Indy Design Week to Host Fifth-Annual Conference and Job Fair.
“I really just wanted to know what other cool people were doing in the city,” remarked Founder and Executive Director, Poppe Guthrie, on Indy Design Week’s inception back in 2018. “I wanted to be exposed to other areas of design. Other similar-minded people in different industries or different practices. I just wanted to talk to […]
Matt Tyner | Wunderkind: The Rise of RaaS (Revenue-as-a-Service)
Today we talk to Matt Tyner, Vice-President of People Operations and GM at Wunderkind. Wunderkind helps ecommerce marketers create one-to-one customer experiences at scale through all the channels they own. In this episode, we talk about Matt’s journey into tech, how the company has evolved since its start, and what’s on the horizon for Wunderkind. […]
Indiana tech striving to affect positive change in education
Jake Simons, a fifth grade teacher in the Wa-Nee Community Schools district, has gained international acclaim for the globally competitive robotics teams he launched from his rural community in Nappanee, Ind. In 2019, just two years after he introduced the sport to students, the Woodview Elementary Eaglebots team won the VEX Robotics World Championship. That […]
She won ‘The Pitch’ and an unexpected internship at a fast-growing startup
Editor’s Note: Rashi Tyagi is an international student from Delhi, India, who is working on her bachelor’s degree in computer science with a minor in mathematics at IUPUI. She learned about TechPoint’s talent programs and wanted to be a part of it. This is her story of how her involvement in “The Pitch” this summer […]
Indiana technology hiring continues at near-record pace despite inflation
Last Friday, August 5, the United States Labor Department released their July jobs data. The U.S. labor force showed robust gains, adding 528,000 workers with unemployment falling to 3.5 percent nationally. Following this data, CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the information technology (IT) industry and workforce, published their July jobs report, showing that the tech […]
Despite fears of an economic slow-down Indiana is still attracting tech employers
Over the past three years, companies across the globe have adjusted to evolving expectations of how, when, where, and even why employees choose to work. Zillow Group CEO Rich Barton coined the phrase ”The Great Reshuffling” to describe this tectonic shift of new habits and norms as we find better, more efficient, and healthier ways […]