Sydney channel catches up with CompTIA
[Photos] Plenty of familiar faces at Sheraton on the Park on 24 November.
The group voted to select the top Australian priorities for CompTIA in 2016: helping increase the number of women in IT, as well as localising CompTIA's useful collateral and contracts for the Australian market.
CompTIA's Jim Hamilton explained: "I'm really pleased to announce that the Dream IT Program won with the top votes. The Dream IT program is looking to bring the message that IT is a great place to have a career for girls and women.
"We're aiming to reach 10,000 girls and women with that message. What we do is we package up a presentation along with speaker notes, we have supporting videos, we have speaker resources, we'll even match up people who want a Dream IT presentation with people who can do the Dream IT presentation."
CompTIA community members were also excited to get access to the assocation's deep well of resources, which include helpful assets, such as contracts.
"An SLA for a managed service agreement is a perfect example. You know how many MSPs are there in the Australian channel? Let's say it's 10,000. All of them are using a very similar SLA agreement. They're going to a lawyer, they're paying thousands of dollars to have this SLA agreement drafted up and they're using it.
"What we do, is we take one created template, and allow people to customise it themselves, a lawyer produces it and they can download it for free as part of membership. It's just one way that we can provide some really strong value to the members."
CompTIA has been growing in Australia over the past 12 months, holding its first-ever function in Sydney in November 2014, followed by its first proper community meeting in August. A company membership costs $150 per year.
Pictured: Jim Hamilton and Moheb Moses (CompTIA and Channel Dynamics)
