‘From tech bootcamp to multi-national franchise’ – interview with a young IT professional
ITPE has published the third edition of its Career Series, featuring Data Analyst, Rita Goncalves. Rita became interested in the innovative nature of IT and sought out the data ‘bootcamp’, Wild Code School before making her career change.
Watch the highlights of ITPE Software Skills webinar
You can now watch a highlight video from the ITPE webinar ‘Software tech – how it will drive skills and business solutions’.
ITPE holds webinar on software skills
On 5 April, ITPE held the webinar ‘Software tech – how it will drive skills and business solutions’. Guest speakers, Sanni Siltanen, Senior Expert in Innovation Engineering, KONE Corporation and Paul Aertsen, Subject Matter Expert, Global Knowledge Nederland, joined for insightful discussions on the topic.
ITPE webinar on software skills to be held on 5 April
The next ITPE webinar will take place online on 5 April and will focus on professional software skills and how they help businesses grow. A key topic will be the ongoing European Software Skills Alliance (ESSA) project for software skills.
ITPE’s ethics webinar-livestream held in February
Last month, ITPE held a webinar focused on ethics in IT. Carina Dantas (Shine 2Europe) presented ‘Bringing ethics to work’, highlighting the methods and frameworks developed to foster professional ethics and ways to implement them in practice. Clare Thornley (Clarity Research) shared her insight on the impact of science fiction on our understanding of ethical behaviour.
ITPE ethics webinar to be held on 15 February
ITPE will hold an ethics webinar on 15 February, 10:00-11:00 CET, focusing on the relevant competences for IT staff that help ensure security and transparency when working with digital technologies.
New Commission declaration for a human-centred digital transformation
The European Commission has proposed to define a set of principles for a human-centred digital transformation, in a declaration on Digital Rights and Principles.
ITPE webinar on IT professional ethics to be held 15 February
The next ITPE webinar ‘Responsibility in tech – ethical challenges for IT professionals’ will take place on 15 February at 10:00 CET. We will discuss the responsibility of IT professionals when developing new technologies that may have legal/ethical implications related to e.g., data usage or biased algorithms.
IFIP, ITPE and CEN TC 428 host joint-event on IT professionalism
On 9 November, ITPE, IFIP-IP3 and CEN TC 428 celebrated the 60th anniversary of IFIP with an online conference on IT Professionalism, entitled ‘Never waste a good crisis: develop a trustworthy digital ecosystem’.
ITPE holds webinar on professionalism in cybersecurity
On 17 November, ITPE held a webinar on professionalism in cybersecurity, entitled ‘Professionalism in cybersecurity – current practice and outlook’. It focused on current best practice, as well as the plans to standardise the different approaches across Europe.