On November 10-11 an important event for our ERP education took place in the Electrum building in Kista. The local user organization for SAP (SAPSA) organized the annual Impuls conference impuls2009.html in cooperation with KTH and DSV. Almost 1000 users and consultants from more than 100 of Sweden’s largest companies Anmälda företag.xls visited the conference. All the 200 students currently enrolled in the DSV course Enterprise Systems and Service Oriented Architectures were invited to the conference and could choose between 80 different presentations held by practitioners and academians. I coordinated the academic track of presentations Akademiska föredrag ver 3.doc which included:
– Tomorrow’s engineer – Eric Giertz Eric Giertz.jpg, keynote speaker
– Service oriented business models for enterprise systems – Håkan Enquist and Gustaf Juell-Skielse
– Trust in inter-organisational collaboration – Eva Söderström
– Wireless Application Trends and Threats using RFID Technologies – Mark Smith
– The future of academic ERP education – Gustaf Juell-Skielse
– The CIO and IT governance: A threatening backlash – Johan Magnusson
– Intercompany at Atlas Copco – Doris Li, Patricia Norderstål and Johanna Stjerndahl
In addition we had a great crew of last year students from the Bachelor program for Enterprise systems working as hosts for the conference.
I see this as a great confirmation from industry for our efforts in establishing the first Swedish program in Enterprise Systems.
Gustaf Juell-Skielse