Keynote Speaker

Our keynote speech this year will be delivered by Prof. Dr. Claudia Loebbecke, PhD., M.B.A. President of the global 'Association for Information Systems (AIS)' Professor at Department of Media Management, University of Cologne, Alemanha

Claudia Loebbecke holds the Chair of Media Management and is Director of the Department of Media Management at the University of Cologne. Since July 2004 she has served as President of the global 'Association for Information Systems (AIS)'. 2001-2003, she was elected as AIS Council Member representing Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. In July 2003, she organized the first global International Doctoral Consortium on Media Management (IDoCoM) in Cologne. Previously, she held the KRAK Chair of Electronic Commerce - the first of its kind in Europe - at the Copenhagen Business School. She also worked and researched at the Sloan School (CISR) of the MIT (USA), INSEAD (Fontainebleau), Erasmus University (Rotterdam), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), the University of New South Wales (Sydney), McKinsey & Co. (Germany), and at the BIFOA (Cologne). Claudia Loebbecke is Senior Editor of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS) and is on the editorial board of the Journal of the AIS (JAIS), the Information Systems Journal (ISJ), the Journal of Information Technology (JIT), the Journal of Media Management (JMM), Communications of the AIS (CAIS), the Journal of Decision Systems (JDS), and Computer Personnel. Claudia Loebbecke received a Masters (1990) and a Ph.D. (1995) in Business Administration, both from the University of Cologne, Germany, and an M.B.A. from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA (1991). She was granted a Fulbright-scholarship (1986/87) and a DAAD scholarship (1990/91). In 1992 and 1995, both times with T. Jelassi, she received a reward given by the 'European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)' for case studies in the area of Technology Management. In 2004, she won the second prize in the Society of Information Management (SIM) Case Writing Competition. She has written over 100 internationally peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers, and has contributed to the development of more than fifteen in-depth case studies in eight different countries. Her continued research focus is on media management, electronic business, as well as on new organizational forms and knowledge management.   Publications

Edson Luiz Riccio

Dr Riccio is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of São Paulo (USP) at São Paulo, Brazil, where he also serves as Chairman at the  International Cooperation Office   FEA/USP, and Director of TECSI - Laboratory of Technology and Information System. Dr Riccio holds a PhD and Master of Science degree in Business and Associate professorship in Information Systems from the University of São Paulo, at São Paulo, Brazil, and SEP from Stanford University, USA.  His recent research focuses the use of Information Technology, such as ERP, in different corporate settings. He carries out research work on Education in Latin America, Brazil and Europe.  Dr Riccio has contributed with articles to several academic conferences in United States and Europe.  He is an Advisory Committee Member for the Asian Pacific Conference on International Accounting Issues. Riccio´s past experience includes his position as CIO for JI Case Company Brazil and Cummins Diesel Company, Brazil and other large multinational companies in Brazil.

Miklos A. Vasarhely (http://raw.rutgers.edu/Miklos) is KPMG Professor of Accounting Information Systems, Graduate School of Management,  Rutgers University; and Technology Consultant, E-Commerce Solutions  Group AT&T Laboratories.He has his BS degrees from the State University of Guanabara (Economics) and Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Electrical Engineering) his MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Management and his Ph.D from the University of California, Los Angeles (Management Information Systems).Prof. Vasarhelyi's current research interests deal with the area of continuous auditing/ control monitoring, electronization of business, and agents in electronic commerce. He has taught in accounting and system topics both at the graduate and executive programs in the US, Europe and South America. Has consulted on accounting and computer matters for the government and major firms in the US, Europe, and Brazil. He received research grants from the FASB, the Touche Ross Foundation, the Peat, Marwick and Mitchell Foundation, the American Accounting Association, the Accounting Education Change Commission, the Institute of Internal Auditors, Ernst & Young, and others.Prof. Vasarhelyi is the Director of the Rutgers Accounting Research Center as well of the Continuous Audit and Reporting Laboratory (CARLAB). Prof. Vasarhelyi visited at the Theseus Institute in France and is “Professeur Vacataire” at that institution. Professor Vasarhelyi is also professor at the University of Southern Europe in Monaco. He was Associate Professor and Director of the Accounting Research Center of the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University and Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Southern California. Creator and coordinator of the MBA program at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, as well as Executive Director of the Rio Data Center. Prof. Vasarhelyi has been associated with the AT&T (Bell) Laboratories since 1985. Author of several books on Accounting (Pensions and Inflation), Computer Related Topics (Electronic Commerce, Internet, APL language, Microcomputers, and Advanced Auditing, Expert Systems) and Research (Literature Directory), and over 110 articles in journals and publications such as the Journal of Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Journal of Accountancy, Decision Sciences, Accounting, Organizations & Society and other journals. Prof. Vasarhelyi is joint Webmaster at the Rutgers Accounting Web (http://raw.rutgers.edu) the leading accounting Web site and principal investigator of the RAW project.Professor Vasarhelyi has taught executive programs on electronic commerce to many large international organizations including GE, J&J, Eli Lilly, Baxter, ADL, Volvo, Siemens, Chase Bank, and AT&T and is working on his forthcoming book entitled Continuous auditing in a Real Time Economy. Prof. Vasarhelyi is the editor of the Artificial Intelligence in Accounting and auditing series published by Markus Wiener Publishers. Prof. Vasarhelyi speaks five languages and has extensively worked in South America and Europe as well as some work in China. Most of his recent executive /action learning / consulting has been in an international context. Prof. Vasarhelyi has developed the field of continuous auditing and promoted its first eight symposia. He is very involved with standard setting and evolutionary issues of the financial world. He consulted for the FASB (projects 33, 87), is member of the SYSTRUST, continuous SYSTRUST and Trust Family of services committees of the AICPA and is involved with the development of the XBRL standard. Under his leadership the AAA, FEI, IAFEI, FASB, GASB, IMA, AGA, IIA and others set up their Web presence and strategies. Prof. Vasarhelyi has also helped the AICPA to initiate its Web efforts. Prof Vasarhelyi recently served as the academic member of the Special Committee on the Enhanced Business reporting Model which is becoming a societal consortium.

