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New Mexicos Information Technology and Software Cluster

New Mexico Information Technology & Software Association Randy Burge President P. O. Box 4125 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87196 burge@nmitsa.org www.nmitsa.org

Agenda

Get to know you New Mexico by the numbers NMITSA Possible partnerships

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Your Interests
Power of your network IT or software business Other technology industries Manufacturing Government agency University or academic
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Industry Impact: National

450,000 IT jobs unfilled (ITAA)


90,000 jobs in Info Security

30+% of Economic Growth over 10 yrs. 40% of R&D budgets applied to IT applications (approx)

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Industry Impacts

1000+ IT Companies in NM 80+% of Tech Startups involve IT/Soft 15,000 employees (less than 2% of NM workforce) Average industry wage more than $40K
state average wage is approx. $24K

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New Mexico Strengths


Strong in federal R&D
#1 per capita, 19th total budget ($4B US)

Forbes Business Magazine


ABQ #6 best city in US for business Las Cruces #2 best small city in US

Unemployment rate is 3.4%

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New Mexico Weaknesses


Weak in Industry R&D
#43 in US

Albuquerque is 51/66 big cities for employment opportunities for 18-34 yr IT workforce is less than 2% of workforce

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Peer Groups

Business Peer Groups


CEO, CIO/CTO, CFO, Capital Formation, Marketing, Human Resource, Legal/IP

Technical Peer Groups


Informatics, Info Sec, Supercomputing, Microsystems Software, Geospatial Information, Environmental Software, New Media, Graphics/Animation/Visualization nmitsa.org

Importance to Economy

NM missed the commercial IT revolution over last 20 years leaving billions out of our economy Industry knowledge equals economic power (Utah)

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Economic Development Stories

Tales of Opportunities and Challenges

Microsoft (MIPS) Lizard Tech Sun Microsystems IBM Global Services

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NMITSA Mission

NMITSA leads, unites, promotes, and impacts the IT and Software industries to stimulate market and resource growth for member organizations

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NMITSA Activities

Member networking/resourcing Market and trade development Industry promotion and recognition Workforce development Legislative lobbying

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Geographic Chapters
NMITSA Chapters Northern NM
SF/Los Alamos/LV Espanola/Taos/Raton

Central NM
ABQ/Socorro Belen/Moriarty

S NM-W Tex-Mex
Las Cruces/El Paso Silver City/Chihuahua

NW NM-SW CO
Farmington/Durango Gallup/Grants

Eastern NM
Clovis/Portales/Roswell Carlsbad/Hobbs

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Association Partnerships

Industry and Suppliers Laboratories Universities Economic Development Organizations

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International Networks

Council of Regional IT Associations


www.crita.org

IT Association of America
www.itaa.org

World IT and Services Alliance


www.witsa.org

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Partnership Opportunities

Academic research
National Lambda Rail and Internet 2

US federal government contractors Software development Spanish product translation Film industry
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Influential Resources

Knowledge Cities: Monterrey, N.L. Regional Advantage: Saxenian, Cal Diffusion of Innovation: Rogers, UNM

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Gracias!
New Mexico Information Technology and Software Association

Randy Burge, President P. O. Box 4125 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87196 burge@nmitsa.org www.nmitsa.org

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