Academia-Industry Circle will be established for the IT Leaders community, comprised of IT professionals (CIO, CTO, IT Managers). The community will serve as primary target for conducting research as well as for dissemination of relevant articles and reports, exchange ideas and meeting in special symposiums.
Among the main activities planned for the Circle are:
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'Call for Papers' as part of building a mutual research agenda between the academia and the industry.
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Semi-annual electronic 'Enterprise Systems' professional magazine which will be devoted to special researches and articles in the area, and will be distributed by BGU to the Academia-Industry Circle. A special program committee will be initiated by BGU-IEM.
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Annual surveys on top issues of the global and local IT industry.