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Fact-finding World Tour Fuels Maker Conference
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. That age-old theme is the driving
mission behind the global maker movement, which Chicago’s IIT Institute of
Design will advance this month by presenting the results of its six-month,
four-city Strategy World Tour.
Innovate or Die: CEO Tech Forum (Pt 3)
Got your attention? Good. If you weren’t able to make it to our first CEO
Tech Forum April 20-22, you missed a heck of a lot. So here is the most
comprehensive written summary to date. But stay tuned for much more CTF
video to come this spring.
Ford’s $1.2B Better Idea to Take on Silicon Valley
“This is war!” says one Michigan architect. Detroit v. Silicon Valley. This
month, the state’s high-stakes battle for tech talent just got hotter. Like
GM a year ago, Ford unveiled big plans to remake its Dearborn HQ campus
into a mobility innovation hub.
Bridgit Bags its Own VC bundle
After closing out 2015 with a big win at Google’s Entrepreneurs Demo Day,
our favorite women-owned Canadian construction tech startup has now secured
$1.7 million in seed investment from Hyde Park Ventures, and backed by
Vanedge Capital.
EXTRA! EXTRA! CEO Tech Forum Makes News (Pt 2)
In addition to all the inspiring words and dazzling demos on display last
week, several speakers and attendees at BW’s first-ever CEO Tech Forum
also made news worth noting. Here are the top five announcements in the
order they were made.
Behold! CEO Forum Points Way Fwrd (Pt 1)
They came. They saw. They contemplated a deceptively brighter future for
our industry and our planet. That decidedly optimistic tone defined BW’s
first CEO Tech Forum last week, which featured icon Peter Diamandis and
dozens more constructive disruptors.
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