From May 10-12, 2019, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister the 17. Doktoranden-Workshop on IT, Service, Innovation and Collaboration (WISIC) of the Department of Information Systems of the University of Kassel and the Institute of Information Systems of the University of St.Gallen took place. This workshop is part of the international and structured doctoral education of theDepartments / Institutes of Information Systems of the Universities in Kassel and St. Gallen. This event takes place every six months, this time the venue was the Science Park of the University of Kassel. 

In the course of the PhD workshop, 20 PhD students from both universities presented their respective topics according to their PhD progress and status in different formats : Relevance Pitch, Idea Presentation, Proposal and Journal Paper Project. The goal of this workshop is to advance the respective dissertation project through intensive discussions with other doctoral students as well as professors, habilitation students and post-docs. In addition, new ideas and impulses for one's own dissertation project are to be gained through the feedback gained in this workshop and peer groups are to be established through points of contact to topics of other participants.

The topics of the WISIC participants again covered a wide range of research areas of the chair. As has become a good tradition, joint social events also took place: On the first day a joint cooking class followed by dinner, on the second day a joint visit to the City Bowling alley in Kassel. Enclosed are some photo impressions of this three-day event.