ECAR Symposium 2006

The 2006 Program: Sustaining the Academy—Technology, Innovation, and Practice

ECAR Symposia have ranged from the real (Larry Smarr) to the virtual (Alan Kay) and from the scientific (V.S. Ramachandran) to the boundary of science and science fiction (Kate Hayle). The 2006 ECAR Symposium has been designed once again to bring together those who are crafting important changes in the world with those who study the effects of such change on our institutions and work. Sessions will encourage interaction at the nexus of theory, analysis, and practice. The 2006 program reflects ECAR's commitment to dwell on both the big issues facing society and higher education and the diversity of ECAR’s research agenda. The unifying theme for the 2006 conference will be sustainability and in particular IT's role in protecting and preserving the academy while promoting innovation and continuous improvement. Topics for the 2006 ECAR Symposium include IT and business continuity; IT governance to foster innovation; IT security, and other issues central to sustaining the academy.

• Symposium agenda (Full details)

Symposium Overview

The ECAR Symposium is a subscriber-only event, held annually at The Boulders, an incomparable property in Carefree, Arizona, just 33 miles north of the Phoenix airport. Up to two individuals from ECAR Participating Subscriber institutions may participate and receive complimentary registration. The Symposium brings together world-class researchers and analysts whose study of higher education and information technology evolves either from work occurring under the aegis of ECAR or from complementary efforts. The ECAR Symposium program is designed in particular to balance experts from academe and ECAR research fellows with leading researchers and analysts from ECAR research partners such as Burton Group, IDC, INPUT, Gartner, and others. Participants in the ECAR Symposium help shape the ECAR research agenda for the next 18 months. Significant time is allocated to an open-forum assessment of research priorities and evaluation of hot topics for research and analysis, including discussion of speaker and topic priorities for the 2007 Symposium.

To assist you with travel plans, the ECAR Symposium schedule is:

• December 6: Reception and dinner (5:30 p.m.)
• December 7: Symposium sessions (8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)
• December 8: Symposium sessions (8:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.)