Chairing a session at ECIS 2026 next Monday and would love to see familiar faces in the room! BFD1 – Digital Assets, Governance, and Trust (Room N08) will cover latest research on the following topics: market integrity in digital asset markets, CBDC privacy, decentralised governance, and blockchain adoption in finance. Come join us if you’re…

Where is FinTech heading next? As FinTech matures, emerging digital technologies are creating new opportunities for innovation in financial services. Electronic Markets – The International Journal on Networked Business invites submissions to its topical collection:Contemporary Research in Financial Technology (FinTech) We welcome research on topics such as embedded finance, digital assets, open banking, RegTech, InsurTech,…

Three contributions, one message: good AI design begins with human judgment, not in place of it. That’s what my research team brought to the AI@UNIL Day. Renjun Tang presented “When AI meets the clock: Vibe coding in Crisis Hackathons” – how AI-assisted coding can support crisis practitioners and strengthen resilience. The long-term vision: can we…

On May 29, I’ll be sitting on the jury for the GovTech Hackathon 2026 in Bern, and I’m genuinely curious about what happens when you bring together developers, government experts, and civil society advocates around a single question: what can we build with public data? The hackathon theme “Exploiting data, generating impact” sounds straightforward, but…