10:00 – 10:45
Reception and Registration
Coffee, water, and vlaai
Program
Symposium schedule
The DISS 2026 schedule has been finalized. All sessions take place in room I0.013A/B at Tapijnkazerne. A quiet room (I0.005A) is available throughout the day for participants who need a private space.
Full abstracts and speaker biographies are available on the speakers page.
11:00 – 11:15
Opening Remarks by the Organizer
11:15 – 12:15
Paper Presentation I – Xi Wu (Tilburg University)
“When a Training Dataset Becomes a Public Good: An Empirical Examination of Open Innovation in Image-Generating AI Models”
12:15 – 13:15
Lunch Break
Sandwiches, salads, fruit & cold drinks
13:15 – 14:15
Paper Presentation II – Nicolai Fabian (University of Groningen)
“Web scraping for digital trace data: Practices and a way forward”
14:15 – 14:45
Coffee Break I
Coffee, soda, water, and chocolate
14:45 – 15:45
Paper Presentation III – Tamara Thuis (VU Amsterdam, KIN Center for Digital Innovation)
“Striving for Responsible AI: Governing AI Development and Use through a Technological Platform”
15:45 – 16:15
Coffee Break II
16:15 – 17:15
Keynote Lecture – Eric van Heck (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Keynote“Creating Your Research Identity in Information Systems”
17:15 – 17:30
Closing Remarks
18:00 onwards
Dinner
Basilica, Vrijthof 15a, Maastricht