IBM & Fordham University’s FREE webinar on analytic skills needed for the future job market

Tomorrow, Wednesday December 9, we are hosting an event at Fordham University, New York City, on the analytic skills business school students will need for the job market. We have a fantastic line up of speakers, including the Dean of the Business School, a venture capitalist, the director of the Center for Urban Future and  the CIO of NY Health and Human Services Most importantly, the  event will be streamed live on the Web.

Event time 9:30-11:30 am, December 9, 2009
URL for the Webcast: http://snipurl.com/tm4cm

This special event will include brief presentations and an interactive panel discussion. Prominent leaders will be on hand to share their perspectives on the skills needed for business leaders of tomorrow, including:

Robert Himmelberg, Dean, Fordham Graduate School of Business Administration,
Kamal Bherwani, CIO, New York Health and Human Services,
Evangelos Simoudis, Managing Director, Trident Capital,
Jonathan Bowles, Director, Center for an Urban Future
Ambuj Goyal, General Manager, Business Analytics and Process Optimization, IBM

For those unable to join us in person, the event is being streamed live at: http://webcast.ibcwl.com/ibm/fsb20091209
In addition, you can follow along at #IBMFordham on Twitter.

CNET: IBM helps students put their heads in the cloud, LotusLive

This was one of the major topic of discussions from Lotus Knows ideaJam this past summer.  How do you get Students to be interested in IBM Lotus techonology? Simple, make it relevant to their needs. Yesterday, IBM announced a program designed to help educators and students pursue cloud-computing initiatives and better take advantage of collaboration technology in their studies.

The IBM Cloud Academy, announced at the Educause annual conference, includes a global roster of educational institutions as initial participants. Educause is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

IBM will provide the cloud-based infrastructure for the program, with some basic collaboration tools available at the outset. IBM’s LotusLive service provides the basis for the new offering. Participants will immediately be able to do some very basic tactical functions on the new system:

• Create working groups on areas of interest to the education industry
• “Jam” on new innovations for clouds in education-related areas with IBM developers
• Work jointly on technical projects across institutions
• Share research findings and exchange new ideas

>> Read the rest of the article here.