Welcome to the 2027 AIS New Scholars Consortium, a unique professional development opportunity designed to support early-career AIS faculty and doctoral students as they build their research, teaching, and professional networks.
Beginning a faculty career brings both exciting opportunities and new challenges. The Consortium provides a dedicated environment for new AIS faculty to connect with scholars who share similar teaching and research interests, exchange ideas about teaching AIS and emerging technologies, a explore research opportunities, and develop relationships within the AIS community.
Participants will also have opportunities to network with colleagues who teach similar courses, engage with vendors and professionals working with technologies used in our classrooms and research, and learn from experienced AIS faculty and thought leaders in the profession.
Our goal is simple: create a Consortium where curiosity leads to conversation, conversation leads to collaboration, and new scholars leave with relationships and ideas that continue well beyond the meeting.
Come curious. Bring your ideas. Leave with new connections, new perspectives, and new possibilities for your research and teaching.
The AIS New Scholars Consortium is designed for first-, second-, and third-year AIS assistant professors and doctoral students who are members of the American Accounting Association (AAA) and either the Accounting Information Systems (AIS) Section or Strategic and Emerging Technologies (SET) Section.
Priority consideration will be given to first-year tenure-track AIS assistant professors. Remaining spaces will be offered to eligible second- and third-year AIS assistant professors and doctoral students, subject to availability.
If you have not yet joined the AAA and the AIS or SET Section, please complete your membership before applying:
AAA Membership: https://my.aaahq.org/Membership#membershipTiers
You will need your AAA Member Number to complete the Consortium application.
What You Can Expect
- Connect with other early-career faculty who teach AIS, technology, analytics, and related courses.
- Build relationships with colleagues who are navigating similar teaching, research, and tenure-track experiences.
- Network with vendors and professionals whose technologies and perspectives can inform teaching and research.
- Exchange ideas for incorporating technology into the classroom.
- Learn from established AIS scholars and thought leaders in the profession.
- Explore emerging research topics and develop potential research questions.
- Identify opportunities for research, teaching, and professional collaboration.
- Build a professional network within the AIS community that can continue throughout your career.
Preliminary Program
Thursday, February 4, 2027
| Time |
Session |
| 8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. |
Breakfast |
| 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. |
Teaching AIS and Technology |
| 10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. |
Break and Networking |
| 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. |
Data Center Tour |
| 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch and Networking |
| 1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Virtual Panel with Thought Leaders in the Profession |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
Panel Debrief and Discussion of Research Questions |
| 3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
Break and Networking |
| 3:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. |
Faculty Research Presentations on Exciting and Emerging Topics |
| 4:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. |
Closing, Q&A, and Wrap-Up |
Presenters: [2027 Presenters to Be Announced]
Application Information
Space is limited, and participation is by application.
Applicants must be members of the AAA and either the AIS or SET Section before submitting an application. Your AAA Member Number is required to complete the application.
Because the Consortium is particularly focused on supporting scholars as they begin their academic careers, first-year tenure-track AIS assistant professors will receive priority consideration. Remaining spaces will be offered to eligible second- and third-year assistant professors and doctoral students.
Doctoral students accepted to the Consortium may also attend the 2027 Joint Midyear Meeting.
Application Deadline: Monday, October 26, 2026
Following the application deadline, the Consortium Co-Chairs will review applications and notify selected participants by November 6, 2026.
Questions about the Consortium may be directed in one email to both Consortium Co-Chairs:
Xu (Joyce) Cheng
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
joyce.cheng@unlv.edu
Soohyun Cho
Rutgers University
scho@business.rutgers.edu
Registration and Hotel Information
There is no fee to attend the New Scholars Consortium. The AIS Section is pleased to provide financial support for accepted doctoral student participants.
- Up to 20 accepted doctoral students will have eligible meeting registration fees waived, including registration for the 2027 Midyear Meeting.
- The AIS Section will also provide eligible accepted doctoral students with reimbursement for one night of lodging at the conference hotel, up to the approved conference rate, plus applicable taxes and fees. Hotel accommodations for eligible doctoral students will be reimbursed after the meeting, provided that the student attends the full New Scholars Consortium and Midyear Meeting.
- If a hotel room is shared, all individuals staying in the room must be listed on the hotel folio. Each eligible doctoral student sharing a room may receive reimbursement for one night, up to the approved conference rate plus applicable taxes and fees, in accordance with the reimbursement requirements. Thus, two eligible doctoral students sharing a room may collectively receive reimbursement for up to two nights.
Faculty participants are responsible for their hotel accommodations.
Hotel Reservation Deadline: TBD
All participants should make their hotel reservations directly with the conference hotel and will need to provide a credit card to secure their reservation. Participants are encouraged to make hotel reservations early. The conference room block may sell out before the reservation deadline, and additional rooms cannot be guaranteed once the block is full.
Build Your AIS Community
The New Scholars Consortium is more than a day of sessions. It is an opportunity to begin building the community that can support you throughout your academic career.
Meet colleagues who teach what you teach. Connect with scholars who research questions that interest you. Engage with vendors and professionals working with the technologies shaping our classrooms and profession. Exchange ideas with faculty who understand the opportunities and challenges of teaching and researching AIS.
Most importantly, build relationships with people you can continue to call on for ideas, collaboration, resources, and support long after the Consortium ends.
We invite you to apply and join us for the 2027 AIS New Scholars Consortium.
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