ABOUT AMCIS

The annual Americas' Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) is viewed as one of the leading conferences for presenting the broadest variety of research done by and for IS/IT academicians in the Western Hemisphere. Every year its papers and panel presentations are selected from over 700 submissions, and the AMCIS Proceedings are in the permanent collections of libraries throughout the world.

AMCIS is a conference of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), and is managed by an ever changing group of volunteers. It is associated with the Society for Information Management (SIM) and the International Academy for Information Managment (IAIM).

The Conference activities are primarily delivered by and for academics, though many of the papers and panels have a strong professional orientation. Since the first AMCIS conference in 1995, over 3,000 articles, panels, tutorials, workshops, and technical demonstrations have appeared at the conferences and in the AMCIS Proceedings.

The first conference was held in Pittsburgh, PA in August, 1995. Since then, AMCIS conferences have been held throughout the United States. They have recently begun to be held outside the U.S., with the first such to be held in Acapulco in 2006.

Conference themes, which are typically selected two to three years in advance, have tried to capture a sense of the future research. AMCIS has evolved into a “grass roots” type of conference, and conference themes have largely emerged as mini-tracks for the conferences were proposed. This process gave rise to several AIS SIGs in 2003. New mini-tracks with innovative and relevant themes are actively sought each year.