The Mission of ITPA:
To connect the community of IT professionals together to enhance skills, promote education, share cutting edge solutions and develop lasting professional relationships. There is an ITPA in Savannah, Brunswick and Waycross, and each meets once a month.

The Information Technology Professionals Association (ITPA) is comprised of IT professionals living and working in the local community. ITPA offers professionals the opportunity to network with other IT people in the industry, discuss common issues, find solutions and build professional relationships. Members of the ITPA are professionals actively working in the IT industry administering and managing Information Systems, doing development work, installing communications and information systems infrastructures, as well as students, IT job seekers, technology decision makers or representatives from organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce or local area economic development authority. ITPA is designed to be a resource tool for the Information technology professional. One of our common reminders at meetings is that everyone is welcome to take a call, answer their beeper and review their PDA’s during a meeting.

The success of the Savannah Chapter has led to the establishment of other chapters in the South East Georgia region, Brunswick, as well as Waycross. One of the goals for the chapters was to leverage the 20-30+ people per meeting to encourage speakers to visit each location during their appearances in the coastal area. The chapters set up their meetings to fall on consecutive days in the week thereby allowing the speakers to visit each chapter giving their presentations. The Brunswick meetings attempt to line up with the third Friday of the month meeting of Savannah. Each chapter has its own organizational structure, membership rosters and choice on whether dues are collected. The meetings are a relaxed, informative environment for the working IT professional to network and learn about available technologies. As an association, we have created a stronger voice and demonstrated our combined purchasing power to the IT vendor community to demand better products, services and attention than in previous years.

For more information visit Savannah ITPA's website at http://www.itpasavannah.org.