Meeting the workforce challenges head-on

Sustaining the New Orleans’ growing STEM industries by opening doors to opportunity.

At the age of 300, New Orleans is both an old city with beloved traditions and culture and a modern city with booming STEM industries. The BioDistrict, founded in 2005 to focus on the development of a biosciences industry, is flourishing. Additionally, since 2006, New Orleans has increased jobs in technology by 22%, making it the fastest technology city in the country. The result will be an additional 20,000 jobs. Global Risk Insights (GRI) reports that the gap between demand for highly skilled employees and the lack of prepared candidates is becoming a national crisis. Due to the rapid growth of these industries in New Orleans, the crisis is even more acute and the need to prepare a robust workforce more dire.