Invited to Digital Lead, Gabriela Mecea, executive director of ANIS, explained how the IT sector looks like in 2022 in Romania and what the annual need for IT professionals will be compared to the number of graduates of specialized faculties.

Digital Lead: Gabriela Mechea, Executive Director of ANISPhoto: Photo: StartupCafe.ro

Key points from the interview:

  • The IT sector is growing in Romania 3 times faster than the average economic growth, and its share in GDP has doubled from 4.6 billion to 9 billion in the last 6 years;
  • the main challenges of the IT segment: an acute shortage of specialists (every year we have a shortage of about 20,000 specialists, and graduates of specialized faculties – 9,000), a low level of digitalization and the instability of the legislative framework;
  • preservation of tax benefits for the IT segment ensures the competitiveness of the segment in comparison with other countries.

Watch the full video interview on StartupCafe.ro…