Echo Networking Event, Recent Studies and Vermont, Ski Passes
Networking Event at Echo
What better opportunity to mark the end of summer then by attending the Vermont Technology Alliance’s annual Sunset Networking Event at the Burlington waterfront at the ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain? Join VTTA members, friends and supporters for food, drink, and networking as the sun goes down on Lake Champlain.
There will be a variety of food to sample and complimentary bar service for beer, wine, cider, seltzer, and non-alcoholic beverages. Come join us for an evening of food, fun and conversation on the shores of Lake Champlain, and help support the Vermont Technology Alliance. Bring your employees, friends, colleagues, and clients – all are welcome, and it's sure to be a good time.
Studies Offer Vermont Insights
A few recent studies revealed some interesting data for Vermont:
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Vermont placed fourth (tied with Montana) in a list of the best states for business growth. Venture Smarter analyzed data from the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics to determine the business growth rate in each state based on the number of establishments in December 2021 compared to December 2022. Georgia topped the list.
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CNBC listed the 16 U.S. states where a family of four needs to earn more than $70,000 to be financially secure based on a study by GoBankingRates. Vermont was number 8 on the list with $79,490 needed. That’s among the many reasons the VTTA has championed the growth of tech jobs and tech companies that pay higher wages.
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Vermont gained higher income earners with the movement of people in the state from 2020 to 2021, during the pandemic, based on a new analysis of tax data by the Economic Innovation Group. The total for Vermont: $364.4 million. The top counties: Windsor ($66.4 million), Bennington ($57.3 million), Chittenden, (35.4 million). No data yet for 2022 to show whether they stayed.
Smugglers’ Notch Season Passes
With the coming of fall, many are already looking ahead to ski season. Vermont Technology Alliance members can take advantage of discounted season ski passes to Smugglers’ Notch through the Corporate Season Pass Program for the 2023/2024 season. The program extends Smugglers’ pre-Labor Day rates (its lowest pricing) through October 31, includes complimentary Pass Protection Insurance, and is available to VTTA member employees and their immediate family members.
If you are interested, please contact admin@vtta.org for how to register.
Not a member? Register here to take advantage.
Jeff Couture
Executive Director
Vermont Technology Alliance
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VTTA Sunset Networking Event on Lake Champlain
(September, 14, 2023 – Echo Center on Lake Champlain)
Plan to attend the Vermont Technology Alliance’s annual Sunset Networking Event at the Burlington waterfront at the ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain. Join VTTA members, friends and supporters for food, drink, and networking as the sun goes down on Lake Champlain.
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Synaptic Supercollider
(September 29-Oct.1, 2023 – Burlington)
Synaptic Supercollider is a conference celebrating creativity in entrepreneurship and the arts. The event brings together forward-thinking speakers and artists to discuss new trends in innovation, entrepreneurship, film, and music.
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North by Northeast – Navigating Your Small Business
(September 30, 2023 – Vermont State University, Randolph)
The day includes funding, marketing and legal workshops, networking and small business resources, and guest speakers and other information tailored for teams of one to three people.
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Renewable Energy Vermont Conference 2023
(October 18 – October 19, 2023 – Doubletree Hilton)
The 2023 REV Conference will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, October 18 & 19 in Burlington, VT. Now in its 23rd year, the REV Conference is the place to convene, network, and work towards realizing our fossil fuel free future.
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Vermont Tech Jam 2023
(October 21, 2023 – Hula)
The annual Vermont Tech Jam is October 21 at Hula.This career and tech expo, presented by Marvell and Hula and organized by Seven Days, showcases some of Vermont’s most innovative companies. The Tech Jam attracts hundreds of job seekers, career changers, tech professionals, college students, enthusiasts, and anyone eager to learn from and connect with Vermont companies. The VTTA is an organizing partner with Seven Days for this annual event.
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VTTA member companies named to the Inc. 5000 List
(August, 2023)
Four Vermont Technology Alliance member companies were named to the 2023 edition of Inc. Magazine’s Inc 5000 list: Tuck Consulting Group, Widewail, Resonant Link, and Codingscape.
Companies on the 2023 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2019 to 2022. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2019. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, independent, for-profit, businesses. The minimum revenue required for 2019 is $100,000; the minimum for 2022 is $2 million.
