From big company to small and from MN to home

Last year around this time, Katie Sexton was in the middle of a Minnesota winter. She says that winter was one of the factors that prompted her to get serious about a move home to central Indiana. While Indiana may not be able to promise her a vastly kinder winter, the Indy tech scene certainly […]

South Central Indiana is Filling Its Tech Workforce Pipeline

No matter what the niche, every tech company needs a skilled and ready tech workforce. That includes engineers and software developers, but in South Central Indiana, it also includes technical labor. Metal Technologies, Inc., a Bloomfield-based production machine shop, is a perfect example.  This Greene County wonder has experienced what Human Resources Director, Kirbie Moore, […]

Tech policy requests for this year’s legislature

A new legislative session has begun at the Indiana Statehouse. While TechPoint is a private, non-partisan non-profit that is not a lobbying organization, decisions made at the Statehouse can impact our tech community so we do make efforts to inform legislators with data like that from the Tech Workforce Report and about tech policy that […]

Robin and Indiana Technology: A Love Story

“I like to think I’ve lost my southern accent over the years. My friends in Arkansas and Texas think I’m a Yankee now.” Robin Fleming, Teradata Marketing Applications VP of Quality Management and Security, has not lost her southern accent. Despite moving to Indianapolis to work for Teradata Applications in 2011, her Arkansas (where she […]

WATCH VIDEO: IndyXmas proves talent attraction can be a party

We celebrated the success and growth that the Indy tech community saw in 2014 with tech companies and community organizations at IndyXmas on December 27th. In its second year, IndyXmas is a party thrown by the tech community in town for out-of-towners home for the holidays. In 2013, every company represented hired at least one […]