COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO — The culture of business is changing. New technologies, economic uncertainties and terror-related travel concerns, among many other factors, have come together to drive companies to look for new opportunities and ways to compete in the global marketplace. <\/p>\n
Increasingly, information systems and other related technologies are providing the tools for virtual communication, E-commerce, web filtering, information mining and a wide variety of other electronic tools to secure a competitive edge for companies of all sizes and in all sectors of the economy. <\/p>\n
Industry representatives, academics and students will come together June 4-6 on the campus of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs for the 6th Annual Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2003), the first time the international conference has taken place in the United States. <\/p>\n
“Global business has made E-commerce essential and E-commerce has made global business possible you can’t always tell which came first,” said Couger Professor of Information Systems Gary Klein, who also is the BIS 2003 conference co-chair. <\/p>\n
“In general, because of the current economy, what companies are interested in is cost effectiveness and trying to match their technology infrastructure to their strategic mission.” <\/p>\n
The BIS conference, sponsored jointly by the Colorado Institute for Technology Transfer and Implementation and the College of Business at CU-Colorado Springs, will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss information technology experiences and implementation. <\/p>\n
More than 100 participants from throughout Europe, Australia, Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, South Africa and the United States are currently registered. <\/p>\n
Scheduled panel leaders include Scott McIntyre, chief information officer for Quantum Corp.; Arnie Greenfield, vice president of software engineering for Supply Works, Inc.; and Heinrich Meyer, past president of the German Informatics Society. <\/p>\n
“We will have a real international diversity of ideas and accents,” said Klein. “Despite this conference being young, it has a large following internationally.” <\/p>\n
Local business leaders are welcome to attend and participate in all of the conference’s tracks, tutorials and special sessions. Information is available at www.BIS2003.info regarding the program, schedule and fees. <\/p>\n
Conference tracks will include technology transfer, software engineering for business applications and distance education. Special sessions will include information retrieval and filtering and ontologies. <\/p>\n
The conference has called for papers advancing research in business information systems. All papers will be published in English in the Conference Proceedings. <\/p>\n
Some of the papers may be considered for publication in Comparative Technology Transfer and Society, a new academic journal launched by the Colorado Institute for Technology Transfer and Implementation at CU-Colorado Springs and published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. <\/p>\n
The BIS 2003 conference supports the research mission at the University of Colorado and CU President Betsy Hoffman’s Vision 2010. <\/p>\n
CU-Colorado Springs, located on Austin Bluffs Parkway in northeast Colorado Springs, is the fastest growing university in Colorado and one of the fastest growing universities in the nation. The university offers 25 bachelor’s degrees, 17 master’s and two doctoral degrees. The campus enrolls more than 7,400 students annually. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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