Scientific Challenges & Business Opportunities in Sustainable Environments and Education (SciBO-SEED).

The workshop intends to address the topics relevant to the BIS 2026 conference, with a particular focus on sustainable business practices supported by education, training, and knowledge development systems. The general theme builds on the Scientific Challenges & Business Opportunities in Sustainable Environmental Management (SciBO-SEM) edition at BIS 2025, which focused on sustainable environmental management and the evolution of integrative, information-intensive approaches in business information systems.

Aligned with the BIS 2026 conference theme “From Hype to Impact: Turning AI into Real Business Value”, this workshop invites contributions that explore novel frameworks, systems, and practices through which knowledge-driven approaches can enhance sustainability outcomes across businesses and institutions, supporting decision-makers in turning insights into impactful, responsible action.

Submission Guidelines

The SciBO-SEED workshop addresses the BIS conference theme, expanding the focus from sustainable environmental management toward sustainable and responsible business practices supported by advanced information systems and strengthened through education, training, and knowledge development. Papers approved for presentation at AILS will be published in the BIS 2026 workshop post-conference proceedings as a volume in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.

• All papers must be typeset using template: LaTeX or MS Word (templates are also available at the Springer website)
• The paper must not exceed 12 pages (including abstract and references)
• Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages.
• Submissions must represent work not previously published or presented elsewhere.
• Please ensure that your paper is free from any form of plagiarism.
• Submissions do not need to be blinded.
• Submissions need to follow AI policies (especially on AI authorship and Generative AI Images).

Committees

Program Committee

Workshop

• Prof. Nirvana Popescu, PhD, University POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania
• Prof. Anca Hangan, PhD, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Prof. Ciprian Dobre, PhD., University POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania
• Prof. Marian Muste, PhD, University of IOWA, USA
• Assist. Prof. Elena-Simona APOSTOL, PhD, University POLITEHNICA Bucharest
• Assist. Prof. Ciprian-Octavian Truică, PhD, University POLITEHNICA Bucharest
• Senior Researcher Catalin Negru, PhD

Organizing committee

Workshop

• Prof. Nirvana Popescu, PhD, University POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania
• Senior Researcher Catalin Negru, PhD

Conference

• Jan Černý, Prague University of Economics and Business
• Pavel Kolesár, Prague University of Economics and Business
• Elżbieta Lewańska, Poznań University of Economics and Business
• Włodzimierz Lewoniewski, Poznań University of Economics and Business
• Václav Řepa, Prague University of Economics and Business
• Milena Stróżyna, Poznań University of Economics and Business
• Krzysztof Węcel, Poznań University of Economics and Business

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to bis2026@bisconf.org and catalin.negru@upb.ro