The Rollins Center for eBusiness and the CP80 Foundation are bringing some of Utah’s business leaders to the BYU campus Friday, 16 March, 2007 for its semiannual eBusiness Day.
Titled Technology Responsibility and Ethics, this semester’s eBusiness Day focuses on the risks and opportunities inherent in technology.
“We live in an era of unprecedented access to and reliance upon technology,” says Stephen Liddle. Director of the Rollins Center for eBusiness. “This event gives people a chance to learn about the ripple effects of e-business, risk management in using technology, and how they can become personally involved in these fields.”
Ralph Yarro, CEO and president of ThinkAtomic, Inc., will be the event’s keynote speaker. Yarro is the founder of the CP80 Internet Initiative, a nonprofit organization working to separate Internet content that is harmful to children. Ron Schwendiman, manager of LDS Church Internet Operations, will speak on “The Storm of Technology in our Lives.” Liddle will also speak. He will address the event’s theme in a presentation called “A Framework for Understanding the New Challenges and Opportunities of the Internet Era.”
After the lectures, there will be a question and answer session open to participants. Technology and ethics related organizations such as CP80 will also have booths open to the public in the atrium of the Tanner Building. At the conclusion of the event, there will be a drawing for an IPod Nano in the atrium.
“This eBusiness Day is going to be an incredible opportunity to get an inside scoop on some cutting-edge technology being developed to combat some of the more troubling aspects of technology,” says Jeff Brown, program manager for the Rollins Center for eBusiness. “We’re very excited to hear from these great speakers.”
The Marriott School is located at Brigham Young University, the largest privately owned, church-sponsored university in the United States. The school has nationally ranked programs in accounting, business management, information systems, organizational behavior and entrepreneurship. The mission of the Marriott School is to educate men and women of faith, character and professional ability who will become outstanding managers and leaders throughout the world. Approximately 3,000 students are enrolled in the Marriott School’s graduate and undergraduate programs.
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Writer: Camilla Hodge