Workshop 6.4 - IT-staff shortage: current challenges and needed skills in the future

Many companies need to recruit IT-staff, but they all have the same problem: there are no or only few IT professionals available.

How you benefit:

In the workshop we will talk about the reasons for IT-staff shortage and the impact for companies.
We provide insights about future skills which will become more important. We also want to outline the challenges for companies to recruit skilled workers successful.

What you can expect:

The workshop will cover the following topics:

• Key facts about staff shortage and which future skills will be necessary to stay successful.
• From the point of view of an affected company: the challenge of finding IT professionals, also in the context of: SW Nearshoring or RWR Card Immigration – what is the answer? Providing critical success factors and success stories.
• What can companies do to find skilled IT employees. What are the challenges to hold them in.

After the presentations we will have an interactive discussion and Q&A session.

Who will inspire you:

• Elisabeth Strahser - Referentin for the Austrian IT businesses | Austrian Professional Association of Management Consultancy, Accounting and Information Technology (UBIT)
• Maximilian Buchleitner - Head of IFO | Austrian Federal Economic Chamber
• Christoph Drescher - Managing Director / director operations | Tremetis AG
• Mark Jordan - Chief strategy officer | Skillnet Ireland
• Sylvia Geyer - Rector/ Head of Department Computer Science | Technikum Wien