Registration Open: IT as a Career Forum - March 17

The IT as a Career Forum is presented by the Consortium for Enterprises Systems Management will be held in Columbia, SC, on March 17, 2010, from 8:30 to 4:30.

Register to attend online.

The audience targeted is information technology professionals in industry, academia, K-12, government, and not-for-profits interested in growing the pipeline of students who choose IT as a career.

The objective is to promote initiatives that have successfully attracted students at the K-12 or college level to information technology as a career, to develop more support for these initiatives and to replicate them in other communities.

The agenda includes:

Morning sessions

  • presentations of success stories in education connecting students with IT career opportunities

  • Best practices in industry in attracting talent

Afternoon sessions

  • University curriculum for managing IT as a business

  • K-12 curriculum for IT foundation and career pathway alignment
  • Organization/assessment of the smart cities projects
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