2024
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.05438
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Are we Concentrating on the Right Issues? A Response to the AIS Taskforce's Plan for the Future of IS Conferences

Tobias Mettler

Abstract: This short article aims to challenge some fundamental assumptions we hold about conferences and how we organize ourselves as an academic community. It puts forward the environmental impact of extensive traveling and the strain and squandering on the volunteer-based academic system, exacerbated by the growing number of paper reviews to be handled every year and the growing tendency that attending conferences becomes a secondary matter for scholarly exchange and learning. Since there are no alternatives to scien… Show more

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