Progress Report: Mission41K
In September, TechPoint brought together nearly 200 public, private, academic, and community leaders to launch Mission41K, a bold new movement to inclusively grow the state’s tech workforce by 41,000 by 2030 and solidify Indiana’s national reputation as a vibrant tech hub. Growing Indiana’s tech talent workforce is key to fueling digital innovation, growing the state […]
Unique Internship Program Opens Opportunities for STEM Students with Disabilities
Finding valuable summer internship experiences in STEM career fields can be difficult for students during their first two years of college. The challenges are compounded for students with physical disabilities. However, they didn’t stop four Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology students from getting paid opportunities this summer with Eli Lilly & Company, Cummins Inc., Eskenazi Health, and […]
Setting the stage for skills-based hiring at IEDC Global Economic Summit
The Indiana Economic Development Corporation threw a huge party in Indianapolis last weekend, and everybody came. Seriously. The Excel spreadsheet of attendees went on for 20 pages. There were ambassadors, consulates general, federal agency heads. The governor. Mayors. Legislators. Company CEOs. University representatives. And if you’ve heard of a global—or local—tech or tech-enabled company, they […]
The Guide to Tech Companies & SaaS Categories
Tech innovation is all-encompassing. It’s more than creating a product and marketing; it’s about understanding technology itself and how it can be leveraged to help solve everyday problems. With that being said, what exactly makes up a tech company? How exactly do we define tech? Is it the product? Is it the service? Is it […]
Meet the Innovation of the Year Nominees for the 2022 ‘Best of Tech’ Mira Awards
Honoring scientific achievements, R&D efforts, and other trailblazing discoveries that have the potential to change industries In 2022, innovation is something we rely on and need now more than ever to solve new and existing challenges. True innovation doesn’t go with the flow or by the book; it challenges the status quo and pushes boundaries […]
Why Tech Workers Should Relocate to Indiana
Spring and Rudy Rouhana had been living and working in the Bay Area for more than a decade when Rudy got an email from TechPoint, asking if he would be interested in relocating back to Indiana where he’d grown up. Spring worked as a finance executive at companies headquartered in California, including HGST (now Western […]
Meet the Tech Product of the Year nominees for the 22nd annual Mira Awards
Recognizing ground-breaking and disruptive new tech products coming from innovative organizations in Indiana In the past year, Indy tech gurus of all shapes and sizes have combined their talents and resources to solve everyday problems people face—especially in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In a time of mass disruption, our 2021 nominees set out […]