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News featuring the Wisconsin Technology Council or its trusted partnersInsideWis: Even with new scientific paths, broad vaccine availability still a year or more away
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – In the 1950s play “Waiting for Godot,” two characters talk among themselves and a few others while patiently anticipating the arrival of a friend named Godot, who never shows. If that Samuel Beckett play was recast today for the COVID-19...
‘Diligent Dozen’ BPC pitches can be viewed ahead of June 4 Entrepreneurs’ Conference
Finalists representing diverse tech-based sectors in Wisconsin’s early stage economy have recorded their presentations for online viewing as part of the 17th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. The four-month-long contest culminates during the Wisconsin...
Discounted registration for vets, students available for June 4 Entrepreneurs’ Conference
Returning military veterans and students may register at a discount to attend the virtual Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference on June 4.Armed services veterans who want to learn about launching and growing a business as well as students of all levels may register for...
Guest column: COVID-19 has only intensified the broadband gap
We are living in a new world, a world racing online as social distancing forces many of us to work, communicate and connect in new ways. In the United States alone, state and local directives have urged 316 million Americans to stay in and, when possible, work from...
Tech Council’s virtual event platform launched for June 4 Entrepreneurs’ Conference
Registrants for the 2020 Wisconsin Entrepreneur’s Conference may now dive head-first into our online platform, Pathable, which is a highly interactive SaaS software that offers the next-best-thing to an in-person event. The platform provides multiple ways to engage...
WisBusiness: The Podcast with Buckley Brinkman, Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing and Productivity
This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: The Podcast” features Buckley Brinkman, executive director and CEO of the Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing and Productivity. WCMP collaborates with the UW Stout Manufacturing Outreach Center and the Wisconsin Manufacturing...
Exact Sciences CEO Kevin Conroy to receive the 2020 ‘Seize the Day’ award June 4 at ‘treps conference
Kevin Conroy, the chairman and chief executive officer of Madison-based Exact Sciences, will be honored during the June 4 Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference with the 17th annual Ken Hendricks Memorial “Seize the Day” award. The award, which celebrates entrepreneurial...
InsideWis: Guarding Wisconsin’s growth in tech jobs should be part of COVID-19 strategy
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Before the COVID-19 epidemic sunk its bristly microscopic nodes into the economy, Wisconsin’s tech-based sector was making solid progress in jobs, salaries and contribution to the state domestic product. As the outlines of a broader...
Guest column: On your mark, get set, maybe don’t go?
By Erin Ogden The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the statewide Safer at Home orders as invalid and unenforceable, which means some counties and municipalities have implemented their own orders, while some did not. My colleagues and I are not going to discuss the...
Five interactive workshops to target post-COVID strategies at June 4 Entrepreneurs’ Conference
MADISON, Wis. – From personnel to Paycheck Protection, and from marketing to better managing your money, the June 4 Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference will use a virtual SaaS platform to engage attendees in five concurrent conversations on topics of interest. These...
Guest column: Who cares about energy during COVID-19 crisis? We all should
By Scott Coenen Like many Americans, I've been struggling to adjust to the dramatic changes that have taken place over the last few months. It may sound cliché at this point, but it rings true nonetheless: COVID-19 and the worldwide effort to combat it have scrambled...
Guest column: Telemedicine can improve rural health care, during COVID-19 and later
By Tiffany Lightfoot The COVID-19 pandemic has humbled our healthcare systems and alarmed the world. While taking lives and threatening whole communities, the pandemic is testing our abilities to work together and the true capacity of government, the private sector,...