February 29 – March 1, 2008
Eller College of Management, McClelland Hall
The University of Arizona

The FITA 2008, coordinated by the MIS Department, agenda has been updated. View it here.

Registration for non-Eller College affiliates here: http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=160850

Registration for Eller College affiliates here: http://fita2008.ecom.arizona.edu/eller_reg.htm

FITA 2008 (Arizona Exposium Frontiers on Information Technology & Applications) will provide a forum for business leaders, faculty, and students to exchanges ideas on new IT problems and solutions, particularly in such frontier areas as service-oriented computing, security, online marketing, and collaboration technologies. This event is not a conventional academic conference because it is designed to attract a balanced mix of industrialists, academia, and students.  We call this event “exposium” since it is between an expo, which mainly draws people from the industry, and a symposium, which mainly attracts people from academic institutions.  That is, Exposium = Expo + Symposium. 

The main conference goal is to promote exchanges among corporations and universities in the area of information technology and its applications. Specific objectives are to help corporations sharpen their insights about problems and solutions, enable students to showcase their talents and find internships/jobs, and allow faculty to acquire real world projects and data.

The program will consist of keynote speeches, presentations, and student posters that will facilitate the networking and exchange of ideas among symposium participants.  This event will attract managers/engineers from the industry and faculty/students from the Eller College of Management, other colleges at University of Arizona, and other universities. 

The presentations selected for the event will be organized through the following themed tracks that will draw interests from companies and students: Border Security and Immigration, IT Governance, IT In Defense & Services, IT Investment Strategies, New Perspectives on ERP, Online Marketing, Cyber Security for Businesses & Governments, Service Computing & Management.

View the FITA 2008 Confernece website here: http://fita2008.ecom.arizona.edu