Information
 
When : 25th  March, 1998

Where : Rectorate's Auditory, University of Coimbra (localization)

The students of the courses "Management Processes" and "Firms Management", in the Graduate Course of Informatics Engineering, administered by the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, are organizing the 2nd Meeting on Information Management and Technologies, thus trusting in the support by the scientific, educational and management organs of the Department.
The objectives and principal features of this Meeting are explained in the following sections:
 

 

Session Themes

This meeting is organized on subjects that highlight the use of Information Technologies as a point of success and development of firms, organizations, and in general, of the society itself. Instead of focusing on merely scientific or technological subjects, themes were chosen so to explain how firms can use effectively I.T.s in order to improve their management and mission-dependent activities, so to become more competitive. Thus, emphasis is given to presenting concrete cases of utilization of I.T.s, more particularly on new perspectives of Information Management.

 

Speakers

For the same reason, instead of looking for speakers within the academic or technologic environment, or perhaps what would have been easier, looking for firms providing informatic products which could have just advertised themselves, we are trying to obtain a set of speakers coming mainly from user firms, who come to present their experience and the way I.T.s are effectively used within their firms.

 

Public Interest

The choice for those themes and speakers has the objective to realize a Meeting interesting students and graduates, but also firm managers and informatics experts, mainly from the central zone of Portugal, but also from abroad. This way, we think to join a number of people who want to relate their important experience in using I.T.s, and also know the latest developments in this area. This lead to a balance between a practical side of I.T.s in the firm area and techniques and technologies which will be used soon in the firms themselves.

 

Model of the Meeting

In an informatized society, a meeting model based mainly on presentations by a number of professors and technicians in front of a passive public is not justified. Thus, the Meeting we are realizing give everyone the chance to participate to the discussion about the subjects chosen. The Organizing Commission is thus very involved in preparing carefully the discussions in order for the Meeting to be a real space of debate.

 

The Future

Our objective is to realize an event which, due to its relevance, quality and participation, justify his continuity in the next years, as was the case for the last Meeting. We want then organize the second as a series of  meeting which, being directed to managers, informatics technicians, teachers and students, build a regular forum of discussion about subjects on I.T.s and their uses. The existence of this forum build a deeper link between University and the Firms. We are trying this way to hold the Academic Institution updated and able to adapt her curricula and research projects to the actual needs of the management world, as well to give the organizations which honoured us of their presence the possibility to access to a technological knowledge, severe and up to date.

 

Contacts

  • Postal Address
Encontro de Gestão e Tecnologias de Informação
Departamento de Engenharia Informática
Polo II - Pinhal de Marrocos
3000 Coimbra
 
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