Panel on Industrial Needs and Educational Response

To include a panel on needs of the techno-economic environment seems appropriate, as its profile and needs have shifted over the last years. So has the research agenda of computing departments. But these changes are not in sync. Hence a panel on Industrial Needs and the Educational Response of the curriculum should confront educators with the broad spectrum of the IT-labor market by allowing people involved in hiring graduates voicing their needs but also understand the constraints of formal education, notably in Software Engineering.