Keynote Speakers
Date: June 29, 2016 Time: 09:50-10:30
Title of Speech: The Opendata Adventure of Taiwan
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| San-Cheng Chang The Former Premier, Executive Yuan |
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| Education: ●Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, USA, 1981 ●MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, USA , 1977 Experience: ●Premier, Executive Yuan, Rep. of China, 2016/2/1-2016/5/19 ●Deputy Premier, Executive Yuan, Rep. of China, 2014/12-2016/1 ●Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology, 2014/3/3-2014/12/8 ●Minister without Portfolio, Executive Yuan, 2012-2014 ●Regional Director of Hardware Operations in Asia, Google Inc., 2010-2012 ●Vice President, e-Enabling Services Business Group, Acer Inc., 2000-2010 ●Director, Department of Planning and Evaluation, 1998-2000 ●National Science Council, Executive Yuan ●Director, National Center for High-performance Computing, 1991-1997 ●Lecturer, Associate Professor and Professor, 1981-199 ●Department of Civil Engineering, NTU Date: June 30, 2016 Time: 09:50-10:30
Title of Speech:The Road Ahead for IS Research and the MIS Quarterly.
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| Arun Rai
Regents’ Professor of the University System of Georgia and J. Mack Robinson Chair
Editor-in-Chief, MIS Quarterly |
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●Brief bio:
Arun Rai is Regents’ Professor of the University System of Georgia at the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. He holds the Robinson Chair of IT-enabled Supply Chains and Process Innovation and the Harkins Chair of Information Systems. He is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly. He was named Fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2010 for outstanding contributions in research, teaching, and service to the Information Systems discipline, and received the INFORMS Information Systems Society Distinguished Fellow Award in 2014 for outstanding intellectual contributions to the Information Systems discipline. For over 25 years, Dr. Rai’s research has examined how organizations can leverage information technologies in their strategies, inter-organizational relationships, and processes, and how systems can be successfully developed, implemented, and utilized to address business and societal problems. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and is ranked among the top scholars for publications in the Information Systems discipline’s premier journals. He co-founded the Robinson College of Business’ Center for Process Innovation, an interdisciplinary research center on digital innovation that promotes industry-university partnerships. Date: July 01, 2016 Time: 09:50-10:30
Title of Speech: Stewardship and the Information Systems Community: Serving the Community through Leadership and the Bright Internet Initiative
Date: July 01, 2016 Time: 09:50-10:30
 Jason Thatcher President-Elect of the Association for Information Systems ●Brief bio:
Jason Thatcher is President-Elect of the Association for Information Systems. He is a Professor of Information Systems at Clemson University. His research examines the influence of individual beliefs and characteristics on information technology use. He also studies strategic and human resource management issues related to the application of information technologies in organizations. His work appears in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Applied Psychology, and other outlets. He serves as a senior editor at MIS Quarterly and at other journals.
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