A Working Connections IT Conference, sponsored by the AIM Institute and the Midwest Center for IT, is held each year in June at IowaWesternCommunity College. Working Connections offers a fresh, new approach in helping IT faculty at the community college and high school level and IT professionals stay current with trends and new developments in Information Technology.

Hundreds of IT educators and professionals from throughout the region have attended the Working Connections IT Conference, held on the campus of Iowa Western Community College, and nearly all of the attendees reported the time spent at the conference was a very valuable professional development experience.

Initiated by Microsoft, the program was created to provide a national delivery channel to help community college IT faculty throughout the United States stay current with the latest emerging technologies and best practices. Beginning In 2007, high school instructors as well as IT professionals from business and industry were also invited to register for the conference, enabling the conference organizers to expand the number and variety of tracks offered.