WASHINGTON—The seventh annual Earth Day Tech Summit, CyberEarth23, convenes Saturday, April 22, 2023. This year’s annual community STEM event is co-hosted by Octo Consulting Group (Octo), H.O.P.E. Project DC (HOPE), and BDPA-DC at Octo’s oLabs™ Innovation Center in Reston, VA.

Select here to pre-register for CyberEarth23 or join local BDPA Chapters across the National Capital Region (DMV).

oLabs™ is Octo’s innovation center where cross-functional teams of engineers, academics, technologists, thought leaders, and domain experts rapidly prototype emerging technology solutions for the US Government’s intractable problems.

CyberEarth™ presents round-table discussions and fire-side workshops with industry’s mission-partners, small businesses, HOPE Alumni, BDPA Members and Student Members, transitioning veterans, returning citizens, graduate students, and general audiences to discuss emerging technologies transcending Air, Land, Sea, Space, and Cyber domains.

Explore climate data, digital transformation, career advancement, and internship opportunities from “A” to “Z”—AgriTech and Artificial Intelligence (AI) through Zero Trust innovations.

According to The Motley Fool, IBM predicts AI has the potential to add around $16 trillion to the global economy before 2030. The company’s focus is helping its large base of enterprise customers use AI to improve productivity, boost efficiency, and lower costs.

_{— Sources: BDPA, HOPE Project D.C., NOAA, and Octo (an IBM Company)}

About CyberEarth™

► BDPA of Greater Washington, D.C. (bdpadc.org), an information and communications technology (ICT) local community trade association chartered in 1978 by BDPA, launched an Earth Day themed technology and cyber career summit in 2017 (#CyberEarth17) with In3DC at Howard University. This annual community tech summit allows young IT professionals and those interested in ICT career opportunities currently attending College, Community College, Vocational Technology, High School, JROTC, and GED programs, to establish new relationships, launch tech start-ups, and partner with Industry.

Participating industry and government executives, information technology (IT) experts, and cybersecurity professionals serving as mentors or presenters are invited each year to present round-table or fire-side workshops with regional mission-partners to new BDPA Student Members, transitioning veterans, returning citizens, graduate students, and general audiences to discuss emerging technologies across Air, Land, Sea, Space, and Cyber domains.

CyberEarth™ inaugural mission partners and government agencies included BDPA, CSRA [GDIT], DC-SBDC, DOD, FEMA, George Mason University (GMU), Howard University, In3DC, Intel Corporation, NOAA, NSA, and Wells Fargo.

► bdpatoday^® (bdpatoday.com • ISSN 1946-1429) is a serial technology publication curated with local BDPA Chapters (bdpa.org) for tech industries and underserved community engagements.

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