Tech Frontiers - Executive Education

Tech Frontiers

Emerging topics. Engaged learning. Expanded networks.

Enhance your technical knowledge while you advance your career.

Tech Frontiers is the professional development program of the College of Engineering and Applied Science of the ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ, offering short-form learning on contemporary topics in engineering. Through live sessions taught by CU faculty experts, Tech Frontiers courses offer a mixture of classroom content and discussion or project experience. You’ll interact with faculty and fellow participants as you learn and apply emerging technologies and concepts.

Tech Frontiers is available both in person and remotely and customized programs can be designed to suit the needs of an organization. 

Who should attend?

  • Managers of tech groups or tech products â€“ from any industry – seeking a greater understanding of contemporary and future technical methods and their application.

  • Tech professionals or others interested in keeping up with the latest developments.

Contact techfrontiers@colorado.edu to learn more about the program. 

Tech Frontiers Team

Zachary Kilpatrick

Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

Kilpatrick’s research leverages behavioral and neural recording data sets from humans and other animals to determine how they make decisions and learn across multiple timescales — validating mathematical models of Bayesian computation and recurrent neural networks. He received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Utah.

Amy Richards

Richards serves as Professional Development and Industry Relations Program Manager for CU ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ’s Department of Computer Science. She facilitates connections between industry and CU’s computing programs, including management of collaborations like Tech Frontiers.

Bobby Schnabel

Professor and Department External Chair, Department of Computer Science

At CU ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ, Schnabel has served as the computer science department chair, founding director of the ATLAS Institute, and vice provost for academic and campus computing and campus Chief Information Officer. He was previously CEO of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and dean of the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University.