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London 2026 — Program

May 26-28, 2026 · London School of Economics

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May 26 — Paper development day

10:00 10:15
Opening

Opening

by the co-founders Cristina Alaimo & Lauren Waardenburg

📍 MAR 2.04
10:15 12:00
Roundtable

Roundtable 1 — AI & Knowledge

Host: Bomi Kim

📍 MAR 2.06 / MAR 2.09

Tomoko Yokoi, Daniella Laureiro-Martinez, Federico Magni, & Stefano Brusoni — AI, Meaning-Making, and Knowledge Infrastructures

Korinzia Toniolo, Bomi Kim, & Stefan Haefliger — Reconfiguring Infrastructures of Knowing for AI Integration

Maria Esmeralda Palaganas — Generative AI and how it affects Independent Creative Work

Irene Vega Ramón, Paavo Ritala, & Letizia Mortara — The epistemic value of LLMs for knowledge creation

Roundtable

Roundtable 2 — AI & Embodiment

Host: Lauren Waardenburg

📍 MAR 2.06 / MAR 2.09

Zoe Jonassen — From Fear to Excitement (and Back?): Emotional Trajectories Around Algorithmic Tools

Stella Kyratzi & Anastasia Sergeeva — How is automation initiated in physical labor: The role of advisors in demystifying robots

Teodora Groza — Friends or Things? The Case for Treating AI Companions as Objects

Aya Rizk & Besma Glaa — Your pain is my pain — Designing AI-informed patient-centric pain rehabilitation programs

Roundtable

Roundtable 3 — Human-technology Interaction

Host: Jonny Holmström

📍 MAR 2.06 / MAR 2.09

Merle Pohl & Lauri Wessel — Proxemic Practices in Digital (Dis)connecting

Constanze Leeb — Considering the Human-Environment-AI triad: A 4E Cognition perspective on AI

Jonathan Winter, Lior Zalmanson — Do As I Say, Not As I Do: How Authority Concerns Undermine Managerial Disclosure of GenAI Use

Constanze Kerres — Doing ethics with technology: How AI technology reveals and shapes moral practice in a public service organization

Roundtable

Roundtable 4 — Datafication

Host: TBA

📍 MAR 2.06 / MAR 2.09

Troels Mønsted — Ambient scribes and epistemic work in healthcare

Hannah Tilsch & Anne-Sophie Mayer — Exploring Expert Responses to the Datafication of Expertise Through People Analytics

Helena Vallo Hult, Livia Norström, Katarina Schoultz, & Ann Svensson — Resonance and Alienation in Professional Practice

Richard Henkenjohann, Jonas Nienstedt, & Manuel Trenz — Appropriating the Worker through Personal AI Creation Models

12:00 13:30
Lunch

Lunch

13:30 14:15
Keynote

Talk by prof. Lior Zalmanson

📍 MAR 2.04
14:15 16:00
Roundtable

Roundtable 1 — AI & Value-Creation

Host: Domenico di Prisco

📍 MAR 2.06 / MAR 2.09

Robin Killewald, Thomas Haskamp, Sandro Franzoi, & Jan vom Brocke — Rethinking Generative AI: From Individual Use to Process-Level Value

Georgia Meyer — Heterotopias of Value(s): From Applied Utopistics to Applied Heterotopologies

Kira Fink & Jin Gerlach — Organizational Learning in Algorithmic Management Contexts

Franziska Röckel, Benjamin van Giffen, Jennifer Hehn, & Andreas Janson — Theorizing the Anatomy of Design Challenges as a Boundary Object for Organizing AI Innovation

Roundtable

Roundtable 2 — AI & Agency

Host: Lior Zalmanson

📍 MAR 2.06 / MAR 2.09

Lilly Pijnenburg Muller & Alexander Kempton — Loopy ecologies: Human Oversight and the Conditions of Human Agency in AI Systems

Margunn Aanestad, Alexander Kempton, Troels Mønsted, & Mari Serine Kannelønning — Trust creation in AI implementation at scale

Sofia Mogno — It Takes Two to Tango: Reframing Creative Agency in Human Collaboration with Generative AI

Alexander Flaig — The Socioalgorithmic Reality of Markets: A New Perspective on the Notion of Markets

Roundtable

Roundtable 3 — Data Governance

Host: Cristina Alaimo

📍 MAR 2.06 / MAR 2.09

Nelly Dux, Cristina Alaimo, & Harris Kyriakou — Acting without memory: the data governance of agentic AI

