I combined a visit to the annual CompTIA conference with some other business meetings in London. A number of CompTIA certifications can be delivered within National Certificate and Higher National Awards. This event is always a useful place to hear where skills developments are moving globally , an opportunity to meet industry trainers from across Europe , Africa and the Middle East and a chance too to meet with some folks from the FE and HE across UK.
Julie Meyer from Dragon's Den kicked things off - highlighting how technology was driving change and creating amazing new employment opportunities around the globe. Developments happening fastest at the moment in Digital Health , Smart Cities and around the development of Mobile Money ecosystems
She highlighted some services she has made investments in
Alert Me - Helping households manage their energy consumption and bills
Beat that Quote - now successfully sold to Google
On the technology front discussions were all around growth of Virtual Machines and Cloud Computing
To get even more technical presentations were on
Web Ontology Language
around making RDF links between data sets
IPV6 and Cloud Computing
HTML 5 and its impact
The future of gigabit to the desktop and challenge of building national infrastructure to support this.
The advent of mobile adhoc networks
and how 802.22 will once again drive on change.
To get a feel you should have a look at the cloud challenge website Great for learners of all ages
and I think someone in your technical department will be wrestling with this challenge right now.
What is clear is that technology is now virtualising whole industries . Some folks from audiio visual industry at conference told tales of disappearing manufacturing , sales , delivery, installation and servicing as cheap wireless devices replace studio and venue systems and mixing desks become virtual systems based in the cloud.
On way back I read how BA cabin staff now have access to i-pads to automate their manifest and other reporting duties giving them more time to look after passengers.
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