Thursday 22 May 2008

An invitation to a one hour debate

The One Hour Debate – Emerging Trends

I was very fortunate to attend a Gartner Symposium event called "Emerging Trends" last week. The University has a subscription to the Gartner Group (www.gartner.com). There were some really interesting people, topics, and presentations which it would be interesting to share and debate with others who are interested. Almost every presentation is available together with speaker notes. It would be interesting to see if other people would be interested in discussing some of the emerging trends and having a debate about how they might affect our students and our staff at the University of Bradford. So this is an open invitation but please let me know directly (g.c.r.hill@bradford.ac.uk) if you would like to come along so there is a big enough room and sufficient refreshments. The slots are all on Fridays before lunch for one hour. If there is enough interest there is material to do at least 5 sessions in the first instance but there are other topics we could do too so if you'd like to vote on your favourites let me know and we can be very flexible:

Friday May 30th 11:00-12:00 The $100 laptop
Friday Jun 6th 11:00-12:00 Top Ten Disruptive technologies 2008-2012
Friday Jun 13th 11:00-12:00 Key trends for wireless devices
Friday Jun 20th 11:00-12:00 Creating an emerging trends radar screen
Friday July 4th 11:00-12:00 A day in your life 2028

Other possible topics

Cloud computing - what on earth it means and how it might develop
Cool ways to shop - the store of the digital native
Putting IT strategy before business strategy (all the books say the other way round!)
The Future of e-learning in Higher Education
Why Green IT matters

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