I learned a great deal during the Indiana Chamber’s recent 2021 Cybersecurity Conference, but the most staggering statistic: There are approximately 3.5 million cybersecurity jobs unfilled globally. A quick Google search confirms: According to Cybersecurity Ventures, there will be 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs globally by 2021, up from 1 million positions in 2014. The United States has a [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iU7y9tQJ1c Since the Indiana Vision 2025: 2021 Report Card was released late last month, Indiana Chamber president and CEO Kevin Brinegar and I have been presenting its results virtually to regions around Indiana. For this week’s Tech Talk, I highlight a few of the relevant metrics and add some additional information that you might not find in the Report [...]
What Brad Bostic (and the team at hc1) does is not simple. But they’ve done it well for nearly a decade … and they will continue to do it even better because the mission remains clear: Provide as customized a health care journey as possible for each and every person. Bostic was honored Tuesday as the Chamber’s Indiana Wesleyan [...]
University research is critical. That’s like preaching to the choir with this audience, while some might be asking why did you waste your time typing those four obvious words? In this case, it’s the George W. Bush Institute talking about that research and what separates the universities that do it extremely well. Yes, its report – The Innovation Impact of [...]
We write about venture capital a lot in this space and in the Chamber’s BizVoice® magazine. Unfortunately, many of the stories stress the need for additional funds (at least in certain areas of the investment cycle) for Indiana entrepreneurs. Today, we talk about a need – but also a solution. That’s in the form of Lightship Capital, which has deservedly [...]
If you are anything like me, you can empathize with the challenging task of keeping up with news. As such, I thought it might be fun to take a different approach to this week’s Tech Talk. Below you will find “highlights” of tech business news from articles published over the past week. Enjoy! Indiana CISO Bryan Sacks resigned for [...]
While resilience has been one of the themes of the last few months – and much more will be required going forward – the hope is that recovery can also take center stage. Resources, both existing and recently announced, for the business community are available to assist in that effort. Here are a few to take note of: On [...]
A storm is brewing in Washington, D.C., and tech companies are in the crosshairs. Democratic lawmakers Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York) recently introduced new legislation that would direct the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to place a near-universal moratorium on mergers and acquisitions, including those in the tech industry, until the agency decides small businesses [...]
Over the last two decades, the Indiana Chamber and our BizVoice® magazine have reported numerous times on SBIR and STTR funding for entrepreneurs. Many of those stories – two from the archives here: 2003 and 2008 – lamented Indiana’s subpar performance in securing the federal dollars. Recently, the State Science & Technology Institute (SSTI) released a thorough analysis for [...]
Is video conferencing a fad or is it here to stay? Last Thursday, Zoom Video Communications (Zoom) announced that it had reached 300 million active users, up from 200 million at the beginning of April, and Zoom stock hit an all-time high on the news. On Friday, Facebook unveiled Facebook Messenger Rooms (Rooms), a new feature that makes it possible [...]
