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Lindsay Siovaila is the graphic designer and self-taught software developer who accelerated her career into full-time development at Salesforce after creating an app on her own that caught the attention of then CEO Scott McCorkle and influenced the Marketing Cloud’s enterprise email tool. Today she’s a lead solutions developer with Salesforce and she’s a well-known […]

What does it take to make a city a “tech city?” According to Cushman & Wakefield’s Tech Cities 1.0 report, a tech city is one that has outperformed other markets by virtually every relevant economic and commercial real estate (CRE) metric, including GDP, jobs, absorption, rents, and more. In these markets, tech plays a larger […]

HR is a critical component of startup and scale-up technology companies, but it is often seen as a priority for hiring talent as a company grows quickly to bring a product to market. A founder or company executive might be used to “playing HR” when making hires or developing policies, but how do you know when […]

Scale Computing, a market leader in hyperconverged solutions, recently announced that it is working with Google to develop a hybrid cloud solution that makes it easy for organizations, including channel partners and MSPs, to move application workloads freely between the cloud and on-premises. The new offering, called HC3 Cloud Unity, allows an organization’s apps to […]

Born in Highland, Ind., Kyle found his passion for technology not in a classroom but in a dumpster. When he spotted the old discarded computer, he took the opportunity to learn more about it by attempting to boot it up. Eighth grade Kyle didn’t have the resources to purchase a new operating system for the […]

TechPoint​, the nonprofit, industry-led growth initiative for Indiana’s technology companies and overall tech ecosystem, will honor Indiana’s best companies, entrepreneurs, educators, and other leaders for their achievements and innovation at the JW Marriott Indianapolis during the 19th Annual ​Mira Awards gala​ on Saturday, April 28, 2018. Applications and nominations for the 18 individual, product, company […]

The Pike High School freshman cafeteria last Thursday, November 9, 2017, was noisy. The air was filled with buzz of poignant discussions, probing questions and the start of friendships forming. Any other day those would not be newsworthy activities. What makes this particular Thursday so unique was who was filling the cafeteria chairs. Sixteen of […]

During my career as an Engineering team leader, I have hired and managed nearly 50 highly-skilled, technical employees. By implementing a few key management strategies, I have been fortunate to have experienced a 95 percent retention rate. Today, technology plays a critical role in many functions within an organization, making software developers some of the […]