Lectures and Workshop Series
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The Department of Information Systems and Operations Management hosts diverse academic lectures and workshops presented by international and national guest speakers.
Please be aware that venues can be subject to late changes and space constraints. Therefore, it is advised to register in advance if you wish to attend.
Summer semester 2025
| Prof. Dirk Draheim Tallinn University of Technology (Estland) "Quantum Computing Speed-Up – An Analysis of Grover’s Algorithm and Its Computational Complexity" June 13, 2025 |
| Prof. Gianluca Demartini University of Queensland (Australia) "Bias in Humans and AI – What To Do About It?" June 12, 2025further information |
| Prof. Alessandra Mileo Dublin City University (Ireland) "Neuro-Symbolic AI and Human-Centred Explainability" June 11, 2025further information |
| Dr. Lukas Kook WU Vienna (Austria) "Causality in Complex Data Structures" April 2, 2025further information |
| Dr. William Schueller University of Vienna (Austria) "Behind the Screen: Open Source Software as Both a Tool and a Topic for Research" March 19, 2025 |
| Luka Tomat, Ph.D. and Angela Sekulovska University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) "The Potential AI Use to Enhance Process Mining and Its Outcomes" March 18, 2025 |
| Dr. Christina Gillmann Frauenhofer Institute for Applied Informaton Technology, FIT (Germany) "Data Spaces at Fraunhofer FIT" March 3, 2025further information |
| Dr. Debayan Banerjee Leuphana University Lünebrug (Germany) "LLMs and Knowledge Graphs: Current Status and Future" February 20, 2025further information |
| Bailey Flanigan, Ph.D. Harvard University (USA) "Algorithmic tools for targeting sortition ideals" February 19, 2025further information |
| Nilay Tüfek Özkaya, M.Sc. Siemens AG (Germany) "Semantic Artifacts and LLMs: Use Cases in the OPC UA Industrial Standard" February 12, 2025further information |
| Dr. Lisa Ehrlinger University of Potsdam (Germany) "Current Challenges in Data Quality Assessment" February 6, 2025further information |
Winter semester 2024/25
| DI Roland Sommer, MBA Austrian Platform Industry 4.0 (Austria) "Industry 4.0 - What Comes Next?" December 12, 2024 |
| Dr. Jan Maly WU Vienna (Austria) "Combining Voting and Abstract Argumentation to Understand Online Discussions" (joint work with Michael Bernreiter, Oliviero Nardi and Stefan Woltran) December 4, 2024 |
| Prof. Michael Scholz TH Deggendorf (Germany) "Pricing in Viral Marketing Campaigns" November 20, 2024 further information |
| Prof. Fridolin Wild Open University (UK) "Can XR "reality-embedded learning" mitigate the fallout of the AI revolution?" October 28, 2024 |
| Dr. Danja Sonntag Lund University (Sweden) "From a linear supply chain to a circular economy: The impact of sustainable sourcing labeling" October 24, 2024 |
| Keynote/Discussion "Digital Resilience. Europas Zukunft am Prüfstand" in cooperation with csipe.cloud October 15, 2024further information |
Summer semester 2024
| Sulthoni Asshidiqqi Institut Teknologi Bandung, (Indonesia) "The Statistical Data Production Ontology (SDPO): Towards an approach for integrating the metadata of statistical data production" September 25, 2024further information |
| Dr. Lisa Ehrlinger Hasso Plattener Institute (Germany) "Current Challenges in Data Quality Assessment" September 17, 2024further information |
| Fabian Lindner, M.Sc. Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences (Germany) "To See, or Not to See - On the Impact of Visualization in Manufacturing and Operations Management" September 10, 2024 |
| Dr. Christian Wankmüller Department of Europian and International Affairs, Carinthia Regional Government (Austria) "The Relevance of Research for EU Regional Development and Cohesion (and vice versa)" September 6, 2024 |
