Conference Chairs

Dr. Nisreen Ameen

Dr. Nisreen Ameen is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Royal Holloway, University of London and the Co-Director of the Digital Organisation and Society (DOS) research centre. Nisreen is also currently serving a Vice President of the UK Academy of Information Systems (UKAIS). She is an Associate Editor for Information Technology and People, Computers in Human Behavior and the International Journal of Consumer Studies.  Nisreen has also served as a Guest Editor for special issues in various top ranked journals such as: Psychology and Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business Research, Information Systems Frontiers, Computers in Human Behavior and The Service Industries Journal.

Nisreen’s research focuses on two main themes: first, consumer interactions with new-age technologies; and second, how organisations can use these technologies to provide better experiences, services and products. Within these main themes, her research interests include digital marketing and entrepreneurship, human-computer interaction, consumer behaviour, and organisational use of consumer data. She also focuses on cross-national and cross-cultural research in developing, emerging and developed markets. She has expertise in qualitative and quantitative methods of data analysis.

Her research has been published in high-ranking journals: the British Journal of Management; the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research; Psychology and Marketing; Information Technology and People; Information Systems Frontiers; Internet Research; Computers in Human Behavior; Information Systems Management; Information Technology for Development; the British Journal of Educational Technology; and the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship.

Professor Thanos Papadopoulos

Thanos Papadopoulos is a Professor of Management (Information Systems/Operations Management) and Department Lead for Research and Innovation at the Department of ‘Analytics, Operations, and Systems’ of Kent Business School, University of Kent, UK. His research is focusing on the problems that are at the nexus of operations management and information systems and more recently on Big Data within Supply Chains and Operations. He has published over 150 articles in peer reviewed journals and conferences including, inter alia, the British Journal of Management, Decision Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, International Journal of Production Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, International Journal of Production Economics, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Production Planning and Control. He is Associate Editor for British Journal of Management and International Journal of Operations and Production Management, as well as Departmental Editor for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He sits at the Editorial board of Production Planning and Control and Technological Forecasting and Social Change and is Distinguished Editorial Board member of International Journal of Information Management and International Journal of Information Management Data Insights.

Dr. Oliver Kayas

Oliver is a senior lecturer in digital business at Liverpool John Moores University where he teaches on a range of postgraduate programmes. His research interests revolve around organisation studies, information systems, and surveillance. Oliver first presented at a UKAIS conference in 2008 and then joined the board as a director in 2015. Since then, he has been a conference committee organiser, a programme committee member, a doctoral consortium facilitator, and a conference programme chair. He also served as UKAIS secretary for two years. In addition, Oliver created and now leads the UKAIS mentorship program aimed at supporting early career academics in the field of information systems. Beyond UKAIS, Oliver is a committee member of the Operational Research Society’s Northwestern group where he works with colleagues to build synergy between practitioners and researchers interested in information systems and operations. He is also a member of the Surveillance Studies Network where he mentors international PhD students and early career academics with their teaching, research, and career development.