Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy Vacation School will take place in Venice from April 28 to April 30, 2016.

Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy (CADE) is an exclusive 3-day Vacation School that will bring together academics and practitioners to discuss the current and future challenges surrounding the issues of new markets, digital currencies and big data in the digital economy. This year the topic of the School is: "Markets, Currencies and Data". Thought leaders from a variety of sciences including Marketing, Service Systems, Computer Science, Economics, and Business Administration will share their opinions about the impact of technology on the way businesses operate, with particular reference to the creation of new markets, digital currencies and block chains and big data.

The School will take place in the Palazzo Pesaro-Papafava in Venice. It will start at 2 p.m. on April 28, 2016 and end at 3 p.m. on April 30, 2016. The programme will be available from this website on February 12th, 2015.

CADE 2016 is sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Warwick, the New Economic Models in the Digital Economy (NEMODE) RCUK-funded ‘Network-Plus’ Initiative coordinated by the University of Surrey as well as Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) and finally the HAT Resource Integration and Enabling Tool (HARRIET) project based at WMG, the University of Warwick.

2016 sees the third consecutive year of CADE.

Organisers

Irene Ng
(Professor of Marketing and Service Systems, Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick)

Philip Davies
(PhD Student at the Service Systems Group, University of Warwick)

Administrative Team

Philip Davies
(Service Systems Group, WMG, University of Warwick)

Chiara Croff
(Warwick in Venice)

Point of Contact

If you have any questions regarding the summer school, please contact Philip Davies at p.davies@warwick.ac.uk