| Gezinus J. Hidding | Associate Professor in I.S. School of Business Administration, Loyola University Chicago Illinois, USA Title: I. S. Research of Business Practices: Many, One or Zero Academic Disciplines? |
| Clyde W. Holsapple | Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute & Rosenthal Endowed Chair in Management Systems Gatton College of Business and Economics University of Kentucky, USA Title: The Knowledge of Business Intelligence |
| Andrew Rindos | Head of the IBM RTP Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) & Coordinator of IBM Research / AIM Joint Program North Carolina, USA Title: Innovation within IBM (and WebSphere) Development through University Collaborations |
| Johann Sölkner | Professor of Statistics Division of Livestock Sciences University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria Title: Very Many Variables and Limited Numbers of Observations; The p>>n Problem in Current Statistical Applications |
| Joseph S. Valacich | Professor of MIS Department of Management Information Systems The University of Arizona, USA Title: Designing Effective Web Sites: How Academic Research Influences Practice |