Internet Evolution Launches 60 Days of Executive Education

NEW YORK, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The boardroom meets the classroom as Internet Evolution's 60 Days of Executive Education (6DEE) gets underway today with a welcome and invocation from Pandora executive Tim Westergren along with Richard Stiennon lecturing on what CXOs consistently misunderstand about enterprise security.

Stiennon's security series will continue for the rest of the week and is the first of eight, week-long lecture series; other lecturers will cover cloud computing, smart grid, banking, retail, virtualization, healthcare, and greentech. Each lecture includes a live, Web-based chatroom where participants can interact with each other and the lecturer.

For more information or to register, see the full schedule here:

http://www.internetevolution.com/6dee

Participants will earn grades for each series of lectures; those with enough credits can even graduate with high honors and land on the Executive Honor Roll. Participants also have a chance to win one of 10 iPads that will be given away over the course of 6DEE; the first 4,000 graduates will also receive a cerebrally-themed t-shirt to display their matriculated status.

"Technology moves so fast that no one – least of all enterprise executives and senior IT professionals – can be expected to keep up with the latest thinking in how to use technology to improve the bottom line and exploit new sources of revenue," says Terry Sweeney, Editor in Chief of Internet Evolution, and Dean of the 6DEE curriculum. "And that's why we created 6DEE: to give executives and key IT decision-makers an inside track for integrating IT and strategic objectives, improving ROI, and making the data center a competitive differentiator."

6DEE continues every week with a new lecture topic through Sept. 27; Cory Doctorow, Web activist and co-founder of Boing Boing, will speak to graduates in a commencement address on Friday, Oct. 1, at 1:00 p.m. ET.  

About Internet Evolution

Internet Evolution (www.internetevolution.com) hosts more than 200 world-famous Internet experts – such as Kevin Mitnick, once the most-wanted computer hacker in the world; Dr. Lawrence Roberts, inventor of packet switching, and one of the world's foremost authorities on telecom network architectures; Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google – all of whom are addressing today's critical socio-economic issues within its ThinkerNet blogosphere. In December 2009, March 2009, Internet Evolution's ThinkerNet won Min's Best-of-Web award for best blog, beating out Time, Newsweek, and Martha Stewart Living; in March 2009, Min's awarded Internet Evolution Internet Digital Team of the Year, Best Community/Social Networking Site, and Best B2B Magazine-Branded Video.

About UBM TechWeb (http://www.ubmtechweb.com)

UBM TechWeb, the global leader in technology media and professional information, enables people and organizations to harness the transformative power of technology. Through its three core businesses – media solutions, marketing services and paid content – UBM TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed brands and media applications in the technology market. More than 14.5 million business and technology professionals (CIOs and IT managers, Web & Digital professionals, Software Developers, Government decision makers, and Telecom providers) actively engage in UBM TechWeb's communities and information resources monthly. UBM TechWeb brands includes: global face-to-face events such as Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and Enterprise Connect; award-winning online resources such as InformationWeek, Light Reading, and Network Computing; and market-leading magazines InformationWeek, Wall Street & Technology, and Advanced Trading. UBM TechWeb is a UBM company, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.

About United Business Media Limited

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetisation of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities -- from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists -- with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com.

SOURCE Internet Evolution

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