From April 11 to 13, 2018, the 15th 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 training of the departments / institutes of Information Systems of the Universities of Kassel and St. Gallen. The venue for this event alternates every six months between the two universities; this 15th workshop was held in St. Gallen as scheduled.

During the course of the doctoral workshop, 22 doctoral candidates presented their respective topics to a total of 31 participants in different formats, depending on their doctoral progress and status: Relevance Pitch, Idea Presentation, Proposal and Journal Paper Project. The aim of this workshop is to advance the respective dissertation project through intensive discussions with other doctoral candidates as well as professors, habilitation candidates and post-docs. In addition, the feedback gained in this workshop is intended to provide new ideas and impetus for your own dissertation project and to build peer groups through links to the topics of other participants.

The topics of the WISIC participants covered a wide range of research areas such as big data analytics, crowdsourcing, collaboration engineering, gamification, service engineering, eLearning and IT innovation management. Here are some photo impressions of this three-day event.