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The Wisconsin Technology Council is seeking companies to participate in one of two pitch events at the annual Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium (ESS), taking place Nov. 8-9 at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, the organization announced recently. As in...
UW-Madison: UW–Madison part of effort to advance fusion energy with machine learning
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are taking part in a new collaboration built on open-science principles that will use machine learning to advance our knowledge of promising sources of magnetic fusion energy. The U.S. Department of Energy has...
WisBusiness: COWS report highlights decline in median wage, other labor market trends
A decline in Wisconsin’s median wage last year effectively “erased” three years of wage growth, according to a report from a UW-Madison think tank. The State of Working Wisconsin 2023 report, created by the COWS High Road Strategy Center, explores the latest data on...
WisBusiness: The Water Council: Tech Challenge seeks solutions for contaminants, pipe issues
The Water Council (TWC) has opened its fall Tech Challenge with topics chosen by industry leaders to help solve challenges in the water sector. This session includes three topics – two dealing with PFAS and one dealing with pressurized pipes – along with a request for...
InsideWis: Climate change heats up interest in nuclear energy
By Tom Still OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – The summertime hit movie “Oppenheimer” is set mainly in New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was designed and built. Little is portrayed about what happened in Oak Ridge, Tenn., where a “secret city” of 75,000 scientists and workers...
WisBusiness: the Podcast with Nadine Allen, Wisconsin Hospital Association
This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Nadine Allen, chief quality officer for the Wisconsin Hospital Association. Allen discusses the latest hospital quality ratings from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the federal agency’s...
State Public Defender Kelli Thompson to speak Sept. 28 W·O·M·E·N reception in Madison
Often described as a tireless advocate for her staff, the clients they serve and Wisconsin’s criminal justice system in general, veteran State Public Defender Kelli Thompson will speak Thursday, Sept. 28 at the annual W•O•M•E•N reception in Madison. Thompson oversees...
MKE Startup News: Monk named BIT Chapter President
The Milwaukee Chapter of Blacks in Technology (BIT) has a new president. Blacks In Technology is a national “tech focused community and media organization that is dedicated to increasing the representation and participation of Black people in the technology industry.”...
Cap Times: Wisconsin lobbies to become tech hub for advanced medicine, jobs
A consortium of 15 state colleges, nonprofits and health companies are working together to vie for millions of dollars in federal money and a designation of Wisconsin as a regional tech hub. If the federal Economic Development Administration selects Wisconsin for the...
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. 8-9 at Madison’s Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center. The 2023 format...
Milwaukee Business Journal: Microsoft moving dirt in Mount Pleasant, selects lead builder for $1 billion data center
Microsoft Corp. has started moving dirt for its $1 billion data center development in Mount Pleasant, and has locked in the lead contractor for the work. Chicago-based megabuilder Walsh Construction recently signed on as the top contractor, and is starting the process...
La Crosse Tribune: State Rep. Steve Doyle named vice chair of artificial intelligence task force
State Rep. Steve Doyle, D-Onalaska, has been appointed vice chairman of the recently announced Speaker’s Task Force on Artificial Intelligence. The task force was created to study the transformative potential of artificial intelligence while ensuring its responsible...
Wisconsin Inno: Chicago growing as quantum tech hub by keeping local talent and drawing coastal investors
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has called for Illinois and Chicago to become "the Silicon Valley of quantum development," and while there has been strong activity in the space in recent years, the key will be to keep the momentum going, local experts say. Chicago is home...
Wisconsin Inno: TitletownTech portfolio company Midwest Games launches in Green Bay
Video game publisher Midwest Games, created by a Wisconsin native and University of Wisconsin-Green Bay alumni Ben Kvalo, has officially launched in Green Bay with the release of its first game. Midwest Games is a TitletownTech portfolio company with its headquarters...
Cap Times: AI, genetic testing: what washed up at Epic’s global conference
The health care system finds itself adrift at sea, Epic Systems founder and CEO Judy Faulkner said Tuesday at the company’s annual Users Group Meeting. The 80-year-old billionaire founder — dressed as a washed-up island explorer in torn clothes, beads and a feathered...
WisPolitics: UW–Milwaukee: UWM Research Foundation awards $180,000 in new Catalyst Grants
Advancements in electric vehicle battery packs, lithium extraction methods and cancer treatment are among the projects funded through the UWM Research Foundation’s Catalyst Grant program this year. The program, supported by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and...
Wisconsin Public Radio: Green Bay congressman climbs cell tower to raise awareness for broadband issues
A few months ago, Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Brendan Carr made a bet with U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher that the representative wasn’t brave enough to climb a cell tower. The federal lawmaker proved the commissioner wrong during a stop in his district...
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Leah Roe was on maternity leave when she was called into work and told that her job as a vice president at a local startup was being eliminated. Her husband had recently left his job to start his own business, so as she drove back from the office, the former...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Former Netflix exec launches video game company backed by TitletownTech
Green Bay-based video game publisher Midwest Games officially launched this week with the support of lead investor TitletownTech, an innovation fund formed in 2019 out of a partnership between the Green Bay Packers and Microsoft. Midwest Games operates out of the...
Wisconsin Inno: Wisconsin’s Venture Investors joins in Visana Health’s $10.1M seed round
Joe Connolly watched his mom struggle for years. She would vomit from such extreme pain during her periods. She also suffered at the hands of the doctors who repeatedly dismissed her. “She was basically told to take some Ibuprofen and tough it out,” he said. Her first...