The links below include IT professional and industry associations, area user groups, IT events, and educational programs in IT for Nebraska and the surrounding region. Please contact Jesse Claeys at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it if you would like to have your organization represented on this page.

Information Technology Professional and Industry Associations

• Association for Computing Machinery (no local chapter)
• Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) - Omaha Chapter
• Computing Research Association - Chapters at University of Nebraska at Omaha and Lincoln
  
• Data Management Association - Nebraska Chapter
  
• Information Technologies Council - Omaha breakfast networking meetings
  
• Information Technology Association of America - IT trade association
• InfraGard - Omaha Chapter, a collaboration for infrastructure protection
• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) - Nebraska Section (incl. Pottawattamie Co., Iowa)
  
• Management Information Systems Student Organization - University of Nebraska at Omaha
• National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies  - focus is on IT and IT-related educational programs
  
• NEbraskaCERT - information and network security
  

Omaha Area Users Groups

• Great Plains DB2 Forum
• Greater Nebraska Macintosh Users Group
• Joomla! User Group Omaha
  
• Mid-America IT Service Management Local Interest Group
  
• Nebraska Chapter of the Software Process Improvement Network
• Nebraska Cold Fusion Users Group 
• Nebraska Help Desk Institute (HDI) Local Users Group
  
• Nebraska Novell Users Group
• Nebraska SharePoint User Group 
• Omaha Agile User Group 
  
• Omaha Cisco Users Group
• Omaha Dynamic Language User Group
• Omaha Java Users Group
  
• Omaha Linux User Group
• Omaha Macintosh User Group
• OmahaMTG.com (Microsoft Technology) Users Groups
  
• Omaha Perl Users Group
• Omaha Python User's Group  
• Omaha Ruby on Rails User Group 
  
• Omaha Web Design Meetup Group

Central Nebraska User Groups

• Central Nebraska Developer's Group - Kearney
  

Information Technology Events

• Infotec: Innovate, Collaborate, Apply IT
• AIM Institute Technology Celebration Banquet
  
• Information Technology in the Workplace Conference
• IT Futures Forum
  
• Working Connections IT Conference
  

Area Educational Programs in Information Technology

• University of Nebraska - Kearney 
  
• Computer Science & Information Systems
  

• University of Nebraska - Lincoln

• Computer Science and Engineering
• College of Engineering
• College of Business Administration

• University of Nebraska at Omaha

• College of Information Science and Technology

• Bioinformatics
• Computer Science
• Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis
• Information Technology  Ph.D. Program
• International Academy for Advanced Decision Support
• Nebraska University Consortium on Information Assurance

• College of Business Administration

• Metropolitan Community College

• Information Technology Department

• Bellevue University

• College of St. Mary 

• Creighton University

• College of Business Administration