Overview

After the first successful InCIS conference at IIM Calcutta, the second edition of conference is going to be hosted by IIM Ahmedabad. Organized in collaboration with the AIS India Chapter (INAIS) and the Centre for Digital Transformation at IIM Ahmedabad, InCIS 2026 promises to further strengthen dialogue and scholarship around Information Systems in the Indian context.

The Association for Information Systems (AIS) is the leading global organization for promoting research, education, and practice in Information Systems (IS). With a vibrant community of members from over 100 countries, AIS advances the frontiers of IS through conferences, scholarly journals, special interest groups, and global academic collaboration.

The India Chapter of AIS (INAIS), established in 2016, supports a growing and dynamic community of IS researchers and practitioners across the country. INAIS has been recognized internationally, having received the Best AIS Chapter Award for five consecutive years since 2019. The chapter has contributed actively to the global IS discourse and continues to shape local and international conversations through its events, initiatives, and thought leadership.

In an era of accelerating digital transformation, Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) emerged as a foundational layer enabling inclusive and equitable access to digital services. Initiatives such as UPI, PAHAL, DIGIPIN, Aadhaar, ONDC, and CoWIN in India illustrate the transformative potential of DPI in fostering social equity, economic opportunity, and responsive governance. As governments and societies across the world grapple with questions of data sovereignty, digital rights, and sustainable development, DPI stands as a critical domain at the intersection of society, technology, and policy.

However, as DPI scales, it also raises complex challenges related to design and governance towards long-term sustainability, implications of digital sovereignty in an interconnected world, embeddedness of inclusiveness, accountability, transparency, and trust in DPI systems, and the role of IS research in shaping deployment, architecture and impact of DPI. 

InCIS 2026 seeks to bring together various stakeholders to explore the design, deployment, governance, and impact of Digital Public Infrastructure and, more broadly, Information Systems. The conference will serve as a forum to:

• Theorize and empirically investigate DPI from an IS perspective
• Explore socio-technical IS that balance innovation, inclusion, and sovereignty
• Analyze implications of DPI for platform ecosystems, data governance, and digital identities
• Reflect on the potential of IS to bridge digital divides and foster sustainable development
• Examine global south perspectives and contributions to DPI and IS

We invite scholars, policy researchers, developers, practitioners, community leaders, doctoral students and early-career researchers to contribute their research, case studies, and innovative practices that build the intellectual and practical foundations for the next generation of public digital systems.

Join us at InCIS 2026 as we explore how Information Systems can drive the development of sustainable, inclusive, and sovereign digital futures through thoughtful, responsible, and context-aware Digital Public Infrastructure.

Conference Committee:

Conference Chair

Senior Advisory Group

Program Co-Chairs