The 22nd Doctoral Workshop on IT, Service, Innovation and Collaboration (WISIC) of the Department of Information Systems at the University of Kassel and the Institute of Information Systems at the University of St. Gallen took place from September 20 to 22, 2021. After the 21st edition of WISIC could only take place online, all participants were happy to meet again this time at the monastery in St. Ottilien, Bavaria.

In the course of the three-day PhD workshop, 19 PhD students from both universities presented their topics in different formats depending on their PhD 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 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 participating chairs. As has become a good tradition, joint social activities also took place, as far as possible due to the pandemic.