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The Lamont administration officially launched last week, with the inauguration of Ned Lamont as the 89th governor of Connecticut and the convening of the 2019 legislative session. The Connecticut Technology Council is eager to work with this new administration to advocate for the goals and priorities of our state’s tech business community. Thanks to the research we did preparing The Growth Agenda (which we published in spring of 2018), we are well-prepared to represent the ne

Join the Connecticut Technology Council and the Connecticut technology community on June 13, 2018 at the Trumbull Marriott for our 2018 Gubernatorial Candidate Forum on Tackling Connecticut’s Technology Business Growth. This non-partisan event will focus on how the candidates will help tackle some of the most pressing issues facing the technology community in Connecticut today, which the Connecticut Technology Council identified in our community survey at the close of 2017. T

CT Tech Legislation Update Summer 2017 As of midnight, June 7th, the General Assembly closed its Regular Session.  Although one of their biggest responsibilities, passing a biennial budget was not accomplished thereby requiring a Special Session, there were a number of bills that affect the Technology Community that did pass.  As part of the CT Tech Legislation Update, please take not that those bills are: Economic Development Programs and Financing HB 5583: An Act Expanding

Since its creation last spring, the Department of Economic and Community Development has been pleasantly overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response to their Small Business Express program. The program, outlined on the department’s website, provides expedited loans (in amounts between $10,000 and $250,000) and grants (up to $100,000) to Connecticut businesses who maintain fewer than 100 employees and are seeking to grow. The abundance of applications, anticipated in the original

It seems like years ago, but the short 2010 Legislative session was actually a watershed for technology issues. Years of hard work paid off for the technology community last Spring when the Connecticut General Assembly passed and Governor M. Jodi Rell signed into law the so-called “Jobs Bill” HB 5435 . The state’s political rank and file finally embraced a number of issues that the Technology Council and others have pushed for and many legislative leaders have endorsed over t

Let me say at the onset that this week’s column is not for the policy wonks and lobbyists, they know everything I’m about to write about. So, this is for the rank and file Council members who are interested in what is going on in Hartford this session and how it all relates to issues we have been advocating. I am not sure if this week’s theme is “an embarrassment of riches” or “be careful what you wish for.”  In two major areas of great concern to the technology community – t