More Than 30 Major Employers Including FleetBoston Financial, Compuware, Merck and Toyota Motors. Shomex, a national event producer and leader in live recruitment solutions, announced today the list of companies that will be participating at the BDPA National Conference Career Expo, www.shomex.com/bdpa, on August 15-16, 2003, at the Philadelphia Marriott. The BDPA National Conference Career Expo is designed specifically to connect IT professionals with employers from a wide cross section of industries looking for IT talent...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Monday, August 11, 2003
ComputerWorld, 8/11/2003 (Milt Haynes)
IT Careers: BDPA focuses on career growth, entrepreneurs. When more than 2,500 individuals meet for the annual Black Data Processing Association Conference in Philadelphia Aug. 13-17, they'll get a rich blend of three critical career components--technical expertise, mentoring and coaching of individuals, and skills to lead start-up and established businesses...
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Read the full media story here.
BroadVision News Room, 8/11/2003 (Milt Haynes)
BroadVision Joins FleetBoston as a Sponsor of the 25th Annual BDPA National Conference Awards Banquet; Conference Highlights the Importance of Building a Diversified Workforce and Working to Bridge the Digital Divide. BroadVision, Inc. , the leading provider of enterprise portal applications, has joined FleetBoston Financial as a sponsor of the 25th Annual BDPA National Conference Awards Banquet. BDPA, founded in 1975, is the premier organization for African-American professionals in the Information Technology industry. The BDPA National Conference Awards Banquet culminates a five-day event August 13- 17 in Philadelphia, PA focusing on Information Technology: From the Classroom to the Boardroom...
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Read the full media story here.
Monday, August 4, 2003
CSRwire, 8/4/2003 (Chris Scalet, Wayne Hicks)
Merck CIO is Keynoter for BDPA Conference. BDPA is pleased to announce that Chris Scalet, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Merck & Company, will be keynote speaker for its 25th Annual National Conference Opening Ceremonies. The event will take place on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2003, at the Philadelphia Marriott. Mr. Scalet will address the conference theme, Information Technology: From the Classroom to the Boardroom.
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Read the full media story here.
Monday, July 28, 2003
CSRwire, 7/28/2003 (Allison Clark, Juan Gilbert, Milt Haynes, Wayne Hicks)
BDPA Plans Gala Silver Anniversary Conference. BDPA is bringing its 2003 national conference back to Philadelphia this year. The conference will run from August 13-17. "Philly is the birthplace of BDPA," says Milt Haynes, BDPA's national president. Haynes is an IT project manager at Lucent Technologies (Naperville, IL). IT pros Earl Pace and the late David Wimberly started BDPA in Philadelphia almost thirty years ago. This will be the organization's twenty-fifth national conference. "We expect the conference to have a big impact this year," Haynes says. He estimates that attendance may top last year's figure of 2,000 by 25 percent.
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Monday, June 30, 2003
Diversity/Careers in Engineering & Information Technology, June/July 2003 (Roxanne Clinton, Milt Haynes, Wayne Hicks)
BDPA plans a gala twenty-fifth in Philadelphia - Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA, www.bdpa.org) is bringing its 2003 national convention back to Philadelphia this year. The conference will run from August 13-17.
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Read the rest of the media story here.
Friday, May 30, 2003
Tech News, 5/30/2003 (Shirley Monrose)
Black Data Processing Associates Offers Training, Performs Community Service. Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) is a nonprofit professional association founded in Philadelphia in 1975, which has grown to more than 2,000 members in over 40 chapters spanning 35 states. The New York chapter was chartered in 1983 and is now the third largest, with over 150 members.
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Read the media story here.
Thursday, May 22, 2003
BlackEngineer.com, 5/22/2003 (Sandra Walker)
BDPA Richmond Gets Grant for Student Training. The Richmond, Va., chapter of Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) has been awarded a $15,000 cash grant by The Community Foundation Serving Richmond and Central Virginia, to help support the BDPA Richmond's successful High School Computer Competition program. The money will be used to send 40 Richmond-area students in grades nine through 12 to a national computer skills competition at the 2003 National BDPA Conference, which will be held in Philadelphia this August.Read the rest of this BlackEngineer.com story here.
