"Bridging the Divide - Academic to Industry"

India IT companies continue to play key role in Global IT scenario and increasingly getting successful in winning multi-million dollar multi-year contracts. Executing these contracts require high performance and skilled workforce. Battling multi-cultural barriers, struggling to control the attrition rate, catering to the growing needs for cross-functional skill sets amongst others, the IT/ ITES industry is facing numerous challenges. A talent pool consisting of skilled workforce comes as one of the top priority areas that need to be promptly addressed. In spite of nearly 300,000 IT graduates coming out of various Universities in India every year, just about 10 to 15% are found employable by tier-1 companies and about 25% in all.

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For the benefit of Goan Society, Goa Agenda is an annual Information Technology (IT) event organised and promoted by Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Past IT Programmes such as HR Connect, IT Agenda 2002, 2003 2004, 2006 and 2007 have been well received by the Goan public.

Since its inception in 2002, Goa Agenda has drawn many IT luminaries to Goa for deliberations on various IT related topics such as IT for Society, Emerging Markets in IT and Outsourcing Challenges Ahead.

Goa Agenda 2008 "Bridging the Divide - Academic to Industry" - sessions will be divided in three sessions:

- Session I will deliberate on Industry’s perspectives.
- Session II is intended to understand Academia’s plans to meet the industry’s requirements.
- Session III will brain-storm on The Road Ahead.