Exclusive Interview: BDPA's Founder. Earl Pace Jr. - Vision for the Future

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Special Guest: Earl Pace, Jr., Founder, National BDPA

Earl Pace, Jr. is the co-founder of National BDPA. BDPA has grown into the largest national professional organization representing people of African descent in the technology industry.  We are celebrating the 40th anniversary of BDPA in 2015, and Earl remains the only person who has attended every single BDPA Technology Conference! He was the first-ever National BDPA president. In 1997, he received the National Technical Association’s National Technical Achiever Award as Computer Scientist of the Year. In 2001 and 2002, Black Money Magazine named him as one of the 50 Most Influential African Americans in Information Technology. In 2011 he was inducted into the CompTIA Information Technology Hall of Fame joining Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell and others with this honor. In 2013 he was inducted into the BDPA Hall of Fame as one of its first inductees.