The APEX Global Business IT Case Challenge is an annual undergraduate Business IT case competition hosted by SMU’s School of Information Systems in Singapore. Case scenarios encompass Information Systems solutions, corporate transformation imperatives, and business impacts.

Network with students from top universities and meet successful corporate leaders from the business industry. Take this opportunity to immerse yourself into the unique culture of Singapore, as well as representing the Sauder School of Business and The University of British Columbia internationally!

To learn more about the APEX Global Business IT Case Challenge, visit http://www.apexcasechallenge.com/.

Coach: William Tan

A) Eligibility

Your team must meet the following criteria in order to compete in the APEX Global Business IT Case Challenge.

• Participation in APEX 2012 tryouts is in teams of 3 undergraduate students.
• The Sauder School of Business may send a team of three 3rd or 4th year students in the BUCS or BCOM program.
• Two team members must either be a BUCS or BCOM student who have designated BTM as his/her option.
• The third team member must have completed COMM 391, COMM 335, and one other BTM course by April 2012.

B) Application

Application has now closed!

C) Information Session Date and Location

Attend the information session to learn more about how to participate in the APEX Global Business IT Case.

When:
Thursday, November 17, 2011
12:30 PM to 1:30 PM

Where:
Room 234, Henry Angus Building, Sauder School of Business

D) Tryouts Session Date and Location

After reviewing your team’s application, your team will be asked to participate in a tryouts session held by the coach and a judging panel.

When:
Thursday, December 1, 2011
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Where:
Room 354, Henry Angus Building, Sauder School of Business

E) Case Challenge Date and Location

To be announced by the Organizing Committee of the APEX Global Business IT Case Challenge

For more Information:

Visit http://www.apexcasechallenge.com/

The Futures in Information Technology (FIT) Conference is UBC BizTech Network’s signature event. The primary goal of FIT is to enhance students’ awareness of the strategic value of IT assets to businesses and what IT knowledge and skills business managers must have in today’s rapidly changing business environment.

The FIT conference will be designed to let all undergraduate students understand how IT has impacted different functional areas in businesses and motivate them to integrate BTM into their studies. The theme for the FIT 2012 is “IT and the Manager’s job”. In collaboration with the MIS Division, the UBC BizTech Network wants to provide over 100 UBC undergraduate students an incredible networking and learning experience.

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Details

Date: Monday, February 13, 2012, 5:30 PM to 9:30  PM
Location: Room 492, Henry Angus Building, Sauder School of Business & CA Hall
Attire: Business Formal

Itinerary

Speakers

Speakers from different functional areas will give participants an overview of their jobs and how they have applied their IT knowledge and skills in their work. In particular, they will describe what role they play in integrating IT into the business processes in their respective areas. This will allow students to learn how business managers use IT to add value to their business and what IT knowledge and skills a manager should possess. Each speaker will speak for about 10-12 minutes. It will be followed by a panel discussion which provides students an opportunity to ask intuitive questions as well as allowing some alumni and guests to share their experience.

• Introductory Note:                             Kouros Goodarzi, Senior Project Manager, Coast Capital Savings
  
• Panel Discussion Moderator:        Blake Hanna, Former Accenture Partner
• Accounting:                                        Kevin Teo, MAcc, Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young
• Accounting & TLog:                                  Edward Pereira, IT Security Director, Lululemon
• Finance:                                               Ray McNichol, Director of Finance, UBC Financial Services
• Finance:                                               Don Coulter, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Coast Capital Savings
• Human Resources:                          Charlene Chua-Entote, HR Coordinator, National Research Council
• Marketing:                                          Natasha Jung, Marketing Specialist at Deloitte

Professional Guests

Guests from the following companies have been confirmed and are attending the event:

• Accenture
• CIO Association of Canada, Vancouver Chapter
• Coast Capital Savings
• Deloitte
• Ernst & Young
• KPMG
• HSBC
• London Drugs
• Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)
• Lululemon
• National Research Council
• Phillips, Hager & North
• PHSA, Vancouver Coastal Health, Providence Healthcare
• Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Sierra Systems
• Telus

Menu

Caesar salad
Traditional Caesar salad with all the fixings

Herbed roasted potatoes
Crisp potatoes seasoned with coarse sea salt and marinated in herbs and olive oil

Roasted pork loin with mushroom sauce
Slow roasted pork loin served with a creamy, freshly made mushroom sauce

Pan fried chicken picatta
Pan fried chicken thighs coated in flour and deep fried to a golden brown and finished off with a citrusy caper sauce

Vegetarian Chili w/ soft buttery bread
Grilled vegetables cooked over a low fire and blended with an aromatic chili sauce served with soft buttery bread

Our Sponsors

The UBC BizTech Network Executives and Members would like to extend a HUGE Thank You to our sponsors and partners. Your generous support is greatly appreciated!

