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A new TechPoint report released today details progress made in Mission41K, Indiana’s collaborative effort to inclusively grow the state’s tech workforce by 41,000 Hoosiers by 2030 and calls on the state’s tech community to continue working toward the aggressive goals.  The report compares 2022 tech job growth to the first several months of 2023 and […]

My name is Kate Maxwell, and I am a member of the Indy tech community, a TechPoint Board Member, and a Hoosier by Choice. I became a Hoosier by Choice four years ago, when I made the decision to move my family to Indiana for a career opportunity in the tech-enabled Aerospace & Defense industry. […]

When serial entrepreneur Bill Oesterle told an Indianapolis newspaper columnist last year that he was dying, it shocked those who hadn’t already heard of his Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) diagnosis. Despite that knowledge, the news of his death last week was just as startling.  As word spread, the tributes flowed. It seemed few companies in […]

Today we launch a reformatted TechPoint Index website and newsletter to better showcase the exciting developments, launches, fund raises and innovation happening throughout the state in the Indiana tech community.   Longtime readers know that we’ve promoted a few news headlines each week in the TechPoint Index newsletter under our “More Indiana Tech Stories and News” […]

The Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Franklin College got students to lace-up and log on for a campus wide scavenger hunt last week. The digital-meets-real-world event, the first of its kind for the private liberal arts college, focused on bringing Black history to life during Black History Month.  “We wanted to engage our students […]