Nashville Technology Council

The T3 initiative of the Nashville Technology Council presents a behind the scenes networking event exclusively for local college students on September 22nd.  Join us as we partner with Deloitte – HQ for a one-on-one panel discussion with key executives.  The event will also include a tour of the facility, snacks, giveaways, not to mention the opportunity to ask real world questions about career paths in technology at Deloitte.

Deloitte was recently recognized by Bloomberg Business Week as the #1 place to launch a career.  Learn how you can be a part of it!

RSVP for this event here. Know a student who might be interested in attending?  Spread the word!

Nashville Technology Blog (5/21/10)

NASHVILLE TECHNOLOGY JOB GROWTH CONTINUES

Research Reveals 892 Openings in Technology in Q2.  112% Increase from Q1.

The Nashville Technology Council today announced the release of its Q2 2010 Technology Hiring Trends Report.  After extensive research, the report reveals over 892 technical jobs available in the Middle Tennessee area.  The report was generated from public job postings from large job portals (i.e. CareerBuilder, Monster, etc.), specialty technology sites (i.e. Dice) and local employer sites.

The highest number of openings came from enterprise health care technology companies: Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), Deloitte (D), and Community Health Systems (CHS).   In addition, other local industry heavyweights like music, publishing, manufacturing, and transactions continue to post job openings in technology.

The most prevalent technology positions are in software development.  Development is followed by Management, Analyst, Web Developers, and Network Engineers.  In addition to job openings, the report also illustrates programming languages that are most needed in the today’s technology industry.  .Net, Java, C#, and PHP are in highest demand for potential employees, as well as SQL database positions.

“Technology rebounded quickly as an industry in the second quarter.  In particular tech jobs in healthcare, digital content, publishing, and transactions,” said J. Tod Fetherling, President/CEO of Nashville Technology Council. “Nashville’s technology community has many exciting new opportunities for employment.”

The Nashville Technology Council also announced a partnership with Vaco to help fund and support the on-going job research initiative.  The two organizations will begin investigating a statewide initiative for the technology job report.

Join us today at Technology Nashville at the Curb Center where we will be discussing this and many more exciting areas of Nashville’s Technology Community.

Nashville Tech Story (4/13/10)

Local Tech Community Partners with High Schools

FirstCamp Nashville will be held on Friday, April 23, 2010 from 9:00AM – 1:00 PM at the Martin Center.  The event is free and open to high school students in the Middle Tennessee area who are interested in technology.  

FirstCamp Nashville is an education “unconference” designed to engage high school students with the technology community by allowing them to present and discuss their ideas. In addition, we will bring thought leaders from the community to help guide and develop their ideas. Nashville has long been a leader in providing BarCamp and PodCamp.  

“Since May of 2009, we have worked with industry and educational leaders to create transformational strategies in Information Technology and Data at MNPS.” said John Williams, Vice President, Technology, Metro Nashville Public Schools.  “On April 23, we will deliver on another of these strategies: to make students partners in technology in the classroom.”

Friday, April 23, 2010
9:00 AM – 1:00 AM
Martin Center
2400 Fairfax Avenue
Nashville, TN 37212
Phone: 298-8456

Open to all high school students in the Middle Tennessee region.  To register, please visit http://www.firstcamp.net.

There will be four tracks for high schools students to present their ideas:
1. Video/Gaming
2. Mobile/Application Development
3. Social Media/Location Based Services
4. Stand Up/Impromptu Discussion

“Nashville is in a unique position to capitalize on several macro economic trends including entrepreneurialism, an outstanding university system, the need for innovation, and a favorable local business environment.” said J. Tod Fetherling, President/CEO for the Nashville Technology Council.  “This in turn creates an opportunity for the technology industry, but we must have an active and engaged pipeline of high school students and college graduates to achieve our long term goals.”

Volunteers for the event include MNPS, Nashville State Community College, Tennessee State University, Deloitte, Nashville Technology Council, Digital Nashville, and others.

All proceeds from the event will go to the Technology Scholarship Fund as part of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.

The Nashville Tech Story (9/11/2009)

For the first time in InfoSec history, we will close registration early due to the large amount of attendees already registered.  Registration will be closed at 5:00 p.m. on Monday.  We are expecting an attendance close to 350 and are sold out on our sponsorships.

The Nashville Technology Council and the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association will be hosting the 8th annual InfoSec Nashville conference, next Thursday.  Speakers will be discussing Data Loss Prevention, Web Application Firewall, Web Hacking and much more.  Don Ainslie, Global Security Officer, Deloitte and Dan Geer, CISO, In-Q-Tel will headline the event as our keynote speakers.

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