Connecticut’s biotech sector needs stronger digital-tech training, improved infrastructure and more robust state funding to sustain its growth, industry leaders said Wednesday.
College students must gain deeper skills in computer science, coding and AI to meet the industry’s needs, said Serena McCalla, CEO of iResearch Corp., a STEM education and research-organization she founded.
“We’re not training them to be able to ask the right questions,” McCalla said Wednesday during a panel on building the state’s biotech corridor at Rebellion Group’s “Shaping CT’s Future: Drive to ’35” event in Stamford. “China is starting their children at five years old in AI.”