From September 22 to 25, 2019, the 18th Doctoral 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 under the direction of Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister . This workshop is part of the international and structured doctoral education of thedepartments / institutes for business informatics of the universities in Kassel and St. Gallen. This event takes place every six months, and this time the venue was the Archabbey of St.Ottilien near Munich, as it was in September of last year.

In the course of the doctoral workshop, 17 doctoral students from both universities presented their respective topics in different formats, depending on their doctoral progress and status: 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, there were also joint social activities, such as a soccer match and a joint visit to the Oktoberfest.