Senior Technical women at TechLeaders: Leading across cultures are discussing the importance of collaboration between industry and academia. Industry can bring real problems for students and faculty to work on both on a short term and long term basis, while academics want to ensure research experience for their graduate students.
Such cross sectoral collaborations can bring the best minds with multiple perspectives on a common societal problem and have far-reaching impact.
The annual Grace Hopper Conference is one forum where such industry-university collaborations emerge, leading to new professional connections, interships, job placement of graduate students.
The group expressed interest in continuing this conversation about building stronger academic and industry collaborations and has connected to take action to further this issue beyond the TechLeaders workshop.