SFU hosts world IT contest

Simon Fraser University business students are challenging universities from around the world to enter the 2010 “CaseIT” competition. Teams of contestants will have 24 hours to analyze and “solve” a real business problem and submit their solutions to a panel of judges from the IT industry. It all started as an SFU-only competition in 2004—but in the 2009 version 16 universities from Asia, Europe, North America and Africa took part. (Students from National University of Singapore took the $1200 first prize.) The full event, which includes more than the CaseIT contest, runs March 31-April 3, 2010, at SFU’s Harbour Centre campus in Vancouver and SFU’s Segal Graduate School of Business.

Katie Fung, director of administration, CaseIT 2010, 604.726.5879; kmf8@sfu.ca