ROYAL OAK – Lisa Katz, Executive Director at the Workforce Intelligence Network, updates Opportunity Detroit Tech, a collaborative body that envisions the Greater Detroit Region as a place where an improved information technology ecosystem can be the answer to industry and community economic success!
Opportunity Detroit Tech provides a network of support of both industry peers and labor market experts to identify and collectively address the needs of the local businesses. Opportunity Detroit Tech showcases the diverse companies engaged in these efforts, highlighting Southeast Michigan as an innovation hub to attract and retain top-tier talent and industry partners. The end game is to raise awareness of and shape community response to the industry’s talent, customer, supply-chain, and other growth needs to improve both the industry itself and the region as a whole.
Katz said IT workers are in every business, not just IT companies. But IT workers remain scarce. Plus Southeast Michigan has to compete with technology clusters, such as Austin, Texas, and Silicon Valley in California, for the same workers.
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