Sentences with phrase «of tech city»

Indeed, Gerard Grech, chief executive of Tech City UK, the Government - backed organisation helping coordinate the area's growth, told the London Evening Standard: «It's not all about London.

He recently went to 10 Downing Street to meet Joanna Shields, CEO of Tech City, to discuss the state of the regional start - up scene.

LMAX Exchange is also a member of the Tech City Future Fifty programme.

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A group of prominent New York - based tech bigwigs want Amazon to bring its second headquarters — dubbed by Amazon as «HQ2 ″ — to the city.

«Being able to discuss a key issue with someone qualified and not emotionally or financially invested in your business is huge for one's entrepreneurship journey,» says Galina Ozgur, GM of Grand Central Tech, a New York City - based tech campus and accelerator geared towards startups poised for scTech, a New York City - based tech campus and accelerator geared towards startups poised for sctech campus and accelerator geared towards startups poised for scale.

Toronto's CEO - turned mayor on how tech is transforming cities: «Why should the job of people in public life... be to try and stop change?»

Former rustbelts trying to lure in high - tech companies need to focus on creating the kind of cities where knowledge workers actually want to live

We're seeing health tech innovation in cities like Baltimore because of Johns Hopkins University and Cleveland because of the Cleveland Clinic.

A new exhibit at New York's Tenement Museum explores a century of the city's immigrant small - business owners, while the city government champions its growing tech startup community.

That's one of the main findings of a new report on high - tech incubators and accelerators, published by the not - for - profit Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and by JP Morgan Chase.

One of the things the VCs told me that I could do that I've been exploring already is to form a «Tech 20,» which would consist of 20 companies that would actually embed various apps developed in this city in their operations and try them out.

The winner gets six months of prepaid co-working space in the city of his or her choice and consultations with RRE and business experts at Cornell Tech.

It's an interesting model for rapidly educating software engineers, particularly considering that a recent study about the New York tech industry found that half of New York City's technical work force doesn't have a traditional college education.

According to Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke, who was elected in 2013, the first iteration of «the gig» was the initial step toward transforming the city into a tech destination.

He previously was a tech writer and reporter for 9to5Mac (9to5Google), and is a graduate from City, University of London's BA Journalism course.

Not only was housing more affordable than in tech hubs like San Francisco or New York City, the costs of going out and food were also much cheaper.

Mayor Berke and Skuid founder and CEO Ken McElrath sat down with Fortune to discuss the economic impact of Chattanooga's city - wide tech initiative.

The sophisticated fund - raising experts at Share Systems Inc., ensconced in Boston - area offices a mile from Harvard University, may not have much in common with the operators of the die - casting machines at Pace Industries» Cast - Tech Division, in rural Monroe City, Mo..

Long - recognized as a business hub in the Bay Area, companies in this city — just south of the reigning tech capital of San Francisco — have made big strides.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

Tell me about the economic impact that this kind of tech initiative can have on a mid-size city like Chattanooga.

The career - focused social network ranked the world's cities on the proportion of the workforce with tech skills.

-- Matthew Harrigan, co-founder and managing director of Grand Central Tech, a New York City technology accelerator

One set of presentations will be a series of case studies of 10 cities with thriving tech scenes, such as Jerusalem and Nairobi.

Nestled in a quiet courtyard in a historic area of the city, this newly opened 184 - room property, the third in London from the family - owned Apex chain, is decidedly high - tech: rooms come with Bose SoundDocks, free Wi - Fi and a media hub that will allow you to plug anything from an iPad to and Xbox into the 3 - D television.

Why it's hot: This Midwestern city is preparing for an influx of innovation when it gets an instant tech infusion from Google Fiber, which will provide free, gigabit internet to 180 neighborhoods starting in October.

Robertson's economic vision places special emphasis on the clean - tech sector, part of his drive to make Vancouver the world's greenest city by 2020.

What's more, the ubiquity of tech startups — and the decreased financial barrier to entry — has prompted Philadelphia and Detroit, among other cities, to begin offering venture capital in an effort to boost economic development, create jobs and attract young people, says Archna Sahay, Philadelphia's manager of entrepreneurial investment.

