We had a couple of guest speakers in for the EBUS 3003::E-Business System Design course on Wednesday. I was the unit co-ordinator and lecturer for the course in 2004. I was filling in for Rafael whilst he was away doing other things off-campus. I didn’t have a digital camera last year, so I was not able to take a photo of the lecture theatre from the lecturer’s perspective behind the lectern. Not everyone gets the opportunity to stand up in front of a large audience and rattle on for an hour or two, and I regret not taking a photo to capture the experience back then. So I made up for it this year and snapped one at the start of the lecture (which is why there is a big gap in the middle of the audience).
Rafael introduced industry guest speakers into the course a couple years ago. I have also helped to bring some quality speakers to the course. Last year with the help of Microsoft we were able to have Richard Ang the CIO of NineMSN to present some of the things they are doing with Internet technologies. We also had Simon Wild the CTO of Xylogy in to give a talk on project management. He came back this year to give another talk, this time on project governance.
On Wednesday we managed to have Kim Tran, a systems manager from Procter & Gamble, give a talk on sales automation, supply chain management and interactive marketing. As well as Karsten Kumpf, a business services manager from Tibco Software Inc.
We are very fortunate enough to have people from industry that are willing to give up some time from their busy work schedule, and to talk to students about their experiences in industry, as well as the latest trends in industry. There really aren’t that many courses at University that offer such a program, and I see this connection with industry as one of our strengths of the School of Electrical & Information Engineering, at the University of Sydney.
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