ConferenceISPC 2026
6th annual International Scientific-Practical Conference
Save the Date: September 10th and 11th, 2026
Digital and AI Management – Scientific Research and Practical Implementation
We are pleased to announce the ISPC 2026 conference. This year's international conference, organized by FHNW (Switzerland), IU International University (Germany), Adelphi University (Garden City, NY, USA), East European University (Georgia), and the E-Commerce Institute(Cologne), will take place in Brugg in September! The focus of ISPC 2026 will be on presenting and discussing relevant aspects of digitalization for a rapidly changing world. The event will again be held as a hybrid conference this year. Participants will have the option of attending in person at the conference venue at FHNW in Brugg, Switzerland, or joining the conference online via Zoom. As in previous years, the ISPC will be held in English.
The sixth ISPC conference will address digitalization in the fields of economics, management, education, etc. It aims to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of relevant aspects of digitalization. The proceedings of the 6th annual International Scientific and Practical Conference (ISPC 2025) entitled “Digital and AI Management - Scientific Research and Practical Implementation” will be published shortly after the conference in the book series “Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics (SPBE),” which is indexed by Scopus. Accepted contributions to ISPC 2026 have a good chance of being published in the conference proceedings by Springer, as in previous years: ISPC 2024 Proceedings, ISPC 2023 Proceedings, ISPC 2022 Proceedings, ISPC 2021 Proceedings.
Individual contributions should be submitted by filling out a one page abstract of the topic. Presentations should be 20 minutes long and allow time for a five-minute discussion. Optionally, a contribution can be submitted for the conference proceedings. This should be no more than 10 pages with approximately 5,000 words or 30,000 characters (excluding spaces).
Location: Hybrid – Online and at FHNW, Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland)
Date: September 10th and 11th 2026
To RegistrationContents of the symposium
The impact of digitalization and artificial intelligence in a rapidly changing world will be addressed and discussed at ISPC 2026 in relation to
Economy and Businesses,
Education and Universities,
Healthcare Systems and Healthcare Management,
Society and the State.
Time overview
April 1, 2026: Start of one-page submission
July 1, 2026: End of one-page submission
September 1st, 2026: End of full paper submission
Call for Abstracts
The call for abstracts, requirements and application form can be found here.
ISPC 2024
TheISPC 2024 conference was held as a hybrid conference. Participants had the opportunity to attend either physically at the conference venue at IU International University in Cologne's Gerling Quarter or to join the conference online via Zoom for free. As in previous years, the ISPC was held in English and participation was free of charge.
Further information
Prof. Dr. Richard Geibel, IU Professor für Betriebswirtschaftslehre und wissenschaftliches Arbeiten
Prof. Dr. Darius Zumstein, Institute for Competitiveness and Communication
Prof. Dr. MaryAnne Hyland, Dean of Business School, Adelphi University, USA
Prof. Dr. George Lazarashvili, Rector, East European University, Georgia
Contributions from practitioners are explicitly welcome, especially project reports by and with students.
The international conference will take place online via Zoom from 10 to 11 September and offers an ideal setting for the presentation of master's theses, bachelor's theses and project work. Student work can be presented together with lecturers or practice partners.
ISPC 2025 is the 5th annual international conference organised by Adelphi University (New York, USA) together with its partners East European University (Georgia), IU International University (Germany) and the E-Commerce Institute (Cologne), with the aim of creating a forum for the presentation and discussion of relevant aspects of digitalisation, including AI, in rapidly changing times.
Film and sound recordings as well as photos will be taken at the event, and by attending the event, you agree to their subsequent use.
The symposium is sponsored by the following organizations:
Alliance for AI & Humanity (AAIH, Singapore) is working to advance responsible development and use of AI by addressing the most important pressing ethical, privacy and legal challenges related to the use of these technologies and helping guide efforts in the development and deployment of AI to enhance the quality of peoples’ lives.
https://www.aaih.sgThe FGF is the leading and most important scientific association for entrepreneurship, innovation and SMEs in the German-speaking world.
https://www.fgf-ev.de/en/The Friedrich Ebert Foundation was founded in 1925. As a non-profit political foundation, we are united with social democracy and the trade union movement in the pursuit of freedom, justice, solidarity and the preservation of peace.
https://www.fes.de/stiftung/ueber-die-fesLIBF Limited is an accredited and awarding body, providing professional qualifications, undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, and qualifications at Levels 1, 2 and 3
https://www.libf.ac.ukThe health insurance company AOK Rheinland/Hamburg. The online portal ‘Meine AOK’ offers many advantageous functions relating to your AOK insurance. Many of these can be used both in the app and on PC.
https://www.aok.de/pk/rh/gkvi is one of the leading IT service providers in the statutory health insurance market and has implemented the centralized collection of contributions for over 17 million insured persons on behalf of its customers
https://www.gkvi.deWe transform small ideas into great innovations. In our vibrant network, we bring entrepreneurs, founders and corporates together to shape small ideas and empower great minds.
https://www.startplatz.de/en/Web de Cologne is the large network of the digital economy in the Rhineland and an initiative of Cologne-based companies from the digital economy that is a relevant economic factor.
https://webdecologne.deIvane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU) according to the 2024 edition of the Center for World University Rankings (http://cwur.org/2024.php), is among the top 5% of the universities globally, placing1,047th out of 20,966 universities. TSU also stands as the top-ranked university in Georgia according to the same rankings.
https://www.tsu.ge/en
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