DETROIT - TechTown Detroit is one of several partners producing Erie Hack 2017: Innovation Around Our Great Lake presented by the Cleveland Water Alliance (CWA). Erie Hack is a data and engineering competition that is uniting coders, developers, engineers, and water experts to generate enduring solutions to Lake Erie’s biggest challenges. The competition includes $100,000 in prizes
LANSING - Michigan took another step this month in solidifying its' hold on a global leadership position in the self-driving vehicle industry by the legislature's passage of, and the Governor's signature on, a package of laws that put the state well ahead of all others in regard to its policies toward the testing and future
GRAND RAPIDS - Melissa Birnie interviews Cory Hohs, CEO/Cofounder of HAAS Alert to discuss HAAS Alert's journey to the top in the connected transportation industry with their mobile vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication platform. Hass Alert has received the 'Top 10 Automotive Startup of the Year' award by Fortune Magazine and the TiECon20 award at the recent TiECon Midwest Conference. They are
GRAND RAPDIS - Join Melissa Birnie and Cory Hohs, CEO/Cofounder of HAAS Alert, as they discuss HAAS Alert's journey to the top in the connected transportation industry with their mobile vehicle-to-vehicle communication platform. Hass Alert has received the 'Top 10 Automotive Startup of the Year' award by Fortune Magazine and the TiECon20 award at the recent TiECon Midwest Conference. They
GRAND RAPIDS -Melissa Birnie interviews two recent winners of the TieCon20 awards on Michigan Mobile Musings to discuss their respective entrepreneurial journeys. Ravi Venugopal, founder of Giggso LLC, a free social hub that builds an individual’s personal brand and monetizes it with business transactions. Giggso effectively uberizes networking. She also interviews Steven Mazur, Co-founder/CEO of Ash & Anvil.
GRAND RAPIDS - Businesses create apps for a multitude of reasons; to establish their brand, increase visibility, remain competitive in the marketplace, showcase their product or service, engage consumers as well as provide easy on-line ordering or customer service. It sounds simple, but there are a lot of “parts” to consider and it can be
GRAND RAPIDS - If you want to learn how personalization, automation, content and context are changing a brand's relationship with consumers, and steps you can take to build a more robust and long-term relationship with your customers then the 'Gone Digital' Conference from the Troy Chamber of Commerce is a must-attend. Listen as Melissa Birnie
GRAND RAPIDS - Mobility - a word we've been hearing more and more lately, but what does it really mean? In terms of connected transportation one might assume it would be focused on the autonomous vehicle - and that certainly is part of it. but it's much more than that. It's about getting goods and people
GRAND RAPIDS - The future of the world is ubiquitous connectivity. There is a total interconnection of people, ideas, and products through a global digital network. Future will see that the connected people and nations will be the most successful. As the network grows and the world of data expands, you must learn to use
GRAND RAPIDS - Financial Technology (FinTech) has exploded over the last 5 years. FinTech companies that lend, process, or even create money is a fast-growing industry. As rate of investment is growing, finance and banking are being transformed by innovations like peer-to-peer models, crowdfunding, and contactless payments. This track at the upcoming TiECon Midwest 2016 conference will
