Call for Submissions

Conference Information

• Date: Saturday, October 24, 2026
• Location: Babson College, Wellesley, MA (Herring Family Entrepreneurial Leadership Village, HELV)
• Theme: Minds and Machines: Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI
• Website: https://communities.aisnet.org/newenglandusachapter/events/neais26
• CFP document: download

The New England Chapter of the Association for Information Systems (NEAIS) is excited to invite submissions for its annual conference in 2026, to be held at Babson College, Wellesley, MA. In the past, this conference has attracted wide participation from AIS members both in the Northeastern region of the United States and international and domestic scholars from other regions. Ph.D. students and junior faculty members are particularly welcome to join and share their research.

Important Dates

Conference Format and Registration

The NEAIS 2026 conference format will be in-person only. Babson College is in Wellesley, MA, at the Wellesley/Needham border, on a residential campus about 14 miles west of Boston. The campus is easily accessible from both the Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90) and Route 128 (Interstate 95). There is plenty of free parking on campus, and the conference building is a short walk from most parking. The conference will be held in the Herring Family Entrepreneurial Leadership Village (HELV). See campus map here.

Registration is required to attend, but there is no conference fee. The registration link will be available on the conference website later. All conference participants must join the NEAIS chapter before or at the beginning of the conference. The NEAIS membership fee is $10 annually for AIS members but is waived for doctoral students and Retired/Emeritus faculty. Instructions for NEAIS membership payment can be found at: https://communities.aisnet.org/newenglandusachapter/membershipdue

Submissions

Please submit your paper via the EasyChair system using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=neais2026

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another conference or journal. Submissions may be in the form of one of the following: completed research papers, research-in-progress papers, or proposals for panel discussions.

Abstracts of accepted papers will appear in the electronic conference proceedings, available from AIS eLibrary. The authors retain the copyright to their work. At least one author must register for and present at the conference. High-quality submissions will be considered for two Best Paper awards, sharing $1,000 in total.

Submission Template

Submissions should be in MS Word or PDF format. Please use this submission template: template.

Submission Types

• Completed Research: completed research papers should be no more than 2,500 words, including all materials and sections such as figures, tables, and references.
• Research-in-Progress: research-in-progress proposals (extended abstracts) or a summary of tentative results of the study to date, 500-1,000 words.

Potential Topics

While we encourage paper submissions related to our conference theme, authors are invited to submit their completed research, research-in-progress, and panel proposals in any of the following areas (but not limited to):

Other IS/IT topics of interest to the discipline are also welcome.

We look forward to receiving submissions to NEAIS 2026 and meeting you at Babson in October!

Contact

Please email all questions about submissions to neaisconf26@gmail.com and cc the program committee co-chairs Dr. Nada Hashmi (nhashmi@babson.edu) and Dr. Ruben Mancha (rmancha@babson.edu).

More Information

For further details, please visit the conference website: https://communities.aisnet.org/newenglandusachapter/events/neais26