BIGS 2025 Conference

Bright Internet Global Symposium (BIGS)
Management of GenAI and Agentic Systems with the Bright Origin Perspective
Virtual, December 12, 2025
https://brightinternet.org

Bright Internet Global Symposium (BIGS) 2025 will be a virtual workshop on December 12, 2025, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. This is a Pre-ICIS Symposium under the aegis of the Association for Information Systems. The workshop consists of two tracks: Academic and Practice. Sessions in the Academic Track are directed toward academia and will feature the presentation of original research, whereas sessions in the Practice Track will consist of practical panels and discussions by industry experts and policymakers. Both AIS and non-AIS members are welcome to all sessions.

This call for papers is for the Academic Track of BIGS 2025. The theme of BIGS 2025 is Management of GenAI and Agentic Systems with the Bright Origin Perspective. We invite original research articles related to this topic, addressing technical, managerial, economic, and policy solutions and implications towards the Bright Internet and information assurance in an era where GenAI tools create information and content very fast yet hallucinations make it a challenge to trust different information sources and take action. Misinformation creates echo chambers and disrupts the social fabric in digital societies. Further biases in these AI systems create challenges for different communities catapulting the need for Responsible AI systems. These challenges are likely to intensify when Agentic AI systems start getting integrated with autonomous decision-making capabilities without human intervention. The Bright Internet is grounded on the principle of origin responsibility, which emphasizes the need to hold sources of information and content accountable for adverse outcomes in cyberspace (i.e., Bright Origins). So information governance for bright origins becomes important for researchers to address in this context.

In this background, studies that focus on AI and Information Management are particularly encouraged from the bright internet and bright origin perspective. Studies should extend knowledge surrounding the design, adoption, usage, policies, and user experiences of bright internet ecosystems. Theorization surrounding the use of emerging technologies such as blockchain, NFTs, machine learning, and cloud computing for preventive cybersecurity measures and sustainable cyber environments is also welcome. Studies may employ any applicable IS research methods (case study, survey, qualitative research, analytical modeling, experiments, computational models, econometrics, design science, and so forth). Mixed research methods are appreciated.

The BIGS 2025 Program can be found here (https://brightinternet.org/bigs2025/program/)