SOUTHFIELD – The Michigan Championship of Robofest is coming to Lawrence Technological University in Southfield April 30. Some 91 teams that advanced from 11 Michigan qualifying events will vie for state championships – and spots in the Robofest World Championship, also being held at LTU May 13 and 14. The state championship will begin at 9
DETROIT - Sandra Cochrane is a full-time Technology Business Consultant for the MI-SBDC. In this position she assists start-up and early-stage high-tech companies. Services she provides to clients include business plan development, accessing capital, strategic planning, and general business consultation. On Saturday’s show she represents a perspective on the tech initiatives that are developing on
DETROIT - Tom Kelly is the COO and director of entrepreneurship for Automation Alley, Michigan’s leading technology business association, connecting companies and organizations with talent, resources and funding to accelerate innovation and fuel Southeast Michigan’s economy. Q1 Highlights: Wrapping up an IT training program that helped to address Southeast Michigan’s IT skills gap by training more than
GRAND RAPIDS - From helping members, to producing or attending events, to producing podcasts and much more - the work of MTAM's Ambassadors across the state is far-reaching and varied, and in this podcast two of MTAM's Ambassadors, Savita Monroe and Melissa Birnie - who also happen to be the producers of the Michigan Mobile Musings
FERNDALE - Deception has long been practiced by the military to trick an enemy into collecting bad intelligence. But deception also is the class of techniques used to fool cyber attackers. It can be fake servers and endpoints (honey pots), instrumented to detect activity. It can be poisoned data that can include "beacons." If someone
FERNDALE - Cybersecurity experts Dan Lohrmann and Richard Stiennon again update the M2 TechCast audience on the top issues facing businesses and consumers in the rough and tumble world where cyber attacks are becoming the norm. In the first segment, Lohrmann and Stiennon continue to examine the plague of ransomware - one of the latest
FERNDALE - Enrico Schaefer provides another drone law update on the latest legislation pending before Congress that could lift the 500-foot rule for recreational drone users, meaning the ability to fly closer to buildings and people than ever before. Schaefer also talks about what commercial drone users need to do before they take to the
FERNDALE - Merit Network President Joe Sawasky provides a preview of the Merit 50th Anniversary Party May 11-12 at the Eagle Crest Hotel in Ypsilanti. Merit Network was created in 1966 by the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University to connect all public universities and nearly 400 other education and non-profit
SOUTHFIELD - Diva Tech Talk interviewed Carey Pachla, President of Fast Switch, a rapidly growing information technology consulting company, with 750 staff members and 2015 sales of $80 million (a 30 percent annual growth rate) specializing in contract, contract-to-hire and executive search services. Carey’s journey in technology was an intentional one. Graduating as a business
FERNDALE - If nothing else, episode 141 of ITInTheD planned out a couple weekends full of fun for you, as well as being awfully informative about a local organization providing some valuable services around the state. From our plans this weekend at Penguicon to an 80s part for a great cause in a few weeks,
