Dr. Milani Austria, JRU Assistant Dean for Technological Studies of the College Division represented the University in the 6th CIO Roundtable Discussion where veterans from the academe and the IT industry gathered to tackle the quality of IT education in the Philippines today – an outstanding issue raised until today, but often times unanswered. The recovering industry sees a huge gap between the industry’s need for IT talent and the number of people ready for such. An exchange of ideas and suggestions cam about in the roundtable where the cited problem was not on having enough IT graduates, but rather the right quality of IT education. Graduates from this field need to improve English and technical competency, confidence in communication, customer orientation and ethical values. Greater industry-academe cooperation in students’ on-the-job training and faculty immersion in the industry was cited by Dr. Austria as possible solutions to the problem. JRU IT professors currently participate in a 240-hour Java boot camp program-a partnership between the Philippine Software Industry Association and the Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations as an initiative to help solve this dilemma. Some representatives from the industry included leaders from Banco De Oro, VBP Group of Companies and 3M Philippines.