Managing IT in a Dynamic World: The Social and Organizational Ramifications of Sophisticated Technologies and Security Threats
62nd SIGMS CPR Conference
Location: Baylor University – Waco, Texas, USA
Conference Dates: May 28-May 30, 2025
Conference registration will be open March 15th, 2025
More details at our conference website: https://sigmis.org/cpr/
Important Dates for Academic Papers, Posters, Panels
Submissions open: December 1, 2024
Submission deadline: February 5, 2025 -> extended to February 13
Notification of acceptance: March 8, 2025
Camera-ready version: April 19, 2025
Important Dates for Doctoral Consortium
Submission deadline: March 20, 2025
Notification of acceptance: April 8, 2025
Camera-ready version: April 19, 2025
The Doctoral Consortium will be held on May 28, 2024 at Baylor University
Call for Papers
For close to 60 years, ACM SIGMIS Computers and People Research (CPR) conference has engaged the academic and practitioner communities in understanding issues pertaining to the intersection of information technology (IT) and people. From its roots in the studies of the IT workforce, CPR has broadened its focus to investigate all aspects of this important and complex relationship.
The ever-increasing pace of change among IT has led to increasingly sophisticated technologies that offer myriad opportunities for advancing organizations and society, and yet these same technologies complicate the threats facing organizations and users. Further, the impacts of advances in automation and AI on individuals and organizations can vary significantly, potentially leading to both opportunities and challenges that need to be carefully managed. Additionally, advanced threat actors may capitalize on cutting-edge tools to target users and organizations with increasingly complex attacks on privacy and security. How can we optimize the impacts of current and next-generation tools to adequately advance the interests of organizations, workers, and IT users?
SIGMIS CPR 2025 calls for attention and concerted research in three key areas, including: (1) Managing the impacts of automation and AI; (2) Tackling security and privacy issues in an increasingly complex world; (3) Envisioning the future IT workforce and its ongoing development. The three areas with sample questions are described below.
(1) Managing the impacts of automation and AI
Recent advances in automation and the ability to complement or substitute for labor have the potential to dramatically impact the structure, processes and workforces for most organizations. Accordingly, organizations and academics must tackle the challenge of how to initiate structural change and effectively manage workers while capitalizing on the potential for these technologies to revolutionize industries. In particular, the displacement effects of advanced technologies may disproportionately impact more certain group of individuals. These issues raise questions such as: How can organizations manage the tension of embracing increasingly advanced automation technology while sustaining their existing workforce? What skills are necessary for workers to succeed in increasingly automated labor environments?
(2) Tackling security and privacy issues in an increasingly complex world
Organizations and IT users face increasingly complex threats to their security and privacy. Many of these threats are complicated by the growing amount of information that sow confusion and distrust among users. Accordingly, organizations, educators and security and privacy personnel are tasked with the interrelated challenge of preparing users to recognize threats to their security, identify and manage sensitive data, and evaluate the validity of online information. As a result, these issues raise questions such as: How can organizations equip users to mitigate threats regarding privacy, security, sensitive data and information? What characteristics (e.g., background, knowledge, and skills) and capabilities are necessary for users and also IT security and data privacy professionals to navigate virtual settings increasingly beset by intentionally sophisticated content? How can security and privacy leaders manage the complexity of threats caused by massive amount of data and information at the organizational level?
(3) Envisioning the future IT workforce and its ongoing development
We recognize the continued need for a developed IT workforce, and understand our unique position as academics to draw attention to continuous learning, retraining, and playing a role in recruiting a wider range of students to IS programs and IT careers. Further, given significant advances in IT and the rapid proliferation of AI tools and automation, future generations of IT personnel are in the unique position of (1) creating more advanced toolsets, (2) using increasingly advanced tools to gain efficiencies, (3) supporting organizational managers and personnel on best practices for implementation of increasingly sophisticated tools and (4) potentially being replaced by automated technologies. Accordingly, IS researchers are positioned to begin envisioning and studying these complexities to prepare future generations of IT professionals as well as to advise practitioners on navigating these dynamic hurdles. Questions on this front include: What structural changes are impacting the next generation of IT professionals, and to what extent are these changes different than technology advancements from prior generations? What new roles and new skills are expected of future IT workers?
In particular, we also welcome papers on traditional IT workforce topics.
Format of Submissions
ACM SIGMIS CPR 2025 welcomes both completed papers and research-in-progress papers. All papers must be original, unpublished elsewhere, and submitted following the ACM guidelines available at
https://www.acm.org/publications/gi-proceedings-current.
- Completed papers may include conceptual papers, empirical papers, and industry case studies. They must not exceed 5,000 words including all text, figures, and tables. The abstract, keywords, and references are excluded from this page count.
- Research-in-progress papers must not exceed 2,000 words including all text, figures, and tables. The abstract, keywords, and references are excluded from this page count.
- Poster presentations must not exceed 500 words and should provide a comprehensive overview of the topic, research approach, findings to date (if any) and future project plans.
- Ideas for interesting panels related to the conference theme should be submitted directly to the program chairs.
Our conference also offers a comprehensive Doctoral Consortium for students who are conducting research on a topic related to the conference theme or to the broad focus of the CPR conference on understanding issues pertaining to the intersection of information technology and people. Please visit our website for more details.
Link to submission system
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigmiscpr25
Proceedings and Presentations
Accepted papers will be published by ACM in the refereed conference proceedings. Authors of accepted papers may choose to publish complete papers or extended abstracts of their research in the conference proceedings. Authorship may not be changed after the paper was accepted. All completed research papers to be published in the conference proceedings will be considered for the Magid Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper of the Year Award. The Magid Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper and other exemplar papers will be invited for publication in the DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems—the quarterly journal publication of ACM SIGMIS.
Each paper must be presented during the conference. Articles will not be published in the event proceedings if at least one author of a submitted work is not registered or is unable to present their article at the conference.
AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.)
Proceedings of all previous CPR conferences are available in the ACM Digital Library at:
Conference Chairs
Cindy Riemenschneider (C_Riemenschneider@baylor.edu), Baylor University, USA
Yulia Sullivan (Yulia_sullivan@baylor.edu), Baylor University, USA
Program Chairs
May Bantan (mbantan@kennesaw.edu), Kennesaw State University, USA
Michael Dinger (Michael_dinger@baylor.edu), Baylor University, USA
Nick Roberts (nicholas.roberts@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State University, USA