SOUTHFIELD – TiE Detroit – The Indus Entrepreneurs ? are hosting a program on March 18 that will examine the technology work force crisis and how to solve the H1B professional workers’ crisis.

The number of employed IT professionals is growing at a faster rate than the overall business that has pushed IT unemployment to a decade low, with no signs of improvement in graduation rates.

Exacerbating the situation is the looming retirement of a generation of baby boomers. All this is occurring when the government projects that the IT workforce will grow nearly 25 percent, between 2008 and 2016.

Discussion Topics:

The H-1B Cap Fiasco: How we got to the current situation and where the H-1B program can and must go from here

U.S. Immigration System: A discussion of other areas of the U.S. immigration system that are faltering and what can be done to fix them.

How Our Immigration Policies Affect Our Global Competitiveness: An examination of how current economic, educational and business trends, such as offshoring, near-shoring, and science/technology graduation rates correlate..

How Employers Can Still Use Immigration as a Tool to Enhance Their Business: opportunities still exist for companies to utilize creative immigration strategies to recruit the global talent needed to improve our economy.

Alternatives & Effective Strategies

Employment Laws

Outstanding TiE panel will help you gain a better understanding of the current U.S. immigration landscape so you can take advantage of the immigration opportunities that exist to help your business and career prosper.

Moderator – Victor Naidu, President, Ramsoft Systems

Immigration – Amarnath Gowda, Law Offices of Amarnath Gowda,P.C

Marc Topoleski, Managing Attorney, Ellis Porter, PLC

Employment – Jeffrey Steele, Employment Attorney, Clark Hill, PLC

Rupesh Srivatsava, President, Youngsoft, Inc

The program takes place at the Southfield Hotel, 1500 Town Center. Networking begins at 5:30 pm, Panel Discussion at 6:30 pm, and Questions at 7:30 pm. Members are free.

For more information, click on TiE-Detroit.Org

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