Extensible Business Reporting Language - XBRL

The Galileo Disclosure Model (GDM): Reengineering Business Reporting (Visite o site)

Professeur des Universités - Université du SUD Toulon-Var, França, Visiting Professor at FEA USP.  Luc Quoniam, Doctor in Information and Communication Science from the Université Aix Marseille III (France) in 1988 and “Habilité à Diriger des Recherches” in 1996.  Currently he is professor in the Université du Sud Toulon-Var (France) and visiting professor of the University of São Paulo (Brazil). He published 67 articles in specialized journals and 28 works in annals of events. He co-oriented 12 doctorate theses and oriented 10 doctorate theses in the area of Information Science. He acts in this area with emphasis in Competitive Intelligence. In his professional activities, he interacted with 90 collaborators visible through co-authors of scientific works. The most frequent terms of the scientific production are: Competitive Intelligence, Bibliometric-analysis.

Armando Barreiros Malheiro da Silva.

Professor Associado da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto e membro da Comissão Coordenadora da Licenciatura em Ciência da Informação ministrada pelas Faculdades de Letras e de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto.Nascido em Braga. Licenciou-se em Filosofia pela Faculdade de Filosofia de Braga da Universidade Católica Portuguesa e em História pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, obtendo o diploma do curso de bibliotecário-arquivista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra. Defendeu Provas de Doutoramento em História Contemporânea de Portugal, na Universidade do Minho, a 17 de Maio de 1999. Foi de 1990 a 2000 colaborador do Curso de Especialização em Ciências Documentais da Faculdade de Letras de Coimbra.  É Professor Associado da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto e faz parte da Comissão Coordenadora da Licenciatura em Ciência da Informação ministrada pelas Faculdades de Letras e de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto.  Membro do Centro de Estudos em Tecnologia, Artes e Ciências da Comunicação (CETAC.COM) da mesma Faculdade. Integra ainda outras unidades de investigação e é sócio de várias entidades científicas e culturais. Tem repartido as suas pesquisas e publicações individuais e em colaboração pela arquivística e ciência da informação, pela metanálise, pela história política e das ideologias em Portugal nos sécs. XIX-XX, pela história da família e pelos estudos locais.

Valdemar W. Setzer

Dr.Eng., University of São Paulo (USP), 1967 Professor [Prof. Titular], Dept. of Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, USP Research Areas: Compilers, Databases (in Portuguese), Software Engineering, Computers in Education, and Social and Individual Impacts of Computers.   Prof. Setzer is fluent in English, German, Spanish, French and Italian. He is involved in other professional activities such as consultant on database modelling, software engineering and competency management and Lecture on Data Modelling, Databases, Programming Methodology, Object-Oriented Design, DP professional problems, organization of I.T. Competency Centers, social and individual impacts of computers, computers in education. Please see section Lists of lectures. His latest papers were:   An alternative view on why, when and how computers should be used in education with L.Monke. Published as a chapter of Education and Technology: Critical and Reflective Practices, Ed. Robert Muffoletto, Humpotn Press.   The risks to children using electronic games with G.Duckett. Los Medios Electrónicos en la Educación sobre TV, video juegos y computadoras publicada en Taller de Conciencia No. 27, (verano 2000), pp. 33-47, Barcelona.  La Misión de la Tecnología -  Contexto Educativo, No. 4, Febrero de 2000.  Computer und Kunst (Übersetzung der englischen Version).  Elektronische Medien und Erziehung: Fernsehen, elektronische Spiele und Computer

