23rd Doctoral Seminar in Berlin

From 09.05. - 11.05.2022 the 23rd edition of the PhD Workshop on IT, Service, Innovation and Collaboration (WISIC) took place in Berlin. Thankfully, the seminar could take place in the premises of HiSolutions AG. This time the departments of Business Informatics and Business Informatics & System Development from the University of Kassel, the Department of Business Informatics from the University of Osnabrück and the Institute of Business Informatics from the University of St. Gallen were represented.

Over the course of the three-day doctoral workshop, 23 doctoral students from both universities presented their topics in different formats depending on their doctoral progress and status: Relevance Pitch, Idea Presentation, Proposal and Journal Paper Project. The goal of the seminar is to advance the respective dissertation project through intensive discussions with other doctoral students as well as professors and post-docs. In addition, the feedback gained in this workshop should provide new ideas and impulses for one's own dissertation project.

For the first time, the program also included a keynote lecture. We were able to win Associate Professor Sabine Matook for this. She spoke on the topic "Educational innovation for workplace readiness: Important teaching field and an area for research" and addressed the relevance of knowledge building and its application.

Another highlight of the 23rd WISIC was the foosball tournament, which rounded off the program.