The presentation begins at 6:00 PM. PMI Credential Holders will be awarded 1.0 Business Acumen, Ways of Working, and 0.25 Power Skills PDU's for attendance. PDU's will be reported on behalf of the active PMI Baton Rouge Chapter members.

Dr. Andrew Schwarz

Dr. Andrew Schwarz is a Professor of Information Systems and holds the E.J. Ourso Professorship in ISDS #2 in the E. J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University. In his twenty years at LSU, Andrew has published over 30 articles in top tier journals and has been recognized both locally, receiving recognition as one of the top 40 business leaders under the age of 40, and internationally, being honored with a legacy award (termed ATLAS Award) by the Association for Information Systems. Recently, Dr. Schwarz was named as an AIS Distinguished Member-Cum Laude and is one of less than 200 professors globally to hold this designation.

At LSU, Dr. Schwarz’s teaching focuses on the MBA program in the area of IT strategy. He teaches across all three programs, including daytime, evening, and online. In 2017, Dr. Schwarz received the Tiger Athletic Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award in the College of Business. This award recognizes tenured faculty who strive for high levels of teaching and recognizes professors who receive consistently high teaching evaluations.

Dr. Schwarz was one of the lead architects of the online MBA program at LSU and has delivered multiple courses within this program. As one of the chief architects of the program, he was responsible for helping to design the curriculum for the program and is one of the three professors in the program who deliver the first set of courses in the program. This placement recognizes his innovation and forward-thinking approach to the future of the classroom by the administrators in the college. Finally, Dr. Schwarz is the doctoral coordinator for the Stephenson Department of Entrepreneurship and Information Systems, where he oversees the Entrepreneurship and Information Systems Ph.D. program.

Beyond the university classroom, Dr. Schwarz also participates in the Executive Education department, offering outreach classes in the area of IT strategy to the local Baton Rouge community. He is a frequent speaker at local community events within the area of IT, having been invited to deliver keynote addresses to multiple groups, including the Our Lady of the Lake Executive Commitee retreat, the Project Management local chapter, and others.

Dr. Schwarz has served the academic community in many capacities, including editorial roles at leading scientific journals, organizing and chairing academic conferences, and serving on the scientific committees for dozens of conferences. Dr. Schwarz was the first Vice President of Technology for the Association for Information Systems, where he modernized the architecture for the association during his time in office. He is the past Editor-in-Chief of DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems and, during his tenure at the journal, was able to increase the intellectual impact of the journal. He chaired the largest Information Systems conference in the Americas (AMCIS 2018 in New Orleans), with the conference being the second most attended in the history of the conference and will be the conference chair for the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in 2024. This is the premier conference for the IS field and serving in this capacity will enable him to be named as a Senior Scholar within the IS community.