Keynote Speakers

Kalle Lyytinen

Kalle Lyytinen is Iris S. Wolstein Professor of Management Design at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University and an adjunct professor at the University of Jyvaskyla. He was educated at he University of Jyvaskyla, Finland where he has studied computer science, accounting, statistics, economics, theoretical philosophy and political theory. He serves currently on the editorial boards of several leading information systems and requirements engineering journals including Journal of AIS (Editor-in-Chief), Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information&Organization, Requirements Engineering Journal, Information Systems Journal, Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, and Information Technology and People, among others. He is AIS fellow (2004), and the former chairperson of IFIP 8.2 and a founding member of SIGSAND. He also led the research team that developed and implemented MetaEdit+ which is the leading domain modeling and metaCASE platform globally. He has published over 180 scientific articles and conference papers and edited or written eleven books on topics related to nature of IS discipline, system design, method engineering, organizational implementation, risk assessment, computer supported cooperative work, standardization, and ubiquitous computing. He is currently involved in research projects that looks at the IT induced radical innovation in software development, IT innovation in architecture, engineering and construction industry, sharing and managing distributed design knowledge in increasingly distributed networks, requirements discovery and modeling for large scale systems, and the adoption of broadband wireless services in the U.K., South Korea and the U.S. His talk will discuss challenges in scaling designs and challenges in scaling our understanding of design activity as a movement and configuration of complex forms of knowledge in highly distributed socio-technical networks.

Charles Eastman

Chuck Eastman is one of the pioneers of AEC CAD, developing research 3D modeling and early parametric modeling systems starting in the middle 1970s. He recently completed leading the team for the Precast Concrete Software Consortium that developed an industry-wide specification for a BIM system for precast concrete fabrication that led to two commercial products. He is currently advising a similar consortium dealing with BIM tools for reinforced concrete engineering. He is carrying out two projects developing parts of the National BIM Standard, supported by the National Institute of Building Science. One is funded by the Charles Pankow Foundation and overseen by NIBS and FIATECH. The other is supported by the American Institute of Steel Construction. He directs a project funded by GSA to automate design reviews for federal courthouses. This year the focus is on early concept design. In November 2006, he was awarded the BIM 2006 BuildingSmart Open Data Award by the International Alliance for Interoperability.

Other Speakers

Anindya Datta

Anindya Datta has more than two decades of experience as an executive entrepreneur, academic leader and IT innovator. Prior to his entrepreneurial pursuits, he served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona and an Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His intellectual contribution can be found in many leading journals and conference proceedings in Information Systems and Computer Science. His work, in the area of high performance database systems, finds application in virtually every commercial DBMS today.

In 1999, he founded Chutney Technologies and led all development and operational aspects of the company, providing both technology and corporate vision. Under his leadership, Chutney evolved from an application performance company into one of the earliest entrants in the application virtualization area, pioneering the area of application layer object storage and virtualization, which is now widely recognized as a core functionality of any object-oriented application. The company was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2005. His current company, Walking Stick Solutions, is developing technology to enable deep visibility into the impact of business services on the underlying data and system resources.

He earned his Ph.D and his M.S. degrees from the University of Maryland, and his B. Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

Subrahmanyam Goparaju

Subrahmanyam (Subu) Goparaju is a Vice President and Head of Software Engineering and Technology Labs (SETLabs) at Infosys, the company’s technology research organization. He also heads the company’s Microsoft Technology Center and manages the Technology Council of the company. Subu Goparaju has been with Infosys for the last 19 years. He has spent more than a decade in IT consulting, project management and solutions delivery management before starting SETLabs in 2000. As Head of SETLabs and Technology Council he is responsible for creating the Technology Strategy, continuously studying emerging technologies and building new solutions and other exploitation strategies that help Infosys differentiation as well as client competitiveness. He also heads the company IP Cell (Intellectual Property Cell) which is responsible for protecting and exploiting company’s intellectual property.

