Increase in the demand of new professional profiles in Engineering

The first La Salle Breakfast session of the academic year 2013/14 analyzed the new technologies sector. "The cross-cutting nature of technology is creating new professional profiles and will increase the demand for new engineers in the coming years" pointed out the President of CTecno, Jordi William Carnes, who started by reviewing the conclusions of the tech sector barometer in Catalonia. In addition, he also stressed that "many technology multinationals in our country are affected by the pressure for quarterly results and the limited capacity for decision making at a local level".  After the first intervention by  Jordi W. Carnes, a debate about the current state of IT had place in a round table with the participation of Lluis Pascual, director of banking and insurance of the HP Enterprise Group for Iberia;  Adolfo Sánchez, IT director of  Catalonia hotels and  Jordi Badia, Chief Technology Officer of  BBVA SaaS and Management and moderated by the director of La Salle Innova Institute and the  Higher Technical School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science of La Salle,  Dr. Francesc Miralles. The strategic character that technology should have in any kind of company was one of the main conclusions reached, as well as the challenge posed to the technology sector by the lack of vocations to study engineering and the absence of gender parity in the number of professionals employed by this business activity.