Keynote Speaker

Our keynote speech this year will be delivered by Michael D. Myers,Professor of Information Systems and Associate Dean (Postgraduate and Research) at the University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand and President of the global 'Association for Information Systems (AIS)

Topic:  From Adolescence to Maturity: the Changing Nature of the IS Discipline
Michael D. Myers

The field of information systems is relatively new. However, I believe the field is now moving through a transitional phase. This phase is where the field of information systems moves from adolescence to maturity; it is the phase when I will also suggest what the Association for Information Systems needs to do in the immediate future to assist in this transition to maturity.

Michael D. Myers is Professor of Information Systems and Associate Dean (Postgraduate and Research) at the University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand. He is also President of the Association for Information Systems and Chair of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.2. His papers have appeared in a wide range of journals and books. He won the Best Paper award (with Heinz Klein) for the most outstanding paper published in MIS Quarterly in 1999. He also won the Best Paper Award (with Lynda Harvey) for the best paper published in Information Technology & People in 1997. Professor Myers currently serves as Editor of the ISWorld Section on Qualitative Research. Recently Professor Myers retired as a Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly and as an Associate Editor of Information Systems Research.

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.