Dear colleagues,
We invite submissions to the HICSS-59 Minitrack on Data Regulation, Digital Compliance, and Platform Governance in the Era of Data-Driven and AI-Enabled Technologies, part of the Organizational Systems and Technology track.
Societies are now migrating into a futuristic legal space whose structural conditions depend increasingly on the enabling and inhibiting aspects of cutting-edge digital technology. Private and public actors alike must therefore understand how data-driven and AI-enabled technologies can be used in a legitimate, necessary, and proportional way, and at the same time assess risks attached to their particular use trajectories. This is a complex balancing act that inevitably creates legal and ethical uncertainty, which generates ambiguous dilemmas and paradoxical tensions at different societal levels. As a result, these actors face a dynamically changing landscape in constant search of legal and ethical standards.
Given this complex digital transformation, AI governance, data regulation, and digital compliance have become front and center of legal and ethical debates. These discussions are fueled by a societal urge to ensure data use that meets desired levels of transparency, accountability, and privacy. Indeed, at the same time, emerging frameworks such as the EU AI Act, GDPR, and global data governance policies are ultimately reshaping how data is collected, processed, and managed.
Against this background, this minitrack explores the challenges, frameworks, and strategies associated with governance, regulation, and compliance in the era of data-driven and AI-enabled technologies. We seek papers that examine the intersection of these technologies and emerging regulatory trends, data protection laws, algorithmic accountability, and compliance mechanisms. Key topics include (but are not limited to) legal and ethical constraints on algorithmic data processing, cross-border data governance, privacy-enhancing technologies, and socio-technical implications of regulatory enforcement.
Topics of Interest:
- AI and data protection - Investigating challenges related to personal privacy, privacy-enhancing technologies, and consent mechanisms.
- Algorithmic accountability and transparency - Addressing regulatory demands for explainability, bias mitigation, and fairness in AI decision-making.
- Cross-border data regulation and governance - Analyzing global trends in data sovereignty, data localization, and cross-jurisdictional governance challenges.
- Compliance automation and AI-driven governance - Exploring AI's role in automated compliance monitoring, risk assessment, and regulatory enforcement.
- Compliance in AI governance and data regulation - Examining how organizations adapt to evolving data laws, including GDPR, the EU AI Act, and global regulatory frameworks.
- Ethical AI and responsible data use - Investigating ethical considerations in AI-driven data processing, including fairness, trust, and human oversight.
- Balancing regulation and innovation - Examining how regulatory frameworks impact AI development, business models, and data-intensive research.
- Security, risk, and AI in regulatory compliance - Exploring AI's role in cybersecurity, data protection, and risk management.
- Emerging global standards and interoperability - Analyzing international efforts to harmonize AI governance and data regulation across jurisdictions.
Submission Guidelines:
We invite researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to submit empirical, conceptual, or design-oriented research on AI governance, data regulation, and digital compliance. Papers should follow HICSS formatting guidelines and be submitted through the conference submission system.
Minitrack's website: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-59/organizational-systems-and-technology/#data-regulation-digital-compliance-and-platform-governance-in-the-era-of-data-driven-and-ai-enabled-technologies-minitrack
Conference Details:
January 6–9, 2026
Hyatt Regency Maui
Website: hicss.hawaii.edu
Important Dates:
June 15 (11:59 PM HST) – Paper submission deadline
August 17 – Notification of acceptance/rejection
September 4 (11:59 PM HST) – Revised paper deadline (for A-M decisions)
September 22 – Final manuscript deadline
October 1 – Author registration deadline
We look forward to your submissions!
Best regards,
Rikard Lindgren – University of Gothenburg
Fatemeh Saadatmand – University West
Minitrack Co-Chairs
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Fatemeh Saadatmand
IT University of Copenhagen
Gothenburg
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