Member News

May 29, 2018
1 min

CT Tech Council pushes policy agenda

The Connecticut Technology Council wants gubernatorial candidates to keep the needs of the state’s approximately 6,000 tech companies front-of-mind this summer. Source: CT Tech Council pushes policy agenda #business #connecticuttechnologycouncil #connecticut #unemployment #CTgubernatorialrace #technology #gubernatorialrace #gubernatorialcandidateforum #jobs #gubernatorialcandidates #malloy

3 views0 comments

info787351

Jul 24, 2013
1 min

NBC Sports Celebrates Stamford Facility

“My two grandfathers worked for Clairol, in this building,” Gregory Walters Jr., a Stamford native and NBC Sports video operations specialist said after a ceremony featuring speeches by NBC Sports Group Chairman Mark Lazarus, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Stamford Mayor Michael Pavia. The officials even cut a ribbon with giant scissors, though workers have been in place at the facility since December. Walters is working in the same building his grandfathers Vincent Walters and Hu

4 views0 comments

Transportation Secretary Visits New Haven to Talk Trains

info787351

Jul 23, 2013
2 min

Transportation Secretary Visits New Haven to Talk Trains

Despite the relatively small size of our state, we’re home to a string of important centers and hubs from the New York adjacent panhandle, to New Haven and the seaboard, north through Middletown, Hartford, and the entire river valley. The ability to transition smoothly from town to town, city to city, is a vital and often daily necessity for most businesses in Connecticut, as well as noncommercial necessities. The need for fast, reliable, safe, and affordable transportation

1 view0 comments

info787351

Jul 16, 2013
1 min

New Bill Looks to Boost CT Exports

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

0 views0 comments

Connecticut to Boost Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in 2013

info787351

Jul 10, 2013
1 min

Connecticut to Boost Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in 2013

Yesterday evening, Connecticut Energy Commissioner Daniel Etsy, along with other state officials at the EVConnecticut Expo in Middletown, announced an exciting plan to dramatically improve the state’s relationship with electric vehicles. According to the announcement, $200,000 in state funds will be allocated to build new, convenient charging stations across the state to expand the extant network of public sites available to recharge an electric car. For the time being, comme

3 views1 comment

“Next Generation Connecticut” Seeks to Restore State’s Image as Global Innovator

info787351

Jun 24, 2013
2 min

“Next Generation Connecticut” Seeks to Restore State’s Image as Global Innovator

Image from today.uconn.edu The bill, SB 840, allocates more than 1.5 billion dollars to the University of Connecticut over the next ten years with the objective of improving and growing the University’s programs in bioscience, engineering, technology, digital media, and other in-demand “fields that we are working so hard to expand here in Connecticut,” according to the Governor. This will be achieved by hiring new faculty, constructing additional facilities, and renovating an

2 views0 comments

info787351

Jun 20, 2011
1 min

UConn’s growing incubator space aims to yield breakthroughs, jobs

Less than a year after opening its doors, the University of Connecticut’s Cell and Genome Sciences Building in Farmington has filled its 4,500 square feet of incubator space. With about eight companies now operating in the 117,000 square foot state-of-the-art research facility — and more knocking on the door — it’s a sign, school officials say, that the region can become a hub for bioscience, luring tech startups and entrepreneurs who want to collaborate with researchers at t

1 view0 comments

Catherine Smith Appointed Chairperson of Connecticut Innovations

info787351

May 2, 2011
1 min

Catherine Smith Appointed Chairperson of Connecticut Innovations

Rocky Hill, Conn., May 2, 2011 – The Connecticut State Legislature recently approved Governor Dannel P. Malloy’s appointment of Catherine Smith, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, to serve as chairperson of Connecticut Innovations (CI), the state’s quasi-public authority responsible for technology investing and innovation development. Smith, who also serves as chairperson of the Connecticut Development Authority and the Connectic

6 views0 comments

info787351

Dec 28, 2010
2 min

To the Connecticut Technology Community:

I want to thank each of you for your time, commitment and support this past year. In the midst of change, turmoil and challenges, I think we can all say that the community represented by the Tech Council rose to the occasion and tried to make the state a stronger and more competitive location for the 2,000 high tech businesses and some 200,000 employees and participants in our clusters of the state’s economy. We have always had the ability – again with your financial support

0 views0 comments

info787351

Nov 15, 2010
1 min

CTC’s Newsletter, November 2010

November: Click here to read it online In the issue: Malloy supports pro-growth state role – even with need to balance budget ITIF/Kauffman Study Shows Connecticut’s Potential – we are ranked 5th in Country Competitiveness Agenda being reviewed by Council Board #connecticut #Kauffman #jobs #malloy #IT #competitiveness

2 views0 comments

2010 Connecticut Gubernatorial Forum on Jobs, Innovation & Technology

info787351

Oct 20, 2010
7 min

2010 Connecticut Gubernatorial Forum on Jobs, Innovation & Technology

Election Forum Showed Contrast of the two Candidates – Please vote on November 2 No one can say they don’t have a choice in the two leading candidates, Republican Tom Foley and Democrat Dannel Malloy next week. Check the video from the October 18 forum at Yale to see what we mean. So, while Foley laid out how he would wean the private sector from interference caused by a state government hobbled by self-interested and expensive union contracts and historically ineffective eff

0 views0 comments

We Need Your Support Today!

Donate

CT Tech Council

Join Newsletter

Member News