Local entrepreneurs and professionals from innovation and technology based businesses will get to polish their international business relations skills at a German themed educational and networking event sponsored by the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council (CBIC) on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the SPEAK! Language Center . The event is the second internationally themed event in the Afterhours Passport Series sponsored by CBIC and SPEAK! which debuted with a very popular Italian event in August. An innovative language, culture and travel enterprise specializing in Romance, Asian, Slavic as well as English and - of course - German languages, Speak! is the ideal location for such a globally-inspired gathering.

TOUR BEGINS AT 9:00 AM AT PVCC’S EARL DICKINSON CENTER

Thursday, October 13, marks the launching of 2011 Tech Tour, a local event to introduce a record 400 area middle and high school students to the dynamic high technology world that exists in the Charlottesville/Albemarle County metro region.

Sponsored by the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council (CBIC), this day-long technology tour is aimed at exposing students to the challenging and diverse career possibilities offered by our regional technology community. It is designed to help them envision themselves as technology employees, professionals and entrepreneurs in the next wave of tech advancements in our area.

Students representing 21 regional schools will spend the day traveling to more than 70 selected companies for a hands-on visit to meet employees and experience the use of technology in unique and specialized operations. Students will travel in groups of 15, and be assigned to one of 28 unique and exciting tour schedules. Arrangements can be made for media to follow a tour for the day or join one in progress.

This year the Tech Tour provides several outstanding photo opportunities. First, the engineering challenge, which occurs at PVCC at 9AM, will have small groups of students creating a solution to a problem with limited resources. Also at 12 noon, Phthisis Diagnostics, a local biotechnology firm located at 705 Dale Avenue, will be engaging students in a live experiment as part of their tour.

Contacts:
Chris Engel
Tech Tour Chair
434.531.9381
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Tracey Danner
CBIC Interim Executive Director
434.242.5886
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Roadmap uncovers Virginia’s areas of strength and priority and establishes technology sectors eligible to receive CRCF funding

The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) , in close collaboration with the Secretariats of Technology, Education, and Commerce and Trade; members of the legislature; Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP); the ten regional technology councils; colleges and universities; federal labs and research institutes; and Chmura Economics & Analytics,  has released the Commonwealth Research and Technology (R&T) Strategic Roadmap.