About me:

Dr Will Venters is an Associate Professor in Information Systems and Digital Innovation within the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He speaks regularly at practitioner conferences on various digital business issues, particularly around Digital Ecosystems, Digital Innovation and Cloud Computing; has briefed European government policy makers and… Read more »

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  • LSE Information Systems and Innovation Group Colloquium 2024.

    4th June – LSE Colloquium on Digitalization, Interfacing and their Impacts. Free academic event.

  • [Assistant Professor Job] We’re recruiting again!

    Having successfully just recruited two amazing new Assistant Professors to the Information Systems and Innovation Group here at the LSE we are seeking a third person to join! The advert is below but feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions! Also you’ll get to work in our brand new building […]

  • Join me in Chicago for the AOM CTO Doctorial Consortium [PhD Students].

    Join me in Chicago for AOM CTOs Doctorial Consortium!

  • New Publication – Research Policy: The role of Web APIs in digital innovation ecosystems.

    appy to share that our paper “The value and structuring role of web APIs in digital innovation ecosystems: The case of the online travel ecosystem” co-authored with Roser Pujadas and Erika Valderrama has been published in Research Policy

  • New research publication: Does proximity matter in cloud adoption?

    I am pleased that my jointly authored paper that asks does proximity matter in cloud adoption? has now been published in the prestigious Journal of Information Technology.   Distant but close: Locational, relational and temporal proximity in cloud computing adoption – Ariana Polyviou, Will Venters, Nancy Pouloudi, 2023 (sagepub.com) Journal of Information Technology, Forthcoming.   For researchers […]

  • [Academic Call]: AI and the Artificialities of Intelligence.

    I am really excited to be a co-chair of the following academic workshop at ESSEC & Université Paris Dauphine-PSL. Please join us if you can! AI and the Artificialities of Intelligence: What matters in and for organizing? Call for papers 14th Organizations, Artifacts & Practices (OAP) Workshop #OAP2024 When: June 6th and 7th 2024 Where: […]

  • Understanding AI and Large Language Models: Spiders Webs and LSD.

    The following light-hearted script was for an evening talk at the London Stock Exchange for Enterprise Technology Meetup in June 2023. The speech is based on research with Dr Roser Pujadas of UCL and Dr Erika Valderamma of UMEA in Sweden. —– Last Tuesday the news went wild as industry and AI leaders warned that […]

  • Understanding AI and Large Language Models: Spiders Webs and LSD.

    The following light-hearted script was for an evening talk at the London Stock Exchange for Enterprise Technology Meetup in June 2023. The speech is based on research with Dr Roser Pujadas of UCL and Dr Erika Valderamma of UMEA in Sweden. —– Last Tuesday the news went wild as industry and AI leaders warned that […]

  • Academic Colloquium: LSE Information Systems and Innovation Group

    For the academics reading this blog it would be wonderful to see you at the following which the IRIS research project is sponsoring: Research Colloquium on Digitalization and its Impacts The Information Systems and Innovation Group within the Department of Management at the London School of Economics is pleased to announce a Colloquium on Digitalization and […]

  • Academic Colloquium: LSE Information Systems and Innovation Group

    For the academics reading this blog it would be wonderful to see you at the following which the IRIS research project is sponsoring: Research Colloquium on Digitalization and its Impacts The Information Systems and Innovation Group within the Department of Management at the London School of Economics is pleased to announce a Colloquium on Digitalization and […]