Subu Goparaju’s key focus areas for study include Innovation Management, Technology Management, Emerging Technologies and R&D in the context of software services. As head of Infosys’s Microsoft Technology Centre (MTC) he is responsible for building new services and solutions on Microsoft technologies and platforms.

Alan R. Hevner

Alan R. Hevner is an Eminent Scholar and Professor in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department in the College of Business Administration at the University of South Florida. He holds the Citigroup/Hidden River Chair of Distributed Technology. Dr. Hevner's areas of research interest include information systems development, software engineering, distributed database systems, healthcare information systems, and telemedicine. He has published over 120 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 member of ACM, AIS, IEEE, and INFORMS.

Salvatore T. March

Salvatore T. March is the David K. Wilson Professor of Management at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University. He received BS (with distinction), MS, and PhD degrees in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Cornell University. His research interests include conceptual modeling, database design, and information system development. He teaches classes in electronic commerce, database management, accounting information systems, managerial statistics, and managerial economics.

Professor March has over seventy research publications and has advised over fifteen doctoral dissertations. His research has appeared in leading Information Systems journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Management Science, Journal of MIS, Journal of Database Management, and Information Technology Management. His work has also appeared in leading Computer Science journals such as ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Communications of the ACM, and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

Professor March is actively involved in service to the academic research community. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Computing Surveys, as a Senior Editor for Information Systems Research, and as an Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly. He is currently Guest Co-Editor of a Special Issue of the MIS Quarterly on Design Science Research and for a Special Issue of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems on Cultivating and Securing the Information Supply Chain. He also serves as a Department Editor for Communications of the AIS, and an Associate Editor Decision Sciences Journal, Information Systems and e-Business Management, International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies, Journal of Database Management, and Information Systems Frontiers.

He has served as Program Committee Co-Chair and as a Research Track Co-Chair for the International Conference on Information Systems, the Steering Committee President and Organizing Committee Chair for the Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, and Organizing Committee Co-Chair for the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling. He is currently a Program Committee Co-Chair for the International Conference on Information Systems to be held in St. Louis, MO in December 2010.

Dr. Jay F. Nunamaker

Dr. Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr. is Regents and Soldwedel Professor of MIS, Computer Science and Communication and Director of the Center for the Management of Information at the University of Arizona, Tucson.  He is the conference co-chair for the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2009 and was the conference chair for ICIS in 1984.  In a 2005 journal article in Communications of the Association for Information Systems, he was ranked as the 4^th to the 6^th most productive researcher for the period from 1991-2003.   On March 25, 2008 he received the Technology Innovation award from the University of Arizona for transitioning his research to four start up companies.  Dr. Nunamaker received the LEO Award from the Association of Information Systems (AIS) at ICIS in Barcelona, Spain, December 2002.  This award is given for a lifetime of exceptional achievement in information systems.  He was elected a fellow of the AIS in 2000.    He was featured in the July 1997 Forbes Magazine issue on technology as one of eight innovators in information technology.  The systems resulting from his research can be found on Navy ships, in the federal government, in third world countries, and in corporate businesses throughout the world.  The commercial product, GroupSystems, based upon Nunamaker’s research, is often referred to as the gold standard for structured collaboration systems.  Dr. Nunamaker received his Ph.D. in operations research and systems engineering from Case Institute of Technology, an M.S. and B.S. in engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University.  He received his professional engineer’s license in 1965.  He has served as a test engineer at the Shippingport Atomic Power facility, as a member of the ISDOS team at the Case Institute and the University of Michigan, and as a faculty member of Computer Science and Industrial Administration at Purdue University, prior to joining the faculty at the University of Arizona.  He founded the MIS department at the University of Arizona, in 1974 and served as department head for 18 years.  Jay Nunamaker’s research has led to several major breakthroughs in collaboration (GroupSystems) and automated systems analysis and design (PSL/PSA).  His current research focuses on the deception detection (Agent 99) using linguistics, vocalics and kinesics.  Dr. Nunamaker is known for testing his theories and systems in the “real world.”