Bo Dahlbom is a professor of information systems at the University of Gothenburg and research director at Sustainable Innovation. He is a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. 

Prof. Bo Dahlbom has contributed to the development of the discipline information systems in Scandinavia, to the Nordic cooperation as the initiator of the IRIS Association, as editor of the Scandinavian journal, as conference organizer, and as the initiator of large Nordic collaborative research projects.

He became associate professor in theoretical philosophy in 1983, full professor of information systems in 1994. 

It is this unique experience of Bo Dahlbom that provides a unique insight in our discussion while we discuss the past, present and the future of philosophy and information systems, the relation of empirical research and philosophical awareness and much more.