The 25th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2026) continues the tradition of annual events focused on opening perspectives and stimulating new roadmaps for Business Informatics, Business Information Systems and Information Systems Engineering, considering both fundamental research and key application areas. BIR 2026 will provide a rich environment for exchanging research findings and ideas among scientists, practitioners, and doctoral students.

The main theme of the BIR 2026 conference, titled «Hybrid Intelligence in Business«, explores how human expertise and creativity can be complemented with intelligent solutions from the realm of Informatics and AI to increase organisational capabilities. This theme highlights the necessity of designing and implementing systems that enable effective collaboration between humans and machines, leveraging people’s creativity, contextual understanding, and ethical judgment alongside AI’s speed, scale, and pattern recognition capabilities. The conference welcomes (among other topics) contributions that investigate business process optimizations, human-computer interaction, advanced AI systems, or their convergence to understand how Hybrid Intelligence can drive superior decision-making, foster innovation, and lead to more effective, ethical, and competitive business models. It will explore how business informatics can be used to build trustworthy and robust socio-technical systems that successfully integrate intelligent capabilities into the core of the business environment.

Submission Guidelines

BIR 2026 welcomes original, unpublished contributions that are not simultaneously submitted elsewhere. As in the tradition of the BIR conference, all accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNBIP series. The following paper categories are welcome:

Research papers describing original research contributions (theoretical, methodological, or conceptual). 

Exploratory papers introducing new ideas and directions for research by analyzing the current state of the art, identifying the gaps that need to be addressed, and introducing an approach as a means to bridge them. 

Practice papers discussing problems or challenges that organizations (private or public) face, relate them to the wider domain and provide useful insights to practitioners from similar organizations and contexts.

The page limit for all papers is 14 pages (not counting the references). General author instructions are available here.

Authors should consult Springer’s authors‘ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form (this will be made available to authors of accepted papers). The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

Inclusion in the proceedings volume is conditioned by having at least one author registration per paper, with a prospect of paper being presented during the conference. 

Initial submissions should be made in PDF format using the EasyChair submission page.

BIR proceedings are indexed in Scopus, WoS (optionally), and DBLP. Extended versions of the best full papers will be invited to be published in a Special Issue in the Neuro-Symbolic AI Journal.

List of Topics

• Architectures and Systems for Hybrid Intelligence (HI): This track focuses on the foundational technologies and engineering principles for building advanced, human-centered systems.
• Ethical, Responsible, and Accountable AI and IS: This track addresses the critical issues of fairness, transparency, and accountability in the design and deployment of intelligent systems.
• AI-supported data and knowledge management: This track examines the strategic management of data and knowledge, and the organizational and workforce shifts driven by HI adoption.
• Alignment, Interoperability, and Openness: This track focuses on connecting different components – systems, business strategy, and knowledge – to achieve holistic value.
• Smart Systems and Application Areas: This track covers specific emerging system types and domains where Business Informatics research can demonstrate impactful contributions.

Committees

Program Committee

• Program Chairs: Barbara Re – University of Camerino, Italy; Hans Friedrich Witschel – FHNW, Switzerland
• Mārīte Kirikova – Riga Technical University, Latvia
• Rebecca Deneckere – Center de Recherche en Informatique, France
• Said Asar – Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, France
• Gundars Alksnis – Riga Technical University, Latvia
• Peter Bellström – Karlstad University, Sweden
• Tomáš Bruckner – Prague University of Economics and Business, Czechia
• Robert Andrei Buchmann, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, Romania
• Ana-Maria Ghiran – Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, Romania
• Mubashar Iqbal – University of Tartu, Estonia
• Amin Jalali – Stockholm University, Sweden
• Björn Johansson – Linköping University, Sweden
• Shahrzad Khayatbashi – Linköping University, Sweden
• Janne J. Korhonen – Aalto University, Finland
• Jānis Grabis – Riga Technical University, Latvia
• Michael De Luc – Mälardalen University, Sweden
• Moonkun Lee – Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea
• Francisco J. Lopez-Pellicer – University of Zaragoza, Spain
• Ginta Majore – EcoIGM SIA, Latvia
• Andreas Martin – FHNW, Switzerland
• Andrea Morichetta – University of Camerino, Italy
• Laila Niedrīte – University of Latvie, Latvia
• Jyrki Nummenmaa – Tampere University, Finland
• Jacob Nørbjerg – Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
• Victoria Paulsson – Linköping University, Sweden
• Małgorzata Pańkowska – University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
• Jens Myrup Pedersen – Aalborg University, Denmark
• Pierluigi Plebani – Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Paul Pocatilu – Bucarest University of Economic Studies, Romania
• Andrea Polini – University of Camerino, Italy
• Henderik A. Proper – TU Wien, Austria
• Václav Řepa – Prague University of Economics and Business, Czechia
• Ben Roelens – Open University, The Netherlands
• Christian Sacarea – Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, Romania
• Kurt Sandkuhl – The University of Rostock, Germany
• Hanlie Smuts – University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
• Janis Stirna – Stockholm University, Sweden
• Frantisek Sudzina – Aalborg University, Denmark
• Torben Tambo – Aarhus University, Denmark
• Pedro Valderas – Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
• Gianluigi Viscusi – Linköping University, Sweden
• Hans Weigand – Tilburg University, the Netherlands
• Anna Wingkvist – Linnaeus University, Sweden
• Jelena Zdravkovic – Stockholm University, Sweden
• Alfred Zimmermann – Reutlingen University, Germany
• Rūta Pirta – Riga Technical University, Latvia
• Martin Henkel – Stockholm University, Sweden
• Tarmo Robal – Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Diana Kalibatiene – Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
• Jānis Grundspeņkis – Riga Technical University, Latvia

Organizing committee

• General Chair: Emanuele Laurenzi – FHNW, Switzerland
• Workshop Chiars: Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu, Estonia; Fabrizio Fornari, University of Camerino, Italy
• Doctoral Consortium Chairs: Hanlie Smuts, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Robert Andrei Buchmann, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, Romania
• Industry Chair: Mirco Stoffel, Axians, Switzerland
• Publicity Chairs: Devid Montecchiari, FHNW, Switzerland; Arianna Fedeli, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy; Jessica Piccioni, University of Camerino, Italy
• Web Chair: Piermichele Rosati, FHNW, Switzerland

Venue

BIR 2026 is hosted by the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) in Olten. The conference will take place at the modern Olten campus, located within a short walking distance from the city center and the main train station. A variety of hotels and restaurants are available in close proximity to the venue. Olten is a major railway hub in Switzerland, with direct train connections to Zürich, Basel, and Bern, each reachable in less than one hour. The city is also well connected by regional trains and buses. Ticket information for public transportation can be found at: www.sbb.ch/en

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to hansfriedrich.witschel@fhnw.ch