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Jenzabar, a vendor of software for higher education, has announced that the futurist speaker known as "the Dean of Futurists" will discuss — what else?--the future of technology at the Jenzabar Annual Meeting, May 28-31, 2008, in Nashville.

 

Thomas Frey, author, IBM engineer, and executive director of the DaVinci Institute, will address Jenzabar users on the topic of using innovative technology.

 

JAM is a forum for "exchanging ideas and information, making connections with the Jenzabar team, and networking with colleagues from across the nation and around the globe," Jenzabar officials say.

 

The annual conference offers more than 350 sessions designed to help Jenzabar client institutions make the most of their partnership with the technology provider, plus a pre-conference program that includes in-depth training and the JAM Executive Program for presidents and cabinet-level executives.

 

Thomas Frey is the founder of the DaVinci Institute, which began as a non-profit futurist think tank and has written and published numerous papers and coordinated over 100 events across the country. Prior to heading the DaVinci Institute, Frey worked at IBM for more than 15 years as an engineer and a designer, where he received over 270 awards.

 

Dubbed "the Dean of Futurists" by the Denver Post and Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Frey has also served as a columnist for the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News and Boulder County Business Report. He is a contributing writer for The Futurist Magazine and editor of the Impact Lab, an online technology blog that Popular Science hailed as one of the "top five science blogs in the known universe."

 

JAM 2008 will take place at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville.

 

Last month Jenzabar announced that six institutions of higher education, all existing Jenzabar clients, upgraded to the Jenzabar EX enterprise resource planning (ERP) product during Q4 2007.

 

Jenzabar EX, a Total Campus Management product, will provide the campuses with an administrative system to help manage and share real-time information, streamline workflow, and optimize business processes.

 

Among the higher education institutions that have upgraded to Jenzabar EX are Barton College, Coe College, Hellenic College, John Marshall Law School, Midway College, and Tyndale University. Tyndale University has been using the Jenzabar PX administrative system; the other five institutions have been using the Jenzabar TE system.

 

Jenzabar EX, offered on the Microsoft SQL Server platform, lets administrative and academic staff access and update data through a common database and modules.