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Noblis Welcomes Northern Virginia’s Future Leaders
Virginia Secretary of Technology Aneesh P. Chopra to Address Regional Group

Noblis, Inc., a nonprofit science, technology and strategy organization, will host the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) Workforce Committee meeting on June 11, 2008.  With a theme of “Tactics in the War on Talent,” the meeting will focus on welcoming NVTC member-company summer interns.

The NVTC Workforce Committee welcomes its members’ summer interns and their immediate supervisors to join the committee for comments from Virginia Secretary of Technology Aneesh P. Chopra, as well as activities focusing on leadership skills. 

Noblis President and CEO Amr ElSawy said, “Noblis looks forward to launching the summer internship season with energy and focus.  This is a unique opportunity for the best and brightest of summer interns to hear from the leader of technology efforts in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and, for leading technology companies to meet the industry stars of the future.  We want to provide an impressive experience to challenge these rising young leaders to return to northern Virginia when they graduate, and also have some fun getting to know one another here, this summer.”

Noblis Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer H. Gilbert Miller, PhD, is heading up the 2008 Noblis intern program.  He said, “At Noblis, we strive to be a talent magnet to help us continue our work as an innovative company producing enduring impacts. The 2008 Noblis internship program includes 19 students chosen from hundreds of applicants.  Like the diverse Noblis staff, the interns span a wide range of skills, educational backgrounds, and career interests.”

Miller noted interns were selected not only for their personal, academic, and professional accomplishments, but also on Noblis’ ability to create a substantive and rewarding experience for the interns. Intern supervisors and mentors have defined a unique and intellectually engaging set of projects for the interns to explore – from strategic thinking exercises to learning about specific Noblis mission areas.

The summer workforce meeting will be held at Noblis headquarters, 3150 Fairview Park Drive South, Falls Church, Virginia on June 11, 2008.  A light reception will be held from 4:00-6:00 p.m.

About Noblis
Noblis is a nonprofit science, technology and strategy organization that helps clients in the public and private sector solve complex scientific, systems, process, and infrastructure problems in ways that benefit the public. Noblis brings the best of scientific thought, management and engineering know-how to find solutions that are practical, efficient and effective. You will find Noblis at work in many fields, including national security and intelligence; transportation; health innovation; enterprise services; energy and environmental sustainability; and oceans, atmosphere and space.  For more information about Noblis, see www.noblis.org.

About the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC)
The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) is the membership and trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia and is the largest technology council in the nation. NVTC has about 1,100 member companies representing more than 200,000 employees. Its membership includes companies from all sectors of the technology industry and the service providers that support these companies, as well as universities, foreign embassies, non-profit organizations and governmental agencies. NVTC is recognized as the nation's leader in providing its technology community with networking and educational events, specialized services and benefits, public policy advocacy, branding of its region as a major global technology center, initiatives in targeted business sectors and in the international, entrepreneurship, workforce and education arenas, the Equal Footing Foundation that focuses on venture philanthropy and public/private partnerships, and The Entrepreneur Center @NVTC to mentor new technology entrepreneurs. Visit NVTC at www.nvtc.org.