Xtern Spring Finalist Day places top tech talent with Indiana companies
The race for talent is on the minds of many leaders and professionals in Indiana’s growing tech ecosystem. Companies are eager to find the best and brightest who can help their teams excel, and earlier this month 11 of those companies participated in Xtern Spring Finalist Day. The Xtern program works to place bright tech […]
Indiana Tech needs YOU! 5 Tips for women to start or grow tech careers
Deloitte Global predicts that large global technology firms, on average, will reach nearly 33 percent overall female representation in their workforces in 2022, up slightly more than 2 percentage points from 2019. That increase, though small, represents notable progress. Moving the needle is difficult, and even aggressive campaigns to recruit, hire, retain, and promote women have […]
Meet 5 Black Entrepreneurs Driving Tech Innovation
For some of us, change presents a challenge and the goal can be finding our way back to the status quo. For others, change is an opportunity to find a better way to accomplish something. We are lucky to live in a state that is full of innovators, those who aren’t afraid to look a […]
RJ Talyor | A Brief History of MarTech: From ExactTarget to Shutterstock
To follow the career of RJ Talyor is to understand why Indianapolis is MarTech’s capital. With early chapters at ExactTarget and Salesforce, to founding two companies in Geofeedia and Pattern89. Now Vice-President of Product Marketing for Shutterstock, after the company acquired Pattern89, RJ empowers marketers through the use of artificial intelligence. An English major, RJ’s […]
TechPoint set them on tech career paths: How you can follow
For much of the last decade, the talent programs organized by TechPoint have worked to strengthen the state’s talent pipelines, helping the best and brightest find their way to exciting careers in Indiana’s growing tech ecosystem. These programs include Xtern and the Summer Opportunities for Students ( S.O.S.) Challenge (now known at The Pitch), both […]