Diamond Sponsors

Platinum Sponsor

Gold Sponsors

Our Academic Partners

Club Supporters

• UBC Accounting Club
• UBC Marketing Association
• UBC Transportation and Logistics Club
• UBC Trading Group
• UBC Human Resources Management Club
• UBC Consulting Club

When:
Friday, February 10, 2011
Time to be determined

Where:
Room to be announced, Henry Angus Building, Sauder School of Business

Charity Organization: To be determined

Cost: Members and Non-Members by donation

Snacks and Refreshments will be provided

CaseIT 2012 is the 10th Annual International Undergraduate Management Information Systems (MIS) Case Competition held in Vancouver.

Participate in a 24-hour case deliberation and present your analysis to a judging panel composed of executive judges and compete against international schools. This is an opportunity to network with other future business leaders, and meet industry professionals. Compete and represent the Sauder School of Business and The University of British Columbia internationally!

For more information about the CaseIT Case Challenge, visit http://caseit.org/.

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A) Information Session

Attend the information session to learn more about application requirements and details, tryout details, and how to participate in the CaseIT Case Challenge.

Everyone is welcome to come to this information session!

When:
Thursday, October 6, 2011
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Location: Room 343, Henry Angus Building, Sauder School of Business

B) Eligibility and Application

• First 2 group members must be either BUCS/BTM/BTM as a 2nd Option Majors
• 3rd member must have completed 3 MIS courses by February 2012
• Tryout judges reserve the right to pick anymore from any group to form the final group

C) Tryouts Date and Location

Members are invited to watch tryouts

When:
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: Room 334, Henry Angus Building, Sauder School of Business

D) Case Challenge Date and Location

February 1-4, 2012

Visit http://caseit.org/competition/event-schedule/ for the itinerary

For more Information:

Visit http://caseit.org/

The Inter-Collegiate Business Competition is Canada’s premier undergraduate business case competition. There are eight different events in which students can choose to compete in: Accounting, Business Policy, Ethics, Debating, Finance, Human Resources, Marketing, and Management of Information Systems.

Compete and represent the Sauder School of Business and The University of British Columbia nationally!

For more information about the Inter-Collegiate Business Competition, visit http://icbconline.ca/.

A) Eligibility

Your team must meet the following criteria in order to compete in the Inter-Collegiate Business Competition.

To be announced

B) Application

Currently not available at this moment

C) Information Session Date and Location

Attend the information session to learn more about how to participate in the Inter-Collegiate Business Competition.

To be announced

D) Interview Session Date and Location

After reviewing your team’s application, your team will be asked to participate in an interview session held by the coach.

To be announced

E) Competition Date and Location

To be announced by the Organizing Committee of the Inter-Collegiate Business Competition

For more information

Visit http://icbconline.ca/

Project Management
Managing projects require balancing between cost, time and scope. Come and understand the roles, impacts and management of HR, procurement, and risk.

Presented by Kevin Ko, Vice President Engagement

Advanced Excel
Learn useful Excel techniques including pivot tables, financial modeling and equations!  Create powerful analysis reports through Excel.

Presented by Michael Kim, Windows Campus Leader and President of the UBC Trading Group

When:
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Where:
Room 492, Henry Angus Building, Sauder School of Business

Who is this for: Any year from any faculty

Cost:

• Members: Free
• Non-Members: $10.00 (includes Membership for the rest of the year)

Date:

Invited Audience:

CIOs, CxOs, Privacy Officers, Senior Management, IT Governance, IT Management, Information Security Management, Risk Management, and IT Assurance professionals.

Overview:

As Cloud Computing evolves and matures it becomes clearer that it bring its own unique set of compliance, legal, trust, and security risks issues. The goal of this presentation is to provide guidance on how to mitigate and manage these new Cloud-related risks. This will help you better understand what questions to ask a Cloud Provider, what the current recommended practices are, and the potential pitfalls to avoid.