Albine Komysheva, Daniel Courtney, & Hannes Rothe — Transaction Platforms in Health: Creating Value from Data in Complex Ecosystems

Livia Norström, Lars Walter, & Janice Aguilar, Gustavson — Epistemic Tensions in Datafication of Social Sustainability in Supply Chains

Andrey Indukaev — The value(s) of open-source AI in practice: reporting on fieldwork on developers

Roundtable

Roundtable 4 — Data Management

Host: Jannis Kallinikos

📍 MAR 2.06 / MAR 2.09

Dario Bonaretti — Agentic Data

Antragama Ewa Abbas, Martin Brennecke, & Mark de Reuver — Problematizing Control-Based Data Sovereignty in Data Ecosystems

Philipp Kernstock, Marta Stelmaszak Rosa, Andreas Hein, & Jason Thatcher — Managing by Data Architecture

Jessica Gordillo, Antragama Ewa Abbas, & Nadia Pocher — Aligning Utility and Privacy: A Requirement Elicitation Approach to Data Anonymization

16:00 16:30
Wrap-up

Wrap-up

📍 MAR 2.04
16:30 18:00

May 27 — Main conference day 1

08:30 09:00
Break

Welcome and coffee

09:00 09:15
Opening

Opening

by the co-founders Cristina Alaimo & Lauren Waardenburg

📍 Wolfson Theatre
09:15 09:30
Opening

Opening by prof. Sarah Ashwin

📍 Wolfson Theatre
09:30 10:30
Keynote

Keynote by prof. Jonathan Wareham

Title: Scientific AI: Theorizing data for Nature, not the Internet

📍 Wolfson Theatre
10:30 11:00
Break

Coffee break

11:00 12:00
Parallel

AI and Changing Institutional Logics

📍 MAR 2.04

Paavo Ritala & Angelos Kostis — Machinification as the new organizing logics

Pooja Mohanty — Rethinking machine learning (ML) as instrument and its role in organisational learning

Astri Barbala & Kieran Conboy — Rhythms of (Synthetic) Truth: Navigating truths in AI-Assisted CSEM Investigations

Giulia Cappellaro & Angela Aristidou — Governing Medical AI Amid Regulatory Misalignment

Parallel

AI Adoption

📍 MAR 2.06

Charles Baden-Fuller & Ben Fisher — Digital First: Insights from Fashion Firms adopting AI technology — Metaverse

Ronan Doyle & Kieran Conboy — Rethinking Real-Time: Ephemerality and the Temporal Mechanisms of AI Categorisation and Control

Désirée Waibel & Vera Tauber — Infrastructures from Alliances. How Social Ties Shape the Adoption of AI in Academic Discovery Systems

Sam Quinto — Delegating the Deal: How Managers Decide AI Autonomy and Scope in Negotiations

Parallel

Theorizing the Data-AI Nexus

📍 MAR 2.07

Joona Ruissalo, Reza M. Baygi, Esko Penttinen, & Aleksandre Asatiani — Cultivating Correspondence: Aligning Data, AI, and Practice

Marta Stelmaszak & Tomislav Karačić — Making Data Work for AI: Data Quality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Marjolijn Bruggeling & Lauren Waardenburg — Working with Silos: A Study of Data-Driven Transformation in Urban Policing

Carolina Polito & Cristina Alaimo — Data infrastructures and Epistemic drift

Parallel

AI & Expertise

📍 MAR 2.09

Renata Włoch, Katarzyna Śledziewska, & Sabine Pfeiffer — Tracing Digital Transformation Through Skills

Gislene Haubrich, Frida Pemer, & Stefan Haefliger — Changing Lawyering: Emerging Insights on the Work of Business Lawyers

Pernille Berg Lassen — From Random Sampling to Risk-Based Control: A Changing Ecology of Expertise

Menghan Cui & Angela Aristidou — How data professionals navigate ambiguity and craft their careers

12:00 13:30
Lunch

Lunch

13:30 14:30
Keynote

Keynote by prof. Helen Margetts

Title: AI and Digital Era Governance

📍 Wolfson Theatre
14:30 15:30
Plenary

Plenary presentations

📍 Wolfson Theatre

Angelos Kostis & Pamela Hinds — Robots, Cows, and Idiosyncratic Data: Rethinking Work Design in Data-Intensive Settings

Mareike Mohlmann, Robert Gregory, & Ola Henfridsson — Algorithmic Stakeholder Governance on Content Platforms: A Lead Role Perspective

