture management, transformation management, healthcare management and corporate controlling systems.
He is vice editor-in-chief of "Business & Information Systems Engineering" (formerly "Wirtschaftsinformatik") as well as member of the editorial boards of "European Journal of Information Systems", "Information Systems and e-Business Management" and "Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures".
He chaired ECIS 2007 as well as DESRIST 2010 in St. Gallen and served as track chair or conference officer in many leading conferences including ICIS, ECIS and Wirtschaftsinformatik.

Tatiana Bouzdine-Chameeva holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Moscow University complemented by MBA in Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. She is currently a Senior Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems at KEDGE Business School in France. She has done extensive consulting in Europe and the USA for Northwest Airlines, Medtronic C°, Sogerma Services, Ford Aquitaine industries, and Legrand. Her research interests include modeling, optimization, DEA and decision support. Professor Bouzdine-Chameeva has been involved in interdisciplinary research with research teams from US, UK, Netherlands, Australia and Switzerland on a wide range of subject areas related to decision analysis, innovation and knowledge management. She has authored several case studies on managerial decisions in the industrial world. Her current studies extend to wine sector and during the recent years she has become a consultant for wine businesses on their managerial decisions, supply chain issues, output optimization and distribution channels. Professor Bouzdine-Chameeva received honorary membership and awards from the prestigious JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science). She publishes in top journal such as Decision Sciences and European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Retailing and Supply Chain Forum.

Karlheinz Kautz, Dr philos holds a professorial Chair of IT Management & Innovation at the University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia and serves as Associate Dean of Research at the Faculty of Business. Prior Professor Kautz held a professorial position at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark in Systems Development. His research interests lie in the organisational, economic, social and technical aspects of information systems and technology development and design including work on the management of information systems (IS) and studies of business process and digital innovation. Professor Kautz is a founding member the IFIP TC8 WG 8.6 on Diffusion, Transfer, and Implementation of Information Technology. He has be involved in the European Conference on Information Systems for more than 15 years in various leading roles such as Conference Research paper track co-chair, Theme track co-chair, Doctoral Consortium co-chair.

Ferdinando Pennarola is tenured Associate Professor of Organization and Management Information Systems at L. Bocconi University, Milano (Italy). He has earned his doctoral degree in Business Administration at Bocconi University, where he has joined the Faculty in 1986. Dr. Pennarola has gained the Full Professorship qualification in 2006. He is presently Delegate Rector for Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) at Universita’ L. Bocconi, appointed in Feb. 2005 and re-appointed for the following term. He teaches three major topics: Management Information Systems, Change Management and Management Consultancy in both graduate and undergraduate programs at Bocconi University and in several executive education initiatives.

Alan R. Hevner is an Eminent Scholar and Professor in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department in the College of Business at the University of South Florida. He holds the Citigroup/Hidden River Chair of Distributed Technology. Dr. Hevner's areas of research interest include design science research, information systems development, software engineering, distributed database systems, healthcare systems, and service-oriented computing. He has published over 200 research papers on these topics and has consulted for a number of Fortune 500 companies. Dr. Hevner received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University. He has held faculty positions at the University of Maryland and the University of Minnesota. Dr. Hevner is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is a member of ACM, IEEE, AIS, and INFORMS. From 2006 to 2009, he served as a program manager at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate.

Dimitris Karagiannis is head of the Research Group Knowledge Engineering at the University of Vienna. His main research interests include Knowledge Management, modelling methods and Meta-Modelling. Besides his engagement in national and EU-funded research projects Dimitris Karagiannis is the author of research papers and books on Knowledge Databases, Business Process Management, Workflow-Systems and Knowledge Management. He serves as an expert in various international conferences and is presently on the editorial board of Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE), Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures and the Journal of Systems Integration.
He is a member of IEEE and ACM and is on the executive board of German Computer Society (GI) as well as on the steering committee of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) and its Special Interest Group on IT Governance. Recently he started the Open Model Initiative Laboratory (www.omilab.org) in Austria.
In 1995 he established the Business Process Management Systems Approach (BPMS), which has been successfully implemented in several industrial and service companies. He is the founder of the European software- and consulting company BOC (www.boc-group.com), which implements software tools based on the meta-modelling approach.

Reima Suomi is a professor of Information Systems Science at University of Turku, and a part-time professor at Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, China. He has been a professor at Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland since 1994. He is a docent for the universities of Turku and Oulu, Finland. Years 1992-93 he spent as a "Vollamtlicher Dozent" in the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, where he led a research project on business process re-engineering. Winter semester 2013-2014 he was a visiting professor at University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and at Spring 2013 a visiting researcher at University of Münster, Germany. Currently he concentrates on topics around management of networked activities, including issues such as management of telecommunication networks, electronic and mobile services, virtual organizations, telework and competitive advantage through telecommunication-based information systems. Different governance structures applied to the management of IS and are enabled by IS belong too to his research agenda, as well as application of information systems in health care. Reima Suomi has together over 500 publications, and has published in journals such as Communications of the Association for Information Systems, CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, Information & Management, Information Services & Use, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Behaviour & Information Technology, Journal of Management History, Orthopaedic Nursing and Information Resources Management Journal. He has edited books for several publishers including Springer and Routledge. For the academic year 2001-2002 he was a senior researcher "varttunut tutkija" for the Academy of Finland, and the year 2013 he was on a sabbatical made possible by the Finnish professor grant system (Professoripooli).

Katerina Pramatari is Associate Professor at the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business and scientific coordinator of the ELTRUN/SCORE research group. Her research focuses on supply chain collaboration and information systems, RFID and Internet-of-things, electronic services and e-business. She has received various academic distinctions and scholarships and has published more than 100 papers in scientific journals, peer-reviewed academic conferences and book chapters, amongst them in Journal of Retailing, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, Decision Support Systems etc. She has served as Research-in-progress co-chair for ECIS 2011 (Helsinki), Local Organization Chair for the 4th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS 2009, Athens, Greece), Associate Editor for ECIS 2010 and ECIS 2009 and as reviewer for several major IS conferences and journals.

Remko Helms (@remhelms) is an assistant professor at the Department of Information and Computing Science at Utrecht University, The Netherlands and a full professor in Information Systems at the Open University in Heerlen, The Netherlands. His research focuses on knowledge management and social media with a particular interest in knowledge sharing and transfer practices and structural analysis of (online) communities using social network and content analysis techniques. Publications on this research are published in peer-reviewed international conferences and journals. He serves on program committee of knowledge management and information systems conferences and acts as a reviewer for several major IS conferences, e.g. ECIS and ICIS, and IS journals, e.g. International Journal on Information Management and Knowledge Management Research & Practice. Services to the IS community further include being a department editor for AIS for social media (@AISconnect) and he is a founding member of the International Association of Knowledge Management.