HRIC Webinar:
Big Data and the Labor Market (8/17)
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August 17, 2021 | 11:45 am - 12:45 pm | Virtual
Does your organization use labor market data to make strategic, economic, organizational, or sub-par decisions? Are you still using “key words” for fuzzy semantic searches and shotgun matching on a job-by-job basis?
Welcome to the big labor data revolution! See how a state-of-the-art Context Learning Engine (AI/Big Data) can align job seekers with jobs they’re qualified for. Learn how companies can more easily find qualified employees for open positions with just a few profile inputs and minimal clicking on initial opportunities.
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Dark Reading: Technology Journalism (9/2) |
September 2, 2021 | 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Virtual
Dark Reading: Technology Journalism
with Kelly Jackson Higgins, Executive Editor
Register by September 1, 9:00 am
Dark Reading is one of the most widely-read cybersecurity news sites on the Web by thought-leading security researchers, CISOs, and technology specialists, along with thousands of other security professionals. Come listen to this presentation see how journalism and technology can be joined for an amazing career.
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InnoVault | September Pitch Night 2021 (9/10)
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September 10, 2021 | 4:30 pm – 8:30 pm
InnoVault, Winchester
Reserve your seat as an audience participant by getting one of the Attend tickets or apply to pitch by getting one of the Apply to Pitch Tickets.
If you would like to pitch your business idea please continue to read!
Do you have a business idea but you’re just not sure how or where to begin? Do you know there’s an opportunity to scale your current business but just need some expert advice or funding to get you there? Do you have questions about patents, intellectual property, manufacturing, distribution, marketing, getting investors? This is Your Opportunity to pitch your idea for a new Product, Service, Business OR your idea to scale your current business to a panel of business experts and investors!
Crystel Lynn Smith, Virginia's Most Sought Ager High-Performance Coach and Founder of Crystel Clear Business Strategies, and Innovault, Winchester's Idea LaunchPad, are once again launching Pitch Night 2021!
3 Selected entrepreneurs (and or people with cool or crazy ideas) will be provided with
- Live training, (via Zoom) with Alex Skinner, economic anthropologist, CFO of startup IP Haus, and Founder of InnoVault Coworking, through his proven Pitch Masterclass
- Alex’s step by step template to creating and perfecting your pitch
- Opportunity to Pitch to Investors, Entrepreneurs, Financial Gurus and other Business Experts
- Feedback from the experts
- Exposure on any of the following media platforms utilized for Pitch Night 2021
- Social Media
- Television
- Radio
- Newspaper
The winner of Pitch Night 2021 will receive:
- One-Month of business coaching with High-Performance Business Coach and Best-Selling Author, Crystel Lynn Smith ($1,200.00 value)
- One -Year Flex-Time Membership at Winchester’s sought after Innovault ($2,388 value)
- AND $1,000!
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Valley business Summit (9/21) |
September 21, 2021 | 8:45 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
Plecker Center, Blue Ridge Community College
Join local business resources and state legislators to learn about the local business economy.
There will be a panel of business experts to cover various workforce topics as well as Q&A time with Delegates John Avoli, Ronnie Campbell, Chris Runion and Tony Wilt. Light morning refreshments will be provided.
Hosted by the Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Harrisonburg Rockingham Chamber of Commerce, Shenandoah Valley Technology Council, Shenandoah Valley Partnership, Shenandoah Valley Small Business Development Center, Virginia Department of Small Business & Supplier Diversity, and Blue Ridge Community College.
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Rachael Harnish
Rachael is Chief of Staff to the CEO at Shogun, a venture-backed eCommerce startup. Prior to this, she was the Director of Operations at Shogun, managing the finance, accounting, legal, compliance, operations, and people functions of the business. Prior to working at Shogun, Rachael was Director of Operations at Quantic School of Business and Technology, an education technology startup. She also served as executive assistant to the CEO and Board of Sentara RMH, and a Business Operations Manager at Rosetta Stone. She received her Masters of Business Administration at James Madison University and a dual bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Liberal Arts with a Chemistry concentration from Eastern Mennonite University. She is a former board member and board chair at Harrisonburg Community Health Center. Rachael works remotely from and lives on a 25-acre farmette with her husband, two children, and many farm animals in Singers Glen.