Jaejon Kim

Prof. Jaejon Kim is a Professor of Information Systems, at Chonnam National University, College of Business Administration of KOREA and is aDirector of Electronic Commerce Resource Center. He is Ph. D. in Computer Information Systems (Arizona State University) and Master of Business Administration (Chonnam National University) His professional experience includes IBM Korea Inc., as a Marketing Representative, Chonnam National University Management Research Institute, Director, National Informatization Advisory Committee for President, Member, Korea Information Strategy Society, President, and Korea Society for Management Information Systems, President elect. Among his research areas are: Decision support systems; E-Business and new business paradigm; Information strategy; Venture and small businesses; Computational ontology and IT enabled business service.

Arnie Wright

Professor Wright received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California and his bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Colorado. He is a C.P.A. and worked in public accounting with Deloitte and in private industry as a chief accountant. After receiving his doctorate, Professor Wright taught on the faculties of the University of Nevada-Reno, Boston University, and Northeastern University. He is currently the Andersen Professor of Accounting at Boston College. Professor Wright’s research interests are in the judgment and decision-making area, primarily applied to the field of Auditing. He has over 60 publications, which have appeared in several journals, and has served as a reviewer and on the editorial board of many journals. Most notably, he is the past editor for Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, the premier research journal worldwide in Auditing. Professor Wright has served the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association in a number of capacities, including President and editor of The Auditor’s Report, the newsletter. In January 2003 he received the Auditing Section’s Notable Contribution to the Auditing Literature Award for his monograph (co-edited with Dr. Tim Bell) entitled “Auditing Practice, Research .and Education: A Productive Collaboration”.

Michael Alles

Dr. Michael Alles is a tenured associate professor at the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at Rutgers Business School at Rutgers University. He has also taught at the University of Texas at Austin, New York University, Melbourne Business School and Southern Methodist University. His specialties are corporate governance, continuous auditing and management accounting. He is widely published in all these areas and has presented at research and professional conferences throughout the world. A past member of the Executive Committee of the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association, Dr. Alles has co-chaired its annual research symposium. Dr. Alles holds a PhD from Stanford Business School and a First Class Honors in Economics from the Australian National University.

Theodore Mock

Dr. Theodore J. (Ted) Mock is the Arthur Andersen Alumni Professor of Accounting at the University of Southern California (USC) and professor of auditing research at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. In 1983 he helped found the USC Audit Judgment Symposium (now the International Symposium on Audit Research).  During 1988 Ted was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Otago in New Zealand and visiting Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business, Bergen, Norway. During 1993, Ted visited Maastricht University as a Fulbright Scholar and in 1997 he visited Nanyang Technological University as Shaw Foundation Professor. Ted's research interests lie primarily in the areas of audit and assurance.  During 1977 ‑ 78, he was the first audit research fellow at KPMG in New York City. In 2003 he received the Outstanding Auditing Educator award of the AAA Auditing Section. Professor Mock's training includes degrees in mathematics and finance from The Ohio State University and a doctorate from The University of California, Berkeley.  In addition to USC. Ted has served many positions within the American Accounting Association including editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Director of Research, and President of the Auditing Section. He currently serves on the advisory boards of the Maastricht University Accounting & Auditing Research Center and the USC SEC & Financial Reporting Institute.

Rajendra P. Srivastava

Rajendra P. Srivastava is Ernst & Young Distinguished Professor of Accounting and Director of the Ernst & Young Center for Auditing Research and Advanced Technology at the School of Business, University of Kansas. He holds a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Oklahoma, Norman (1982) and a Ph.D. in physics from Oregon State University, Corvallis (1972). Professor Srivastava has published over seventy papers in refereed journals. His publications have appeared in such journals as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, and many other accounting and AI journals. He received the 1996 Award for Notable Contribution to AI & Expert Systems Research in Accounting from the AI/Emerging Technology Section of the American Accounting Association. He is currently Associate Editor of Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, AI/ET Section Journal of the American Accounting Association, and has been a member of the Editorial and Review Board of several journals including: The Accounting Review (1989-1993), Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory (July 1993-2005), Indian Accounting Review, International Journal of Auditing, and International Journal of Accounting and Information Systems. Professor Srivastava served as the Chairman of the AI/Emerging Technology Section of American Accounting Association during 1994-95. In addition to the expertise in decision making under uncertainty using Dempster-Shafer theory of belief functions, Professor Srivastava has been involved in conducting research on XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) and has published several articles related to this topic. For further details, see the website http://www.eycarat.ku.edu.

