ISPC 2024 | IU Internationale Hochschule

This year's international conference, organised by the E-Commerce Institute, East European University (Tbilisi, Georgia), Adelphi University (Garden City, NY, USA) and IU International University of Applied Sciences (Cologne, Germany) will take place in Cologne in October! ISPC 2024 will focus on the presentation and discussion of relevant aspects of digitalisation and artificial intelligence. This year's event is once again supported by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the German Entrepreneurship Organisation FGF.

This year's ISPC 2024 conference was held as a hybrid conference. Participants had the opportunity to attend either physically at the conference venue at IU International University in Cologne's Gerling Quarter or to join the conference online via Zoom for free. As in previous years, the ISPC was held in English and participation was free of charge.

Location: IU location Gerling-Quartier, Cologne

Date: October 10th and 11th, 2024

ISPC 2024 in pictures

Contents of the symposium

The impacts of digitalization and artificial intelligence were discussed at ISPC 2024 on:

the economy and businesses,
health systems and health management,
society and the state, and
education and universities.

Programm

You can find the conference program here.

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Further information

Press enquiries
For press and interview enquiries, please contact Michael Hein: michael.hein.ext@iu.org

Conference Chairman Prof. Dr Richard C. Geibel, Professor of Business Administration and Scientific Work at IU International University, is available for interviews.

About the person
Richard C. Geibel is Professor of Business Administration at the IU International University in Cologne and Managing Director of the E-Commerce Institute.

Geibel is also Professor honoris causa at the East European University in Tbilisi, Georgia, a visiting professor at the Changchun University of Finance and Economics in China and an alumnus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He holds a doctorate from the University of Cologne and a degree in computer science from RWTH Aachen University. He has also been a commercial judge at the Regional Court of Cologne since 2018.

His research focuses on digital transformation, social commerce and digital companies. He has been organising the International Scientific-Practical Conference (ISPC) for over five years.

Conference Chairman Prof Dr Richard C. Geibel on AI and the ISPC conference:

The digital transformation is developing rapidly and represents a great opportunity for the German healthcare system in particular. The increased use of artificial intelligence to improve service quality and the acceleration of administrative processes through increasing digitalisation will lead to a significant improvement in the healthcare system in particular. The considerable backlogs in the German healthcare system to date can be reduced in this way and the healthcare sector, with an annual volume of around EUR 500 billion, can be positively and sustainably changed. These aspects in particular will be discussed intensively by academics and practitioners at the IU International University as part of ISPC 2024. The discussion will focus on the significance and impact of new legislation such as the Digital Act (DigiG) and the Digital Care Act (DVG) as well as their applications such as electronic patient records (ePA) and electronic prescriptions (ePrescription).

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Publication on the conference
Scientific contributions from the 4th annual International Scientific and Practical Conference (ISPC 2024) will be published shortly after the conference under the title "Digital Management and Artificial Intelligence" in the book series Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics (SPBE).