Friday, February 28, 2003
Business Courier of Cincinnati, 2/28/2003 (Sara Lee Foods)
Sara Lee Foods Joins BDPA as a Sponsor. The Cincinnati chapter of Black Data Processing Associates said it has added Sara Lee Foods to its roster of corporate sponsors.
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Thursday, January 16, 2003
Business Courier of Cincinnati, 1/16/2003 (The Circuit)
The Circuit Signs On as a BDPA Sponsor. The Cincinnati chapter of Black Data Processing Associates said it has landed The Circuit as an associate level corporate sponsor.
Read the full Cincinnati Business Courier article here.
Tuesday, December 3, 2002
WorkPlaceDiversity Press Room, 12/3/2002 (Milt Haynes)
National Black Data Processing Associates and WorkPlaceDiversity.com Form Partnership. WorkplaceDiversity.com (www.WorkplaceDiversity.com), the source for diversity talent, and National BDPA (Black Data Processing Associates (http://www.bdpa.org)) today announced a joint venture to recognize the ten best companies for Blacks in technology as well as to honor one of the ten companies as Company of the Year. The award for Company of the Year will be presented at BDPA's 2003 Annual National Conference to be held August 13-17, 2003 at the Marriott Hotel in Philadelphia, PA.
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Read the media story here.
Sunday, December 1, 2002
Friday, November 1, 2002
Tuesday, October 1, 2002
Sunday, September 1, 2002
Saturday, August 10, 2002
AfroGolf.com, 8/10/2002 (Gina Billings)
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Monday, August 5, 2002
Business Courier of Cincinnati, 8/5/2002 (Hewlett-Packard)
HP showcases technology during BDPA annual conference. Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) Wednesday announced its sponsorship of the 24th annual Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) national conference.
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Read the media story here.
Thursday, August 1, 2002
Monday, July 1, 2002
Diversity/Careers in Engineering & Information Technology, June/July 2002 (Milt Haynes, Wayne Hicks)
BDPA Conference will Emphasize Entrepreneurship and Networking. African Americans in IT should strongly consider business ownership, declares Milt Haynes, national president of Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA, www.bdpa.org, Largo, MD). The organization’s 24th annual conference, which runs from August 7 -11 in Orlando, FL, is designed to help them get started. The theme of the conference is “Changing the culture of IT: from access to ownership,” reports R. Wayne Hicks, BDPA president-elect and head of the Cincinnati chapter.
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Read the full media story here.
Saturday, June 1, 2002
Thursday, May 9, 2002
ITBusiness Canada, 5/9/2002 (Leesa Barnes, Wayne Hicks)
Black IT Professionals Forge Global Alliances. To Black Data Processing Associates president-elect Wayne Hicks, the recent alliance forged between his group and Canada's BITePRO offers a new twist on the old boys' network. The old boys' network, he says, has traditionally worked against women and people of colour, but by forging their own networking associations, Black IT professionals on both sides of the border are finding strength in numbers.
Read the full ITBusiness Canada article here.
Monday, April 1, 2002
Wednesday, March 13, 2002
General Atlantic, 3/13/2002 (Wayne Hicks)
Intelliseek Moves to Cincinnati's 'Digital Rhine'. Intelliseek today announced it is expanding its corporate headquarters and relocating all of its Greater Cincinnati employees to accommodate the technology company's unprecedented growth. Despite the current economic downturn, Intelliseek revenues have grown 300% annually since 1999, the company has gained remarkable customer momentum in 2001 and it is poised to deliver 300% growth again in 2002...
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Read the full media story here.
Friday, March 1, 2002
Friday, February 22, 2002
Business Wire, 2/22/2002 (BDPA Dallas)
Dallas Convention Center to Host Diversity Career Fair On March 5; Top Employers, Hundreds of Professional Jobs, Multiple Industries. For several thousand professionals from all communities and leading local and national employers, opportunity comes in the form of the NAACP Diversity Career Fair which will take place from 11 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5, 2002 at the Dallas Convention Center. This event is presented by the NAACP Region VI and the Texas State Conference of NAACP Branches and is sponsored by Merck. Partnering with the NAACP Career Fair to promote workforce diversity are Asian American Professionals of Dallas, Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) -- Dallas Chapter, the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. (NACME) and the National Society of Hispanic MBAs -- Dallas/Ft. Worth Chapter.
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Read the complete media story here.
Friday, February 1, 2002
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