Diverse teams foster a culture of increased creativity, collaboration, and innovation.Robert Half released the 2013 salary guide, showing tremendous growth in a number of high tech jobs, suggesting that “Competition is expected to be particularly fierce for professionals who can support mobile, big data, cloud and virtualization initiatives.” The pervasiveness and optimism of students at the conference was energizing. There are twice as many jobs in information technology than all other engineering jobs combined. One big takeaway is that we live in a magical time – the impact and influence that technology is having on everything we do is amazing – and for those in the field, the employment opportunities are just as amazing. Jones talked about the impact of information technology on the world and the speed of change. Technology is awesome – it is an amazing time to be in computing! On Friday, University of Virginia and a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science Anita K.I came away with a few things from the conference that really stuck with me: I was invited to attend as part of a Technical Executive forum in hope of learning and bringing best practices back to our team ( Twitter and Blog). This has been the case throughout the past decade, even as college educated women have increased their share of the overall workforce.” economy, they hold less than 25 percent of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) jobs. Department of Commerce, “although women fill close to half of all jobs in the U.S. The conference - one of the initiatives of the Anita Borg Institute - is the largest technical conference for women in computing in the world and results in collaborative proposals, networking and mentoring for junior women and increased visibility for the contributions of top technical women and researchers in computing.Īccording to the U.S. On October 3-6 2012, several thousand gathered in Baltimore, Maryland at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference.
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