Always Be Recruiting: What Tech Talent Really Wants

Casual dress codes, open collaboration, and free snacks are top must-haves for young tech talent. After listening to a panel of IT leaders, recruiters, and local business leaders discuss all things recruitment and retention at the CXO Executive Summit by Evanta, it became clear that hiring top tech talent — and keeping them at your […]

Mitch Daniels answers 8 questions about innovation, entrepreneurship & more

Interactive Intelligence made headlines this week when they announced that their newest board member is Mitch Daniels — the former businessman, Indiana governor and current president of Purdue University. Interactive Intelligence, a NASDAQ publicly traded company, is a global provider of collaboration, communications and customer engagement software and cloud services that employs more than 2,250 people globally — […]

Look out Indy, the Xterns have arrived!

To college student ears, TechPoint’s Xtern program almost sounds too good be true. Although it’s only the second year for the program, Xtern is what other summer internship programs should aspire to be like (in my non-biased opinion as an Xtern myself). The program recruits and places tech-skilled students pursuing computer science degrees in paid […]

DoubleMap Co-founder Ilya Rekhter Wins Tech Rising Star Award

Ilya Rekhter, CEO and c0-founder of DoubleMap, received the Tech Rising Star Award during TechPoint’s 16th annual Mira Awards honoring the best of tech in Indiana. Ilya co-founded transportation technologies company DoubleMap in 2011 and has since grown it to include more than 90 clients worldwide.     DoubleMap has created 34 jobs (22 in Indiana), […]

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division Wins Tech Educators of the Year Award

Southern Indiana based Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division received the Tech Educators of the Year Award during TechPoint’s 16th annual Mira Awards honoring the best of tech in Indiana. NSWC Crane STEM program goals are to ignite interest in STEM in its surrounding community to build a stronger pipeline of world-class STEM talent.     The Naval Surface […]