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Cadence, Inc.
Cadence Inc. is a leading supplier of advanced products, technologies and services to medical device and specialty industrial companies worldwide. Cadence develops solutions-oriented relationships with customers and provides highly technical solutions that enable improved product performance in clearly measurable ways. Cadence employs more than 475 people worldwide with its global headquarters in Staunton, VA.
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Center for Innovative Technology
The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) creates technology-based economic development strategies to accelerate innovation, imagination and the next generation of technology and technology companies. Created in 1985, CIT, a non-profit corporation, plugs gaps at the earliest stages of the Innovation Continuum – commercialization and seed funding – as it helps entrepreneurs launch and grow high-growth technology companies and create high-paying jobs for the future. To facilitate national innovation leadership and accelerate the rate of technology adoption, CIT creates partnerships between innovative technology start-up companies and advanced technology consumers.
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Massanutten Resort - Great Eastern Resorts
Great Eastern Resorts IT department takes care of the network and systems of Massanutten Resort and all Great Eastern Resorts locations through out Virginia and Pennsylvania. The department is broken into two primary teams, one for network and infrastructure and one for analytics and programming.
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College of Integrated Science and Engineering, JMU
The College of Integrated Science and Engineering provides students the opportunity to learn and apply science, math, technology and engineering concepts, along with a consideration of socio-technical issues, to solve challenging human problems. Our Computer Science and Engineering Departments, and School of Integrated Sciences bring faculty with a wide-range of background and experience (incl. business and industrial experience) together to teach and to research cutting-edge applications. While the College was formed in 2012, our departments have decades of experience in interacting with partners in the Valley and beyond. More information is available at http://cise.jmu.edu.
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Wildlife Center of Virginia
The Wildlife Center of Virginia is one of the worlds leading teaching and research hospitals for wildlife and conservation medicine. The Center uses an impressive array of cutting edge technology and social media tools to provide state-of-the art veterinary care to injured wildlife, professional training to veterinary and conservation professionals from more than 40 countries, and environmental education to the audiences worldwide, all in pursuit of its mission, teaching the world to care about and care for wildlife and the environment.
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Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce
The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce is dedicated to fostering the economic competitiveness of Harrisonburg, Rockingham County and the larger region. The Chamber collaborates with local governments and a number of other entities, such as the SVTC, in support of business growth and development. Chris Quinn is the President and CEO of the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce.
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Looking for 2021 STEM and tech summer activities? Then look no further! We know that both parents and kids are ready for some summer fun after a long year of staying at home, so we’ve gathered a listing of local tech activities for kids for the summer of 2021! Ranging from workshops to camps, this summer is full of technology and STEM activities. Browse the links below and/or share the list with others! See details below.
Summer Camps by JMU Professional & Continuing Education | In-Person
James Madison University, Harrisonburg
Summer Explorer Camps | In-Person
Explore More Discovery Museum, Harrisonburg
Summer Camps by Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum | In-Person
Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum, Winchester
STEM Summer Camps by STEM Innovators | In-Person
Easely Created Studio, Winchester
Know of other techy summer camps in the Shen. Valley that are not on our list? Send them along! admin@svtc-va.org.
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Shenandoah Valley Open Tech Jobs |
- Software Engineer II – Octoservices, GitHub | Remote
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Full-Stack Software Engineer | Sproutly | New Market
- 3D Developer - AR Support, The Scylla Group | Winchester
- Front End Developer, The Scylla Group | Winchester
GOT ADDITIONAL TECH JOBS THAT SHOULD BE PUBLICIZED?
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Are you a local tech meetup/user-group or organization hosting an in-person or virtual tech event within the Shenandoah Valley?
With the recent impacts of COVID-19, we're looking to help promote all of the Valley's technology community events that have either gone digital or are going back to in-person by adding them to our newsletter and calendar
(our publicity).
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SVTC Members Invitation:
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Membership Badge Available! Use our new graphic on your own website (and remember to link back to our website www. svtc-va.org!)
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The Shenandoah Valley Technology Council does not endorse the companies, organizations, teams,
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Contact Us
Shenandoah Valley Technology Council
800 S. Main Street
MSC 3615
Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807
540-568-7882
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