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March 31, 2009: TechAmerica Report
Shows that Tech Industry Remains Vital to Washington Economy
The Cyberstates 2009 report - which details national and state
trends in high-tech employment, wages, and other key economic factors for
all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico -
shows that, for the
fourth year in a row, Washington’s high-tech industry added jobs, up
11,300 for a total of 174,100 in 2007, the most current year for which
state data are available. ...read
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Cyberstates 2009 provides
2008 national tech trends on employment and venture capital
investments as well as the latest data on state employment, wages,
establishments, payroll, and research and development. |
Learn more about high-tech employment in
Washington
and Idaho.
March 24, 2009: Spring Fling to be held on May 12th
A Silent Auction for Education will be held during the 2009 Spring
Fling Networking event...read
more.
March 11, 2009: TechAmerica Partners with MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest
Over 180 technology professionals joined us for "Greenomics: Creating
Profitable Businesses in a Clean & Green World." See photo slideshow
below:
October 28, 2008: TechLine Magazine
Check out the latest issue of TechLine Magazine...
click
here to read the Autumn Issue.
October 10, 2008:
Gregoire & Rossi: Meet the
Gubernatorial Candidates
80 technology executives joined the Washington
Council for our Executive Leader Forum with Gregoire & Rossi...click
here for event photos.
October 1, 2008: 11th Annual Oktoberfest
Over 130 technology leaders joined the Washington Council for
Oktoberfest...click
here for event photos.
September 23, 2008: Washington's High-Tech
Exports Up $43 Million in 2007
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New!
Trade in the Cyberstates 2008
examines high-tech trade flows at the national level and tech goods
exports for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
The report shows that nationally,
high-tech is the largest merchandise export sector in the United
States, with $214 billion in 2007.
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Learn more about high-tech trade in
Washington.
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June 24, 2008: Seattle Sees Nation’s
Largest High-Tech Employment Growth, Adding 7,800 Jobs, Says AeA |
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Cybercities 2008
examines the high-tech industry in the nation’s 60 largest
metro areas focusing on tech employment, wages, establishments,
payroll, employment concentration, and wage differential. The
report compares different U.S. regions and delves into the 16 sectors
that comprise the high-tech industry for these 60 cities. |
Learn more about high-tech employment in
Seattle
and Boise.
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April 28, 2008:
Washington State Senate Bill 6377
AeA Washington Council Executive Committee Member and Education Committee
Chair, Rick Meeder (Intel), joins members of the Washington
State Senate as Governor Gregoire signs Senate Bill 6377. SB 6377 is a
comprehensive career and technical education bill. For additional
information on SB 6377
click here.
Summer 2007:
Project Lead the Way and AeA
Learn about the Washington Council's efforts in supporting STEM Education
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National News |
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AeA, ITAA, GEIA, and CSIA Merge to Form TechAmerica
Together, we are the industry's leading trade association, offering companies a broader array of programs and services...read more. TechAmerica President Testifies to U.S. Senate
Phil Bond testified to the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security...read more. Cyberstates 2009 Report Released
The U.S. high-tech industry added jobs for fourth straight year acording to TechAmerica's 12th annual Cyberstates report...read more. |
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Events
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2/10/2010: Conference Call to Plan (Arlington, VA) TechAmerica and Thompson-Smitch Consulting Group will hold a joint conference call on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 2:00pm ET to begin planning a joint "Smart Grid IT" conference to be held in Washington, DC in early May 2010.
Please use the registration tools on this page to RSVP so we can kno...More
2/11/2010: CIO Roundtable: Being Lean & Its Application To IT (Seattle, WA) Launched in 2008, the WTIA CIO Roundtable is a community of peers and provides CIOs and organization’s Senior-most IT Practitioner a safe environment to meet in an informal setting to network, learn, solve problems and discuss shared topics of interest. These executive-level discussions focus on top...More
2/16/2010 - 2/17/2010: Product Management Intensive (Kirkland, WA) Learn and apply the seven Product Management best practices and be ready to use them immediately on the job. The Product Management Intensive™ two-day course provides key tools and product management best practices to help you accelerate your career, including: managing up and across in the organiz...More
2/16/2010: WTIA February QA Community Meeting (TBD, WA) The QA Community Group meets 4 - 6 times per year to discuss technical issues that effect QA Professionals. Meetings provide a safe environment to meet with peers in an informal setting to network, learn, solve problems and discuss shared topics of interest.
2/16/2010 - 2/17/2010: Certified ScrumMaster Training (Redmond, WA) Certified ScrumMaster Training gives you all the tools and information you need to get started with Scrum and Agile. Delivered by SolutionsIQ's world-renowned Certified ScrumMaster Trainers, this course shares time-tested practices for managing Product Backlogs, planning your releases and iterations...More
2/18/2010: WTIA February Finance Community Meeting (Seattle, WA) Sponsored by Pacific Real Estate Partners, Inc and Responza
2/23/2010: WTIA February Marketing Community Meeting (Seattle, WA) Sponsored by Seamless Event Solutions and RocketDog Communications
Additional AeA National Events
2/11/2010: Finding the Workforce: Low Cost Domestic Sourcing (Via Online, Webinar) TechAmerica Foundation is pleased to host a presentation by John Dorrer, Director, Center for Workforce Research and Information, Maine Department of Labor and Joe Kumiszcza, Executive Director, TechMaine who will focus on common workforce concerns U.S. state governments, government agencies and pri...More
2/17/2010: Finding the Workforce: Low Cost Domestic Sourcing (Via Online, Webinar) TechAmerica Foundation is pleased to host a presentation by John Dorrer, Director, Center for Workforce Research and Information, Maine Department of Labor and Joe Kumiszcza, Executive Director, TechMaine who will focus on common workforce concerns U.S. state governments, government agencies and pri...More
2/17/2010: Identifying, measuring, and retaining the needed workforce (Via Online, Webinar) TechAmerica Foundation is pleased to host a presentation that will focus on common workforce concerns U.S. state governments, government agencies and private companies need to be aware of in order to successfully market their region to low cost domestic sourcing, including:
• Identifying and mea...More
2/18/2010: Webinar: Low Cost Domestic Sourcing – Making the Model Work (Via Online, Webinar) TechAmerica Foundation is pleased to host a presentation by Peter DelGreco, Vice President of Operations, Maine & Company and Jim Damicis, President, PolicyOne Research, Inc. who will provide a case-study of how the State of Maine was able to successfully implement low cost domestic sourcing. Discus...More
5/12/2010 - 5/14/2010: Growth Cap Financial Conference (San Francisco, CA) TechAmerica presents the 2010 Growth Cap Financial Conference at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, the only neutral forum for smaller technology growth firms to meet with potential investors.
- 3 Growth Focused Company Tracks
- Unbiased Forum
- Private Presentation Rooms
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Terry Byington,
Executive Director
Davia Zauhar, Director, Events & Communications
Sherry Zins, Director, Membership
Development
19203 - 36th Avenue West
Building 4, Suite 208
Lynnwood, WA 98036
Phone: 425.775.6168
Fax: 425.775.6281
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