March 16, 2010 Featured Events Grassroots Advocacy Member Spotlight Member News  Tech Companies To Watch CT Tech Buzz Upcoming Tech Events, The Spring Calendar	FEATURED EVENTS Gubernatorial Forum on Jobs, Innovation & Technology, April 7th in Stamford The full slate is confirmed to attend! Join the Innnovation and Technology Community at this Tech-Oriented Forum with the candidates. April 7, 2010 at GE edgelab at UConn Stamford - 8:00 am networking / coffee with the candidates - 8:30 - 10:30 program - 10:30 Tours of the GE EdgeLab Register Online at www.ct.org  Fee: $10.00
GRASSROOTS ADVOCACY - Get involved now! CTC has established a grass roots advocacy system that will make it easier than ever to contact your legislators and ask them to support bills that will grow the tech industry in Connecticut.  Our first action alert is: Support the Jobs Roundtable "Innovation Eco-System" Bill  Get Involved Now! Click here.  MEMBER SPOTLIGHT - ePath Learning ePath Learning, a privately held company, is an industry leader in online learning management solutions company. As an emerging company, it has experienced consistent growth of no less than 12 percent a year over the past six years. With the reliability of a rock solid technology, 99.999% up-time since 2000, and a team of experienced professionals, it has become a learning solutions partner its customers can trust... Read more: CTC's Member Spotlight of the Month        CTC Members - request a company profile, click here Back to Top of Page CTC MEMBER NEWS AT&T Appoints New CEO in Connecticut Rodney A. Smith has been named president of AT&T Connecticut. Smith most recently served as Assistant Vice President for AT&T in Washington, D.C. His work in Washington, D.C. focused on advocacy before the U.S. Congress. In addition, Smith's extensive experience includes tenures as the deputy chief of staff and communications director for a senior member of Congress as a communications and government relations executive for two Fortune 500 companies, and as a newspaper editor, reporter and columnist in Washington, D.C. He is also an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University. Z-Medica Helps in Haiti Z-Medica Corp has donated $140,000 of emergency dressings and gauze it makes to AmeriCares for use in Haiti and other disaster relief efforts. The items donated to AmeriCares are Z-Medica’s QuikClot Emergency Dressing and QuikClot Combat Gauze. The items will be used on the injured in Haiti, as well as in future disaster relief that AmeriCares assists. FuelCell Energy in Hydrogen Fueling Effort FuelCell Energy has won a $2.1 million subcontract from Allentown, Pa.-based Air Products & Chemicals Inc. to incorporate its Direct FuelCell-H2 technology into a hydrogen fueling station at the Orange County Sanitation District’s wastewater treatment facility in Fountain Valley, Calif. The system will be fueled with biogas from wastewater treatment operations and produce 300 kilowatts of electrical power and up to 300 pounds of hydrogen per day.  Read more CTC member news at www.ct.org         CTC Members, submit news and press releases, click here TECH COMPANIES TO WATCH SeeClickFix is a website that allows citizens to report and document non-emergency issues and to communicate them to those accountable for the public space.  Read on about SeeClickFix... VRSim focuses on creating Virtual and Augmented Reality appliances for industrial training and technical education applications. VRSim owns an assortment of cutting edge equipment and software which the company uses to produce state-of-the-art simulations. Read on about VRSim... Read more profiles of interesting, entrepreneurial tech companies on our Tech Companies to Watch Blog Back to Top of Page CT Tech Buzz - Tech News, Blog Posts & Virtual Networking Make New Haven #GoogleHaven, posted by Derek Koch The City of New Haven is courting Google's new fiber project Click here to read more about google New Haven Connecticut IT Jobs Report March 2010 The IT job market in CT improved! Demand +28.2%s Read the March Report Name the Best Startups - Kauffman Foundation and I Cringely pair up to honor 24 Startups. Nominate your favorite startup today! Read more... Network with The Connecticut Technology Community Virtually: Grab the blog feeds: CTC's Official Blog Matthew Nemerson's Blog Tech Companies to Watch Blog Online Networking: follow us on Twitter.com/CTTech Facebook Fan Page, search for Connecticut Technology Council  Join the Connecticut Technology Community, on Ning Linked In groups: Connecticut Advanced Manufacturing Group Connecticut Broadband Group Connecticut Energy and Environmental Technology Group Connecticut Life Sciences Group Connecticut Women of Innovation Connecticut Technology Council Members Only Group In Person:  SPRING TECH CALENDAR   (full details and registration links can be found on CTC's Online Calendar ) 3/17/2010 New Haven Green (that is green tech!)