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CONNEX Vermont Launches to Help Spur Statewide and Domestic Manufacturing Growth
(August, 2023 – VMEC)
The Vermont Manufacturing Extension Center (VMEC) has launched its latest program, CONNEX™ Vermont, designed to strengthen the local and domestic manufacturing supply chain. Through CONNEX™ Vermont, Vermont manufacturers will be able to better connect with each other, find local suppliers, discover new business opportunities, and manage their supply chains.
The platform is part of the national CONNEX Marketplace™ program which is rolling out across the country to help solve manufacturing supply chain issues and bring more manufacturing opportunities to U.S. suppliers. The CONNEX™ Vermont platform will allow manufacturers to post RFIs and RFQs in the platform’s Business-to-Business Exchange Center and identify Vermont suppliers who can meet their needs.
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A Rutland Startup Created a Virtual Reality Tool to Train Nurses in Emergency Responses
(September 5, ,2023 – VTDigger)
A Rutland-based startup called Tacitly.com is developing a virtual reality tool to provide training to traveling nurses on how to use a code cart, also known as a crash cart, that is wheeled into an emergency room to save a patient’s life. It contains instruments for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and other medical supplies. The carts enable medical personnel to save time in an emergency, thereby increasing the chance of saving a patient’s life.
However, each hospital configures the carts in a different way, which means that every time traveling nurses arrive at a new hospital, they need to learn the new configuration. Tacitly’s virtual reality tool enables them to get the training they need.
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Data Innovations Releases Lab GPS v2.0
(September 2, 2023 – Data Innovations)
Data Innovations has released a major upgrade to its first cloud-hosted SaaS product, Lab GPS. Lab GPS v2.0 helps minimize costly clinical laboratory downtime and improve patient care by empowering laboratorians with all-in-one connectivity monitoring, notifications, and control.
Lab GPS is designed to address one of the leading factors that limits clinical lab productivity: unplanned downtime due to connectivity, power, and hardware issues. Downtime is not only costly in terms of lost productivity; it can adversely affect patient care by delaying test results. Moreover, correcting lab downtime typically requires costly IT resource time.
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Image Relay Wins 2023 MarTech Breakthrough Award for Best Digital Asset Management Platform
(August 31, 2023 – Image Relay)
Burlington, VT based Image Relay, announced it has been named the Best Digital Asset Management Platform in the 6th annual 2023 MarTech Breakthrough Awards, which recognizes the top companies, technology, and products in the global marketing, sales, and advertising technology industry. Image Relay offers a platform for integrating digital assets and product information in one place.
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GlobalFoundries Plans Solar Array
(August 31, 2023 – Williston Observer)
Twenty acres of GlobalFoundries’ vacant Williston property off Redmond Road will be enlisted for solar energy production in a project soon to be considered by the Vermont Public Utilities Commission. The 8,000 ground-mounted-panel array is estimated to produce 3.5 megawatts of energy and is being developed in partnership with Encore Renewable Energy of Burlington.
Energy generated from the site will feed directly into GlobalFoundries operations, according to Jeffery Cram, the company’s director of electrical distribution and sustainable energy, aligning the company with Vermont’s renewable energy goals.
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Vermont Startup Verde Technologies Partners with National Renewal Energy Laboratory on Solar Cells
(August 29, 2023 – Verde Technologies)
Verde Technologies Inc., a perovskite-focused, thin-film solar company, announced a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Northern Illinois University (NIU) to work collaboratively on the commercialization of perovskite solar cells. By combining NREL’s and NIU’s recent breakthroughs with Verde’s cutting-edge manufacturing techniques, this collaboration aims to unlock the potential of efficient, safe, low-cost perovskite solar panels at an unprecedented scale.
Perovskite solar cells are thin-film devices built with layers of materials, either printed or coated from liquid inks or vacuum-deposited. The panels that Verde is developing are designed to be many times lighter than traditional solar panels and printed with a liquid ink that can be turned into semiconductors.
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NOMAD Awarded $9.5 Million Department of Energy Grant to Bring Mobile Energy Systems to Five Vermont Communities
(August 9, 2023 – NOMAD)
A team led by NOMAD Transportable Power Systems (NOMAD) has been selected to receive a $9.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to bring long-duration energy storage to five communities in rural Vermont. In partnership with Green Mountain Power, the mobile energy storage systems will keep communities powered up, drive down costs and carbon, and serve as a new tool for emergency response across the region.
