Higher education institutions must always be looking toward to future, while modernizing their practices to help students best prepare for their professional futures. That’s especially true for the region’s tech programs.

These train students who will fill some half a million new tech jobs that are projected to be created within the U.S. in the next decade, per the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics.

Predicting what tech trends will yield industry growth, innovation and new jobs is one of John Swartley’s favorite parts about his job. He’s the associate vice provost for research and managing director of the Penn Center for Innovation (PCI) and has been at the University of Pennsylvania for 14 years across tech and commercialization roles. His current job means he’s constantly thinking about what the next decade might bring.

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