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Per Scholas redefines IT hiring by diversifying the IT talent pipeline

CIO

To do so, the organization collected retired computers and laptops from companies, fixed them up, and redistributed them back into the community through schools and nonprofits. Today, the once technology recycling program is now a robust nonprofit focused on offering tuition-free IT training to help diversify the tech talent pipeline.

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19 organizations advancing women in tech

CIO

Today’s networking and advocacy landscape finds a growing array of programs and organizations for girls, women, and anyone who identifies as a woman — and plenty are also open to male allies. Girl Develop It offers web and software development courses at affordable rates in a “judgement-free zone.” 19 organizations for women in tech.

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

CIO

With an undergraduate degree in political science and time spent as a Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteer, Lain McGrath hardly envisioned a career in software engineering. I didn’t just want to be a software engineer — I wanted to be a software engineer at Gusto,” McGrath explains. “I

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Per Scholas and Cloudera Innovate to Solve for the Skills Gap in Data

Cloudera

As part of our commitment to making data and analytics easy and accessible for everyone, Cloudera has partnered with Per Scholas , a US – based nonprofit organization, to provide a no-cost software engineering training course for at least 20 individuals from diverse backgrounds in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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The Top Tech Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss in 2019

UruIT

At the San Francisco conference, O’Reilly is raising funds for the nonprofit /dev/color by collecting donations at registration and matching the donations at the end of the conference. In 2018, the Keynote Speaker was Scott Hunter, Director of Program Management on the.NET team at Microsoft. CTO Summit. April 9th, 2019 — Austin.