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News featuring the Wisconsin Technology Council or its trusted partnersEpic Systems healthcare data innovation topic of Sept. 27 Tech Council luncheon
Experts have forecast for decades that smart use of digital health data would someday reinvent medicine. Combined with the rise of genomic or “personalized” medicine, that prediction is becoming reality. Hear Tuesday, Sept. 27, at the Tech Council Innovation Network...
InsideWis: Means-tested grants, employer incentives may help students more
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – The reaction to President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan has moved beyond early elation in some quarters to skepticism from workers who didn’t go to college, economists worried about inflation, tax law experts and even some union...
WisBusiness: Godfrey and Kahn: Overview of the Energy Sections of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
On September 1, 2022, Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., League of Wisconsin Municipalities, Wisconsin Technology Council, and Wisconsin ACES co-sponsored a webinar to address the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act’s clean energy incentives and how they can help organizations...
InsideWis: Spurred by national science goals, Wisconsin groups think beyond geography
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Perhaps Wisconsin should thank the National Science Foundation for helping to pull together many of its regional science, technology and economic development players. All it took was a big challenge. The NSF’s Regional Innovation Engines...
WisBusiness: Wisconsin Technology Council: Calling all companies! Apply for three chances to pitch at Early Stage Symposium
Applications are being accepted now from young companies that want to tell their stories to investors at our annual Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium, planned for an in-person format Nov. 9-10 at Madison’s Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center. The 2022 format...
Calling all companies! Apply for three chances to pitch at Early Stage Symposium
Applications are being accepted now from young companies that want to tell their stories to investors at our annual Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium, planned for an in-person format Nov. 9-10 at Madison’s Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center. The 2022 format...
InsideWis: Epic’s message to its users: Data can help save health care
By Tom Still VERONA, Wis. – There’s nothing small about Epic Systems, the Verona-based digital health records pioneer. Certainly not its 1,048-acre campus and nearly 30 buildings, or its 12,361 total employees (11,000 in Verona alone) hailing from 50 states, the...
‘First Lady of Badger Sports’ to headline Sept. 29 W·O·M·E·N reception in Madison
Cindy Alvarez, who was a behind-the-scenes force in the rise of UW-Madison athletics over the course of three decades, will speak Sept. 29 at the annual W•O•M•E•N reception in...
InsideWis: Solving the workforce puzzle: Lots of pieces, not a lot of time
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – During an opening session at a recent conference on Wisconsin’s workforce attraction and retention woes, state labor economist Dennis Winters was asked, “Is doomsday around the corner?” His reply – only half in jest – was, “No, it’s here.”...
Putting a charge into battery storage technology: Learn more at Sept. 8 luncheon in Wauwatosa
Tapping cleaner generation sources is a goal of the transition under way in U.S. and world energy markets, but continued improvement in storage technologies is also a big part of the equation for utilities, electric vehicle manufacturers, industry and more. Learn how...
Wisconsin Public Radio: Wisconsin Technology Council head talks proposal to electrify highways, federal dollars for computer ships
President Joe Biden signed a bill last week which will allocate more than $280 billion over five years into the U.S. semiconductor chip industry. We speak with the head of the Wisconsin Technology Council about what this could mean in Wisconsin. Click here to listen...
Technology Today: Wisconsin shines as hotspot for battery technology
WEDC helping power innovative startups in the industry Wisconsin-based startups have excelled at battery technology innovation in recent years, revolutionizing the way we power our electronics, vehicles and more and making the state a trailblazer in the industry....