Shirley Gregor AO Lecture: Digitalisation for A Better Tomorrow

About the Lecture

At this year’s Shirley Gregor AO public lecture, Suprateek (Supra) will discuss digitalisation and its impacts using the example of digital classrooms in schools. He will highlight the utopian and dystopian narratives on digitalisation and argue that both narratives are incomplete, polarising, and not particularly helpful.

Supra will assert that IS scholars may be in a unique position to offer a balanced perspective and positively influence digitalisation's role in organisations and society. He will conclude by offering some implications for research and practice.

About Professor Emerita Shirley Gregor AO

Shirley is a Professor Emerita at ANU. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction and the philosophy of science and technology.

Professor Gregor was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2005 for services to education and agribusiness. She was awarded a DESRIST Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 for contributions to design science research in information systems and technology.

She has been named in a Stanford University study as being in the top two per cent of scientists worldwide for her career, and also for 2020 and 2021 in terms of the impact of her research.

About the presenter

Suprateek Sarker

Supra is Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Commerce Professor at the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia. He serves on the university-level Provost’s Promotion and Tenure Committee. Supra’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation in the United States of America. He has served as the President of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), and he is a Fellow of the AIS. Suprateek has been awarded honorary doctorates from two reputed European universities. He holds a Visiting Professorship at the London School of Economics and an Honorary Professorship at the University of Sydney. He is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of Information Systems Research (ISR) and has previously served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the AIS (JAIS).