Conference Program

Thursday, 20 May

Conference Registration and Welcome (Museum of Anthropology and Irish Pub Mahoney & Sons)

More details here.

Friday, 21 May

IT Careers: Choices and Persistence (Session Chair: Deborah Armstrong)

1. Careers in Software: Is there Life after Programming? Jack Downey
2. Meeting the Demand for IT Employees: Can Career Choice be Managed? Brian Janz and Ernest Nichols
3. How IT Project Managers Cope with Stress. Derek Smith, Justin de Passos and Rafieqah Isaacs

Project Outcomes (Session Chair: Stig Nordheim)

4. Stakeholder Dissonance: Disagreements on Project Outcome and its Impact on Team Motivation across Three Countries. June Verner, Sarah Beecham and Narciso Cerpa
5. Global IT Teams and Project Success. Mary Sumner and Judith Molka-Danielsen
6. Software Engineering Group Working – Personality, Patterns and Performance. David Bell, Tracy Hall, Jo Erskine Hannay, Dietmar Pfahl and Silvia Teresita Acuña.

Culture and Cross-Country Comparisons (Session Chair: Brian Janz)

7. Investigating the Relationships Between Leadership Style and Personnel Turnover Intention an IT Companies in Iran. Mona Ghafourian SharifHeravi, Seyed Emad Shahidi and Nik Hasnaa Nik Mahmood
8. A Cultural Perspective on Individual Choices of Stem Education and Subsequent Occupations. Michelle Kaarst-Brown, Indira Guzman and Johanna Birkland
9. Reviewing the Conditions under which IT Entrepreneurs leave their Salaried Employment to Start their own Business: A comparison between U.S., France and Greece. Katerina Voutsina and Gaëtan Mourmant

Competencies of IT Professionals (Session Chair: David Bell)

10. Lost in Translation?! – The Need for a Human Interface between Business and IT. Andreas Eckhardt and Christoph Rosenkranz
11. Outsourcing projects success: The Role of Competence and Leadership of the Vendors and Clients Project Managers. Eruani Zainuddin, Geneviéve Bassellier and Izak Benbasat
12. Measuring Soft Skills of Aspiring IT Professionals. Sandeep Purao and Hoi Suen

Turnover (Session Chair: Sarah Beecham)

13. Will They Stay? Turnover Intentions of Future Federal Cyber Corps Members. Diana Burley, Indira Guzman and Gayatri Pandit
14. IT Personnel in Times of Economic Downturns - Analyzing IT Personnel’s Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, Perceived Alternatives and Turnover Intention before and in the Middle of Times of Economic Downturns. Sven Laumer and Andreas Eckhardt
15. Turnover Intentions of IT Employees in non-IT Organizations: Effects of Organizational and Professional Identification. Xinwei Wang and Hock-Hai Teo

Training and Development (Session Chair: Paul Licker)

16. Learning processes in user training: The case for hermeneutics. Maung Sein and Stig Nordheim
17. Do I Matter? The Impact of Individual Differences on Training Process. Saurabh Gupta Robert Bostrom and Robert Anson
18. Educating Knowledge Workers for E-Business and Web Services. Janet Kourik and Jiangping Wang

Panel: Global Information Technology Workforce Workshop. Kate Kaiser, Stephen Hawk and Robert Horton

Social Event: Private cruise and tour beautiful British Columbia by sea

Saturday, 22 May

IT Workforce Preparation (Session Chair: Katerina Voutsina)

19. Skill Gaps and Careers in IT Compliance: Implications for IS Programs in the U.S. Christina Outlay and Poornima Krishnan
20. Workforce Preparation and ABET Assessment: Research in Progress. Diane Lending and Rick Mathieu
21. A Look at the MIS Marketplace Using Porter’s Competitive Forces Model. Dana Schwieger and Ken Surendran

Improving the Practice of IT (Session Chair: Derek Smith)

22. Application Stewardship: A User Responsibility Approach to Post-Implementation Application Performance Paul Licker
23. Increasing Collaborative Knowledge Management in Your Organization: Characteristics of Wiki Technology and Wiki Users. Andrea Hester
24. Tailoring Software Development. Thomas Ferratt and Bin Mai

Panel: Taking Stock of Research on Gender and the IT Workforce. Eileen Trauth, Monica Adya, Deborah Armstrong, K.D. Joshi, Lynette Kvasny, Jeria Quesenberry, Cindy Riemenschneider

Lunch and Farewell

Museum visit - Welcome to Vancouver

Dear all,

For our welcoming event, we invite you to a guided tour of the beautiful Museum of Anthropology.

As people may arrive at different time, we will have two private guided tour,
one starting at 5 pm and the other at 5:30 pm.

The museum closes at 5 pm, so if you want to have a tour on your own, we encourage you to start the visit earlier.

After the tour, we will have a gathering event at an Irish pub close by, this way we will have smooth transition from last year conference :-) (which was in Ireland).

For timing and organization reasons, registration will take place at the pub from 6:45 to 7:15. Here is the link to the pub, you can also find it on the map.

You will also have the possibility to register Friday morning at Green college

Take care

Gaetan