IBM Academic Initiative: 21st Century Skills for a smarter planet

1. IBM Academic Initiative:21st Century Skills for a smarter planet

2. What is the IBM Academic Initiative?

3. �The Perfect Storm�

9. Something meaningful is happening�

10. 10 Pervasive technology means�

12. The Need for a Smarter Planet is Clear

13. What should we (IT professionals) be asking ourselves to become a smarter planet?

16. 13 July 2012 Guidance as of November 11, 2008 16 IBM and Services

17. Service Economy

18. T-Shaped People � Deep & Broad

19. IBM and marketplace looking to hire Service Scientists�

20. Schools are developing �IT Services Curriculum� (ITSC)

21. IT Services Economics

24. A look at �hot� skills� Application Development (Customer-Facing) Business Intelligence Business Process Modeling Cloud Computing Enterprise Architecture Networking Open Source Project Management RFID Security Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Systems Analysis Virtualization Voice Over IP Web 2.0

25. IBM Academic Initiative� Over the past year we have worked with: Thousands of faculty members and institutions Teaching over 8,000 courses with open source, and IBM content to over 800,000 students worldwide

26. Next Steps Join the IBM Academic Initiative atwww.ibm.com/academicinitiative Subscribe to the monthly newsletter for announcements of faculty awards, student contests, webinars and other offerings Identify curriculum priorities and discuss them with IBM to identify possible resources or offerings