Industry & ImpactCBI & EDOC 2026

Call for Papers

EDOC has a long tradition of bringing together computer science researchers, enterprise architects, solution designers, IT decision/policy makers and practitioners.

The industry and impact track provides a forum for discussing current industry challenges and together develop innovative solutions by combining perspectives from academia, industry and government.

During the 30th edition of EDOC, we’ll adopt a highly interactive approach and challenge the community to create societal impact by:

1. collecting current challenges from industry,
2. proposing innovative solutions for challenges in a position paper before the conference,
3. revising/extending the position paper based on reviews by the challenge provider and program committee,
4. participating in a round table discussion during the industry and impact day during the EDOC conference to discuss and sharpen the solution.

Challenges

The industry and impact track aims to create 4-5 round tables related to current topics from the field. Based on conversations with scholars, professionals and policy makers, the following current challenges have been identified (these are for illustrative purposes and will be replaced by the accepted challenges):

• Strategies for digital sovereignty in response to geopolitical conflicts
• Identifying and managing ‘packaged AI’ for enterprise architecture governance
• Skills/education for future generation enterprise architecture & IT management
• Privacy-preserving technologies and zero trust architectures
• Assessment (ethics, bias) and compliance in complex EA environments

Submissions

The industry and impact track welcomes:

• Challenge proposals (abstract of 250 words) that present a current industry challenge related to enterprise architecture, IT decision- and/or policy in that requires new ways of thinking, innovative solutions and extending the knowledge base. A challenge must clearly describe a current problem, goal or idea and raise a specific but open-ended question for the community to work on. Providers of accepted challenges are expected to review 2-3 papers and visit the conference.
• Position papers (5-10 pages, excl. references) addressing one of the challenges by identifying and exploring possible solution alternatives, connecting the current state of the art, and proposing a future vision and research design including 2-3 questions to be discussed during the round table. A solution should be relevant by clearly addressing the challenge, innovative by positioning a novel knowledge contribution and rigorous based on scientific methods.

Submissions must be written in English, follow the Springer LNBIP format, and be submitted in PDF via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbiedoc2026

Review, round table, publication

All submissions will undergo a peer review by 2–3 program committee members.

Accepted papers will be discussed during the round table at the conference and published in the workshop proceedings publication in the Springer LNBIP series.

Important dates

• Challenge submission: 27 February 2026
• Challenge notification: 06 March 2026
• Position paper submission: 06 June 2026
• Position paper notification: 27June 2026
• Author registration: 31 July 2026
• Camera-ready submission: 07 August 2026
• Round table at conference: 15 September 2026

Organization

Chairs:

• Dr. J.P.S (Sebastian) Piest – University of Twente
• Prof.dr. J. (Jos) van Hillegersberg – University of Twente / JADS

Program committee

The program committee will consist of the challenge providers and experts from industry and academia. The committee will be announced after the challenges have been selected.