PLYMOUTH ? Sports technology will be the theme this year of the fourth annual joint meeting between the Ann Arbor IT Zone and Automation Alley. Alex Mills, vice president for new business development, Blue Water Technology, the audio-video providers for Super Bowl XL, Dave Wieme, director of strategic communications, Palace Sports & Entertainment, and Steve
PONTIAC - The Wireless Oakland Project Team Monday announced seven pilot projects ? Royal Oak, Pontiac, Troy, Birmingham, Madison Heights, Oak Park and Wixom - that will serve as a starting points for the deployment of a county wide wireless internet network. MichTel Communications was selected as the service provider. The Pilot Projects will be
GRAND RAPIDS ? GLIMAWest will host another of its Tech 5:01 networking mixers Thursday at the B.O.B. in downtown Grand Rapids. Upwards of 50 tech professionals have attended past Tech 5:01 events. Tech 5:01 events are a chance to network and exchange ideas with interactive and technology professionals from the West Michigan area. The mixer
GRAND RAPIDS ? Dewpoint will co host with GLIMAWest and Sun Microsystems a briefing on how to consolidate your company?s IT infrastructure and positively impact your company?s bottom line Nov. 10 at the B.O.B. in downtown Grand Rapids. Registrants will be eligible for a free iPod Nano. The Dewpoint, Sun team will talk about strategies
GRAND RAPIDS ? Tonya Wilholt, a founding member of GLIMAWest, has resigned from the tech networking group?s board to spend more time running her growing business, Web Experiences, and to raise her rapidly growing twin 15-month boys, Andrew and Noah. Wilholt also has resigned as technology columnist for MIBizWest, a weekly business journal covering the
KALAMAZOO ? Halloween this year will have special meaning for GLIMASouthwest, which has scheduled its Technology Expo 2005 for All Hallows Eve day. Witches and goblins may not be roaming the halls at the Western Michigan University Fetzer Center Oct. 31, but keynote speakers Dick DeVos, Republican gubernatorial challenger to Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, and
TRAVERSE CITY ? How could GLIMANorthwest possibly top last year's member meeting? By scheduling the 2005 meeting on Oct. 27 at Chateau Grand Traverse Inn for some wine and fabulous food. The late afternoon event starts at 4:30 p.m. an informal time of wine tasting, followed by a wine tour. And then gourmet appetizers by
SZEKESFEHERVAR, Hungary ? Automation Alley Spokesman Michelle Zellen, in her journal from the group?s Trade Mission to Eastern Europe, calls her latest entry ?Planes, Trains and Automobiles,? since they traveled on all three modes of transportation over three days in three different countries. On Tuesday, October 18, we continued our Gold Key meetings in Budapest,
TROY ? While Southeast Michigan?s economy has experienced difficulties, a wealth of new economy activities are positioning the region as an economic stronghold with tremendous technological vitality, a new report published by Automation Alley contends. The study ? Automation Alley?s Technology Industry: Driving Southeast Michigan Forward ? was done by the Anderson Economic Group of
TROY ? Five companies have been selected to participate in the Automation Alley trade mission to Central and Eastern Europe from Oct. 16-26. Previous trade missions have generated $23 million in new business for Southeast Michigan. Participating companies include: Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority (Detroit); freight transportation and distribution hub for U.S. Midwest and Southwest Ontario