Communication, Digital Technology, and Organization Division (CTO)

2025 Call for Professional Development Workshops 

PDW Chair: Steven Johnson, U. of Virginia

The Communication, Digital Technology, and Organization (CTO) Division invites submissions for professional development workshops (PDWs) at 2025 AOM Annual Meeting to be held in-person 25 July through 29 July 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark. PDW sessions will take place from Friday, 25 July and Sunday 27 July, from 8:30 to 18:30 each day. PDWs are an opportunity to be innovative, discuss unresolved questions, learn or demonstrate best practices in teaching and research, debate future directions for research, and organize novel activities that bring the expertise and experience of CTO members to bear on the challenges that we all face in our daily professional lives.

We seek sessions that recognize the division’s interdisciplinary approach to further the understanding of the behavioral, social, technical, and economic issues at the intersection of communication, digital technology, and organizing. The CTO Division is actively seeking PDW proposals that address important organizational issues involving anything digital, including organizational communication, artificial intelligence and machine learning, digital platforms, data analytics, social media, and—generally—information and communication technologies of any form. Workshops can take many forms such as tutorials, town hall meetings, breakout sessions, debates, roundtables, tours or research incubators—as long as they have a clear interactive component.

Proposals will be evaluated on their ability to draw an audience from CTO and across the Academy, innovativeness of format and topic, coherence of elements including format and content, and the potential impact on the professional success of participants. Priority will be given to proposals that incorporate geographic diversity, gender balance, and incorporate prominent roles for early career scholars and scholars who have not frequently participated in the CTO Division’s PDW sessions.

Workshops can be of any duration. Regardless of the requested duration for a submitted PDW, the PDW Chair may adjust the session duration if they feel that a shorter or longer duration better suits the session.

The submission deadline is Tuesday, 7 January 2025 at 17:00 ET (GMT-5/UTC-5). We only accept submissions made through the AOM Submission Center: https://submit.aom.org/2025/default.aspx.  If you are interested in proposing a PDW session, you are welcome to contact PDW Chair, Steven L. Johnson, at steven@virginia.edu, to get feedback and further develop your idea for a PDW session. To learn more about the CTO Division, please visit our website.