While very last minute we would like to invite anyone interested in Interfaces, APIs, the API Economy and boundary resources role in Digital Innovations Ecosystems to come to a relaxed round-table event from 2pm-4pm on Saturday 14th December at the ICIS conference 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand. https://icis2024.aisconferences.org/

Keynote Speaker: Dr Ben Eaton – “From Interfaces to Innovation Ecosystems: Redefining Boundaries Through APIs“

Ben Eaton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Digitalization at Copenhagen Business School and adjunct Associate Professor at Høyskolen Kristiania, Oslo. Ben received the ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award for his PhD thesis in Information Systems, which he completed at the LSE. His research interests broadly concern innovation on and within digital platforms and digital infrastructures taking into account the dynamics between architecture, governance and installed base. His work has been published in journals including MIS Quarterly, the Journal of Information Technology, Information Systems Journal, the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Government Information Quarterly, and MIS Quarterly Executive.

Workshop Aims:

The aim will be to build a community of interest and share ideas for research and foster potential collaborations. All welcome, however seats are limited so registration would be on a first come first serve basis. Please note that the workshop is free to attend and is supported by the IRIS project (Interface Reasoning for Interactive Systems) on the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council -EPSRC grant (EP/R006865/1). We will feed back some of the key research from this project. 

The 2-hour workshop would begin with a keynote speech with time for Q&A, followed by two facilitated round table discussions on digital ecosystems and interfacing. 

Participation and Sharing of early stage research is absolutely welcome! If you have any ideas and would want to do something within the 2hrs, do let us know!

Key literature includes –

Gupta, A., Panagiotopoulos, P., & Bowen, F. (2023). Developing capabilities in smart city ecosystems: A multi-level approach. Organization Studies, 44(10), 1703-1724.

Pujadas, R., Valderrama, E., & Venters, W. (2024). The value and structuring role of web APIs in digital innovation ecosystems: The case of the online travel ecosystem. Research Policy, 53(2), 104931.

Wang, P. (2021). Connecting the parts with the whole: Toward an information ecology theory of digital innovation ecosystems. MIS quarterly, 45(1).

If you want to participate/ present your research/attend/ help with organisation of workshop, please feel free to contact Anushri Gupta (a.gupta140@lse.ac.uk) or Will Venters (w.venters@lse.ac.uk).

Looking forward to seeing you and engaging with the community at ICIS soon! 🙂