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.ASSOCIATION NEWS
Time Is Running Out To Complete the IT Trends Study Survey!
SIM
Responses to the SIM IT Trends Study Survey continue to roll in – almost 25% of SIM members have either started or finished the survey to date. While participation is up from last year, it still lags behind the 2020 participation rate, so we really want to hear from you!
Remember that this year’s IT Trends Study Survey has been shortened and simplified. In fact, several SIM members have noted that it took them less time to complete and appreciated the efforts to simplify the survey. Specifically, survey questions that require respondents to select up to five items from a list (such as top IT issues, investment areas, and performance measures) now provide at most 30 options to select from (compared to more than 40 options in previous years). Additionally, more than 15 questions covering topics such as IT governance, cloud computing, and COVID-related practices have all been eliminated from this year’s study.
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Register For the Executive RLF Before June 15 To Receive Early-Bird Discount
SIM
The past two years have proved it... highly-capable leaders are needed at the executive level.
In our world that’s become incredibly complex, filled with relentless change and unpredictable ambiguity, the need has never been greater for highly-proficient leadership at the executive level. As your career journey climbs to a new level, you will find yourself in a more complicated world where the stakes are higher … where you are less dependent on management ability and more dependent upon leadership and influence abilities. The Executive RLF offers important platforms to:
- Raise your consciousness about extending yourself amid the increased complexity as you rise through the organization.
- Expand your world view on relationships and communication at every level.
- Develop, demonstrate and utilize influence power.
- Enable mental presence amid stress.
- Build intellectual power and strength in order to be influential, have impact and make a difference.
Register now for the 2022 program starting in August 2022
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SIM ReThink Everything! SIG — Building a Quantum-Safe Organization
SIM
Join the SIM ReThink Everything! SIG on June 16 at 11:30 AM ET.
Quantum computers could provide amazing benefits, but they also pose a genuine risk to the most common encryption standards used worldwide for transactions ranging from safe webpages, secure mail, signed documents and more. This session will describe these risks and focus on the mitigations under development. We will also discuss what organizations can do today to begin preparations for what may be the largest cybersecurity migration in history.
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Save the Date: SIM Executive Leadership Retreat, Nov. 6-8, 2022
SIM
La Quinta Resort | Palm Springs, CA
Save the date for the premier networking and educational gathering that brings together CIOs, CTOs, and senior IT leaders with IT & engineering staffing executives and managers.
The SIM Executive Leadership Retreat is back for a second year! The Retreat is designed to create intentional opportunities for you to reconnect, recharge, and learn from the shared experiences of thought leaders on the most pressing topics confronting technology leadership in our rapidly diversifying and evolving environment. This highly interactive event will equip you to be an exceptional leader in an executive environment and a better strategic driver for your organization.
On the second day of the Retreat, SIM will partner with TechServe Alliance to co-host the Technology Talent Forum, a collaborative deep-dive exploration of the perennial talent challenge in IT & engineering staffing.
The Retreat will include multiple opportunities to support the SIM Foundation and our alliance partners, NPower and First.
Save the date and join us at the stunning La Quinta Resort in Palm Springs Nov. 6-8, 2022. We have secured a special attendee rate of $299/night. Registration opens soon!
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.INDUSTRY NEWS
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Promoted by Lightyear
 The telecommunication services and IT industries suffer from massive information asymmetry. Over time—especially the last 10 to 30 years—that’s tipped power in favor of telecom providers over customers.
Here’s how it happened.
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Making Room At the Cap Table: A New Plan For Promoting Diversity in Tech
TechCrunch
It’s no secret that the tech world struggles with diversity. Women, African Americans and Latinos respectively comprise 33%, 8% and 7% of the total tech workforce and just 20%, 5% and 5% of its leadership, despite evidence of a correlation between diversity and success.
As an industry, tech has succeeded in normalizing the topic of workforce diversity, and while the results are slow coming, there is movement, and that’s worth acknowledging.
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Next-Generation Data Center Connectivity
DCD
The pattern is set — the number of data centers in the world continues to grow in order to support the expanding needs of enterprises, cloud service providers and indeed the services we all use as consumers.
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