| Maximilian Kunovjanek Senior Specialist IT Business Analysis at ÖBB (Austria) "Automated Resource Planning at ÖBB - A Methodological Introduction" September 3, 2024 |
| Workshop Future Paths of Knowlegde Management hostet by the Knowledge Management Group, WU Vienna "The Role of Spirituality, Responsibility and Sustainability in Knowledge Management of the Future" September 2-4, 2024further information |
| Simone DaniottiDomplexity Science Hub (CSH) Vienna (Austria) "The Coherence of US Cities" July 3, 2024further information |
| Prof. Raghava Mutharaju IIIT Dheli (India) "Application of Symbolic and Neuro-Symbolic AI" June 25, 2024further information |
| Prof. Sanju Tiwari BVICAM New Dheli (India) "Harnessing the Power of Large Language Models: Benchmarks, Biases, and Applications" June 5, 2024further information |
| Dr. Romana Pernisch Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands) "LOT4KG: A Joint Methodology for the Ontology and Knowledge Graph Lifecycle" May 8, 2024further information |
| Prof. Stefan Gold University of Kassel (Germany) "Building Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Operations and Supply Chains: Bringing Public Policy Back In" April 26, 2024 further information |
| Saba Latif University of Rome (Italy) "A Semantic Encoding for the Specification of the Object Centric Event Data (OCED) Meta-model" April 24, 2024further information |
| Gábor Recski, PhD Technical University Vienna (Austria) "Transparent Natural Language Understanding" March 13, 2024 |
| Prof. Paul Groth University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) "Data Curation and Debugging for Data Centric AI" March 10, 2024further information |
Winter semester 2023/24
| Prof. Allan Hanbury Technische Universität Wien (Austria) "Professional Search in Context" January 17, 2024 |
| Amitrajit Sarkar Ara Institute of Canterbury; University of Canterbury (New Zealand) "Using the Lens of Critical Realism for a Practice-based Theory of Information Systems Resilience" December 7, 2023 |
| Prof. Dr. Herbert Meyr University Hogenheim (Germany) "A machine learning approach for identifying the best solution heuristic for a large scaled Capacitated Lot sizing Problem" December 1, 2023 further information |
| 3rd Virtual Mini Symposium: Future paths of Knowledge Management: The role of Spirituality, Cognitive Science and Sustainability in Knowledge Management of the future in cooperation with OCKO Group, University of Vienna, Austria November 27-28, 2023 further information |
| Dr. Kathleen Kennedy University of Maryland (USA) "Maximizing the Contribution of Aviation to 2050 Net-zero Emission Reduction Pathways" November 20, 2023 |
| Dr. Romana Pernisch Vrje University Amsterdam (NL) "Evolution of Ontologies" November 16, 2023 |
| Dr. Brigitte Stangl University of Surrey (UK) Dialogveranstaltung "Lebensmittelverschwendung reduzieren: Innovative Perspektiven aus Österreich und der Schweiz" in Cooperation mit der Schweizerische Botschaft in Österreich November 20, 2023 |
Summer semester 2023
| Dr. Johanna Barzen and Prof. Frank Leymann University of Stuttgart (Germany) "Basics of Quantum Computing, Quantum Machine Learning, and QHAna" March 22, 2023 further information |
| Prof. Dr. Jaap-Henk Hoepman Radboud University, Karlstad University, and University of Groningen (The Netherlands; Sweden) "Privacy is Hard and Seven Other Myths" March 20, 2023 further information |
| Prof. Dr. Paul Groth University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) "Data Curation and Debuggig for Data Centric AI" March 10, 2023 further information |
Winter semester 2022/23
| Prof. Dr. Miriam Wilhelm WU Vienna, Austria "Combatting Forced Labor in Global Seafood Supply" January 20, 2023 |
| Prof. Hector Martinez INCAE Business School in Costa Rica and University of Kentucky "Peer Coaching in Groups and the Impact on Knowledge Management in Organizations" December 13, 2022 |
| Karina Radchenko, PhD candidate University of Kyiv, Ukraine "Sustainability in Smart Cities" December 12, 2022 |