The city's efforts to position itself as a hub of the global high - tech entrepreneurial community will be showcased this week with its five - day Digital Life Design (DLD) festival, driven by the mission to create a network of innovation, digital prospects, science and culture.

Why go: Temples, markets and museums are just some of the offerings you'll find in the bustling, tech - centric city of Tokyo.

Why it's hot: One square mile of boutiques and condos, Hoboken is just across the Hudson River from New York City and boasts a 2,221 member - strong N.J. Tech Meetup that gets together monthly.

«I think of these as high - tech Beanie Babies or 21st - century tulips,» says Robert Hockett, a law professor at Cornell who gained notoriety after the financial crisis for proposing that cities use «eminent domain» to buy out underwater mortgages.

«Meet People Who Don't Work in Tech,» reads the ad on Facebook by San Francisco - based startup UpOut, seeming to voice a collective desire of city residents.

Our latest Sustainly Trend Briefing examines how some of the world's biggest companies are collaborating with tech start ups, municipal governments and community organizations working to create Smart City services and experiences, and how these innovations can deliver more sustainable living and business.

Temples, markets and museums are just some of the offerings you'll find in the bustling, tech - centric city of Tokyo.

The city is at the point where a not - insignificant portion of residents are rooting for the so - called tech bubble to implode at least a little, the New York Times reported earlier this month.

The Hoboken Business Center offers shared workspace through Mission Fifty, while the city's Stevens Institute of Technology is opening an entrepreneurship office for students and is seeking investors for a tech accelerator.

On March 6, 2018, the Women Startup Challenge Emerging Tech finalists will pitch their innovative ventures to a panel of tech industry investors on stage at Google, in New York CTech finalists will pitch their innovative ventures to a panel of tech industry investors on stage at Google, in New York Ctech industry investors on stage at Google, in New York City.

A recent viral open letter to San Francisco city officials by startup Commando.io founder Justin Keller serves as an example of such tech bro - iness.

Sidewalk Labs, a unit of Google's parent company, Alphabet, recently applied to develop a 12 - acre parcel of land downtown, promising a brand - new high - tech city «from the Internet up,» deciding against U.S. candidates like Detroit and Denver.

Outside of the tech sector, 150,000 tech workers are employed in New York City.

It's attempting to look at the tech industry not as a silo of big tech firms such as Google and Facebook, both of which have offices in New York City, but as a diverse ecosystem stretching throughout the city's econCity, but as a diverse ecosystem stretching throughout the city's econcity's economy.

This conference had all that, but it also had discussions about water use, agri - tech, and smart cities, which don't appear all that frequently on the agenda of U.S. entrepreneurship conferences.

The new report, from groups with obvious interest in the growth of the industry, the Association for a Better New York, Google, Citi, and the New York Tech Meetup, finds that 291,000 people are empoyed in the New York City «tech ecosystem.&raTech Meetup, finds that 291,000 people are empoyed in the New York City «tech ecosystem.&ratech ecosystem.»

The tech industry is a model of networking, with events almost every week in nearly every city.

New York increased the number of digital jobs in the city by 80 %, thanks to a push to boost its tech economy between 2007 to 2011.

As a result of these moves, the city enjoyed the highest job growth in the $ 20 - billion global mobile app industry, and it was the only region in the U.S. to have an increase in tech venture - capital funding.

Over the years, Gotham has pushed through initiatives that ranged from lifestyle perks like free Wi - Fi in public parks and subway stations to make the city more attractive to a tech workforce, to establishing a network of business incubators to help provide affordable office space to more than 500 startups.

The price tag attached to the 1,700 - square - foot lot shows the extent of the housing bubble in San Francisco, where tech workers create demand faster than the city can build new housing.

So it is constantly looking for new tools and better ways to get the job done; and (d) the company is struggling — right along with every other tech firm — with how it can make the work force more diverse even though, in terms of gender at least, it's already as diverse as any firm in the city.