IT Partners Program 

The IT Partners Program is an executive development program for leaders in government and industry who have demonstrated a high potential for future advancement.  The overall goal of the program is to prepare future government and industry information technology leaders for the roles they will fill at the Senior Executive Service and company officer level. Program applicants are nominated by their respective company or agency. This application process validates the applicants past contributions and affirms his/her  opportunity for advancement.  Each applicant is evaluated by government and industry executives against the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) for their leadership experience and acumen.

Government participants should be:

• Senior federal employees (Grade 15 preferred) who are involved with business transformation, IT management, program implementation, development, or acquisition.
• Participants in an agency Senior Executive Service (SES) candidate program or candidates in their agency for whom the agency would consider sending to an executive developmental program (Federal Executive Institute, DoD’s Information Resource Management College (IRMC), CIO University, and other graduate level programs for federal executives).
• Involved in ACT-IAC and its mission (or similar industry-government organizations).
• Considered to be competitive for SES selection at the Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary and/or Chief Information Officer level.
• Willing to dedicate two to three days per month for Partner activities between February and October.

Industry participants should be:

• Recognized as future executive leaders in their respective IAC member company.
• Recognized as future leaders in the broader government IT community.
• Experienced in a broad range of business activities, including program/project management, financial management, procurement, business development, and marketing.
• Involved in ACT-IAC and its mission (or similar industry-government organizations).
• Familiar with the issues and concerns of the federal information technology community (15+ years experience preferred).
• Willing to dedicate 2-3 days per month for Partner activities between February and October.

Course Curriculum:

The course pairs a government and industry partner for the 9 month program.  During that time, the "partners" complete a set of requirements during the program year (February--October) which may include, but not be limited to: 

• Attendance at all scheduled Partners Breakfast Panels for your team.
• Attendance at least one ACT-IAC (or other association meeting) with your Partner.
• Attendance at two two-and-one-half day off site sessions and the Executive Leadership Conference (ELC).
• Attendance at the two planned Partner educational evening events.
• Meeting at least twice with your Program Group (a.k.a. “Pod”) outside of a scheduled Partner event during the program year.
• Meeting with a Partner, not involved in the Class of 2009.
• Attending or volunteering to support an ACT-IAC or other charitable event.

Registration Fees

Once selected, government participants will be required to pay a tuition fee of $3,295. The fee for industry participants is $3,795.  This fee covers the program costs and includes the food and lodging for two off-site meetings, breakfast meetings, teambuilding events, as well as full registration and two nights lodging at IAC’s Executive Leadership Conference (ELC) in October.

Application Schedule:

The application process opens in October, following the Executive Leadership Conference (ELC) and closes in December.  Selections are then made in January.