| 2. Virtual Mini-Symposium: "Future Paths of Knowledge Management"in cooperation with OCKO Group, University of Vienna, AustriaDecember 1-2, 2022further information |
| Prof. Dr. Daniel Schnurr University of Regensburg, Germany "Do Consumers Benefit from Selling their Data? The Economic Effects of Personal Data Brokers in Digital Markets" November 23, 2022 |
| Prof. Dr. Pavel Castka University of Canterbury, New Zealand "Social and Environmental Monitoring in Supply Chains - Towards Transformative Transparency" November 4, 2022 further information |
Summer semester 2022
| Workshop "Semantic Web and Machine Learning Systems" in cooperation with:* Prof. Frank van Harmelen, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands * Prof. Annette ten Teije, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands * Prof. Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany * Dr. Andreea Iana, University of Mannheim, GermanySeptember 1 - 2, 2022 |
| Prof. Heiko Paulheim University of Mannheim, Germany "New Adventures in RDF2vec" September 2, 2022 further information |
| Prof. Frank van Harmelen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam "Hybrid Intelligence: AI systems that collaborate with people instead of replacing them" September 1, 2022 further information |
| Prof. Piero A. Bonatti University of Naples Federico II "A semantic approach to policy encoding and compliance checking" August 31, 2022 |
| Prof. Pavel Laskov University of Liechtenstein "Can We Trust AI?" June 8, 2022 further information |
| Prof. Giovanni Perrone University of Palermo, Italy "Socialise and Win in Online Communities: How Different Network Positions in a Crowdsourcing Community Affect Solvers Successes" July 21, 2022 further information |
| Prof. David Wozabal Technical University of Munich, Germany "The Value of Coordination in Multi-Market Bidding of Grid Energy Storage" May 23, 2022 further information |
| Eleni IlkouL3S Research Center in Hannover Germany"Personal Knowledge Graphs in Education"May 19, 2022 |
| Dr. Raysa G. Rocha University of Beira Interior, Portugal "Sublimating Aristotle's Phronesis: Measuring Organizantional Practical Wisdom" April 26, 2022 further information |
| Dr. Prasanta Kumar Dey Aston Business School, UK "Circular Economy to Combat Climate Change Issues" April 25, 2022 further information |
| 1. Virtual Mini Symposium: Responsible Knowledge Management: Reflecting on the Future of Knowledge Management in a VUCA Worldin cooperation with OCKO Group, University of Vienna, AustriaApril 25 and 28, 2022 further information |
Winter semester 2021/22
| Prof. Anastasia Dimou KU Leuven "Knowledge Graph Generation" February 3, 2022 Further Information |
| Prof. Ryan Watkins, George Washington University (GW), and Soheil Human, MSc, WU Vienna "Needs-aware Artificial Intelligence — AI that ‘serves [human] needs’" February 2, 2022 Further Information |
| Mafri-Jay Gambal, PhD Aston Business School (ABS) "Digital innovation in an IS outsourcing context: Exploring client and provider perspectives" January 24, 2022 Further Information |
| Prof. Christian Fikar University Bayreuth "Operations research models for sustainable foof deliveries" January 10, 2022 Further Information |
| Dr. Martin Degeling Ruhr University Bochum "Tracking, Profiling and the GDPR" December 17, 2021 Further Information |
| Sándor Juchász, PhD Laboratory for Networks, Technology & Innovation (NETI), Corvinus University "Spatial social network patterns inside cities" November 9, 2021 Further Information |
| Dr. Hendrik Scholta Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU) "Digital government evolution: From one-stop shop to no-stop shop" October 6, 2021 Further Information |
Summer semester 2021
| Prof. Armin Haller Australian National University (ANU) "What Are Links in Linked Open Data? A Characterization and Evaluation of Links between Knowledge Graphs on the Web" May 6, 2021 |
