What conferences do you go to? Which ones would you recommend?

• Academy of Management 2008
  • August 8-13, 2008 - Anaheim, California
  • The submission deadline is January 15, 2008 at 5:00 PM EST
  • This conference is big among the B-schoolers at Michigan, especially the Org. Behavior crowd. The Science of Collaboratories project has presented in the Organizational Computing and Information Systems area.
  • Occurs yearly
  • Individuals who've attended: MatthewBietz, NatBulkley

• ACM E-Commerce 2006
  • The E-commerce community deals primarily with the intersection of computer science and economics.
  • Many SI faculty, including most of the ICD lab, regularly publish here.
  • SI and STIET are hosting the conference in 2006
  • Occurs Yearly -- This year 6-11-06 through 6-15-06 in Ann Arbor
  • Individuals who've attended: RickWash

• American Medical Informatics Association 2005
  • October 22-26, 2005 in Washington D.C.
  • This is a large, well attended conference including a mix of researchers and medical practitioners (e.g., doctors, policy makers, hospital administrators) that is the pre-eminent conference for medical informatics.
  • Occurs yearly, always in Washington D.C. (next year is November 11-15, 2006)
  • Individuals who've attended: DerekHansen

• ASIST 2008
  • October 24-29, 2008 Columbus, OH
  • This conference is well attended by information behavior researchers [need more info]
  • Occurs yearly
  • Deadline for paper submissions is Jan 21, 2008
  • Individuals who've attended: BrianHilligoss

• Association of Internet Research 2005
  • October 5-9, 2005 in Chicago
  • This conference appeals to a wide variety of researchers (not many practitioners), many from outside the United States. It is a pretty eclectic crowd including many STS-types, some health researchers, several studying online communities, and a few others from just about everywhere. It didn't used to be very hard to get in, but that may have changed in the last couple of years.
  • Occurs yearly (I believe next year, 2006, will be in Australia)
  • Individuals who've attended: DerekHansen

• CHI 2006
  • CHI 2006 is the premier international conference for human-computer interaction. April 22-28, 2006 in Montreal
  • Another big conference for SI folks, especially from HCI specialization. Has a good mix of research and practice.
  • Gary Olson was the Chair of this meeting
    
  • Occurs yearly
  • Individuals who've attended: DerekHansen, MatthewBietz
  • Doctoral consortium deadline January 13th, 2006
  CHI 2007
  
  • CHI 2007 will be held in San Jose, CA, April 28-May 3, 2007

• Communities & Technologies (C&T) 2007
  • At Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, June 28-30, 2007
  • "The Communities and Technologies biennial international conference serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities - both physical and virtual - and information and communication technologies."
  • Papers due November 13, 2006 (Other deadlines)
  • Marck Ackerman is a Conference Organizer; Tom Finholt and Paul Resnick are on the program committee
  • Individuals who've attended:
• Connections 2007
  • At Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, May 18-21, 2007
  • Administered for and by doctoral students in information schools.
  • More about SI @ Connections 2007
    
  • Individuals who've attended: Emilee Rader, Maria Souden, Libby Hemphill, Jude Yew
    

• CSCW 2006
  • The CSCW Conference is the premier venue for presenting research and development achievements in the design, introduction, and use of technology that affect groups, organizations, communities and societies. November 4-8, 2006 in Banff, Canada
  • Lots of faculty and students from SI have attended this conference, especially from the CREW lab.
  • Occurs in even-numbered years
  • Paper deadline is March 17th, 2006, doctoral consortium deadline is July 7, 2006
  • Individuals who've attended: MatthewBietz

• Economics Science Association International Meeting 2006
  • Presentations from all areas of experimental economics.
  • June 08, 2006 to June 11, 2006 at Atlanta, Georgia

• e-Social Science Conference
• Next on October 7-9, 2007 - Ann Arbor, MI
• Several SI faculty have papers (Chen, Finholt, Gutmann, Ribes, Zimmerman)
• Occurs annually (this is the first time in the US)
• Paper and doctoral consortium deadlines have already passed for this year
• Program includes more than 50 papers at the intersection of cyberinfrastructure and social science (e.g., computational and data grids, GIS, simulation, online experiments, social network analysis)
• Keynote by Dan Atkins (SI faculty and founding dean of SI)
  
• ECSCW: European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
  • ECSCW 2007 will be in Limmerick, Ireland (no home page yet)
  • Much smaller than CSCW conference

• GROUP
  • Next on November 4th-7th, 2007 - Sanibel Island, FL
    
  • Several SI faculty & PhD students had papers at GROUP 2005.
  • Occurs in odd-numbered years
  • Doctoral consortium deadline: July 13, 2007
    
  • Individuals who've attended: MatthewBietz, LibbyHemphill, StephanieTeasley, MarkAckerman, Jeremy Birnholtz, Erik Hofer, Eric Cook, Airong Luo

• HCIC - Human Computer Interaction Consortium (site only available from UM IP address)
  • Small members-only HCI conference outside of Winter Park, Colorado
  • Limited to invited doctoral students (UM can typically only send 2 students per year, and doctoral students usually only get to go once)
  • Each year has a different theme
  • Gary Olson is the UM liaison to HCIC - if you are interested in going, speak to him
  • Individuals who've attended: MatthewBietz, LibbyHemphill, EmileeR, CliffLampe, JeremyBirnholtz?, MarkAckerman, GeorgeFurnas, SureshBhavnani, GaryOlson, JudyOlson?

