Our upcoming speaker, Dr. Irving Berger, the VP of IBM, has written extensively on the subject of employment in a ever-changing competitive world. Since many Americans feel as though the majority of technical jobs are being outsourced to India and China, parents are unsure of which fields to encourage their children to pursue. Should children start focusing on engineering and science, only to have their future jobs outsourced?

First of all, Dr. Berger points out that there are more jobs today in IT, then there were before the tech bubble. Furthermore, he contends that the differentiating factor between jobs outsourced and domestic jobs, is innovation. The jobs which will stay in the States are ones in which will be occupied by highly diversified, horizontally integrated, managers who understand the technology and project requirements.

His bio and comments can be found here:
http://irvingwb.typepad.com/blog/2006/05/jobs_skills_and.html

Please join me on Wednesday as we welcome one of our society’s most forward thinking innovators, Dr. Irving Berger.

-Kirk