The School of Sciences UCLan Cyprus hosts the 26^th International conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2017) on September 6-8, 2017.

The theme of the ISD2017 Conference is “Advances in Methods, Tools and Management”. The conference focuses on the latest developments in ISD and particularly on methods and tools used to design, create and maintain information systems. It provides a forum for discussing research and developments in this field.

Sessions will include presentations from a wide spectrum of works ranging from methodological and educational challenges to original scientific solutions. The specific scientific tracks are:

• Information Systems Methodologies and Modelling
• Managing Information Systems Development
• ISD in Education
• Human Computer Interaction in ISD
• Cognitive Science
• Security and Privacy in ISD
• General Topics in ISD

Researchers, Developers and  Practitioners in Information Systems can take advantage of participating to the conference which will also include 3 inspiring key note speeches by reputable academics and professionals:

• Wednesday 6^th September at 10:00am – “The good, the bad and the ugly of child computer interaction” by Prof. Janet Read (Professor at UCLan, Preston)
• Thursday 7^th September at 9:30am – “The importance of UX in a product’s success” by Mr. Alexis Piperides (co-founder and CEO of Proto.io)
• Friday 8^th September at 9:30am – “From Computing Machinery to Collaborative Assistants- The Next Generation of Information Systems” by Dr. Loizos Michael (Assistant Professor at Open University of Cyprus)