- St. Paddy's Day Celebration at Bentara's Equinox Bar, 6:00 PM, Bentara's Equinox Bar 3/18/2010 Tallan Presents: 4 Key Qualities of Successful E-Commerce Websites, 8:30 AM, Microsoft, Farmington 3/18/2010 How Cloud Computing and Server Virtualization Affect the Data Center, 8:30 AM, The Farmington Inn, Farmington 3/18/2010 Greater Hartford Innovation Cell Meeting: Are You Ready to Be A Global Player? 5:30 PM, Shipman & Goodwin LLP, Hartford Register online at www.ct.org 3/18/2010 Third Annual Statewide Smart Growth Conference: Old Challenges, New Opportunities, 2:00 PM, Restored G. Fox Building, Hartford 3/22/2010 The Institute of Technology and Business Development/CCSU presents 21st Century Leadership, 8:30 AM, CCSU, New Britain 3/23/2010 Beacon Seminar: New Technology Research Funding Opportunities from NIH, 1:00 PM, Beacon, Hartford 3/23/2010 Inventors Association of CT presents: Insights into Connecticut Innovations, 7:00 PM, Fairfield University 3/23/2010 PowerMatch - March 2010: A Technology Executive Networking Event, 5:00 PM, SoNo Brewhouse, Norwalk 3/25/2010 Danbury Network Security Luncheon, 11:30 AM, La Fortuna Restaurant, Bethel 3/27/2010 New Exhibit: Robots Are Coming!, 1:00 PM, Connecticut Science Center, Hartford 3/28/2010 Nano Days, 10:00 AM, Connecticut Science Center, Hartford 3/31/2010 Yale & CURE - BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series presents Dr. Jonathan Rothberg, 4:00 PM, Yale University Medical School, New Haven 4/1/2010 2010 AOS Executive Technology Seminar Series -"Security, Compliance, and Your Company" Training/Seminar, 11:45 AM, The Capital Grille, Stamford 4/1/2010 2010 AOS Executive Technology Seminar Series – Dinner, 5:00 PM, Carmen Anthony's Steakhouse, Wethersfield 4/5/2010 CT Dept. of Labor and the ITBD: Programmable Logic Controller Training, 8:00 AM, ITBD, New Britain 4/6/2010 Ellsworth Lecture, The New Social Entrepreneurism, 7:30 PM, University of Hartford, West Hartford 4/7/2010 SIM and CTC Present: The CXO/CIO Relationship in the Healthcare Industry, 5:30 PM, The Hartford Club, Hartford 4/7/2010  Gubernatorial Forum on Jobs, Innovation & Technology 8:00 AM, UConn, GE EdgeLab, Stamford, CT Register online at www.ct.org 4/7/2010 CONNSTEP Webcast: The Ouch-less Approach to Enterprise-Wide Lean Transformation, 12:00 PM, Webcast 4/7/2010 MIT Forum Program- 5:00 PM, New Haven 4/8/2010 Yale & CURE - Biohaven seminar speaker: Amarin Pharma Inc., 4:00 PM, Anlyan Center, Yale, New Haven 4/8/2010  Xcellr8 Innovation Cell 8:00 AM, Nerac, Inc., Tolland 4/14/2010 5th Symposium on Advanced Laser Applications (SALA 2010), 8:30 AM, Rentschler Field, East Hartford 4/15/2010 - 4/16/2010 CIO Forum & Executive IT Summit: IT Solutions for Business Problems, 9:00 AM, Connecticut Convention Center, Hartford 4/20/2010  Soundview Innovation Cell Luncheon, 12:00 PM, Stamford Marriott, Stamford 4/20/2010 2010 SBIR National Conference, 8:00 AM, CT Convention Center, Hartford 4/27/2010  PowerMatch - April 2010: A Technology Executive Networking Event, 5:00 PM, Thames Club, New London 5/11/2010 MIT Forum - 5:00 PM, New Haven 5/12/2010 CONNSTEP Webcast: Lean & Right-Sized Equipment, 12:00 PM, Webcast 5/12/2010 Yale & CURE - Biohaven seminar: JS Genetics, 4:00 PM, Anlyan Center, Yale, New Haven 5/13/2010  XCellr8 Innovation Cell 8:00 AM, Nerac, Tolland 5/18/2010  Soundview Innovation Cell Luncheon, 12:00 Noon, Stamford Marriott, Stamford 5/25/2010  PowerMatch - May 2010: A Technology Executive Networking Event, 5:00 PM, Thali Restaurant, New Haven 5/26/2010 Yale & CURE - Biohaven seminar: Kolltan Pharmaceuticals, 4:00 PM, Anlyan Center, Yale, New Haven Add your Technology Event to CTC's Online Calendar Back to Top of Page
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