Schedule VIScon 2019

In this talk, I would like to use my daily experience to show how to get into the IT sector as a non-computer scientist, what it means to work there and how to stay happy.

In my talk, I plan to show what it means to work as a non-computer scientist in a computer science field based on my everyday experience. To illustrate this, I will mainly refer to a project our company, EBP, is developing for the Mobiliar Lab for Natural Risks: A web application for visualizing flood exposure and flood risks throughout Switzerland. Although I had only a minor IT-background when I started working at EBP, I currently work as a software developer in this project. How it came to this I will elaborate in my talk.
In my talk, I will also show that often IT expertise is not the only one required but, especially in the case of this specific project, it needs to be coupled with expertise in environmental sciences, safety and risk as well as communication. It is precisely the interdisciplinary cooperation which makes this work exciting and enriching to me.
In addition to providing an insight into my everyday work life, I will also give the audience a kind of guideline to find out whether a computer science-related job will make them happy in the long run and what to consider when looking for a job in this area as a non-computer scientist.
Furthermore, my talk will discuss which skills and qualities are advantageous to acquire in order to gain a foothold in the IT sector of the private industry and what requirements a company has to meet in order to make the start easy for new staffers

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Day: 2019-10-12
Start time: 13:05
Duration: 00:55
Room: G59
Track: Computer Science in Engineering Track

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