Indiana tech talent

What started as a volunteer-powered experiment in Indianapolis now serves all 92 Indiana counties. Meet the tech workers behind Vote IN Time, a free app helping Hoosiers find polling locations, check estimated wait times and plan their trip to vote.

Nicole MacLean and Ian Brown first crossed paths 12 years ago at the Orr Fellowship’s interview day in Indianapolis. MacLean was a college student hoping to break into the city’s growing tech scene. Brown was already a year into the fellowship, working at Teradata. Fast-forward to September 2026. MacLean is now CEO of Compose.ly, a […]

TechPoint is expanding Adult Apprenticeship to help Indiana employers widen their talent pipelines while giving adults paid, work-based pathways into high-demand tech careers.

TechPoint welcomed the 2026 Xtern cohort to the Dallara Experience Hub for a programming weekend focused on professional development, AI, networking and workplace readiness.

Earlier this year, TechPoint published AI Amplifies Need to Address the Experience Gap, highlighting research from the Stanford Digital Economy Lab showing that early-career workers ages 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed occupations experienced a 13 percent relative decline in employment from late 2022 to mid-2025. From my vantage point, it is not a collapse […]

TechPoint’s first-ever Xtern Challenge brought together Indiana’s top student talent for a hands-on, data-driven competition hosted by MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator). The event invited teams to apply their technical and analytical skills to a real-world problem facing one of the nation’s most critical industries: maintaining a reliable and cost-effective energy grid. The new program […]

At TechPoint’s talent convening at this year’s BOLT Conference, powered by gener8tor, leaders from business, education, and government came together to explore how Indiana can keep pace with the rapid changes driven by artificial intelligence and digital transformation. Following the mainstage discussion, participants joined breakout sessions focused on five key questions shaping Indiana’s digital future. […]

At this year’s BOLT Conference, powered by gener8tor, TechPoint hosted a panel of talent & workforce experts who discussed a wide variety of topics related to tech adoption and responding to the changing needs of the modern workforce. This panel, made possible by presenting sponsor WGU, brought together four leaders shaping Indiana’s digital future: Together, […]