Summer semester 2020
| Prof. Jan-Hendrik Passoth Munich Center for Technology in Society "Recoding Public Value. Infrastructure, Platforms and Digital Sovereignty in and for Europe" June 3, 2020 |
| Prof. Juan Boubeta-Puig University of Cádiz (UCA) "Integrating Complex Event Processing and Blockchain through a Model-driven Approach" March 4, 2020 |
Winter semester 2019/20
| Prof. Werner Nutt Free University of Bozen-Bolzan "Why Databases Should Know How Much They Know" January 27, 2020 |
| Dr. Kris Ruijgrok University of Amsterdam "The politics behind India’s internet shutdowns" January 8, 2020 |
| Dr. Guido Governatori CSIRO Brisbane December 19, 2019 |
| Dr. Miel Vander Sande Ghent University "Applying Weighted Transition Logic for adaptive workflow composition" December 2, 2019 |
| Prof. Elena Simperl University of Southampton "Qrowd and the city: Designing people-centric smart cities" November 19, 2019 Further Information |
| Dr. Nataliia Bielova French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation "Detecting third-party tracking and GDPR violations in Web applications" November 7, 2019 |
| Dr. David Garcia Complexity Hub Vienna "Online privacy as a complex phenomenon" October 30, 2019 |
| INVERTO Workshop - Institute for Production MangementOctober 25, 2019Further Information |
| Prof. Frank Leymann and Johanna Barzen University of Stuttgart and University of Cologne "Quantum Computing: A Brief Introduction" October 23, 2019 Further Information |
| Prof. Gerhard Wohlgenannt ITMO University St. Petersburg "Multi-label Legal Document Classification with fastAI and Visual QA with Ontodia" September 9, 2019Further Information |
| Luise Pufahl Hasso Plattner Institute "Handling Flexibility and Resources in Business Processes on the Example of the Last Mile Delivery“ August 8, 2019 Further Information |
Summer semester 2019
| Prof. Hector Martinez INCAE Business School Costa Rica "Inspired and Effective: The Role of the Ideal Self in Well Being, Job Engagement and Positive Organizational Behaviors" June 24, 2019 Further Information |
| Prof. Paul Groth University of Amsterdam "Thinking about the Making of Data" June 12, 2019 |
| Prof. Kai Hoberg Kühne Logistics University Hamburg "Human-machine interaction in order decisions" May 20, 2019 |
| INVERTO Workshop - Institute for Production ManagementMay 17, 2019Further Information |
| Prof. Sylvie Delacroix Birmingham Law School "Beware of ‘Algorithmic Regulation’“ May 8, 2019 |
| Prof. Geraldine Fitzpatrick TU Vienna "Designing being human: The case of care and older people“ April 17, 2019 |
| Prof. Nils Löhndorf University of Luxembourg "The Value of Industrial Demand Response in the EPEXSPOT Electricity Market" April 2, 2019 |
| Dr. Niels ten Oever University of Amsterdam "a Net of Rights? – the Inscription and Subversion of Values in Transnational Internet Infrastructure Governance“ March 20, 2019 |
| Prof. Yigal Gerschak Tel Aviv University "Coordination in Decentralized Supply Chains" March 5-19, 2019 |
Winter semester 2018/19
| Dr. David Reichel European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights "The impact of AI and big data on fundamental rights“ January 23th 2019 |
| Prof. Hannah Krasnova University of Potsdam "Social Media: The Dark and The Ugly“ January 16th 2019 |
| Prof. Linnet Taylor Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) "What’s ethical about data ethics?“ January 9th 2019 |
| Prof. Markus Becker University of Southern Denmark Organizational routines, habits, and their operationalization December 14th 2018 Further Information |
| Prof. Frank Leymann University of Stuttgart "Quantum Computing: A Brief Introduction“ December 11th 2018 Further Information |
| Dr. Hala Skaf-Molli University of Nantes "Sage: Web Preemption for Public SPARQL Query Services" December 12th 2018 Further Information |
