The 2026 Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium will be held from December 12 to December 13 in conjunction with the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2026) in Lisbon, Portugal. Aligning with the ICIS 2026 conference theme of "Analytics and AI for Digital Collaboration and Coexistence", the Pre-ICIS SIGDSA 2026 Symposium theme is “Analytics and AI-Based Decision Support for Digital Collaboration and Coexistence.” This theme highlights the growing importance of analytics, artificial intelligence, and decision support systems in enabling collaboration across digital, organizational, and societal contexts while addressing the opportunities and challenges of coexistence in an increasingly connected world.
We live in a world that has undergone significant digital transformation across nearly every aspect of society and the economy. Data-intensive interactions, intelligent algorithms, and autonomous technologies increasingly shape how individuals, organizations, and communities communicate, collaborate, and make decisions. At the same time, the world faces complex challenges related to sustainability, economic uncertainty, cybersecurity, social inequality, public health, and global governance. These developments create new opportunities and responsibilities for researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of analytics, artificial intelligence, and decision support systems.
The concept of digital collaboration and coexistence recognizes that individuals, organizations, technologies, and societies must increasingly operate across diverse and interconnected environments. Humans and AI systems coexist in decision-making processes. Data-rich and data-poor environments coexist across regions and industries. Differences in affordability, accessibility, digital literacy, and technological infrastructure continue to shape how digital opportunities are distributed and experienced. Understanding how analytics and AI-based decision support can facilitate collaboration across these realities represents one of the most important challenges facing the information systems discipline today.
The 2026 Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium invites scholars, educators, doctoral students, and practitioners to explore how analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, generative AI, and decision support technologies can contribute to more effective, ethical, inclusive, and sustainable forms of digital collaboration and coexistence. We particularly encourage research that examines how intelligent decision support can help organizations and societies address complex and often wicked problems while balancing innovation, responsibility, transparency, and human well-being.
SIGDSA provides a multidisciplinary forum for researchers, educators, and practitioners to exchange ideas and advance knowledge in business analytics, data science, artificial intelligence, and decision support systems. Through research presentations, teaching innovations, doctoral mentoring, panels, workshops, and industry engagement, the Symposium seeks to foster meaningful discussions that contribute to both theory and practice.
We welcome your participation and attendance at this exciting symposium. The Research Track, Teaching and Prototypes Track, Doctoral Development Workshop, and Panels and Workshops will bring together complementary perspectives on research, pedagogy, and practice through presentations, panels, research prototypes, teaching cases, tutorials, and related activities. The Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium will continue to build on the momentum of prior SIGDSA events by providing a forum for constructive discussions among researchers, instructors, doctoral students, and practitioners who are engaged in business analytics, data science, artificial intelligence, and decision support systems. More information about participation, submission calls, and important dates for the 2026 Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium will be posted on this website.
For the past ten consecutive years, SIGDSA has received an outstanding SIG award from AIS for the wide variety of activities, events, and projects made available to SIG members. Find out more about SIGDSA here. Join SIGDSA by clicking this link.