The Big Day In, UTS, 28 March 2017
The IT careers conference for students by students drew record numbers.
on Mar 31 2017 04:40AM
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The Big Day in, UTS Great Hall, 28 and 29 March 2017.
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Attila Brungs, Vice Chancellor and President, UTS (at lecturn) welcomes students to UTS; Seated L to R: John Ridge, Executive Director, ACS Foundation; Andrew Johnson, CEO of ACS; Hon Victor Dominello, NSW Minister for Finance, Services and Property.
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Andrew Johnson, CEO of ACS. “There are going to be 70,000 new ICT jobs by 2020, but we’ll only have 4,000 graduates to fill those roles.”
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Richard White, CEO of WiseTech Global. "All you need is an enquiring mind and a desire to learn new things."
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Michael Quandt, Software Developer, Animal Logic. The Lego Movie, Lego Batman and upcoming Lego Ninjago owe their look to Animal Logic.
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Dan Bowen, STEM Education Lead and Minecraft EE Lead, Microsoft. "Machine learning means computing systems will become smarter with experience."
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Fergal Murphy, Business Unit Executive, IBM, discusses Watson, IBM's face of cognitive computing.
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Matt Deshon, R&D Evangelist, TechnologyOne, talks about jobs that will disappear as technology progresses. Who needs a delivery driver when a robot can deliver your pizza?
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Jimmy Taylor (L) and Kristy English of Westpac. "We take down 150 fake Westpac sites a week."
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Students listen to presenters in the UTS Great Hall.
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Anna Emmerson, Site Reliability Engineer, Google Australia. "Computer science is in demand and the jobs are great!"
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Dr Tim Kitchen of Adobe. "Next time someone asks you what you want to do when you leave school, tell them you want to be a lifelong creator."
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Tony Wang, Commonwealth Bank. "Working for CBA is like working for a tech company."
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Students listen to presenters in the UTS Great Hall.