16 Jul Focus Forward Podcast Ep 5: The Power of a Tech Ecosystem with Aaron Olver
WEDC Secretary and CEO Missy Hughes speaks with Olver about the state’s technology ecosystem and how it remains successful during a pandemic....
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10 Jul Masks mandatory inside all UW campus buildings this fall
Students and employees on University of Wisconsin campuses this fall must wear a face covering in classrooms and other indoor public spaces....
09 Jul Alumni Webinar Series: The Entrepreneur’s Playbook
Dan Olszewski and Singari Seshadri provide advice and practical approaches to help entrepreneurs and small business owners survive the current environment and position their company to thrive in the future....
07 Jul Podcast: Developing Future Leaders of Family-Owned Businesses, with Jim Hartlieb
Family-owned businesses are unique in that the mantle of leadership is most often passed down from one generation to the next rather than passed along to an executive who has come in from outside the company....
07 Jul Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce: Accepting applications for seventh annual Pressure Chamber competition
The Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce announced today it is accepting applications for this year’s Pressure Chamber startup initiative, which returns Aug. 13 during Forward Festival....
06 Jul UW-Madison labs slowly reopening, but scientists fear virus’ ripple effects on research
UW-Madison began opening up some labs in June, adding about 2,000 researchers on top of the roughly 2,000 who worked through the pandemic. The university moved Thursday into its “second phase” of rebooting research....
01 Jul Full recovery from pandemic will take more than 2 years in Wisconsin, WEDC says
According to WEDC report, it will take slightly more than two years for Wisconsin and the U.S. to recover to the pre-Covid-19 level of employment....
01 Jul Tommy Thompson takes office as UW System President, seeks feedback
As Tommy Thompson takes office today as President of the University of Wisconsin System, his transition team is announcing creation of the “Listening Post” for Wisconsin residents and UW students, faculty, and staff to ask questions and offer ideas....
30 Jun The Innovate Network aims to coordinate and amplify startup initiatives on campus
The Innovate Network, coordinated by UW–Madison’s relatively new Discovery to Product, or D2P, program pulls together more than a dozen campus and campus-affiliated efforts....
29 Jun State’s early stage firms raised record dollars in 2019; total deals increased slightly
The latest edition of “The Wisconsin Portfolio” shows more than $450 million was raised by the state’s early stage companies in 2019, a record for any single year in Wisconsin....
25 Jun In our post-COVID world, science must be our new frontier
As the United States looks to science to help us get past the COVID-19 pandemic, we would be well advised to also look back....
16 Jun Returning to Work | 8 Steps to Keep Employees Safe
Wisconsin Safety Council has put together general guidelines and best practices for employers....