Inaugural Community of Practice on Workforce Issues Shows Unity in Indiana Tech
More than 100 members of the Indiana tech community gathered recently in a virtual setting as a Community of Practice to discuss how to collectively help achieve Mission41K’s ambitious goal of adding 41,000 people to Indiana’s tech workforce. Their passion was inspiring and their ideas are already being incorporated by the TechPoint team. You can […]
TechPoint Mira Awards to Cap Notre Dame’s IDEA Week
Since 2018, IDEA Week has offered the South Bend-Elkhart region a week of innovation, opportunity and entertainment that has become a must-see event for anyone involved or interested in the latest innovations coming out of the University of Notre Dame and the surrounding region. This year, for the first time, the event widens its reach […]
Orr Fellowship: Steven Emch – X Years of Talent
In this episode, we sit down with Steven Emch, President of the Orr Fellowship. Orr Fellowship is a nonprofit organization that matches exceptional graduating college seniors with full-time employment at Indianapolis area companies. He talks about Orr’s rich history in Indiana’s tech sector, his vision as the organization’s new president, and TechPoint and Orr’s future […]
How Purdue is investing in connectivity innovation for the future
More than 63,000 faculty, staff and students rely on Purdue’s wireless network for teaching, learning, research and entertainment annually. On the West Lafayette campus alone, there are approximately 100,000 unique devices connected to the wireless network daily, with 4.6 million logins to the wireless system each day. Purdue Information Technology (Purdue IT) is continuously innovating to ensure […]
IndyHub: Al Carroll — X Years of Talent
In this episode, we sit down with Al Carroll, CEO of IndyHub. IndyHub is on a mission to grow and engage a community of young adults in Indianapolis. He talks about the mission alignment between IndyHub and TechPoint, how Indiana can be a destination for talent, and reflects back on the early days of Xtern. […]
TechPoint releases 2022 Indiana Tech Venture Report
Digital innovation was alive and well in Indiana last year despite all the markings of a potential inflection point amid inflation, rising interest rates, fewer public listings, global supply chain strains, labor shortage, increasing geopolitical tensions, and the most complicated macroeconomic trends of the last few decades. Public filings and independent analysis showed 132 Hoosier […]