Presented by the Center for Information Technology Innovation
Sponsored by Sendgrid

Tuesday, October 16  | 5:15 PM – 7:00 PM
St. Cajetan’s on the Auraria Campus

RSVP http://bit.ly/Business-Edge-18

Join the University of Colorado Denver Business School, the Information Systems program, and the Information Systems Association for a panel discussion about how Information Technology can give business leaders major career advantages.

This event presents an opportunity for attendees to learn what executives from some of Denver’s most successful companies are looking for and what they see as the future of business and IT.

This is a great opportunity to hear how IT is an integral part of every aspect of business and what you can do to prepare yourself for your future.

The panelists are:

• Alan Cullop, CIO and SVP at DaVita Inc.
• James Gaulke, VP of IT, PDC Energy
• Marina Johnson, CEO Most Programming, Inc.
• Sam Kumar, President, Newcloud Networks
• Lucia Milica, CEO & Principal Consultant, Datassure
• Randy Weldon, IT Executive
• Christian Winward, CTO, FirstBank

Moderator:  Ted Hellmuth, Founder & GM, IQ Clarity

Special presentation by  Randy Guthrie, Microsoft Technical Evangelist

Attendees have the chance to win an iPad Mini and other door prizes.

Sponsored by the Information Systems Association and the Student Government Association and Sendgrid

Thank you to all students who filled out the survey. Below are our responses to your feedback along with our takeaways (e.g. apparently no one uses Twitter anymore…).

Written feedback

What should we include more of in the Gist?

• Tips, fun facts — We are always working on tips relevant to Business School students and things the Business Career Connections team is always giving advice on. Watch out for some videos by the BCC this semester!
• It’s good the way it is — Well gee thanks!
• Student spotlights — We try and highlight at least one student story in the News section every time. We’ll keep trying to make that a priority.
• More events that haven’t been in announcements — We put all the events we know of in the next two week period. We will keep making sure not to miss anything!
• More GIFs — Expect an unexpected GIF. We’ll leave it at that.

What should we include less of in the Gist?

• N/A — Most popular answer! So good to hear.
• Too many events — We try to limit events coming up within the 2 week time period. Sometimes there are just so many going on and we have to be fair and promote them equally. We will share your feedback with many of the event planners and see if we can collaborate more so we have fewer, but more interesting events!
• I really like the Gist — Aw shucks! We really like you too.
• Everything’s fine

What else do we need to know about communications?

• The emails and Facebook are very solid platforms. I’m also enjoying the Instagram posts. — So great to hear! We are always working on our social media game.
• UCD email is the best. — Hey thanks!
• It would be nice to have a master calendar on all the events happening around CU Denver. — We are working on this. The best place to go right now is our Facebook events page.
• Less overall clog of emails. The Gist is fine, but receive tons of fairly useless emails. — We are also working on this. We are actively working with advising, BCC, and other Business School departments to lower the number of invaluable emails. We are also sharing these results with CU Denver and there is a campus-wide push to identify the number of emails being sent out to students.
• Tell more about scholarship dates. — We agree this is super important! We always try and highlight those dates/deadlines as they come up. We’ll be sure to keep that up and feature it prominently.
• Flyers are very helpful in the elevators. — We’ll keep them as updated as possible for you.

Stats on Communications

How useful are the emails you receive?

How engaging are the emails you receive?

How happy with the frequency are you?

What are your primary and secondary sources of information?

How do you get information about Business School news and events?

Feel like your voice wasn’t heard? Shoot Lena an email: lena.gerber@ucdenver.edu. We are always looking for feedback on how the Business School or CU Denver can improve our communications to you.