Natalia Levina, Emmanouil Gkeredakis, & Anne-Laure Fayard — Epistemic Stance as Lens: Navigating Predictive and Generative AI in Organizations

15:30 16:00
Break

Break

16:00 17:00
Parallel

Theorizing Large Language Models

📍 MAR 2.04

Attila Bruni & Tommaso Pelagatti — Sensors and Liturgies: How Large Language Models Reach Local Companies

Pål Furu Kamsvåg, Eric Monteiro, & Lars Bungum — Benchmark is all you need? The case of health LLMs

Irad Ben Gal — Notes on Potential LLM's Consciousness

Cristina Alaimo, Domenico di Prisco, & Lauren Waardenburg — Learning without understanding: the challenges of developing AI products on LLMs as foundation models

Parallel

Discussing Harmful AI

📍 MAR 2.06

Yasser Rahrovani, Mohammad H. Jarrahi, & Amir Karami — Legitimating AI Harm Through Dual Linguistic Processes

Weronika Łebkowska, Katarzyna Śledziewska, & Renata Włoch — AI, Work, and the Question of Control

Alvaro Arenas, Marco Smacchia, & Stefano Za — AI Bias Management as a Dynamic Capability

Christine Abdalla Mikhaeil — Reshaping the Learning–Credibility Tension: How Generative AI Amplifies Threats and Spurs Sociotechnical Tactics in Consulting

Parallel

AI & Knowledge

📍 MAR 2.07

Hien Dao, Dhruba Borah, & Silvia Massini — How Artificial Intelligence affords and constraints knowledge creation in complex innovation: Insights from drug discovery

Aleksi Aaltonen, Ziyi Zhao, Kanghyun Cho, & Detmar Straub — Decoding Coding Advice: How Knowledge Workers Create and Evaluate Solutions Coming from Generative Artificial Intelligence

Rasmus Ulfsnes, Marius Mikalsen, & Astri Barbala — Who can answer? — Unpacking the practices of epistemic agency of Generative AI and machine learning in productive inquiries

Marilyn Poon & Sabrina Schneider — When Knowledge Becomes More – Not Less – Important: A Longitudinal Study of Students' Evolving Sensemaking of Generative AI in Education

Parallel

AI & Policy

📍 MAR 2.09

Wenjian Wang & Simone Vannuccini — Lobbying Strategy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Two-Stage Analysis

Mikkel Flyverbom — Trojan Horses of Tech

Francesco Gualdi & Vincent Ong — How algorithms and data drift and convert emergency policies: an institutional theory perspective

Andrea Lagna, Mayur Joshi, Aseem Pahuja, & Markos Zachariadis — A Risk Work Framework for Regulating AI-Enabled Fintech Innovations

17:00 20:00

May 28 — Main conference day 2

Optional: Tour of LSE’s archives

08:30 09:00
Break

Walk-in and coffee

09:00 09:30
Plenary

Presentation of the EJIS Editorial

"Theorizing Data and Artificial Intelligence" + Launch of Special Issue Call for Papers "Theorizing the Data-AI Nexus"

📍 Wolfson Theatre
09:30 10:30
Panel

Panel: Comparative Ethnography

Moderated by: Tomislav Karačić, Anne Sophie Mayer and Elmira van den Broek

📍 Wolfson Theatre

Panel participants: Kieran Conboy, Natalia Levina, Lauren Waardenburg, and Lior Zalmanson

10:30 11:00
Break

Break

11:00 12:00
Parallel

AI & Creativity

📍 MAR 2.04

Tomoko Yokoi, Daniella Laureiro-Martinez, Federico Magni, & Stefano Brusoni — Mind the Gap: GenAi in Creative Problem-Solving

Jafar Sabbah, Aneesh Banerjee, Feng Li, & Simone Ferriani — From Self-Efficacy to Co-Efficacy: Redefining Creative Work Performance in the Age of Generative AI

Lior Zalmanson, Shani Evenstein, & Stella Pachidi — From Guardrails to Ecosystem Stewardship: Governing the Knowledge Commons in the Age of Generative AI

Alentina Vardanyan & Lauren Waardenburg — A Typology of Human-AI Creative Interaction

Parallel

Theorizing Data Quality

📍 MAR 2.06

Agnieszka Patecka, Elena Parmiggiani, & Lauri Wessel — Working Towards Data Quality in Data Repurposing

Frederik Metzger — Software Development Activities as Vertical and Horizontal Transformations in Data Value Creation