| Laura Koesten University of Southampton A user centred perspective on the discovery of structured data December 6th 2018 Further Information |
| Maribel Acosta KIT Flexible Techniques for Querying RDF Graphs on the Web November 26th 2018 Further Information |
| Dr. Matthias C. Kettemann University of Frankfurt am Main "The Normative Order of the Internet: How Rules Are Made and Legitimated in Online Settings“ November 21st 2018 |
| Gerald Stieglbauer AVL List GmbH Revolution vs. Evolution: Model-Based Engineering and the Industry November 6th 2018 Further Information |
| Prof. Eric Tsui Knowledge Management and Innovation Research Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Open Curriculum project: Co-creation the syllabus with students and graduates on rapidly advancing business and technology areas October 17th 2018 Further Information |
Summer semester 2018
| Till Winkler, MSc. Copenhagen Business School Decision Rights Allocations in Information Systems Adoption and Management – Procedural and Architectural Perspectives July 13, 2018 Further Information |
| Prof. Dr. Michael Rosemann Queensland University of Technology The entire new challenges, and opportunities, for BPM July 12, 2018 Further Information |
| Antonella Del Pozzo, PhD CEA (Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission), Paris Towards the blockchain formalization: the blockchain abstract data type June 26, 2018 Further Information |
| Miguel A. Martínez-Prieto, PhD University of Valladolid The Swiss-Army Knife of Semantic Data Compression - RDF Dictionaries May 7, 2018 Further Information |
| Dr. Henrick Leopold VU Amsterdam Evidence-Based Conformance Checking for Event Logs with Coarse-grained Timestamps May 7, 2018 Further Information |
| Adrian Klammer, PhD University of Lichtenstein Organizational Forgetting and Unlearning April 19, 2018 Further Information |
| Martin Beckmann, MSc. TU Berlin Analysis of a Specification Approach using UML Activity Diagrams and Coexisting Textual Descriptions April 18, 2018 Further Information |
| Dr. Chiara Di Francescomarino Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) On the dimensions of predictive process monitoring April 11, 2018 Further Information |
| Dr. Waldemar Kremser Radboud University Nijmegen The dynamics of drift in digitized processes April 4, 2018 Further Information |
| Zdena Dobesova, Ph.D. Palacky University, Olomouc Workflow diagrams for GIS software - testing of effective cognition March Wednesday 21, 2018 Further Information |
| Dr. Mieke Jans Uni Hasselt, Belgium The auditor as oracle when testing process controls March 12, 2018 Further Information |
| Carlos Olarte ECT - UFRN, Brazil Verification techniques for a network algebra February 23, 2018 Further Information |
Winter semester 2017/18
| Dr. Tyge Kummer Griffith Business School, Australia The Effect of Risk Representation in Business Process Models on Analytical and Intuitive Processing January 10, 2018 Further Information |
| Marlon Dumas University of Tartu Caterpillar: A Blockchain-Based Business Process Management System December 18th, 5:30 pm, D2.3.103 Further Information |
| Patrick Mikalef Norwegian University of Science and Technology Dynamic Capabilities in Information Systems Research December 1st, 1:30 pm, D2.2.094 |
| Patrick Westphal Smart Data Analytics BigDataEurope Platform and the SANSA Stack November 14th 2017, 11:00 am, D2.2.094 Further InformationSmart Data AnalyticsSmart Data Analytics |
| Wil van der AalstTechnische Universiteit Eindhoven Responsible Data Science in a Dynamic World November 7th 2017, 6:30 pm, TC.1.02 Further Information |
| Dr. Kate Revoredo University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) Semantic Interactive Ontology Matching: Synergistic Combination of Techniques to Improve the Set of Candidate Correspondences September 25th 2017, 5pm, D2.2094 Further Information |
Summer semester 2017
