Dear friends,

Yesterday we concluded the 35th Bled eConference.

Since 1988 when professor Gričar started the EDI conference, the conference has never been cancelled and was only postponed once. This year was the first time back in Bled after two years online and our first time hosting a hybrid conference.

We had eight presenters on Sunday’s Doctoral Consortium. During the opening, we listened to two excellent keynote presentations. The first by Stefaan G. Verhulst, “If you build it, will they come?” and the second by Dan Podjed, “Staying human in the time of digital transformation”. The authors presented 39 research papers and five research in progress papers. Four groups of students from Slovenia, Croatia and the Netherlands competed in the Students Bazaar. We hosted two panels related to digital health, a workshop on the state of SMEs’ digitalisation in recent years and a workshop on business informatics programme reengineering.

During the next few days, we will upload photos and share highlights from the conference on the website and social media.

We thank you for your patience, participation, questions and discussions. Most of all, we thank you for the outpour of positive feedback that we are still receiving. We were looking forward to meeting friends we didn’t see in three years and meeting members of our community that joined us in the past few years. We feel humbled and blessed. We are already looking forward to next year.

Your Bled eConference team

35th Bled eConference – Digital Restructuring and Human (Re)action: June 26 – 29, 2022, Bled, Slovenia, Conference Proceedings are published and available online in open access here:

https://press.um.si/index.php/ump/catalog/book/691

The second panel related to digital health at the 35th Bled Conference is entitled Responsible Health Data Analytics.

Juergen Seitz (Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Germany), Laurie Hawkins (AITIA Global, Estonia and Australia), Nilmini Wickramasinghe (Swinburne University of Technology and Epworth HealthCare, Australia), Doug Vogel (Harbin Institute of Technology, China) and Luuk Simons (Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science, The Netherlands) will be discussing how the use of Global Data Analytics boosted by Covid-19 transformed the healthcare sector.

The panel will be organised as a hybrid event. You are welcome to join us either in Bled or remotely!

More information about the panel: 35th-Bled-eConference-Panel Health 2

The conference program is now available online:

And also in .pdf version: https://bledconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/35th-Bled-eConference-Programme.pdf

On Tuesday morning our colleagues are preparing the first out of the two digital health-themed panels at this year’s conference.

Luuk Simons and Juergen Seitz will be joined by Doug Vogel and Nilmini Wickramasinghe in the debate regarding self-management support in e-health.

You are welcome to join us either live in the conference hall or online!

More information about the panel: 35th-Bled-eConference-Panel Health

We are excited to announce a workshop on the state of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) digitalization in recent years. On Monday afternoon, Marjeta Marolt from the University of Maribor, Slovenia and Andrea Kő from the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary will moderate a discussion on the lessons researchers from Slovenia and Hungary learnt from the digital transformation of SMEs.

SMEs are important contributors to the world’s economy. Digitalization is integral to the growth and resilience of enterprises, both large and small. However, despite the benefits and opportunities digital technologies bring, and the significant increase in uptake in recent years, many SMEs continue to lag behind in digital adoption compared to larger enterprises.

In this workshop, the invited speakers will provide an update on the current state of SMEs’ digitalization and discuss how to strengthen the resilience of SMEs and support their further growth, through the adoption of new technologies.

More about the workshop: 35th-Bled-eConference-SMEs workshop

During the conference, the BIPER project team will present the results of the two-year BIPER (Business Informatics Programme Reengineering) project and lessons learned from pilot implementations at several universities and, finally, the “Smart City Enterprise Architectures Virtual Reality Summer School”.

The BIPER project aims to foster a collaborative partnership to develop a blended learning compatible business information systems curriculum based on shared values, eLearning experiences, and sound pedagogical principles. The challenge involves not only teaching methods and materials but also the teachers and trainers themselves. The academic field of Business Information Systems (BIS) is a complex one that combines business and organizational issues with applied information technology issues. Teaching such a multidisciplinary field, which requires not only knowledge of theoretical concepts and technical skills to use tools, but also a problem-oriented mindset and related problem-solving skills is a challenge in itself.

More about the workshop: BIPER WORKSHOP