In order to gain a better understanding of the inherent risks of Cloud Computing, the presentation will first briefly review what is Cloud Computing and provide a technical overview of an adopted existing Cloud Architecture Framework and associated services in order to get you up to speed with Cloud Computing services and deployment models. The latter part of the presentation will be spent on reviewing and providing cloud-specific governance and risk management recommendations you can incorporate into your existing risk management processes.

Biography:

Mr. Michel Oicle is the Information Security Practice Lead at Long View Systems. Mr. Oicle has over 12 years’ industry experience in the areas of IT Security and Information Security Risk Management. In the past, Mr. Oicle has held a position at a governance level as a Senior Information Security Advisor in the Oil & Gas industry, responsible for performing threat risk assessments for projects, particularly critical infrastructure initiatives providing security recommendations. As part of this role, he also developed policies, standards, and guidelines, and as part of a financial audit program, he was also responsible for managing the implementation of various IT Security controls. Most recently, Michel also held a position as an IT Security Auditor for a destination resorts company developing an audit program and performing technical IT Security audits, providing risk assessments and recommendations, application vulnerability assessments and code review, and providing various IT security operational compliance support and recommendations to the organization. Mr. Oicle also spent a number of years as a management consultant providing both IT and IT Security technical solutions to various industry clients.

Michel is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), completed the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) – Harmonized Threat Risk Assessment, and was also previously certified as a Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), and Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA).

Registration:

ISACA Vancouver Chapter has moved its registration process to the secure registration process through Paypal.  Paypal was chosen for its security and its flexibility in accepting all major Credit Cards (VISA, MC, or AMEX).

To register for this event, please go to our website http://www.isaca-vancouver.org/.

The Sauder School of Business is pleased to announce that TELUS has made a donation of $60,000 over three years to support the creation of the new TELUS Excellence in IT Award. This is the largest award ever created for Management Information Systems students and will significantly offset tuition costs for up to five students each year…

Read more at http://startanevolution.ubc.ca/telus-gives-to-management-information-systems-to-establish-telus-excellence-in-it-award/

Session #1 – Website Design
From web hosting and development, learn the how-to’s to launch your own website! Learn the most useful codes for JavaScript, HTML, CSS and WordPress. Also, learn about web technologies such as Silverlight and Flash – tools that can help you in your career path!

Presented by:

• Tiffany Uy, President
• Jake Lopez, Promotion Officer (former Commerce Undergraduate Society‘s IT Director)

Session #2 – Graphic Design
Master the art of creating rich graphics to create posters, cover designs and business cards with Adobe Photoshop.

Presented by:

• Kevin Dhami, Vice President Media
• Agatha Entote, Brand and Promotions Director from the UBC Marketing Association

Bonus Session: CLASS Workshop – IT Technologies

Presented by:

• Tiffany Mah, Vice President Charity
• Jake Lopez, Promotions Officer

When:
Thursday, November 10, 2011
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Where:
Room 491, Henry Angus Building, Sauder School of Business

Who is this for: Any year from any faculty

Cost:

• Members: Free
• Non-Members: $10.00 (includes membership for the rest of the year)

Please Bring:

• A laptop
• If you have not already have Adobe Photoshop, install the free trial of Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 Extended

The Hari B. Varshney Business Career Centre at the Sauder School of Business is hosting a Careers in High Tech information session, to provide students with a “day in the life” perspective of the Hi-Tech sector, with particular focus on gaming, software and animation. Panelists from top firms will lead a comprehensive discussion of the skills, attitude and fit required to excel in our hi-tech world of work.
The high tech sector includes both goods- and service-producing industries. High tech manufacturing industries include a wide range of activities ranging from manufacturing pharmaceuticals to computers, communications & other electronic equipment, aerospace products, and medical equipment & supplies.
On the service side, the high tech sector includes software publishers, motion picture & video production and post-production, Internet publishing, telecommunications, data processing, engineering, computer systems design, surveying & mapping, testing laboratories, environmental and other scientific & technical consulting, and research & development activities.

When:
Friday, November 4, 2011
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM

Where:
Room 492, Henry Angus Building, Sauder School of Business

Who is this for: Students from the Sauder School of Business