The ITECH project focuses on the issues, usability and advances associated with deploying new and emerging IT technologies, as well as on their integration into current business applications. This focus includes the topics of IT standards and compliance, privacy and ethics, system usability and accessibility, artificial intelligence, information overload, desktop and mobile computing, telecommuting, virtual companies, software engineering and business process management, search technologies, multimedia, data mining, hardware, and quality and risk issues associated with the deployment of these technologies. The project also works to identify new technologies and incubate projects in these technologies, as they become more mature, either as full SHARE Projects, committees or Special Interest Groups (SIGs). The project sponsors and coordinates sessions that educate and inform the SHARE membership about the various aspects of technology innovation and use. These sessions include presentations by vendors, user experiences, and 'pure' technology from state-of-the-art research and development arena. The project focuses on emerging technology in a practical, business application perspective, as it is implemented in the 'real world'.