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Tech Leader Visier Donates to Local Universities to Support STEM Education
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Donations part of corporate-wide Visier Gives initiative, which encourages employees to give back to their communities with four paid days off for volunteer activities each year
Vancouver, BC, May 19, 2017--(T-Net)--Visier, a leader in Workforce Intelligence, has made a series of donations to Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Applied Sciences (SFU) and the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Science/Department of Computer Science (UBC) to encourage students to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and the advancement of women in STEM-related fields.
These donations are part of a corporate-wide giving program, Visier Gives, that encourages employees to give back to their communities supported by four paid days off for volunteer activities each year.
Visit the Visier Gives webpage.
The labor shortage facing technology companies in British Columbia and around the world is well documented. In Canada alone the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) projects that 182,000 skilled IT workers will be needed by 2019, with another 36,000 by 2020.
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By teaming with two world-renowned local Universities, Visier aims to foster an interest in STEM, leadership, and entrepreneurship amongst youth and to help remove barriers to full participation STEM careers by women.
“While the race to out-innovate with new ideas and products fuels the technology industry at large, the competition between companies is fought most pervasively on the talent front lines,” said Ryan Wong, President & CTO, Visier. “Innovation and ideas come from people. Knowing the potential of STEM, we've decided that a key cornerstone of our Visier Gives program will be to encourage more youth, and especially young women, to explore their interest in STEM.”
Visier Partners with SFU Faculty of Applied Sciences to create opportunities for youth, especially for girls, to explore STEM careers
In partnership with SFU, Visier will support the following programs:
“In order to convince more women to pursue careers in STEM, it is crucial that we provide opportunities for young girls to engage in fun activities that help to counter stereotypes surrounding STEM fields. Visier's commitment to fund programs that engage and inspire the next generation of women to pursue STEM has the potential to benefit society as a whole by increasing the diversity and innovation of those in the STEM fields,” says Dr. Lesley Shannon,
NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering (BC/Yukon), Associate Professor, School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University.
Visier Teams Up with UBC Faculty of Science to Support Computer Science Undergrads
In partnership with UBC, Visier will support the following programs:
“Our department is very grateful to Visier for its generosity, helping to promote and strengthen diversity and outreach, which are extremely important goals for us,” says Chen Grief, Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science, The University of British Columbia.
About Visier
Our curiosity, the desire to understand, is inseparable from what it means to be human. But, in the hype of big data analytics, we've forgotten that data does not equal knowledge.
Visier was founded to focus on what matters: answering the right business questions, even the ones a person might not know to ask. Questions that shape business strategy, provide the impetus for taking action, and drive better business results.
Visier is dedicated to transforming business analytics, to providing leaders with clear answers to critical business questions — out-of-the-box, without the hassle and cost of data management, statements of work, and long and risky development projects.
Visier lets companies say goodbye to data quality problems, to complexity, to costly tools, to endless service fees, and to guesswork. A people strategy platform designed by domain experts for leaders, Visier lets leaders say hello to clarity, to confidence, to meaningful answers — and to better business performance. Say hello to Visier. Outsmart, outperform.
For more information, visit http://www.visier.com.
Contact:
Julie Galla
visier(at)sparkpr(dot)com
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