“This project, enabled by the U.S. Department of Energy’s support, will ensure that the benefits of clean energy and long-duration storage reach communities that need them,” said NOMAD CEO Paul Coombs. “We are proud that the systems NOMAD builds here in Vermont will benefit rural communities of the Northeast that are too often left behind.”
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Vermont Technology Alliance Membership Update
The Vermont Technology Alliance works on behalf of its members and can carry out its mission through the support of its membership.
New members include Mila Ridge Partners, individuals, Andrew Porter-Price, John Lobdell, Jonathan Gerlach.
Renewing members include FirstLight as a Leadership Member/Sponsor and Data Innovations as a Partner Member/Sponsor. We appreciate and value the year-round foundational support of the VTTA from our annual Member/Sponsors such as FirstLight and Data Innovations.
Other renewing members include Bluehouse Group, Brandthropology, Coldwell Banker Hickok and Boardman, Faraday, GBIC, Healthy Design, J Scott Marketing, NPI, Resonant Link, Tech Vault, The Tech Group, and individuals David Gerns, John Boquet, Matt Kolb, and William Lawrence.
Not a VTTA member yet? Then why not join now? Find more information and register here. You can also contact us at admin@vtta.org.
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Champlain College Fall Career Fair
Champlain College is hosting a Fall 2023 Career Fair on campus on Wednesday, October 18, 2022, from 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Champlain welcomes participation from employers who are actively recruiting positions of direct relevance to Champlain’s academic programs. Click here for a list of its majors, minors, and concentrations to determine which ones best align with your talent needs.
The fee includes a standard six-foot table with two chairs, lunch for two representatives in the IDX Dining Hall, access to Wi-Fi and electricity, and free off-site parking near Champlain’s Lakeside campus with shuttle transportation to the main campus.
- For-profit: $250
- Non-profit and Government: $75
Find more information and register here.
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Employer Resume Review Night for UVM Engineering & Mathematical Sciences
The UVM College of Engineering & Mathematical Sciences seeks industry professionals to review student resumes on Thursday, Sept. 28, 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Professionals do not need to be resume experts. Last year, more than 100 students in CEMS participated in this event.
Participants can use this to recruit students or to make the future candidate pool better. Last year, employers asked to keep resumes and gave students their cards.
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MedTech Conference Pitch Competition
The Northern New England MedTech Conference Pitch Competition is open to all innovative health startups MedTech, HealthTech, DTx, Digital Health, Life Sciences) that have raised less than $2 million through institutional investment.
If selected as a finalist, you must be able to pitch in-person on November 15th, 2023 at the Northern New England MedTech Conference in Hanover, NH. Limited participation is available, and applications will be reviewed in the order they are received. Finalists' pitches will consist of a 5-minute presentation followed by 5 minutes of Q&A from judges.
The application deadline is October 1, 11:59 p.m. ET
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Online Professional Development Courses
The VTTA has partnered with MindEdge to offer easy-to-access, affordable, online professional development courses. Whether you are looking to expand your skill set, earn professional credits, or learn something new, these courses are an option to gain essential and in-demand skills on your own time, at your own pace, and from any location. As a bonus, VTTA members save 10% on all offerings.
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VTTA Career Center
Vermont Technology Alliance member companies are hiring, and when you visit the Career Center on the Vermont Technology Alliance website you can browse and search for these job openings and subscribe to updates. The Career Center on average features 200+ tech and non-tech jobs with Vermont Technology Alliance member businesses. Jobs available from VTTA members are listed at no charge in the Career Center as a member benefit.
Find the Career Center here.
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Find the Software Development Staff with Recruiting Services from VTTA and ScaleTech
The Vermont Technology Alliance has partnered with tech talent solution firm ScaleTech to offer talent solution services to help Vermont businesses find the software developers and engineers they need to sustain and grow their businesses. ScaleTech focuses on developing a working partnership with businesses between 5 to 200 employees, and offers discounted rates for VTTA members.
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Advertise in the VTTA Newsletter
Feature your business or organization as a sponsor or with an ad in this newsletter and support the VTTA.
Each month reach an audience made up of leaders, innovators, supporters, and partners of Vermont’s growing and dynamic tech sector.
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The VTTA Thanks Its Member/Sponsors
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