Submission Procedure of Panel Proposal
IS scholars are invited to organize panels during IRIS/SCIS 2026. Panels are an important forum for shaping conversations within the Information Systems community. They provide space to collectively explore ideas that are state-of-the-art, challenge established assumptions, break new ground and raise challenges.
Panels are intended to be interactive and discussion-driven. Rather than showcasing completed research, they should bring together diverse perspectives around questions, tensions, or dilemmas that invite reflection and dialogue. Panel topics may address emerging research areas, theoretical or methodological challenges worthwhile to build new research agendas, shifts in the discipline’s status quo, or technology-driven transformations with significant organizational, societal, ethical, or sustainability implications. In light of the growing reach of information systems across all areas of society, IRIS/SCIS particularly welcomes panels that critically engage with the social and ethical consequences of new and emerging technologies and how the academic community can respond to them. While traditional panel formats are welcome, we also encourage proposals that experiment with innovative or unconventional designs. Panels that actively involve the audience, stimulate idea exchange, and generate new insights, research directions, or implications for IS scholarship and practice are especially encouraged. Panels may also take the form of structured debates around contested or provocative issues in the IS field.
Panel proposals will be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=irisscis26 (choose panel) not later than May 15th, 2026. Authors are invited to send their complete panel proposal as one PDF.