The UW-Madison E-business Consortium will celebrate its 10th anniversary of serving Wisconsin companies at the Madison Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center Thursday.
UWEBC will hold its annual E-business Best Practices and Emerging Technologies Conference, providing networking opportunity for Wisconsin executives and experts.
According to Kyle Henderson, UWEBC marketing and communications manager, the consortium will have knowledge-sharing events to discuss the emerging technologies and their impact on Wisconsin businesses.
The conference will hold panels dealing with marketing and customer experience, information technology strategy and security, and supply chain management.
[The panels] are really focused on knowledge sharing among companies for the good of all of them, they are focused on best practices in technology and business,"" Henderson said.
UW-Madison alumnus Dale Nitschke, former president of Target.com, will give the ceremony keynote address and also receive UW E-business Institute's 2008 Distinguished Fellow Award during the ceremony.
In 1998, Raj Veeramani, professor in the UW-Madison College of Engineering and Wisconsin School of Business, founded UWEBC. Wisconsin governors have acclaimed the consortium for its innovative approach to helping increase Wisconsin industries' economic interests.
""UW E-business Consortium is an industry-university partnership that pursues the latest technology and in E-business for Wisconsin companies,"" Henderson said. ""E-business Consortium is always looking forward to accessing and learning about and providing to Wisconsin companies.""
Henderson said UWBEC has approximately 65 member companies from Wisconsin including Alliant Energy, American Family Insurance and Lands' End, among others.
To find more about the event, visit http://www.uwebc.org/2008conference/index.html.
