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New research highlights Milwaukee’s tech workforce strengths
WI Policy Forum's Innovation DataTool stacks metro Milwaukee against other cities. New research from Wisconsin Policy Forum revealed a promising outlook for metro Milwaukee’s talent pool, but certain metrics tied to innovation and economic development also indicated...
Testing technology: Why Milwaukee is a hub for piloting water tech
At Jones Island on Milwaukee's lakefront, a small startup firm called OptikTechnik has been piloting technology that has the potential to impact how wastewater is treated across the world.
Personalizing Nutrition is Product Management
In front of a live audience at Fall Experiment in Milwaukee, Sherry Zhang talked genetic research and mapping. “Every time you put something in your body, it makes an impact – whether you like it or not, or whether you’re aware of it or not,” she said. Sherry offered...
UWM Nonprof-IT program gives student a chance to repay charity
A UWM information technology program gave junior Breyley Stephenson an unexpected outlet to give back to a charity that meant so much to the student and his family. Four days after he was born in 1998, Stephenson needed surgery at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin to...
Civic Accelerator Returning
Co:Lab, a civic engagement program focused on creating real-world solutions to problems facing Milwaukee’s commercial corridors, will return for a second year.
Disruptive Technologies Lab aims to help fill tech job demand
A UWM lab where students learn cutting-edge technology like artificial intelligence, blockchain and cryptocurrency also has the capacity to fill an important need in southeastern Wisconsin. The Disruptive Technologies Lab can help get students ready to fill jobs or...
Milwaukee employers pledge $5M for coalition dedicated to growing region’s tech industry
Just over a year ago, John Schlifske, Northwestern Mutual's chairman, president and CEO, announced the creation of a coalition during a Greater Milwaukee Committee's membership meeting, which Northwestern Mutual hosted. Northwestern Mutual was going to take the lead...
5 highlights during the two-day technology and arts conference Fall Experiment
The Fall Experiment, dubbed Fall X by its organizers, is Oct. 4 and 5 at the Wisconsin Center in downtown Milwaukee. The idea is to bring together thought leaders in art, music, gaming and technology from across the Midwest. Throughout the two-day event, a few...
Why Northwestern Mutual CEO Is Turning Milwaukee Into A Tech Hub
John Schlifske is on a mission--big time. He wants to remake Northwestern Mutual into a company on the “leading edge of technology.” And he's leading the way to transform Northwestern’s headquarters city, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, into a tech hub.
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