Sentences with phrase «tech workforce»

In the meantime, governments need to make it easier for talented IT professionals to gain work visas and allow the burgeoning tech workforces from emerging economies to engage in opportunities worldwide.

Recognizing the need for a high tech workforce of the future, the Florida High Tech Corridor Council established an educational initiative to reach middle and high school students.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. today praised Black River Systems of Utica for its efforts to support the Oneida County College Student Corps and help grow the high tech workforce of the future.

I was proud of the sophisticated proposal that was submitted to Amazon which detailed our region's resurgence, strong economy and positive momentum, our talented tech workforce, world - class colleges and universities, regional attributes including existing area connectivity, advanced innovation eco-system, the well - documented affordability of our region, and access to Canada and other destinations.

Innovative job training in technology: An evaluation of the Chicago Career Tech Workforce Development Program.

Time will tell if these initiatives prove effective at integrating tech workforces and increasing diversity among those getting a coding education.

«As the economic tides change, the Bay Area, with its entrenched tech workforce, is the perfect place to take the pulse of worker expectations and how they are shifting over time,» Woo CEO Liran Kotzer told the Business Times.

«We applaud Uber for finally releasing the diversity data it's held onto for so long, but the company still clearly has a long way to go, given its extremely segregated tech workforce,» he says.

The Council also cultivates a high tech workforce through programs aimed at inspiring young students to pursue math and science and another series of investments which helped establish nine technology degree and certificate programs with partner community and state colleges.

Tech layoffs went into overdrive (12,000 at AT&T, 600 at Adobe, 130 at Real Networks), bringing the total unemployed tech workforce to at least 90,000, by our count.

Together, we offer Amazon an affordable business climate, spot - on location, forward - leaning tech workforce, and a quality of life that blends urban, suburban and rural lifestyles.

«The combination of a talented tech workforce and the addition of a growing medical field will boost the healthcare IT industry, increasing the need for office and medical office space in the metro.

Alice Savino, Executive Director of the Workforce Investment Board said «As Executive Director of the WIB and as a resident of this community, I know that the children of the Mohawk Valley must be prepared to fill jobs in today's high tech workforce and also be equipped with a foundation for the jobs that have not yet even been created.»

Millennials and women are figuring more prominently in Canada's tech workforce, too.

Further, the Catalyst report suggests that the desire to start a family is a factor that drives women from the tech workforce, but not the biggest one.

Apple and Facebook including egg - freezing in company health benefits got plenty of publicity, but does little to solve the root problems of gender imbalances in high - tech workforces.

Over the years, Gotham has pushed through initiatives that ranged from lifestyle perks like free Wi - Fi in public parks and subway stations to make the city more attractive to a tech workforce, to establishing a network of business incubators to help provide affordable office space to more than 500 startups.

We can't expect to entice more women into the tech workforce if we can't acknowledge the most fundamental realities of biology and parenting.

Black and Latinx tech workers combined make up just 5 % of the tech workforce, according to the study, and women only 24 %.

Arlington Economic Development Director Victor Hoskins declined to discuss the county's proposed sites but said he is selling Arlington as the center of the area's tech workforce, adjacent to both the District and Montgomery.

From empowering an entire high - tech workforce, to changing the way communities develop and people go about their daily life, to providing critical aid following natural disasters, the industry's impact is unparalleled.

Counting the city's tech workforce isn't straightforward — here's the best guess.

As part of the region's transformative strategy to grow its own high - tech workforce, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. today announced the kickoff for the 2012 SEMI High Tech U Teacher Edition, in partnership with officials from the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Workforce Investment Board, Mohawk Valley EDGE... Read more

As part of the region's transformative strategy to grow its own high - tech workforce, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. today announced the kickoff for the 2012 SEMI High Tech U Teacher Edition, in partnership with officials from the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Workforce Investment Board, Mohawk Valley EDGE, NYSUT and BOCES.

«This unparalleled amount of investment will build upon the recent success of the Utica Memorial Auditorium and transform its surrounding area into a thriving Arts, Sports and Entertainment District that will create jobs, spur economic development, provide additional amenities for our emerging high - tech workforce and establish Utica as a powerhouse tourism destination.»

When I moved up to Silicon Valley to start caring for a mostly sedentary, high - tech workforce, I lost the ability to estimate a patient's age and often would not even come close, being off by a decade.

A hot topic in the tech world is the lack of diversity in the tech workforce.

«They won't build a strong high - tech workforce in Albuquerque, or ensure farmers in Luna County can find a market for their chiles and wine,» he said.

This is especially true in Toronto, which has experienced a 33 % increase in its tech workforce from 2011 to 2016, according to a CBRE report.