| Dr. Mauro Conti University of Padua Can’t You Hear Me Knocking: Novel Security and Privacy Threats to Mobile Users September 27th 2017, 10:30 am, D2.2.094 |
| Dr. Moe Wynn Queensland University of Technology Process mining within the Australian insurance sector September 20th 2017, 4pm, D2.2.094 <link https: www.wu.ac.at en infobiz news-details detail guest-talk-process-mining-in-the-australian-insurance-sector _blank>Further Information |
| Dr. Daniel Schlagwein UNSW Business School Opening Up LEGO: Organizational Learning With and About Crowdsourcing July 13th 2017, 4pm, D2.2.094 <link https: www.wu.ac.at en infobiz news-details detail guest-talk-opening-up-lego-organizational-learning-with-and-about-crowdsourcing _blank>Futher Information |
| Dr. Henrik Leopold VU University Amsterdam Checking Process Compliance on the Basis of Uncertain Event-to-Activity Mappings July 12th 2017, 12 pm, D2.2.094 <link https: www.wu.ac.at en infobiz news-details detail guest-talk-checking-process-compliance-on-the-basis-of-uncertain-event-to-activity-mappings _blank>Futher Information |
| Prof. Avidgor Gal Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology From IoT to Process Improvement: Use-Case of a Boston Hospital August 17th 2017, 4 pm, D2.2.094 <link https: www.wu.ac.at en infobiz news-details detail guest-talk-from-iot-to-process-improvement-use-case-of-a-boston-hospital>Further information |
| Prof. Dr. Arthur ter Hofstede Queensland University of Technology Patterns: A Personal Reflection June 19th 2017, 10 am, D2.2.094 <link https: www.wu.ac.at en infobiz news-details detail guest-talk-patterns-a-personal-reflection _blank>Further information |
| Prof. Dr. Gregor Polančič University of Maribor May 18th 2017, 17:30 pm, D2.2.094 |
| Prof. Dr. Thomas Kühne Victoria University of Wellington Two-Level Modelling Considered Harmful May 17th 2017, 12:00-13:00 pm, D2.2.094 <link https: www.wu.ac.at en infobiz news-details detail guest-talk-two-level-modelling-considered-harmful _blank>Further Information |
| Prof. Dr. Stefan Selke Hochschule Furtwangen (HFU) Digital Self and the Measurement of Being May 15th 2017, 1:30 - 2:30 pm, D2.2.094 Further Information |
| Qaiser Mehmood, MSc University Galway BIOOPENER: Linking & Querying Cancer Genomics Repositories May 11th 2017, 9 am, D2.2.094 <link https: www.wu.ac.at en infobiz news-details detail guest-talk-bioopener-linking-querying-cancer-genomics-repositories _top>Further information |
| Prof. Dr. Brian T. Pentland Michigan State University Zooming In and Out on Event Networks May 11th 2017, 10 am, D2.2.094 <link https: www.wu.ac.at en infobiz news-details detail guest-talk-zooming-in-and-out-on-event-networks _blank>Further information |
| Dr. Tomislav Hernaus Uni Zagreb Multidisciplinarity of BPM: A Bibliometric Analysis of a Loosely Coupled "Field" April 26th 2017, 12:000-01:00 pm, D2.2.094 |
Winter semester 2016/17
| Prof. Dr. Kate Revoredo: Adapting Conceptualizations through Data Prof. Dr. Gleison Santos: Measurement and Process Improvement Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro January 12, 12 am, D2.2.094 |
| Giuseppe Pirrò Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR-CNR) Harnessing the Power of (Knowledge) Graphs December 20, 11 am, D2.2.094 <link https: www.wu.ac.at en infobiz news-details detail guest-talk-harnessing-the-power-of-knowledge-graphs _blank>Further information |
| Serven Capadisli University of Bonn Linked Research/Open Document formats for scientific publishing! November 21, 11 am, D2.2.094 <link https: www.wu.ac.at en infobiz news-details detail guest-talk-linked-research-an-approach-for-scholarly-communication _blank>Further information |
| Dr. Vikram Bhakoo University of Melbourne The future trajectory of qualitative research at the intersection of IS and OM – personal reflections on publishing in leading journals in the context of sustainability compliance in multi-tier supply chains October 5, 4 pm - 6 pm, TC.3.08 Further information |