Education, technology leaders discuss efforts to strengthen Northeast Wisconsin’s cyber workforce

GREEN BAY (NBC 26) — Northeast Wisconsin education and technology leaders are working to strengthen the area’s cyber workforce. Rep. Mike Gallagher (R) 8th District, co-chair of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC), and Brad Smith, Microsoft president, hosted a roundtable Monday at TitleTown Tech to discuss what’s being done to train the community’s workforce and how access to cyber education can be increased.

Several non-profit organizations and educational institutions attended the meeting, including the chancellors of UW-Green Bay and Whitewater, the president of Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, the co-founder of Gener8tor, the president of CESA 7, and the vice president of talent development for New North.

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