IT to me is... getting information out,
storing information, sharing it with people. IT is innovative. Taking all the information that's out there and pulling it together in a meaningful way and presenting it to the user. IT is a tool for knowledge and craft for today and tomorrow. The question is
what is not effected by IT and computers these days? I’m Michelle, I’m a
Senior Software Developer at EffectiveUI in Denver, Colorado. EffectiveUI creates custom software not only just for the internet, but for mobile applications, or the iPhone. People have very different disciplines
in which they excel and bringing that out all together makes for a really fantastic environment. some of the people
here are just brilliant. Juan is very quiet. Yeah. He's exceptionally brilliant. He's one of those people who could be king
of this universe if he wanted to. Cool. One of the projects I was involved with was an iPhone application that allows doctors to monitor their patients so they could look through the vital readings right from their phone My background is primarily in
creative thinking so that's kind of where my passion still lies, I think there's an excitement for everybody in this
office to be able to play around with kind of the latest and greatest technology and create solutions that they
themselves would enjoy using. With information technology I mean, it constantly has me around computers and I learn something new
every single day. My name is Kiawa Lewis. I’m a geographical information systems technician at TechniGraphicS. We’re adding features. So basically we’re just making this more of a clarification for the person that we’re doing this for; or the company or contractor
who you’re doing it for. just about everything
that we do is secret you gotta be careful about how you tell people what your job entails or who you work for, and things like that. I feel like some type of secret agent,
you know what I’m saying? I've been told by others that hear about my job that I probably have the most fun job ever and I do. We test exciting new technologies that exist in the marketplace or that are just now starting to be developed. I’m Sandy K. Simon, I’m the
director of strategy for Utility Innovations and Smart Grid at Excel Energy here in Denver. Smart Grid is really the
infusion of technology for all aspects of the energy pathway so all the way from the fuel source to
the end use into the customer's home. so all the way from the fuel source to
the end use into the customer's home. As you continue to see our world
become more digital I think you'll see that need continue to grow for people that have a technology background. I really love working on computers. I really like the user interface. I like Windows. I like Macs. My name is Manny, I’m an
IT support specialist and I work at Comcast in Colorado. I'm in charge of supporting eleven
hundred computer systems and so if there's a problem with their computer system they contact me. It's very fast paced, detail oriented, and you have to know what you're doing. IT, this is Manny. Because the last thing you want to do is
bring a user down or lose their data. I'm well compensated for what I do, and
you know there's nothing like being paid for doing something
that you really love. And then while I'm in the air, I can
do swipes to actually perform different tricks. I’m Brian Robbins, I’m the Studio Head for Fuel Games Denver. We’re an iPhone game development studio here in Denver, Colorado. As studio head, my job is to make sure
that my team has games to be building. my background is programming, I've spent about ten years programming everything from Flash & Shockwave games to what we're doing now. And in fact our latest game, “Vans Skate Pool Service” game for the iPhone. I was actually helping out a lot with the programming there. The best thing about the video game industry is that it's very open and very accepting of a lot of different types of people. The people that work out the best are people that are able to see things that other people haven't seen, envision things that other people haven't been able to envision before and express those in a digital form or even on paper. This is what virtual
worlds allow you to do. I wanted use my skills in a different way to,
I guess really kind of prepare the next generation, and to be able to help the kids, especially the Native American kids and really kind of expose them to technology. I’m Calvin Pohawpatchoko.
I Belong to the Comanche Tribe and a member of the Colhata Clan,
and I am a PHD candidate in the ATLAS program here at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Those who don't have the technical skills will get left behind and those that do have technical skills will end up having skills that are needed to obtain
the jobs for today. Colorado has a fantastic
entrepreneurial ecosystem especially around software and internet type businesses. My name is Brad Feld, I’m Managing Director of a venture capital firm in Boulder called Foundry Group. If you look at the specific areas that the
state has really focused on in terms of advancing innovation it's around new energy economy, it's around aerospace it's around bio, and you're seeing an awful
lot of activity around IT and software as well. So I think all of those
as places to be are incredibly exciting. IT and software is a stable place to
be partly because the demand for people far outweighs the supply. I think technology is kind of a foundational kind
of thing to have in your tool box. As long as you know computers you can have a job anywhere. I think girls tend to think that
it's
still not as cool to be smart but it is pretty cool to be smart, actually. Women, minorities, they bring different perspectives to your team and to how to solve problems. It certainly is open.
There's no barrier to keep you out. We're in the midst of that transformation from a non-digital world
to a completely digital world the ability to very seemlessly engage with people somewhere else in the world radically changes your ability
to interact with them. The people that get to work
from home more often and be more flexible with their work schedule, are the technologists. I can bring my dog to work. I can
work from wherever I feel comfortable. If I feel more comfortable working from home
or if I want to work from the beach in Antigua
I can work from there as well. I have a job where I go in and I enjoy it
and I do it and I make great money doing it and then I go home and
ride one of my bikes. The last 20 years of my life and my business career have been unbelievable in terms of the change that I've seen.
I think
the next 20 years are going to be even more unbelievable and exciting.
