Panels
Panels are expected to explore innovative ways of exploiting the latest eTechnologies and development approaches, and to suggest new research agendas. Duration of all conference’s program components is 90 minutes. A special goal of the panels sessions is to provide a big picture of the “e” domain by highlighting current issues and expected future impacts of eTechnologies in regional, or global economies. Demonstrations of successful collaboration between business, government, and academia in cross-border, cross-industry, and/or cross-disciplinary environments are particularly welcome.
Panelists participants are expected to register for the conference.
The panel proposal (1 page) should indicate panel title, panel chair and the panelists (name, position, affiliation, country, e-mail address, web site address), the topic and issues to be discussed.
BUSINESS PANELS CHAIR
Jože Gričar, Professor and Director, eCenter, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Slovenia
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 Peer Reviewed |
Workshops
Workshops are expected to demonstrate successful use (via prototypes, Living Labs, etc.) of the latest eTechnologies showing innovative opportunities, and to lay out the directions for further research. Duration of workshop is 90 minutes.
Workshop participants are expected to register for the conference.
Workshop proposal (1 page) should indicate workshop title, workshop chair (name, position, affiliation, country, e-mail address, web site address), the topic and issues to be discussed.
BUSINESS PANELS CHAIR
Jože Gričar, Professor and Director, eCenter, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Slovenia
| Open Submissions |
Peer Reviewed |
Professor Rene W. Wagenaar e-Prototype Bazaar
Phd-students, Master students and distinctive students (like honors students) are invited to submit proposals for innovative eBusiness ideas (i.e. business models, frameworks) and software prototypes for the Professor Rene W. Wagenaar ePrototype Bazaar, a regular session that is part of the 23rd Bled eConference. Accepted proposals are presented in poster format during the conference, as well as by oral presentation. The oral presentation is scheduled in a dedicated session, where students will present their eBusiness models and prototypes. They discuss their ideas with conference participants who will also jury and score the proposals. Preference will be given to prototypes proposing innovative or revolutionary eBusiness solutions, and new ways to implement eBusiness, as well as new ideas for business in Cyberspace.
Professors: The bazaar is intended for distinctive, MSc as well as PhD students. The bazaar is not an outlet for what might otherwise be a full conference paper.
Students: Please submit a short (1,000 words) proposal before March 26, 2010 describing your e-business idea or prototype. Also briefly describe what you want to present as a poster and by oral presentation in an email (with an optional URL for further information) to the ePrototype Bazaar co-chairs. Descriptions will be used to decide which ideas/models and/or prototypes to invite.
Submissions must be supported by students’ professor/supervisor. Please attach a statement of support to your application. Conference fee for prototype presenters will be waived. The presenter is expected to cover her/his travel costs to the conference as well as the accommodation. The best paper of Msc and of PhD students will be rewarded with the Rene Wagenaar Award for Msc and PhD students.
Important dates:
March 26, 2010 – Submission of proposal
April 9, 2010 – Notification of acceptance
June 4, 2010 – Submission of poster
ePROTOTYPE BAZAAR CO-CHAIRS:
Harry Bouwman, Associate Professor, Delft University of Techology, The Netherlands & IAMSR, Åbo Akademi, Finland. 
Johan Versendaal, Assistant Professor, Utrecht University, The Netherlands & Professor, University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Ronald Batenburg, Program Manager, NIVEL Institute for Health Services Research, The Netherlands & Associate Professor, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
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The Bled eConference Committee is expressing appreciation of Rene's contribution in the past years. Among others, he has brought a group of three students to Bled in 1992 for the first time. After the conference, they have taken one of the University of Maribor students to the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (Rene's university at that time) for two weeks. That has meant a major change in a way we were involving students into the Bled eConference program since than. One of the results was a formalization of the prototypes presentations, named "Students Bazaar" in recent years. From 2007 on, the ePrototype Bazaar of the annual Bled eConference is named in Rene’s honor.
| Open Submissions |
Peer Reviewed |
Special Interest Track: eHealth
- Critical Issues in Delivering Cross-border Sustainable Healthcare Involving Patients and Healthcare Professionals
Most industries have by now made significant progress in the e-domain. One notable exception is healthcare. Healthcare globally is a clear laggard in the use of e-technologies. Paradoxically it is likely that e-health may hold the key in addressing many of the current challenges in healthcare.
Governments in both US and EU have recognised this, and are encouraging various forms of e-health solutions. We have set out to foster research in this area at the 23rd Bled eConference by hosting a special focus on e-health, with panels, workshops and sessions on e-health.
What will make this conference special is that we strongly encourage papers that bridge the gap between academia and healthcare practice. So, when you have an application that worked or failed in the e-health domain: write a paper about that and submit it.
Some topics to get your thinking process started:
- governance and e-health
- e-health stakeholders
- cross-border considerations and challenges
- patient-centric issues
- barriers and facilitators in e-health/ m-health
- privacy and security issues for e-health
- success and failure of e-health applications in medicine and monitoring, cure and care
- simulation and robotic applications in healthcare
- telemedicine or telehealth solutions
For practitioners and young researchers that want to submit, we provide a ‘friendly review’ service to raise the quality of their work before submitting.
To make sure that your work on an article has an outlet beyond the typical conference proceedings, the International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology; IJBET has agreed to publish a special issue of the best papers.
You are welcomed to send abstract or concept for friendly review – not compulsory – via email to Nilmini Wickramasinghe.
If you do not feel like writing a paper, but you want to be part of a panel or tutor a workshop: submit your proposal to Panel or Workshop Track.
TRACK CHAIR
Nilmini Wickramasinghe, RMIT University, Australia, USA
| Open Submissions |
Peer Reviewed |
Research Papers
Research papers (or research case or teaching case) should be complete, original, unpublished elsewhere and no longer than 5,000 words in length. They must be written in English.
At least one of the authors of the accepted research paper is expected to register for the conference prior to program confirmation.
Teaching cases will have to be indicated in the paper title, e.g. 'eCommerce at Coca Cola – a Teaching Case'.
Case studies papers should reflect either a specific or a broad range of "e" issues and cover success stories or failures. Relevance of issues addressed and lessons learned from the case are important criteria for acceptance.
All submissions will be double blind reviewed.
All submited papers must be fully anonymous! Author information is filled in only in Web submission form along with author email address for further correspondence. Web submission form must include information on all authors of individual paper.
All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings on CD-ROM and Bled eConference website.
RESEARCH TRACK CHAIR
Hans-Dieter Zimmermann, FHS St. Gallen, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
RESEARCH TRACK CO-CHAIR
Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Associate Professor and Associate Director, Center for the Management of Medical Technology, Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), United States
| Open Submissions |
Peer Reviewed |
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Conference organizer: eCenter, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor in cooperation with Government of the Republic of Slovenia and European Commission