Join the inaugural class of AIS Entrepreneurial Innovation Fellows as they present their leading-edge research findings and invaluable insights from the year's entrepreneurial ventures.

Short presentations will be followed by conversations with the authors to allow you to dive deeper into their research, ask questions, and exchange ideas.

• Presentations: 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Eastern / 1pm UTC (Find your local time)
• Discussion: 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. 

Details of the 2023-2024 application process will also be shared during this session!

Register to attend - A Zoom link will be shared upon registration.

2023 AIS Entrepreneurship Innovation Fellowship Cohort

Ira Anjali Anwar, University of Michigan, United States
Ira Anjali Anwar is a second year PhD student at the School of Information, University of Michigan. Her research unpacks the experiences of women in the service economy---their engagement with on demand gig platforms to access opportunities for micro-entrepreneurship, and the challenges they encounter in navigating the digital ecosystem in India.

Bright Frimpong, Now Assistant Professor at Washington and Lee University, United States
Bright Frimpong entered the program as a fourth year PhD candidate in Information Systems at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Bright’s research goal is to uncover the cultural value conflicts that impede the growth of crowdfunding in developing regions and suggest how indigenous platform administrators can resolve these conflicts.

Pascal Hamm, EBS University, Germany
Pascal Hamm is a second year PhD student in Information Systems at EBS University in Germany with a focus on the adoption of AI systems in organizations. Hamm is currently focusing on the elaboration of success factors that lead to AI adoption in organizations, the impact of XAI on perceptual variables and performance, and the factors for organizational readiness for AI.

Lan Li, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
Lan Li is a third year PhD student in Information and Library Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Lan is currently investigating the ways in which freelancing entrepreneurs manage, cope, and negotiate the uncertainties and ambiguities that undergird their online freelancing experience.

Ferdinand Mittermeier, University of Bamberg, Germany
Ferdinand Mittermeier is a third-year PhD student in International Information Systems Management at the University of Bamberg in Germany. Mittermeier hopes to achieve a long-term goal of unraveling the secrets of new venture creation in the digital age.

Tanguy Tresor Sindihebura, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Tanguy Tresor Sindihebura is a second year PhD student in Information Systems at University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Sindihebura is currently pursuing research on goal setting and crowdfunding.

Hannah Stein, Saarland University, Germany
Hannah Stein is a second year PhD student in Information and Service Systems at Saarland University and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Stein is researching how subjective value assessments, e.g., of company data or of personal data in social media, can be transformed into objective and comprehensible pricing methods that could be applied in data markets and data ecosystems.