Events for Members
We offer events to support our members. Each month, through out the school year, you can join informational, learning and networking events.
See our calendar for the events we have this year. Events include Roundtables, Short courses, and Luncheons, and others.
Panels
Become a Business Leader with the Edge
CITI C-Level Executives from some of Denver’s most successful companies make themselves available to students at this panel event. Topics students are interested in range from:
- What the executives see as the future of business and information technology.
- How information technology is integrates into every aspect of business.
- What the student can do to prepare themselves for their business futures.
This event is promoted to the entire university and supports both the presenting businesses and the Information Systems discipline by getting information to the student population.
Tech-Smart Event
CITI hosts an annual event where the hosting members invite a table of colleagues and staff to hear from CEOs and industry experts.Events have included:
- Father of the Internet - Vinton Cerf
- New CEO Strategies and Challenges,”featuring CEOs from J.D. Edwards, Ball Corporation and Qwest Communications;
- The Future of Telecom featuring CEOs from Level 3 Communications, UnitedGlobalCom and AT&T Wireless.
Executive Roundtable and Workshops
Industry leaders and pioneers and prominent researchers from academia present workshops dealing with topics of relevance to the business community. Such workshops may deal with first-hand corporate experiences with emerging information technologies, demonstrations of these technologies or discussions of policy issues related to implementation of these technologies.
Workshops may include best practices, e-business, security, web integration strategies, outsourcing, systems funding and integration, and Internet privacy to name a few. Last year, Gary Beach, publisher of CIO magazine, facilitated a member discussion about the state of IT today, the legacy albatross, knowledge management and cutting costs.
Luncheons
Birds of a Feather
CITI coordinates executive meetings for the directors who support CIOs and CTOs. These groups provide additional knowledge and feedback on best practices to the members.
Active groups include chief security officers and directors of infrastructure/Web development.
Women's C-Level Executive
Women Executives from member companies come together to network and learn. These are vendor free events. Meetings are held in some of the best restaurants in town.
Executive Short Courses
Information technology experts from industry and academia address topical issues of interest to our member firms in customized short courses. Information and skills for immediate use in participant companies are emphasized.
Short course topics have included “Why Projects Fail,” “IT Maintenance, Repair and Operations – Systems Integration” and “Leading Geeks” by the author of the book Leading Geeks.
