The founder and CEO of WinFiles.com (formerly Windows95.com) will be the keynote speaker at Brigham Young University’s semi-annual e-business conference on Friday, 9 Feb. Steve Jenkins, who sold WinFiles.com in February 1999 to CNET, Inc. for $11.5 million, will address the conference’s theme, “Dot-Coms Melt Down: How Companies Survive and Thrive in our Current Economic Situation.” Hosted by the Marriott School’s Kevin and Debra Rollins Center for eBusiness, the conference will begin at 9:30 a.m. in room 151 of the Tanner Building. The conference will cater to students but is also open to BYU faculty and staff.
“Our objective is to help students stay current with economic events affecting dot-com companies,” said Owen Cherrington, director of the Rollins Center for eBusiness at the Marriott School. “The conference will feature speakers involved with the development and financial backing of dot-com companies. It will be a wonderful opportunity for students to interact with and learn from these individuals.”
Other conference speakers include Paul Ahlstrom, a founding partner of vSpring ventures; BerkeleyGeddes, co-founder of WhizBang! Labs / FlipDog.Com; and Lynn Butterfield, senior vice president of Trade.Com Global Markets.
The Rollins Center for eBusiness is directed by Marriott School professor, J. Owen Cherrington. The Center fosters the study and teaching of how information technology is changing business and management processes. It serves as an intermediary between the high-tech business sector and BYU faculty and students — forming new partnerships and undertaking joint research projects. The Center also works to attract and maintain the highest quality faculty and staff; develop new course materials; expand the number of e-commerce classes; and provide students with new employment opportunities, internships and field study projects.
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