The Indiana Career Accelerator Fund will award financial aid to qualified students to use for training in high-demand, high-wage sectors that leads to an industry credential in six months or less.
We must enact a plan not just around how to build and encourage industry to adapt and change, but also to maximize Indiana’s ability to compete over the next decade.
The grants, which range from $180,000 to more than $8 million each, will be awarded to 28 Indianapolis-based organizations to fund new programs aimed at financial security or expand existing programs that address poverty-related challenges.
By building innovative marketing-software startups since the mid 1980s, top Indianapolis entrepreneurs have created thousands of jobs and made hundreds of millions of dollars for themselves, their investors and colleagues.
A panel of tech experts at Thursday’s IBJ Technology Power Breakfast addressed a slew of topics—including the challenges local firms face in raising venture capital.
The conversation at IBJ’s Technology Power Breakfast on Thursday focused largely on social justice and diversity issues and what role the local tech community can take in addressing some of these complex challenges.
A recent report concluded that 90% of the nation’s tech and innovation sector employment growth from 2005 to 2017 was generated in just five major coastal cities: Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, San Diego and San Jose, California.
There were some surprising tech developments this year in the central Indiana market. Synovia Solutions’ and Sigsters’ acquisitions come to mind. What’s not surprising is the change that continues to shape this sector. Like the evolution of technology itself, the stream of startups, pivots, mergers and acquisitions this year—like most—came fast and furious.
He thinks his ride-share company, Bloomington-based Nomad Rides, has a unique business model that can carve out market share from goliaths Uber and Lyft.
An Indianapolis-based company has signed a deal with national mail-order pharmacy GoGoMeds that officials project will help double its local workforce—to about 250—within five years.
Those in the trenches say structural barriers—the most significant seems to be teacher training and quality—must be solved before basic classes that explain how computers work and more advanced coding and web-development courses can flourish throughout Indiana’s secondary schools.
Kenzie Academy will be a one- or two-year program that cultivates software engineers. It’s co-founders are based in other cities but decided to debut the school here.
Chief Information and Technology Officer Indiana Public Retirement System (IBJ photo/Eric Learned) MAJOR ORGANIZATION ACHIEVEMENTS DURING TENURE The Indiana Public Retirement System, with $29.9 billion in assets under management and 462,000 members, recently completed a multi-phase, multi-year modernization program to replace its core business systems. “We now are using modern Oracle-based technologies and packages to […]