Julia Christis, Lukas Falcke, & Philipp Tuertscher — Commoning complexity for actionable data

Hyppolyt Lefebvre, Nick Van Der Meulen, Christine Legner, & Barbara Wixom — From Acceptable Data to Acceptable Data Use: Sensemaking and Sensegiving in AI Governance

Parallel

The Economics and Markets of AI

📍 MAR 2.07

Simone Vannuccini, Ekaterina Prytkova, & Jingyan Wu — The Artificial Intelligence shakeout to come

Krithika Randhawa — Complementarity without Markets: Orchestrating Industrial Data Ecosystems under Uncertainty

Kalina Staykova & Neha Gupta — How Data-Driven Start-Ups Overcome External Data Sourcing Challenges

Johann Kranz & Younjin Yoo — How does AI change social exchanges? From Symmetrical to Liminal Reciprocity

Parallel

Digital Humanism

📍 MAR 2.09

Rachele Contiero, Alessandra Lazazzara, Vera Lomazzi, & Silva Gilardi — Datafying stress at work: a systematic review and meta-analysis of wearables in organizational contexts

Hila Chalutz-Ben Gal & Yuval Cohen — Theorizing the Human-centered and AI Skills Ecosystems

Jonny Holmström & Samahir Elzaki — The Humanness Imperative in the Age of Generative AI

Kevin Lee — Soul: Humanness as Occupational Distinctiveness in an Age of Artificial Intelligence

12:00 13:00
Lunch

Lunch

13:00 14:00
Keynote

Keynote by prof. Eric Monteiro

Title: Data & AI: A non-essentialist account

📍 Wolfson Theatre
14:00 14:15
Break

Short break and move to other rooms

14:15 15:15
Parallel

Questioning Data Sharing

📍 MAR 2.04

Iryna Susha, Sofie de Wilde, & Jaime Bernal — Divergent Logics of Business-to-Government Data Sharing

Stefanie Ulschmid & Thomas Kude — Governing Inter-Organizational Data Sharing Practices: An Empirical Investigation of the Establishment of a Municipal Data Platform in Germany

Andrey Elizondo, Miguel Bernabeu, Baljean Dhillon, & Rhys Roberts — AI as Infrastructural Opening: A Qualitative Study of Sociotechnical Service Configuration for the Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease through Retinal Analysis

Jingyang Wang & Christine Legner — When Enterprise Data Travels: Theorizing AI-Ready Data

Parallel

AI Ethics

📍 MAR 2.06

Julian Wohlschlegel, Ekaterina Jussupow, & Janek Dittrich — Ethical Tensions in Organizational (Semi) Automation

Ksenia Mischa Rundin — Teaching machines to see like the state: Theorizing state media as AI infrastructure

Saban Ibrahim Göksal & Anastasija Nikiforova — Multi-stakeholder AI Governance: Conceptualizing Stakeholders-in-the-loop Mechanism

Olga Kokshagina, Aljona Zorina, & Djalel Benbouzid — Boundary spanning work for interorganizational ethical trustworthy AI development

Parallel

Theorizing AI Development

📍 MAR 2.07

Domenico di Prisco & Lauren Waardenburg — Overcoming commitment issues: How organizations cope with uncertainty in AI project management

Babu Veeresh, Kalle Lyytinen, Srikanth Paruchuri, & Kieran Conboy — Unpacking the evolution of bots in open source communities: An illustrative case study

Lara Abdel Halim — Doing, Knowing, or Illusion with LLMs? An Ethnographic Study of Software Engineers' Practices in a Leading European Telecom Company

Abhay Bhargava & Nicolas Prat — Designing An Adaptive, Predisposition-Aware Conversational AI System for Upfront Personalization in the User Acquisition Phase

Parallel

Data & (in)visibility

📍 MAR 2.09

Dragana Paparova, Daniel Stedjan Svendstrud, & Carsten Sørensen — Drowning in Data, Starving for Context: Building Data Foundations for AI Learning

Giovanna Culot, Christian Hendriksen, & Guido Nassimbeni — Data objects and digital supply chain visibility: Sociomateriality in data sharing and supplier surveillance

Bayan Khosravi & Roohollah Honarvar — Social-Constructed view of AI-related Moral Failure: Social Mechanisms of Surveillance, Labelling and Revelation

Kenneth Richter & Jan Maschewski — Lost in Transition: Uncovering the Invisible Data Shifts Across the Fragmented Patient Journey

15:30 16:00
Wrap-up

Wrap-up

📍 MAR 2.04
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