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SDCS Mission
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Graphic: Structur and Stakeholder of the “Software and Data Council Styria“
The “Software and Data Council Styria” is a cross-sectoral regional platform that has set out to achieve these goals:
- Increased number of people trained in software development, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, by collaboration between secondary schools and universities
- Positive communication of real-life job profiles for early identification of talents
- Increased proportion of teenagers, especially female ones, who can program and are confident to develop even sophisticated software applications
- Improved in-company training
- Contribution to the brand “Styria as a world-renowned IT region”
The SDCS management
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Ing. Herbert Ritter
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Rektor Univ.-Prof. Dr.Dr.h.c. mult. Harald Kainz
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DI Dr. Thomas Dietinger MBA