Op-ed in the Charleston Daily-Mail November 23, 2018 by Anne Barth We often hear that students in school today will work in jobs that don’t even exist right now. Even just ten years ago, who knew that people would find work as Uber drivers, digital marketers or cloud computing specialists? However, there is one area […]
October 29, 2018 Contact: Anne Barth, (304) 444-2918 Global Tech Giants, Local/Regional Experts to Convene For WV Coding & Cyber Summit Nov. 15th in Charleston CHARLESTON, W.VA. – Featuring presenters from global technology giants like Intuit, IBM, McAfee, and Northrop Grumman, along with cyber experts from the FBI, U.S. Department of Energy, the Center for […]
By Carrie Hodousek in News | October 12, 2017 at 6:09PM SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Huntington software development company executive says the firm is looking to close the skills gap when it comes to hiring people for technology and coding jobs in West Virginia. “We’re hiring a lot of talent right out of school — out of four year […]
By: Anne Barth October 30, 2017 As technology becomes more embedded in our daily lives, one thing remains certain: technology has changed the way many of us work, and more changes will continue in the coming decade. Already, technology has automated many traditional blue collar industries and similar advancements are quickly spreading to the […]
By Carrie Hodousek in News | October 09, 2017 at 12:01AM SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The need to fill thousands of software coding and cyber jobs will be the focus of a workplace summit scheduled for later this week in Kanawha County. TechConnect West Virginia will host its Coding & Cyber Summit from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. this Thursday […]
The Register-Herald Column By Anne Barth, TechConnect West Virginia March 28, 2017 With ever-increasing advances in technology, there is one thing we DO know. Coding — the process of writing computer programs to analyze data, manage digital systems and operate today’s machinery and consumer products — will become more and more important. In fact, […]
Column by Anne Barth Huntington Herald-Dispatch April 2, 2017 With ever-increasing advances in technology, there is one thing we DO know. Coding – the process of writing computer programs to analyze data, manage digital systems and operate today’s machinery and consumer products – will become more and more important. In fact, coding has been called the […]
Op-ed in The Charleston Gazette-Mail March 5, 2017 By: Anne Barth http://www.wvgazettemail.com/gazette-op-ed-commentaries/20170304/anne-barth-how-we-are-driving-coding-workforce-for-wvs-future Much has been written about the future of work, but many questions remain unanswered. Will robots and machine learning replace a majority of workers across a multitude of sectors in the next decades? How will artificial intelligence replace humans across a […]