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April 9, 2009
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Virginia No. 1!
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Announcing: Bisnow's "Government 2.0" Breakfast & Schmooze, April 27, at the Tower Club. Superstar panelists include Microsoft's Lewis Shephard, Federal News Radio's Chris Dorobek, former Federal CIO Molly O'Neill, and Center for Technology and National Security Policy's Mark Drapeau. Stay tuned!
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No, our headline isn't quoting a Terry McAuliffe stump speech. It refers to Virginia having the highest concentration of high tech workers—9.2% of its private sector—according to TechAmerica's annual CyberStates study. For more, we met the association's Research and Industry Analysis Manager Jenna Leary.
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Jenna, right, with G'town intern Xi Cheng, did the study with TechAmerica's Josh James. Here are some other nuggets, pulled from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (State numbers are from '06-'07, while national numbers are from last year.)
- Virginia ranks 4th nationally in total tech workers (quickly gaining on No. 3 Florida).
- Maryland is 13th in total tech workers and 10th in highest average wage.
- DC lost 10,000 high tech jobs, mostly in R&D and engineering.
- Private sector job loss in 4Q '08 was 1.3%, but only 0.6% in high tech in the same period.
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| TCM's Dinner Club |
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Earlier this week, the Tech Council of Maryland held its first IT Executive Dinner Club at the Pooks Hill Marriott in Bethesda, where 30 CEOs, presidents, and principals of IT companies talked shop. Here TCM's Rick Harris presents Maryland State Comptroller Peter Franchot with a Maryland IT Rocks T-shirt. Peter promised to wear it while doing yard work.
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Convergence Technology Consulting president (and dinner club creator) Larry Letow, NACON Consulting president John Sciandra and Jacoby CEO Art Jacoby. Larry knows a thing or two about running a company—his five-year-old network engineering and integration firm is growing 30% a year.
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Avcom East president Robert Wolfe and Infostructures president Guy Wassertzug. We hear Robert's iPod playlist includes artists like Adele, The Smiths, Iggy Pop, and everything in between.
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| SUMMERS: SOME EASING? |
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“Easing” is the word top Obama adviser Larry Summers used this afternoon at the Economic Club, citing inventories running down which “sets the stage” for increased production and employment. We snapped this of Larry, left, just a couple hours ago with Economic Club President (and Carlyle Group founder) David Rubenstein. Larry said he has “reasonable confidence” that the “sense of a ball falling off the table” we’ve had since mid-fall will end “in the next few months” and that we will likely be out of negative territory by the end of the year.
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