The InfluenceHer Summit concluded on Thursday, March 27 at the Knoxville Botanical Gardens.
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The goal of the new program is to match business minds outside the university with breakthrough inventions created within its walls and provide those ventures with funding. For starters, Venture Partners at CU Boulder has selected 50 technologies that are available.
The program, which will be held in Philadelphia, is the first of an unknown number of multiple theme-driven accelerator programs to be hosted by Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs throughout the year.
The celebration of start-ups and the entrepreneurs and innovations behind those new ventures starts in Nashville before expanding later in the week to events and opportunities across the Volunteer State.
Chattanooga's Fenix24, a cyber disaster recovery company, has raised $5 million in funding, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory is teaming with the National Energy Technology Laboratory to jointly explore a range of technology innovations for the Appalachian region.
Nominations are now being accepted in nine categories. Finalists will be named this summer, and the winners will be announced at an event on September 27.
The newly announced program is designed to uncover opportunities to improve the student-athlete experience, increase on-field competitiveness, and grow a pipeline of venture-backable sports tech start-ups.
A little more than a year after launching as part of the the “Veterans in Residence” program, the start-up has made changes such as increasing the minimum engagement to six months. "“It’s about lifestyle, not simply a 12-week diet," says Bridget Manners.
“Gig City Goes Quantum" is a new initiative announced on Thursday to prepare for education, jobs and business opportunities in the emerging quantum technology sector. Up first is an effort that begins on April 14 as part of World Quantum Day with the goal of engaging people of all ages in more than 1,000 quantum learning activities by May 31.
