GRAND RAPIDS - Today's cities are facing many common challenges in the areas of safety, emissions, accessibility, and congestion. Detroit's NextEnergy thinks innovation is an important mechanism to proactively address the challenges facing cities to identify opportunities for new business models. Therefore, the non-profit has developed a national competition NextChallenge: Smart Cities which focuses on
GRAND RAPIDS - The training required for the future workforce in the automotive industry to support the convergence of technologies needs to begin before students even enter the workforce. The students of today think of the automotive industry like it was when their parents worked there. Getting younger students involved – not just college students
ROYAL OAK - Irma Clark, Sr. Director, Market Strategy and Development at Comcast Business, Heartland Region, talks about connections through mobile will be three-fourths of total connections in the world in a few years. Comcast also announced more than 700 outdoor Comcast Wi-Fit hotspots in the metro Detroit area. Comcast Business customers in metro Detroit
ROYAL OAK - Keith Brophy, state director of the Michigan Small Business Development Centers, and Angela Kujuva, Director of Innovation, Logic Solutions, discuss the Mobile App Bootcamp for Non-Tech Entrepreneurs that was held last week at Washtenaw Community College, the third one this year in the state. It was aimed at entrepreneurs and small business
ROYAL OAK - Motor City Connect Founder Terry Bean discusses all the exciting events that were part of Detroit Startup Week in late May. More than 150 events across the city talking about the state of the city from an entrepreneurial perspective. He discusses the up-and-coming entrepreneurial rock stars driving the start-ups in downtown and
LANSING - In an effort to assist veteran businesses competing for government contracts, the Department of Technology, Management and Budget will now accept the National Veterans Business Development Council certification when determining eligibility for the state’s service-disabled veteran-owned business pricing preference. The option to submit an NVBDC certificate to qualify for the pricing preference can
ROYAL OAK - Metro Wireless President and CEO Dominic Serra talks about the company he created that provides next generation wireless internet providing data services to businesses on this segment of M2 TechCast. Metro Wireless has incorporated the latest and most promising technologies to deliver fiber like connection quality, great pricing, better support and faster
ANN ARBOR - The National Society of Black Engineers will host its annual National Leadership Conference from June 9 -12 at the University of Michigan, where for the first time, the U-M College of Engineering will be helmed by an African American. On July 1, Alec D. Gallimore, Ph.D. — associate dean for academic affairs,
GRAND RAPIDS – Family Christian’s Give Hope Campaign has raised more than $137,000 to help individuals in need by providing education, food and water to those without proper access. Key partnerships include: Back2Back Ministries: $25,532 will provide orphan care in Monterrey Mexico Pray America: $69,923 will provide famine relief to feed over 9,000 individuals for
LANSING – Michigan’s University Research Corridor added $958 million in economic activity to the city of Detroit in 2015, or the equivalent of $1,400 per Detroit resident, along with hundreds of programs that improve lives and advance neighborhoods, contends a new report. Beyond jobs and economic investments, “Engaging Detroit: URC’s Contributions to Resurgence in the
