EuSpRIG 2023: European Spreadsheets Risks Interest Group 2023 TBC London, UK, July 6, 2023

The European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group (www.eusprig.org) is a world leading authority on spreadsheet research. We have published 193 double blind peer reviewed papers with over 2000 citations since the year 2000. Our publishing model is open access with no author publishing fees. The EuSpRIG community is made up of industrial and academic partners, all focussed addressing spreadsheet risk. We hold an annual in person conference in July of each year where academics and industry practitioners present their latest work, share ideas and plans for research and forge new partnerships. We invite you to join us, to share your spreadsheet focussed research and meet like minded academics and practitioners. 

2023 Conference theme: The Spreadsheet Crisis: Regaining Control

Thursday, July 6, 2023, Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ. 10 mins from St Pancreas and 4 mins from Russell Square tube stations. The Foundling Museum - Google Maps

EuSpRIG invites submissions from researchers, experienced Excel professionals, and business risk managers on all aspects of the management, development and use of spreadsheets including (but not limited to):

Technological:

• case studies of development, testing and quality assurance of key & critical spreadsheet assets– successful or otherwise
• AI, data science and big data themes in spreadsheets
• effective methods and tools for validation and testing
• understanding, documenting & remediating existing spreadsheets
• enhancing comprehension, reducing complexity, and improving performance through efficient use of native features such as Dynamic Arrays and Lambda.
• extension technologies for connectivity and data management: PowerQuery, VBA, Excel Services, PowerBI, Office Scripts, and Web-enabling
• securing spreadsheets including cryptographic aspects
• migration & replacement strategies
• re-integration of scattered spreadsheet data
• reverse engineering of spreadsheet logic, data flow, links, and patterns of use
• adapting software engineering for spreadsheets

Organisational Risk Management:

• spreadsheet risk management in the private, public and non-profit sectors
• governance, best practice, risk management & regulatory compliance relating to the widespread use of spreadsheets in regulated large corporations and public utilities
• productivity in frequently-performed spreadsheet processes
• continuing education, skills training and certification to a level appropriate to the use of, and dependency on, spreadsheets
• audit, management, version control, and configuration tools
• accounting for spreadsheet risk
• the dynamics of managing large systems of spreadsheets: discovery, dependencies, usage monitoring, version lineage, process mining
• ongoing maintenance and user support for continued safe use
• technologies to support process improvement
• organisational experiences with enterprise policies, risk & responsibility and best practices
• process management including the management of spreadsheet control projects

Human and Psychological Factors

• change management, assumptions, abstraction, interpretation, denial, overconfidence, reification, culture, behaviour, attitudes, fraud, criminal behaviour, privacy, data leakage and security risks
• lab studies of human error in spreadsheet creation, human computer interaction issues in spreadsheets and audit experiments.

We are seeking the following types of submission:

• Presentations lasting up to 30 minutes on professional Excel practice which will published on the EuSpRIG website. Case studies in particular are sought.
• Lightning talks / rants / soapbox
• Academic and technical papers (5000 words),
• Practitioner and management summaries (1500 to 3000 words)
• All papers will be published in due course on our web site and on Arxiv http://arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+eusprig/0/1/0/all/0/1

Academic papers will be double-blind refereed by established referees co-ordinated through the programme committee chair. Presentations will be reviewed by the EuSpRIG committee. EuSpRIG Peer Review Details

Submissions to the EuSpRIG conference may not have already been published in a journal or conference proceedings, nor presented at another conference. Moreover, they may not be currently under consideration for publication or presentation elsewhere. Only papers and presentations that are accepted and presented in person will be published.

To submit a paper, please read the author guidelines and Patrick O’Beirne’s insightful article “How to write a successful EuSpRIG paper”

www.eusprig.org/How to_write_a_successful_EuSpRIG_paper.pdf

Most of the full papers previously accepted and presented at EuSpRIG are available on the EuSpRIG website http://www.eusprig.org/conference-papers.htm which potential authors are invited to consult for guidance and references.