Alexander Kogan

Alexander Kogan received his BS/MS in Operations Research from Phystech - Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the USSR Academy of Sciences. Prof. Kogan's research and professional interests include artificial intelligence and expert systems, knowledge-based decision support systems, accounting information systems, continuous online auditing, electronic commerce and accounting problems of the Internet infrastructure, logical analysis of data, Boolean functions, reasoning under uncertainty, combinatorial optimization, and productivity accounting. The main area of concentration of Prof. Kogan's research efforts has been in the foundations of information systems. Prof. Kogan has published over seventy papers. His research covers a wide range of topics from the development of fundamental aspects of established technologies such as knowledge-based systems to the prospects, problems and applications of emerging technologies such as electronic commerce. Prof. Kogan's articles appear in scholarly and professional journals Prof. Kogan is a past President of the Artificial Intelligence / Emerging Technologies Section of the American Accounting Association and a member of RUTCOR - Rutgers University's Center for Operations Research. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, and International Journal of Digital Accounting Research. Prof. Kogan is a Guest Editor of the Special Issue of Discrete Applied Mathematics on Discrete Mathematics and Data Mining 2003 (DM&DM'03). Prof. Kogan is a co-author (with Sudit and Vasarhelyi) of "The Internet Guide for Accountants" published by Prentice Hall, and a co-editor (with Vasarhelyi) of the "Artificial Intelligence in Accounting and Auditing: Towards New Paradigms, Vol. 4" published by Markus Wiener. Prof. Kogan has received the Rutgers University's Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, and the Research and Service Awards of the Artificial Intelligence / Emerging Technologies Section of the American Accounting Association. Prof. Kogan is one of the founders and the Webmaster of the Rutgers Accounting Web (RAW). The RAW is the oldest and the largest accounting Web site on the Internet. Since 1994, the RAW materials have been available on the Internet for use by accounting scholars, practitioners, educators and students.. http://kogan.rutgers.edu

Tim J. Leech

Tim J. Leech is Principal Consultant & Chief Methodology Officer with Paisley Consulting, the world’s leading provider of integrated business accountability software and training solutions. From 1991 to 2004 Tim was CEO and founder of CARD^®decisions, a global pioneer in the ERM and CRSA areas. Paisley Consulting acquired CARD^®decisions in June of 2004. Other positions he has had include Managing Director of a subsidiary of the Hambros Bank, Director Control & Risk Management Services with Coopers & Lybrand Consulting, and a range of comptrollership and internal audit roles with Gulf Canada. Tim was elected Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ontario in 1997 in recognition of distinguished service to the auditing profession.Leech's responsibilities include providing design advice on all Paisley Consulting software products; consulting and training services related to Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel operational risk management, enterprise-wide risk and assurance management; Collaborative Assurance & Risk Design™ (“CARD^®”) training and software development; control and risk self-assessment (“CRSA”) training and implementation services; specialized litigation support services; business ethics advisory services; internal audit training and consulting; and control/risk governance consulting services. He has provided training for public and private sector staff located in Canada, the U.S., the EU, Australia, South America, Africa and the Middle and Far East. Leech has received worldwide recognition as a pioneer and thought leader in the fields of enterprise risk and assurance management and control and risk self-assessment.

Sally Wright

Sally Wright is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She received her doctorate from Boston University in 1993. Dr. Wright is a CPA with an extensive professional background. Prior to entering academia, she was chief financial officer of Canyon General Hospital in Anaheim, California, and worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers first in Los Angeles and later in Boston first as an auditor and later as a consultant. Her current research interests include the examination of continuous reporting and assurance demands and problems, as well as examination of accounting information systems control and performance issues, and negotiation in the audit environment. Dr. Wright’s past research has appeared in the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Accounting and Business Research, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting and The Accounting Review.

Richard Dull

Dr. Richard Dull is an assistant professor of accounting at the School of Accountancy & Legal Studies at Clemson University.  Prior to Clemson, he taught at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business – Indianapolis.  His research interests include continuous auditing, visualizations, and metacognition.  His work has been published in a variety of academic and practitioner publications, including Journal of Information Systems and International Journal of Accounting Information Systems.  Dr. Dull currently serves as Vice-President of the Artificial Intelligence/Emerging Technologies Section of the American Accounting Association.  He holds professional certifications of Certified Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, and Certified Information Systems Auditor.  Dr. Dull holds a PhD from the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech.

Robert L. Onions

Robert L. Onions. Researcher, University of Salford, England. BA (Hons) Systems. MSc. Managing Information Systems. MA. Anthropological Studies. PhD Auditing in Small and Medium Enterprises (Not yet defended, later 2006). Researching transaction patterns to find potential fraudulent techniques and looking to develop dynamic Continuous Auditing routines with colleagues at Rutgers University.

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