The conference was opened and the participants were welcomed by:
- Dr. Richard Geibel, Director of the Institute of Electronic Commerce and Head of ISPC 2025;
- Dr. Christopher Storm, Interim President of Adelphi University;
- Dr. MaryAnne Hyland, Dean of the Business School, Adelphi University;
- Dr. Kakhaber Lazarashvili, Rector of East European University;
- Prof. Dr. Tamta Lekishvili, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Business and Engineering of East European University;
- Pawneet Abramowski, CEO and Founder of PARC Solutions;
- Ulrich Arnold, Managing Director of gkvi informatik;
- Dr. Uwe Cantner, Full Professor at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.
The conference was held in a hybrid format across eight parallel sessions and brought together 80 scholars, young researchers, as well as master’s and doctoral students from 12 countries across four continents, representing the following universities:
- IU International University;
- University of Koblenz;
- Sampoerna University, University of Chicago, Keiser University;
- Arizona, European Business School of Barcelona,
- Sampoerna University
- University of Calabria, Giustino Fortunato University;
- Zurich University of Applied Sciences;
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich;
- Integral University, Indi;
- Danesh Alborz University, Qazvin Province, Iran
- Tbilisi State University;
- Sokhumi State University;
- East European University;
- University of Portsmouth;
- International Black Sea University;
- Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University;
- Georgian Technical University;
- Caucasus University;
- Caucasus International University;
- Akaki Tsereteli State University;
- University of Technology Malaysia, The University of Georgia;
- Izmir Demokrasi University;
- Babes-Bolyai University, Sofia University;
- Yildiz Technical University.
The conference was attended by researchers, practitioners, and master’s and doctoral students from both the organizing institution and other higher education institutions.
At the end of the conference, the section moderators announced the winners in the following categories:
• Best Presentation
• Young Researcher
The best papers presented at the conference will be published in the Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics (SPBE), indexed in Scopus, by the end of 2026.
Conference agenda is accessible at the following link