Update: January 2005 - The final e-commerce conference was held in 2003

Conferences

One of our corporate outreach activities has been our hosting of an annual conference for MISRC member firms and the Twin Cities business community as a whole, and participants from various units of the University of Minnesota (e.g., the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, the Digital Technology Center, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Institute of Technology, the Law School, and Journalism and Mass Communication in the College of Liberal Arts). During 1996 to 2003, Professor Les Wanninger chaired a series of high-impact conferences called "The University of Minnesota Electronic Commerce Conference." The last in that series, "The Internet: The New Public Utility" occurred in April 2003, shortly before Professor Wanninger's retirement from the university. The MISRC leadership, in consultation with its corporate membership and the faculty of the Information and Decision Sciences Department, is now exploring what our next steps will be in terms of themes for future annual conferences.

Recent conferences include the following:

• The Internet: The New Public Utility (May 1-2, 2003)
• The (R)evolution Rediscovers ROI (April 11-12, 2002)
• The (R)evolution Goes Mobile (March 26-27, 2001)
• e-Commerce and e-Tailing: The (R)evolution Continues (March 27-28, 2000)
• e-Business: Electronic Channels to Customers and Suppliers (November 9-10, 1998)
• Keeping Promises to Customers in a Changing World of Technology (November 10-11, 1997)
• An Evolutionary Approach to a Revolutionary Set of Business Opportunities (November 11-13, 1996)