BDPA can help you advance your career in the IT profession. We give professionals, executives, entrepreneurs and students an IT career pathway from the “Classroom to the Boardroom”. Through education, mentoring, services and business networking, BDPA promotes innovation, technical skills, business savvy and personal growth.

Professionals and Executives

Get access to mentoring, professional coaching, certified training, job placement and other valuable resources. Maximize networking opportunities locally and nationally to build the connections you need to keep advancing your career.

Entrepreneurs

If you provide IT-related services and products, BDPA helps your bottom line. We introduce your business to individuals with purchasing power, or influence the decision to purchase your product. Interact with potential business partners, investors, and employees.

Student Information Technology Education & Scholarship

(SITES) Program

The SITES program is the umbrella for BDPA's many youth education programs. Quite simply SITES is to increase the number of computer literate African Americans in BDPA chapter cities by offering a challenging, competitive, esteem-building, state-of-the-art program, that will train youths and adults in today's technology.

BDPA Orlando works with students at both the high school and college levels involving them in field trips to corporate sites, monthly speakers on subjects to encourage them to seek higher levels of education, and grooming many of them to become our next generation of IT professionals.

High School and College Students

If you are considering a future in IT, or want to learn more about technology, BDPA helps you develop technical skills, introduce you to role models, and open doors leading to that important internship and first job. BDPA offers many positive role models who are willing to help you become the next generation of IT professionals and executives. Additionally, you will acquire important business skills that add to your potential to advance, such as:

• Effective speaking and writing
• Delivering impressive presentations
• Setting and meeting goals
• Team building
• Time management

Black Family Technology Awareness Week

(BFTAW) is a series of events that occur across the country in February. National Black Family Technology Awareness Week wants Black families and youth be a part of the technological revolution. BDPA is a National Sponsor of this week. Look at our calendar to learn about events occurring in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.