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Can a company that sells software to your institution be given gift credit for waiving registration costs for University employees at their tech conference? Or is that a conflict of interest? To be more specific, if a company from who we purchase software offers to waive our employees' registration fees at their tech conference, is this countable as a gift? Or is it just a nice thing to do?

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Jessica Baker
Director, Data Quality, Gift Processing, Strategy
University of Texas at Austin
jbaker@austin.utexas.edu
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Original Message:
Sent: 7/25/2022 3:47:00 PM
From: Jessica Baker
Subject: Gift or conflict of interest?

Can a company that sells software to your institution be given gift credit for waiving registration costs for University employees at their tech conference? Or is that a conflict of interest? To be more specific, if a company from who we purchase software offers to waive our employees' registration fees at their tech conference, is this countable as a gift? Or is it just a nice thing to do?

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Jessica Baker
Director, Data Quality, Gift Processing, Strategy
University of Texas at Austin
jbaker@austin.utexas.edu
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Thanks so much, John, as always.

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Jessica Baker
Director, Data Quality, Gift Processing, Strategy
University of Texas at Austin
jbaker@austin.utexas.edu
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-25-2022 02:55 PM
From: John Taylor
Subject: Gift or conflict of interest?

I am not sure that "conflict of interest" is the correct phrase.  But it is certainly not a gift.  It is akin to a free licence or seat; or an airline giving you a free ticket; or a hotel giving you a free room.

Sure it is nice.  Maybe even worthy of soft credit if the "free" registration is not included in the contract.

John

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Original Message:
Sent: 7/25/2022 3:47:00 PM
From: Jessica Baker
Subject: Gift or conflict of interest?

Can a company that sells software to your institution be given gift credit for waiving registration costs for University employees at their tech conference? Or is that a conflict of interest? To be more specific, if a company from who we purchase software offers to waive our employees' registration fees at their tech conference, is this countable as a gift? Or is it just a nice thing to do?

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Jessica Baker
Director, Data Quality, Gift Processing, Strategy
University of Texas at Austin
jbaker@austin.utexas.edu
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