Serial entrepreneur Sam Davidson will succeed Jane Allen who was selected in 2019.

This funding is part of the $42.45 billion "Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment" (BEAD) program included in the "Bipartisan Infrastructure Law."

“My life has been a crash course in stress, burnout, trauma, and mental illness,” she says, adding that it was “a course that almost cost me my life.”

The focus is on brand planning, including market research, developing a brand platform, customer discovery and the customer journey, persona-based messaging, and channel planning.

The event featured Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director of the National Science Foundation, who commended the statewide collaboration.

Four virtual sessions are planned for each Wednesday in October will provide tools, tips, and resources.

They range from an all-new season of the "Big Ideas Welcome" podcast series to upcoming events like "KTech CONNECT," application deadline for "CO.LAB Mobility Accelerator," and early bird discounts for "Startup Mountain Summit."

The economic development initiative will provide grant funding to distressed communities across the country to create and connect workers to good jobs by helping to reduce the high, prime-age (25 to 54 years of age) employment gap.