The Puerto Rico IT Cluster is a non-profit organization with over 200 members that aims to promote and grow the information technology sector in Puerto Rico. It held several successful events, including a 2014 CIO conference with over 800 attendees and two "IT Power Hour" events focused on its annual work plan and on women in IT. The organization also proposes strategic actions around six areas to accelerate Puerto Rico's IT sector growth and make it key to the island's economic development within the next year.
2. What is the Puerto Rico IT Cluster?
• Mission
Promote the integration, creation, growth, and sustainability of the information
technology sector in Puerto Rico to ensure that local firms are highly competitive in the
national and international arena.
• Vision
Make Puerto Rico a national and global leader in information technology services and
innovation.
• Members
Over 200 members
3. Activities and Events
• 1st CIO and IT Leadership Conference 2014
The event had over 800 influential people in the tech industry of Puerto
Rico. Multinationals, local companies, academia, and government officials
expressed their views and perspectives on how the IT sector in Puerto Rico
can be a leader within the Caribbean and Latin America.
4. Activities and Events
• 1st IT Power Hour
– Presentation of our 2014-2015 Work Plan
– Over 65 in assistance
5. Activities and Events
• 2nd IT Power Hour – Women in IT
– Raising the bar with a turnover of 155 in which an 80%
where women in the IT Sector.
6. FRAMEWORK
OF PROPOSED STRATEGIC ACTIONS
• We are proposing the definition of strategic actions around
six areas that will accelerate the growth of Puerto Rico’s
Information Technology sector and make it the key to Puerto
Rico’s economic development.
• We will define action points that can be accomplished or
implemented within the next year before the 2nd CIO and IT
Leadership Conference.
• The actions taken in each area will range from marketing
initiatives to proposed legislation.
Editor's Notes
Nuestra misión es la integración y el crecimiento del sector de tecnología de la información en PR, asegurándonos que nuestras empresas sean altamente competitivas, tanto local como internacionalmente.
Tenemos como misión hacer de PR un leader global en servicios e innovación en IT.
Nuestro primer CIO & IT Leadership Conference 2014, convocó a más de 800 personas.
Con participación de compañias locales y Multinacionales, la academia y el gobierno—todos expresando sus perspectivas y puntos de vista de cómo el sector de IT puede convertirse como punta de lanza en el desarrollo económico de PR.
Hemos trazado una serie de actividades, conocidas como las “IT Power Hour”,
Y en la que se celebró en abril, presentamos el plan de trabajo del IT Cluster.
Nuestro segundo IT Power Hour, celebrado el pasado mayo, fue dedicado a las mujeres en IT.
Increible la participacion de las mujeres, más del 80%, de las 155 personas que asistieron eran mujeres.
Excelente la participación de Camille Burkhart.