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Join interested scholars and practitioners in Dallas next September to
learn more about emerging IT service management (ITSM) practices and
technology.

TWe are looking for scholars who have already incorporated ITSM concepts
into their courses to submit two-page extended abstracts describing their
ITSM-related course offerings, techniques for servitizing existing IT/IS
courses, case studies, IT service simulations or other ITSM-related course
material or pedagogical techniques relevant to improving course offerings
and content within the ITSM domain.

Authors of the selected abstracts will be invited to present their work at
the 2009 itSMF Academic Forum, September 19-20, 2009 in Dallas, Texas.
ItSMF-USA supports this effort -- fully covering the costs of the Forum
and subsidizing academic speakers and Forum participants (paying one night
of hotel accommodations and one day attendance (9/21) to the itSMFusion
Conference immediately following the Academic Forum).

A two-phased selection process similar to that of the itSMFusion
Conference will be followed. First, during a phone screening of two-page
abstracts, authors will be interviewed to discuss their presentations and
confirm their commitment to attend if selected as speakers. Final
selection of presenters and notification will follow. Important dates
associated with the selection and review processes are:

Submissions due AcademicForum2009@gmail.com: January 16, 2009
Phone Interviews February 2 - 27, 2009 Speaker notification:
                March 31, 2009
Draft PPTs and changed Abstracts Due June 30, 2009
Comments back to authors July, 20, 2009
Camera Ready Copy and PPTs: July 31, 2009

If you have any question please contact John Beachboard or Dhiraj Gupta
at: academicforum2009@gmail.com

We look forward to seeing you in Dallas.

John Beachboard
Idaho State University