Americas Conference on Information Systems
Encyclopedia
The Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) is an annual conference for Information Systems
and Information Technology
academics and professionals sponsored by the Association for Information Systems
(AIS). AMCIS is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious conferences for IS/IT in the Western Hemisphere
, and provides a platform for panel discussions and the presentation of peer-reviewed information systems research papers. The conference attracts over 600 submissions each year, and those that are selected for presentation appear in the AMCIS Proceedings, which are distributed to hundreds of libraries throughout the world.
The first AMCIS conference took place in 1995 in Pittsburgh, PA, and is notable for being the first IS/IT conference to utilize electronic paper submissions. Since that time, AMCIS has been held annually in different cities throughout the United States
every August, and attracts between 800 and 1,200 registered delegates every year. In 2006 AMCIS was held in Acapulco, Mexico, thereby marking a major milestone for the conference insofar as it was the first time AMCIS has been held outside of the United States.
In 2008 AMCIS ventured to Toronto, Ontario, Canada to further extend its mission in North America outside of the U.S.
With the 2010 AMCIS already planned for Lima, Peru, association (AIS) will extend its "Americanization" to all major geographical regions of the Western Hemisphere, except Central America. Finally, the addition of a Portuguese-language track in 2008 will continue in 2009 to San Francisco, and potentially explode in size at the 2010 Lima Conference.
Information systems
Information Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...
and Information Technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
academics and professionals sponsored by the Association for Information Systems
Association for Information Systems
The Association for Information Systems is an international professional organization serving as the premier global organization for academics specializing in Information Systems...
(AIS). AMCIS is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious conferences for IS/IT in the Western Hemisphere
Western Hemisphere
The Western Hemisphere or western hemisphere is mainly used as a geographical term for the half of the Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian and east of the Antimeridian , the other half being called the Eastern Hemisphere.In this sense, the western hemisphere consists of the western portions...
, and provides a platform for panel discussions and the presentation of peer-reviewed information systems research papers. The conference attracts over 600 submissions each year, and those that are selected for presentation appear in the AMCIS Proceedings, which are distributed to hundreds of libraries throughout the world.
The first AMCIS conference took place in 1995 in Pittsburgh, PA, and is notable for being the first IS/IT conference to utilize electronic paper submissions. Since that time, AMCIS has been held annually in different cities throughout the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
every August, and attracts between 800 and 1,200 registered delegates every year. In 2006 AMCIS was held in Acapulco, Mexico, thereby marking a major milestone for the conference insofar as it was the first time AMCIS has been held outside of the United States.
In 2008 AMCIS ventured to Toronto, Ontario, Canada to further extend its mission in North America outside of the U.S.
With the 2010 AMCIS already planned for Lima, Peru, association (AIS) will extend its "Americanization" to all major geographical regions of the Western Hemisphere, except Central America. Finally, the addition of a Portuguese-language track in 2008 will continue in 2009 to San Francisco, and potentially explode in size at the 2010 Lima Conference.
AMCIS Venues
| Year | Venue |
|---|---|
| 1995 | Pittsburgh |
| 1996 | Phoenix |
| 1997 | Indianapolis |
| 1998 | Baltimore |
| 1999 | Milwaukee |
| 2000 | Long Beach |
| 2001 | Boston |
| 2002 | Dallas |
| 2003 | Tampa |
| 2004 | New York City |
| 2005 | Omaha |
| 2006 | Acapulco, Mexico |
| 2007 | Keystone, Colorado |
| 2008 | Toronto, Canada |
| 2009 | San Francisco, CA |
| 2010 | Lima, Peru |
| 2011 | Detroit, MI |
| 2012 | [Seattle, WA, August 9-12] |
| 2013 | [Chicago, IL, August 9-12] |
| 2014 | [Savannah, GA, August 7-10] |