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The head of the state Department of Workforce Development says the rise of AI technology “couldn’t come at a greater time” given the state’s labor challenges. Speaking this week during the first meeting of the Governor’s Task Force on Workforce and Artificial...
Emerging firms will pitch over two days at 2023 Early Stage Symposium in Madison
Thirty-nine young companies will pitch to potential investors and others throughout the course of the in-person Nov. 8-9 Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium. Registration is open by clicking here. That includes 24 companies selected by conference organizers to present...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Driven by Microsoft, economic growth, WEC Energy Group investing additional $1.4 billion in renewables
WEC Energy Group is adding $3.3 billion to its new five-year capital investment plan, including an additional $1.4 billion in renewable energy generation. The plan, which covers 2024 to 2028 now calls for $23.4 billion in spending, up from $20.1 billion in the plan...
WisPolitics: Governor’s Task Force on Workforce and Artificial Intelligence
Gov. Tony Evers signed Executive Order #211 creating the Governor’s Task Force on Workforce and Artificial Intelligence to gather and analyze information and produce an advisory action plan to identify the current state of generative artificial intelligence’s (AI)...
WisBusiness: Midwest Games founder sees potential for ‘mega-hit’ video game coming out of Wisconsin
Kvalo is speaking on a video gaming plenary panel at the upcoming Early Stage Symposium. Visit wisearlystage.com for more information on the conference! Midwest Games founder and CEO Ben Kvalo sees the potential for a “mega-hit” video game coming out of Wisconsin in...
Provost, computer scientist Charles Isbell Jr. to speak Nov. 21 at Tech Council Madison luncheon
Charles Isbell Jr., who is the new provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the UW-Madison, as well as a nationally known computer scientist, will speak Tuesday, Nov. 21, at the Tech Council Innovation Network luncheon in Madison. The luncheon will be held...
Green Bay Press Gazette: Green Bay-based video game publisher raises $3M from TitletownTech, Skee-Ball maker
A Green Bay-based video game publisher that wants to fund and support Midwest-based game developers raised $3 million from TitletownTech, the owner of Skee-Ball, and other Wisconsin investment funds. Midwest Games launched earlier this year in Green Bay by Ben Kvalo,...
Wisconsin Inno: Wisconsin won a coveted tech hub designation. See which places it beat out.
As Wisconsin celebrated a successful bid to become a designated U.S. regional technology hub, hundreds of other places across the country — including St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Raleigh, North Carolina — didn't make the cut. Wisconsin was among 31 places the Biden...
Andy Nunemaker to join ‘Investor Hall of Fame’ at Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium in Madison
Andy Nunemaker, who has been an active member of Milwaukee’s Golden Angels Investors for more than 20 years, built and led companies and created a legacy of community service, will be inducted into the Wisconsin Technology Council’s “George Mosher Memorial Investor...
UW-Eau Claire: UW-Eau Claire grant expands access to services for people with traumatic brain injuries
More than four decades ago, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire alumna Audrey Nelson struggled in her college courses less than a year after a traffic crash injured the frontal lobe of her brain. “I was just sort of bumbling along for a while,” recalls Nelson, who...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: We Energies, MPS youth internship and apprenticeship proram opens doors to energy careers
Walking away from the backhoe she'd just operated and heading to a massive wood chipping truck, Enaviana McGowan was already feeling good about the choice she made — exploring a career as an electrical line worker for We Energies. The junior at Milwaukee High School...
Madison Startups: EnsoData, React Health to Partner
EnsoData is partnering with React Health, a sleep and respiratory device manufacturer, to optimize positive airway pressure (PAP) adherence support for patients with sleep apnea, the company announced recently. “Out PAP compliance AI model has an incredible ability to...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Rockwell, Microsoft expand partnership with generative AI
Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation Inc. is expanding its partnership with Microsoft Corp. “to accelerate automation design and development through generative artificial intelligence,” according to an announcement on Thursday. The two companies do have a longstanding...
Wisconsin Public Radio: Wisconsin business leaders see AI’s potential. Are companies ready?
When Alex Peters walks through manufacturer KI’s Green Bay plant, he sees a lot of potential for how artificial intelligence could enhance the company’s machines. The northeast Wisconsin company produces furniture for offices and schools. KI manufactured its first...
Marquette University: Marquette College of Nursing first in nation to collaborate with Epic to integrate electronic health records software into curriculum
The Marquette University College of Nursing has entered into a collaboration with Epic, the industry leader in electronic health records software, to integrate the company’s new Lyceum platform for electronic health records into the college’s nursing curriculum....
Wisconsin Inno: Medical device firm backed by Wisconsin investors gains FDA approval
A Minnesota-based medical device company with Wisconsin ties recently took a big step toward commercialization. HistoSonics Inc. earlier this month received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to market its histotripsy platform — a device that destroys...
Experienced founders, investors on hand Nov. 8 for six panels at 2023 Early Stage Symposium
Some of the most active entrepreneurs, investors and service experts from Wisconsin and beyond will take part in informative panel discussions during the first day of the Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium in Madison. The in-person conference, which continues Thursday,...
InsideWis: Biohealth ‘Tech Hub’ designation victory for Wisconsin; more wins are possible
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin has been a center for research and clinical applications in human health for well over a century, from vitamin discoveries to the founding of the nation’s first college genetics department to breakthroughs in organ transplants,...
Former BPC Winner Rapid Radicals Technology Announces Torrent3b Treatment System Deployment
The winner of the 2022 Governor's Business Plan Contest (BPC), Rapid Radicals Technology, Inc., announced the launch of the new Torrent3b Treatment System pilot at the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District's remote pumping station to treat wastewater to EPA permit...
WEDC: Home sweet home: HARIBO maps major Wisconsin expansion
Three years after breaking ground on its first U.S. candy factory in Pleasant Prairie and just months after production began, HARIBO of America is designing a second phase that will double its size. The company, maker of Goldbear gummi candies, began production at its...