Media school students: Attend Q&A with Bits columnist Nick Bilton
UPDATE: The deadline to RSVP has been extended to Oct. 6.
Media School students will have a chance to ask questions of one of The New York Times’ top tech columnists during the UITS Statewide IT conference next week.
Columnist and author Nick Bilton will give the keynote speech at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 7 at the IU Auditorium. After his talk, Bilton will take questions from about two dozen Media School students for a small-group Q&A in the auditorium balcony.
The Media School is a co-sponsor of Bilton’s talk, which opens the conference that brings IU employees working in areas of technology to one location for a series of workshops.
“We’re honored to be part of the conference and especially to support Nick Bilton’s appearance,” said Media School associate dean Lesa Hatley Major. “He not only covers technology policy and product development — issues that concern many of our students and faculty — but he is an excellent reporter and writer who explains these issues clearly.”
Media School students (telecommunications, journalism or communications and culture) who want to attend Bilton’s Q & A should complete The Media School’s online form no later than Oct. 3. If you are among the first 25 to sign up, you’ll receive a ticket to the Q&A, which will start at about 12:15 p.m.
All students are welcome to attend Bilton’s keynote speech, in which he will discuss technology trends and how the evolution of tech will affect future students and IU’s information technology community. Two other keynotes — a panel discussion on Tuesday and a conference wrap-up on Wednesday by IU IT vice president and CIO Brad Wheeler — also are open to all students. You do not have to register for the conference to attend these talks. All other conference sessions are closed.
An award-winning journalist, Bilton is the lead writer of the Bits blog on NYTimes.com, which discusses the social impact of the Web on culture and the media, and he contributes a regular column. He is author of two books, I Live in the Future and Here’s How it Works, and Hatching Twitter, which reveals the internal struggles of Twitter from start-up to public stock offering.
Statewide IT features a series of events concerning IT and issues in IT, including workshops, networking and break out sessions.