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 training of thedepartments / institutes of Information Systems of the Universities of Kassel and St. Gallen. This event takes place every six months and this time, as in September last year, the venue was the Archabbey of St. Ottilien near Munich.

Over the course of the doctoral workshop, 17 doctoral candidates 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 aim of thisworkshop is to advance the respective dissertation project through intensive discussions with other doctoral candidates as well as professors, post-doctoral students and post-docs. In addition, the feedback gained in this workshop is intended to provide new ideas and impetus for the participants' own dissertation projects and to build peer groups by establishing links to the topics of other participants.

The topics covered by the WISIC participants once again covered a wide range of research areas at the Chair. As is now a good tradition, joint social activities also took place, such as a soccer match and a joint visit to the Oktoberfest.