Howard University undergraduate Victoria Adebayo may not have entered college with research experience in quantum computing, but that’s how she’s leaving it. Listen to professors, industry experts, students examine the impact of the IBM-HBCU Quantum Center. Read more, here: https://research.ibm.com/blog/hbcu-quantum-center-impact

On behalf of BDPA and the Atlanta BDPA Chapter, our teams are glad to introduce you to a review of events recently shared during the 44th Annual BDPA National Conference! We were very excited to meet those from academia, government and industry who joined us in Atlanta, and look forward to our time together again next August in Atlanta during BDPACON23. Since our last in-person national convening in 2019 and our last virtual conference in 2021, we have been working hard to develop a fun-filled, robust program that maximizes your time in Atlanta. Consistent with our 2022 theme, Honoring Our Legacy, Celebrating Our Pace, this year’s conference sought to magnify Black voices in tech, celebrate Black excellence in STEM, champion diversity at the corporate level, and provide opportunities to network and build community with Black leaders, students, and organizations from across the country. During our time together, we offered a range of relevant topics, including sharing lessons of leadership, exploring techniques to succeed in technology, highlighting the important models of talent development, as well as Black entrepreneurship in tech, just to name a few. Thank you for joining us in Atlanta and lending your voice to empower others. Together, we will continue to expand opportunities for Black tech professionals and students to raise their voices and harness their talents for positive change from the classroom to the boardroom. As we continue the journey toward our 50th anniversary in 2025, we look forward to seeing you next August! Stay connected. Visit BDPA.org and bdpatoday.com. ___________________ #BDPA #BDPACON #BDPACON22 #BDPACON23 #bdpatoday #BETF #SITES #HSCC #ITshowcase #MobileAppShowcase #technology #computer #cyber #career #conference #coding #competition #DataScience #CloudAcademy #CIOpanel #Cybersecurity #workforce #gaming #gamification #scholarship #internship

Next October 18th. Happy Exascale day! As we enter a new era in research and development or modeling and simulation, exascale computing will rapidly transform our abilities to do just about anything with any connected or remote device on, in, or near our planet. Exascale systems and supercomputers are able to achieve over 1 quintillion operations per second. That's 10 to the 18th power, or a “1” followed by 18 zeros. On National Exascale Day, National BDPA, local BDPA Chapters, bdpatoday, and PTTV celebrate our 10th month on its 18th day. Our Exascale Era will have very profound impacts on all industry market segments from energy, health, manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain management to all modes of transportation, infrastructure, new technologies and policy. So how will these advanced technologies all work together with our village and in your ‘hood? How could more data from satellites, sensors, devices, and people, really work well atop newly secured platforms with compute at the edge in our new era? In this introductory Episode, here is what a few Industry subject matter experts (SMEs) and insiders from our longtime sponsors and mission partners at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and the Brookings Institution, have to say about this new era. Use and share this introductory primer and Advanced Planning Briefing for Interns (APBi) with your instructors, teachers, and parents to prepare students and interns for new careers. bdpa.org | bdpadc.org | bdpa2020.com | bdpatoday.com | pttv.us | populartechnology.tv

Check out BDPA Huntsville Chapter's college student member Raven Moore! She shares one of our latest testimonials highlighting how "BDPA has helped shape (her) into a leader", helped land an internship in tech, and opened doors to new career pathways and opportunities with NASA!

An encore presentation of a local BDPA Chapter's participation with industry stakeholders. One of the first episodes of Popular Technology TV (PTTV) was filmed on location at The Microsoft Store, Pentagon City, in Arlington, Virginia.

National Newspapers Publishers Association (NNPA) President and Civil Rights icon Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Jr., shares his vision for BDPA and Student Members during BDPA's 2019 annual Community Technology Awards Gala in Washington, D.C.

Hurricane Season officially begins June 1, 2022. Our special guest for this workshop and first episode of this year's Earth Day Tech Summit series, CyberEarth '22, is Dr. DaNa Carlis, Deputy Director, Global Systems Lab (GSL), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Dr. Carlis will kick-off CyberEarth22. He is a meteorologist and serves as the Deputy Director at GSL since September 2020. He comes to GSL from the Weather Program Office (WPO) where he established the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) Program. Dr. Carlis enjoys working between science, policy, and society to ensure better products and services for the American people. During this year’s Earth Day Weekend series, Dr. Carlis discusses high-performance computers (HPC), supercomputing capacity for weather and climate research and development (R&D), and higher-resolution Earth-system computer models. Add these tech and cyber discussions, questions, and answers across air, land, sea, and space domains to your classroom, your boardroom, city council, general assembly, or during your next STEM meetings with local BDPA Chapters. Related content: • https://gsl.noaa.gov/ • https://www.BDPA.org • https://bdpatoday.com • https://PopularTechnology.tv Key words: • #EarthDay • #TechSummit • #CyberEarth22 • #ComputerModeling • #WeatherForecasts • #HurricaneSeason • #TechAndPolicy • #infrastructure • #SmartCity • #broadband • #BDPACon22 bdpa.org | bdpadc.org | bdpatoday.com | 2021.bdpa.org | pttv.us | populartechnology.tv

A 45-year promotional vignette powered by BDPA for Popular Technology TV (PTTV.) BDPA was co-founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania circa 1975 as "Black Data Processing Associates" by Earl A. Pace, Jr. and the late David Wimberly. BDPA is an international organization with a diverse membership of professionals and students at every level in the fields of information technology (I.T.), computer science, cyber, and related S.T.E.M. fields. Since 1975, BDPA Members are actively engaged in serving their respective communities through outreach and charting the future of digital transformation across all industry sectors. Since 1986, tens of thousands of BDPA Members, Student Members, and HBCU/MI alumni have participated in the Association's renowned technology conferences, innovation summits, and career expos. College and high school students also competed in the Association's national or regional computer, coding, Mobile AppDev, and I.T. Showcase competitions. bdpa.org | bdpadc.org | bdpa2020.com | bdpatoday.com | populartechnology.tv