CALL FOR PAPERS: NEAIS 2025
The 7th Annual Conference of the New England Chapter of AIS
Conference Information:
· Date: Saturday, October 25, 2025
· Location: University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA
· Theme: Grand Scholarly Challenges in the Age of AI
· Website: https://communities.aisnet.org/newenglandusachapter/events/neais25
The New England Chapter of the Association for Information Systems (NEAIS) is excited to invite submissions for its annual conference in 2025, to be held at the College of Management, University of Massachusetts Boston. In the past, this conference has attracted wide participation from AIS members both in the Northeastern region of United States and international and domestic scholars from other regions. Ph.D. students and junior faculty members are particularly welcome to join and share their research.
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: Friday, August 22, 2025
Decision to Authors: Friday, September 12, 2025
Camera Ready Copy Due: Friday, September 19, 2025
Conference Format and Registration:
The NEAIS 2025 conference format will be in-person only. University of Massachusetts Boston, as the conference site, is very conveniently located near the highway (Interstate 93), Boston's subway and commuter rail systems (the JFK/UMass station on the Red line) and Boston Logan airport (less than 10 miles away). Further transportation information can be found at https://www.umb.edu/admissions/visit/maps/.
Registration is required to attend, but there is no conference fee. The registration link will be available on the conference website at a later date. All conference participants must join the NEAIS chapter before or at the beginning of the conference. The NEAIS membership fee is $10 annually for AIS members but is waived for doctoral students and Retired/Emeritus faculty. Instructions for NEAIS membership payment can be found at: https://communities.aisnet.org/newenglandusachapter/membershipdue
Submissions:
Please submit your paper via the EasyChair system using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=neais2025
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another conference or journal. Submissions may be in the form of one or more of the following: completed research papers, research-in-progress papers, or proposals for panel discussions.
Abstracts of accepted papers will appear in the electronic conference proceedings, available from AIS eLibrary. The authors retain the copyright to their work. At least one author must register for and present at the conference. High-quality submissions will be considered for two Best Paper awards, sharing $1,000 in total.
Submission Template:
Submissions should be in MS Word or PDF format. The submission template is linked at https://communities.aisnet.org/newenglandusachapter/events/neais25/call25.
Submission Types:
· Completed Research: Completed research papers should be no more than 2,500 words, including all materials and sections such as figures, tables, and references.
· Research-in-Progress: Research-in-progress proposals (extended abstracts) or a summary of tentative results of the study to date of 500-1000 words.
We look forward to receiving submissions to NEAIS 2025 and meeting you in Boston in October!
Contact:
Please email all questions about submissions to neaisconf@gmail.com and cc the program committee chair Dr. Kui Du at kui.du@umb.edu.
More Information:
For further details, please visit the conference website: https://communities.aisnet.org/newenglandusachapter/events/neais25
Best,
Pratyush Bharati
Professor of Management Information Systems
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Senior Editor, The Data Base
Associate Editor, Communications of the AIS
Distinguished Member, Association for Information Systems
Former President, SIGGreen, Association for Information Systems
Former Fulbright Senior Researcher
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Pratyush Bharati
Professor
Pratyush Bharati Person
Boston MA
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