SmartPLS Workshops and Seminars

For several years, in conjunction with SmartPLS and PLS-School, Geoffrey Hubona, Christian Ringle and Jörg Henseler have been conducting workshops and seminars on the uses and applications of PLS Path Modeling using SmartPLS. To meet the increasing demand of a rapidly expanding and global PLS path modeling users’ community, it was decided in September of 2009 to offer live, synchronous, online SmartPLS training workshops using the award-winning eLearning platform Elluminate Live ! These live, online training sessions are currently designed to provide rapid-start, ‘hands-on’ training on how to perform basic and intermediate path modeling functions using SmartPLS. The sessions are provided on two consecutive days with each session lasting for 4 hours.

Click on this link for information on: upcoming SmartPLS workshops. This includes all information about the SmartPLS workshop schedules, agenda and registration information.

Geoffrey Hubona has been using PLS-based Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) software to analyze research data since 2001. Many of his published papers are based on PLS-SEM analyses (please see below). He began using SmartPLS in 2006 and began to collaborate with Christian Ringle and Jörg Henseler in 2007. Also in 2006, he began to regularly present well-attended PLS-based SEM workshops at the yearly International AMCIS conference, and at other venues, including Executive Education workshops in Buckhead (Atlanta, GA). Attendees for these workshops come from Canada, the United States, Central America, Europe, and occasionally, the Middle East.

Selected papers published by Hubona utilizing PLS-SEM analyses:

White-Baker, E., S.S. Al-Gahtani and G.S. Hubona. “Cultural Impacts on Acceptance and Adoption of Information Technology in a Developing Country,” (under second round review) Journal of Global Information Management.

Anderson, C., S.S. Al-Gahtani and G.S. Hubona. “The Value of TAM Antecedents in Global IS Development and Research,” (forthcoming 2010) Journal of Organizational and End User Computing.

White-Baker, E., S.S. Al-Gahtani and G.S. Hubona. “The Effects of Gender and Age on New Technology Implementation in a Developing Country: Testing the Theory of Planned Behavior,” Information Technology & People, Vol. 20 (4), 2007, pp. 352-375.

Al-Gahtani, S.S., G.S. Hubona and J. Wang. “Information Technology (IT) in Saudi Arabia: Culture and the Acceptance and Use of IT,” Information & Management, Vol. 44 (8), 2007, pp. 681-691.

Burton-Jones, A. and G.S. Hubona. “The Mediation of External Variables in the Technology Acceptance Model,” Information & Management, Vol. 43 (6), September 2006, pp. 706-717.

Burton-Jones, A. and G.S. Hubona. “Individual Differences and Usage Behavior: Revisiting a Technology Acceptance Model Assumption,” The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, Vol. 36 (2), Spring 2005, pp. 58-77.