{"id":201,"date":"2024-10-30T15:49:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T15:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.ohio.edu\/mwais\/?page_id=201"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:07:17","slug":"about-mwais","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.ohio.edu\/mwais\/about-mwais\/","title":{"rendered":"About MWAIS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>Midwest United States Association for Information Systems (MWAIS)&nbsp;Conference&nbsp;<\/strong>occurs annually in May. The 2026 conference will take place in person on May 21 &amp; 22, 2026 in Athens, OH and is hosted by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohio.edu\/business\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ohio.edu\/business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ohio University&#8217;s College of Business<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.ohio.edu\/mwais\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/mwais-8x8-sphere-high-res-e1776776800639.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-882\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The MWAIS mission is \u201cto promote the exchange of ideas, experiences, and knowledge among scholars and professionals in the Midwest US engaged in the development, management, and use of information and communications systems and technology.\u201d Established in 2006, MWAIS is a chapter of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aisnet.org\/\">Association for Information Systems (AIS)<\/a>. The states served by this Chapter include Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Historically this chapter conference has attracted authors consisting of CS\/MIS\/IT faculty, professionals, as well as a number of Ph.D. students. Proceedings of the conferences are included in the AIS digital library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong><em>For more info refer to the official MWAIS website: <a href=\"https:\/\/communities.aisnet.org\/mwais\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/communities.aisnet.org\/mwais\/home<\/a><\/em><\/strong><br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MWAIS Conference History<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>2006<\/td><td>Grand Valley, MI<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2007<\/td><td>Springfield, IL<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2008<\/td><td>Eau Claire, WI<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2009<\/td><td>Madison, SD<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2010<\/td><td>Moorhead, MN<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2011<\/td><td>Omaha, NE<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2012<\/td><td>Green Bay, WI<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2013<\/td><td>Normal, IL<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2014<\/td><td>Ames, IA<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2015<\/td><td>Pittsburg, KS<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2016<\/td><td>Milwaukee, WI<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2017<\/td><td>Springfield, IL<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2018<\/td><td>St. Louis, MO<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019<\/td><td>Oshkosh, WI<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>Des Moines, IA<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>Peoria, IL<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>Omaha, NE<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2023<\/td><td>Saint Paul, MN<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2024<\/td><td>Bradley University, IN<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2025<\/td><td>Oklahoma State University, OK<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Midwest United States Association for Information Systems (MWAIS)&nbsp;Conference&nbsp;occurs annually in May. The 2026 conference will take place in person on May 21 &amp; 22, 2026 in Athens, OH and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-201","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ohio.edu\/mwais\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ohio.edu\/mwais\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ohio.edu\/mwais\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ohio.edu\/mwais\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ohio.edu\/mwais\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ohio.edu\/mwais\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ohio.edu\/mwais\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ohio.edu\/mwais\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}