The International Conference on Electronic Business (ICEB) is an affiliated conference of Association of Information Systems. It brings together leading Electronic Business scholars in Asia and around the world. The conference is held under the supervision of The International Consortium for Electronic Business (http://icebnet.org/) editorial board and is the top academic Electronic Business conference in the world. It brings together top researchers in Electronic Business field and related areas within Asia and around the world to present cutting-edge research and exchange intellectual ideas.

Celebrating its 21st Anniversary, The 21st International Conference on Electronic Business will be co-hosted by the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Hong Kong, S.A.R. China and the Hohai Business School at Hohai University, Nanjing, China, and co-sponsored by the International Consortium for Electronic Business, Journal of Business and Management, International Journal of Electronic Business, Northumbria University, UK, and the College of Management, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan.

The Conference will be held IN HYBRID MODE on December 3-7, 2021, Friday to Tuesday. The University of Hong Kong is the host of virtual meetings. If the pandemic condition is allowed, the synchronized physical meetings will be held in China by Hohai University in Nanjing. The theme of this year’s conference is Corporate Resilience through Electronic Business in the Post-COVID Era.

Since 2020, the world of Electronic Business has changed dramatically under the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies worldwide have adjusted and expanded their business activities in response to restrictions under the COVID-19 pandemic. Now the world is slowly resuming back to normal with the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccines. However, the new normal in the Post-COVID Era may forever change how organizations, businesses, consumers, and governments respond to current and future volatile situations with resilience tactics. Electronic Businesses can play important roles in the future of the world. In this conference, we hope to bring international scholars to explore the meaning, applications, practices, and issues related to how electronic business can help organizations, businesses, consumers, and governments to embrace changes and enhance resiliency in the Post-COVID Era. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• AI and its applications
• Big data analytics and business intelligence
• Blockchain and its applications
• Collaborative commerce and sharing economy
• COVID pandemic e-business issues
• Cross-border e-commerce
• Digital marketing and consumer behavior
• Digital transformations in enterprises


• E-business cultural and social issues
• E-business strategies and models
• E-entrepreneurship and innovations
• E-healthcare and gerontechnology
• E-logistics and Supply chain management
• IT ethics and data governance
• Knowledge management and sharing
• New technology adoption and diffusion


• Security and privacy issues
• Smart cities and Internet of Things
• Smart homes and smart technologies
• Social media and social computing
• Virtual communities and social commerce
• Web mining and recommendation systems


• Other related issues

We are pleased to invite all related academic scholars to join this conference. ICEB and AIS members who are not authors can attend all sessions of the conference FREE OF CHARGES after completing membership renewals.

EasyChair online submission is at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iceb2021
The submission is due on OCT 15, 2021. Please see the Important Dates on the website.