The rise of Blockchain promises a world where socio-economic transactions are becoming trustful and democratic as we shift from the Internet of Data to the Internet of Value. However, as Blockchain potentially goes mainstream, its diffusion in the industry can not overlook a critical understanding of the politics underpinning technological disruption. We invite everyone interested to exchange thoughts during our workshop on April 24th, 2018. Participation to the workshop is free, however registration is required by email until April 19th, 2018 to michaela.meinert@wi.uni-muenster.de or via web: http://erc.is/go/ercis-disrupts

Speakers:

Prof. Donncha Kavanagh
University College Dublin, Ireland
Donncha Kavanagh joined the MIS Subject Area as Professor of Information & Organisation in 201 3. His research interests include the sociology of technology, the history and philosophy of management thought, pre-modern and postmodern modes of organizing, play and creativity, and (digital) money.

Prof. Stefan Klein
University of Münster, Germany
Stefan Klein is Professor for Interorganizational Systems and a Director of the European Research Center for Informations Systems (ERCIS) at the Department of Information Systems. From 2008-2010 he was Dean of the Münster School of Business and Economics.

Benoit La Fontaine
Octo Technology, France
Benoit La Fontaine is a former lead blockchain developer at Octo Technology and Engineering Manager at Doctolib.

Dr. Jens Lechtenbörger
University of Münster, Germany
Jens Lechtenbörger is a tenured lecturer at the Chair for Computer Science at the Department of Information Systems. His research interests include the creation of OER, database and data warehouse design, data integration, and technological impacts of internet and web.

Dr. Gianluca Miscione
University College Dublin, Ireland
Gianluca Miscione is Assistant Professor and director of the UCD Centre for Innovation Technology and Organization. He is P.I . of Coding Value research project, which started on digital currencies and is now expanding into blockchain applications.

Dr. Edouard Pignot
University of Münster, Germany
Edouard Pignot is Assistant Professor and a sociologist of Information and Organization at the ERCIS. He is interested in bringing the politics back to the study of the design, acceptance and diffusion of disruptive technologies, including the blockchain.

Prof. Gerhard Schwabe
University of Zürich, Switzerland
Gerhard Schwabe is Professor and Head of the Information Management Research Group in the Faculty of Business and Economics and Informatics.

You can find more information on the workshop in our flyer (580K), which can be downloaded here.