Exigy Participates at Microsoft eSkills and Imagine Cup Finals
Microsoft Malta has invited Exigy to participate at the eSkills initiative, aimed at raising awareness on the growing need for ICT professionals.
Exigy has participated at the eSkills initiative that was organised by Microsoft on the 13th of May 2010, which raises awareness on the growing demand for highly-skilled ICT practitioners. Francois Grech, Exigy’s Executive Director, and Wayne Clark, Business Development Manager at Exigy, were present for this event that was organised at the University of Malta. eSkills aims at providing a vision of a European knowledge society, demonstrating how Microsoft strives towards ensuring that the knowledge, skills and competences of the Maltese workforce meet the highest possible standard. The eSkills Seminar was addressed by Microsoft Europe Chairman Mr. Jan Muehlfeit, with the participation of representatives from the Faculty of ICT, Malta Communications Authority, Malta Information Technology Agency and Microsoft Malta. The event brought together students, business start-ups, educational and government executives to discuss the major opportunities brought about within the ICT sector. On the same day, Microsoft Malta has hosted the Imagine Cup Local Final Competition. Imagine Cup is an annual software design competition which encourages students around the globe to imagine a better world in which people are empowered by technology. Calling on programmers and technologists, Imagine Cup induces participants to use their development goals as their inspiration to design a competitive solution based on a specific theme. Mr. Grech formed part of the panel of judges that determined the winners of this year’s local competition, giving the winning team Dice the opportunity to travel and compete against other international teams in the Imagine Cup world-wide finals in Poland in July. Dice created an infrastructure for communication between people, which aims at tackling issues of lack of communication between doctors in developed countries and healthcare workers and volunteers in third world countries.