• International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2008
  • Dec 14-17, 2008 Paris France
  • Yearly conference for business-information systems research. Most all MIS grad students on the job market attend and many interviews with prospective employers/schools are held there.
  • Paper deadline not out yet, in 2006 it was May 5
  • Individuals who've attended: NatBulkley
• International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2008)
• May 4-7, 2008, Washington, DC (George Washington University)
• "The 5th annual ISCRAM conference brings together crisis management and information technology experts from academia and practice. The conference provides an important networking opportunity where the latest research on the design, development, use and evaluation of information systems for crisis response and management are presented and discussed."
  
• Session onVisualization for Decision Making, Information Sharing, and Collaboration
• Paper submission deadline Dec 21, 2007
• List of all sessions (please note there are navigation links in orange text on the gray bar below the list of 10 items)
• Individuals who will attend: Aaron Burgman (MSI '03, co-chair for the Visualization session)

• International Conference on the Learning Sciences (ICLS)
  • ICLS 2008, Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
    
  • Yearly interdisciplinary conference that revolves around the field of the learning sciences.
  • Individuals who've attended: JudeYew, EricCook, LibbyHemphill
    

• International Sunbelt Social Network Conference
  • Apr 25-30, Vancover British Columbia
  • Yearly (premier) conference for social network researchers.
  • Paper deadline Jan 16, 2006
  • Individuals who've attended: NatBulkley

• North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science (NAACSOS) Conference
  • June 22-24, Notre Dame Indiana
  • Yearly conference focused on the design and construction of computational models of organizations, teams, and social systems.
  • Paper deadline Apr 1, 2006
  • Individuals who've attended: NatBulkley

• NetSci - International Workshop and Conference on Network Science
  • May 22-25 (conference), May 16-20 (workshop) Bloomington Indiana
  • New (I believe) event with NSF sponsorship and good organizing committee. It aims to present and support experimental, theoretical and applied network research by educating the research community on standard network data, tools, and computational resources.
  • Paper deadline Mar 31, 2006
  • Individuals likely to attend: NatBulkley

• Participatory Design Conference
  • Sponsored by CPSR
  • Even years only
  • Individuals who've attended:

• Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
  • Held every year at CMU
  • July 12-14, Pittsburgh PA
  • Individuals who've attended:

• Workshop on the Economics of Information Security
  • Yearly workshop concerned with understanding information security and the effects of how security works when real people use it.
  • 26-28 June 2006, Cambridge England
  • Individuals who've attended: RickWash

• Workshop on Information Systems and Economics
  • Yearly workshop associated with ICIS, small group of core researchers
  • Last one was December 10-11, 2005 at Irvine
  • Abstract submission deadline was Sep 1, 2005
  • Individuals who've attended: RickWash

Other conferences that others can fill in the details for...

• HICSS (yearly conference in Hawaii for CSCW-type work)
• ALISE (for LIS and iSchools - many interviews are held there for academic job positions)
• American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) conferences
• HIMSS 2006 (health information systems)

Below are a few lists of conferences that may be relevant:

• Information Systems conferences
• International Calendar of Information Science Conferences

A note about European Summer Conferences / PhD Summer Schools (from Cory Knobel)
I've now had the opportunity to attend a few European events that are entitled "PhD Summer Schools" and found a few items that students considering them should know. Overall, they have been fantastic experiences for the following:

• Getting feedback on your research in progress from faculty and PhD students at other institutions
• Gaining exposure to an entirely different base of research and literature (North American and European scholarship, based on cursory looks at bibliographies, do not make many citations across the Atlantic)
• Forging a professional network beyond US borders
• Making opportunities for new collaborations
• Taking the time to experience academic life in Europe (which can be VERY different than here at Michigan, or in the US in general)
• Racking up frequent flyer miles

There is another aspect to the PhD Summer School format that should be stated, and it took me a while to realize this. Many European PhD programs do not officially have a "coursework" phase to the program, yet require students to earn a certain number of credits. This can be difficult, as a large number of European PhD students are working full time and gaining their degrees through the sponsorship of their employers. During summer holidays, programs will run week-long 5-credit courses and call them "PhD Summer Schools", but must also advertise them as open conferences to (1) subsidize the cost through registration fees and (2) justify the cost of the summer school overall. When attending these schools, a large proportion of the attendees will likely be students from the sponsoring school's faculty, and the curriculum will primarily be targeted toward their educational needs. While you will probably learn a lot, be forewarned that you are not the audience of priority.

Another side note about subject matter and academic perspective: A common observation made at the summer schools is that the European perspective on ICT and information studies leans heavily toward the technical and economic interpretive frameworks, and largely de-emphasizes the social aspects. This caught me (and other North American colleagues attending) off guard. Just be aware that when receiving feedback on your own work, it will come from a perspective that is valuable (in that you will find out if that audience will understand you), but may be difficult to integrate into your ongoing work.