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6th July 2026

Panel

Topic: AI+Business Aducation

July 6 from 2:00-3:30 p.m.

  • Xi Chen is a professor in the Department of Data Science and Engineering Management at the School of Management of Zhejiang University. He serves as AE at I&M and IMDS. He has also been track co-chairs and AE for IS conferences such as ICIS and PACIS. His research interests include social media and social network analysis, data mining, and mobile commerce. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in ISR, POM, INFORMS JoC, JMIS, JAIS, I&M, DSS, EJOR and other outlets.
  • Yan Pang is currently a Professor in the Department of Analytics and Operations (DAO) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He also serves as the Co-Director of the NUS Business Analytics Center (NUS BAC) and the Assistant Dean (industry relations) at NUS Business School. His recent research focuses on trustworthy AI, Blockchain, and Business Analytics.He is the recipient of numerous prestigious industry and academic awards, including Leading Academic Data Leader by CDO Magazine, IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA). Dr. Pang publishes extensively in top-tier AI and analytics journals and conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICLR, EMNLP, and TAI.
  • Harry Wang is a Full Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Delaware with more than 15 years of research, teaching, and management experience in Al, business intelligence and analytics, business process management, and enterprise systems. He is also an affiliated faculty at the Data Science Institute and the Institute for Financial Services Analytics at the University of Delaware. Professor Wang is the Founder and CEO of Takin.Al. He served as the Chief Scientist of Tezign, an Independent Director for So-Young International Inc.(NASDAQ: SY) the Founding Director of OneConnect (NYSE: OCFT) US Research institute based in New York City from 2018 to 2019, and the VP of Technology for the Association for Information Systems from 2015 to 2018. His research has been published in academic journals, such as MISQ, ISR, INFORMS JoC, and DSS. He has served as guest editor, associate editor, and editorial board member for many leading information systems journals and has been a co-chair, program co-chair, program committee member, and track co-chair for numerous academic conferences.
  • Calvin Chan is an associate professor at the Singapore University of Social Science, where he is serving as the Assistant Provost overseeing Curricular and Student Matters. Calvin’s primary research interest is on Digital Transformation, with three streams of research across the Public (i.e. e-government, smart cities), Private (i.e. small-and-medium sized enterprises) and People (i.e. older adults, blue-collar workers) Sectors. Calvin’s research has been published in leading journals and conferences in the Information Systems discipline, including the JIS, JSIS, EJIS, as well as ICIS and HCISS. He’s on the editorial board of the PAJIS, and an AE of IMDS. He has served as Track Chairs for a number of leading Information Systems conferences.
  • Putu Wuri Handayani is a Professor of Electronic Health (e-Health) in the Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia. She earned her doctoral degree from the same institution and has over 12 years of research experience in the field of e-health. Her expertise lies in the design, implementation, and behavioural analysis of e-health systems. Currently, she is leading projects on e-health systems in Indonesia for stroke communities, cancer and maternal health recommender systems, mobile health message framing design and dementia information system. In addition to her academic duties, she serves as a member of the Data Management Committee at Hermina Group Hospital, a public company managing over 51 hospitals across Indonesia. In this role, she supervises the implementation of the hospital information system. She has published several books on e-health, presented widely as an invited speaker on data management and e-health topics, and previously served as a consultant to the National Health Insurance Agency (BPJS-K). Her teaching focuses on e-health information system subjects, reflecting her commitment to both impactful research and education in the e-health domain.
6th July 2026

Keynote Speaker

Topic: AI for Teaching and Learning

Bernard C. Y. Tan
Senior Vice Provost (Undergraduate Education)
Shaw Professor in Information Systems and Analytics
National University of Singapore

Panel

Topic: The Changing Landscape of IS in the Age of AI in Asia Pacific

Gita Wirjawan
Founder and Chairman, Ancora Group
Former Minister of Trade
Republic of Indonesia (2011-2014)

Fauzan Adziman
General Director of Research and Development
Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology
Republic of Indonesia

Carol Hsu
Head of Business Information Systems Discipline
University of Sydney

Suprateek Sarker (Moderator)
ISR Editor-in-Chief
Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Commerce Professor (Information Technology)
University of Virginia

 

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