UPDATE: A huge thank you to everyone - attendees, panelists, organizers - who made this an engaging, fun, standing-room-only evening. Please stayed tuned for future RI Nexus events.
Where: RIEDC, 315 Iron Horse Way (ALCO), Suite 101, Providence Google Map
When: Thurs. Nov. 5, 4 [...]
Tim Webb is Director of Marketing Communications for SIMULIA. He is responsible for guiding activities related to product launches, customer referencing, industry conferences, and market awareness. Tim has 15 years experience in the CAE industry, communicating on a broad range of simulation technologies, including multibody dynamics, finite element analysis, [...]
Chris Poe is CTO for Atrion Networking Corporation and serves as Vice Chairman of the InfoGroup Steering Committee for the Tech Collective. He holds more than 15 years experience in the IT industry and is a recognized practitioner, presenter and industry leader across technical, talent development and strategic levels. Chris [...]
My first visit to Rhode Island was in 1990. I vividly remember getting off I-95 at the downtown Providence exit, and being confronted by a multi-story pile of dirt. I became lost as I wandered beneath the highway overpasses unable to find the heart of [...]
The Rhode Island Innovation Awards, presented by the Providence Business News in partnership with the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation, and sponsored by Cox Business and Bryant University, are designed to honor Rhode Island-based companies, organizations and individuals that constantly replace existing methods, models and products with better ones.
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Where: RIEDC, 315 Iron Horse Way (ALCO), Suite 101, Providence. Google Map
When: July 22, 8:30–10:30 a.m. (coffee and light breakfast)
RSVP: Matt Mikula, matt.mikula@rinexus.com (we have a limited number of seats so RSVP soon)
FREE
The economic downturn has motivated some Rhode Island professionals to strike [...]
Erica Driver is Co-Founder and Principal of ThinkBalm. She is a leading industry analyst and consultant with 15 years of experience in the IT sector. Prior to co-founding ThinkBalm, Erica was a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. Erica will be presenting at the July Providence Geeks Dinner. Her [...]
Update: See the good news below - thanks, everyone, for your support!
This bill proposes to do away with the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation you know today with NO PLAN to put anything in it's place. Yes, do away with economic development in the midst of the state's biggest recession [...]
Shawn Wallace is the Director of AS220 Labs - the year-old "tech arm" of AS220, which among many other things is home to the Providence Fab Lab (in partnership with MIT). At the next Providence Geek Dinner, Shawn will be presenting an overview of the Labs' amazing programs and projects. [...]
"Yes, Virginia, there is a tech entrepreneur community alive and well in southern Rhode Island. As I wrote in a blog post in February, we had a hunch that maybe, just maybe, there might be a collection of RI Nexus [...]
Kerri Lemoie is VP of Technology at IMT Services (parent company of InsureMyTrip.com). She is a 10+ year e-commerce veteran with five of those years in the travel insurance industry. Kerri and other IMT team members, including CEO Jim Grace, will be presenting at the April Providence Geeks Dinner. [...]
James Wright and partner Joe Devine run Bridge Technical Solutions - a leading RI-based IT staffing firm. The Bridge team is very active in and supportive of RI's info-tech and digital media community, including through their sponsorship of RI Nexus.
Are you a young info-tech and digital media professional? If [...]
The good folks at Johnson & Wales' School of Technology invited me to speak, and we've collectively turned the opportunity into a joint JWU and RI Nexus event on a topic close to my heart: innovation and entrepreneurship among college students and recent grads.
I've been thinking about [...]
Joel Evans is the founder and CEO of Cronk Games, Inc. Previously the founder and "Chief Geek" of Geek.com, Evans now specializes in leveraging his more than a decade of mobile, Internet and wireless experience to bring existing brands and technologies into the mobile and wireless space. He [...]
Stephanie Gerson is a left-handed Mexican-Jewish Libra, born in the year of the monkey and raised in the gorgeous San Francisco bay area. She has somewhat of an obsession with blindness: showering in the dark, playing drum kit blindfolded, and eating dans le noir. In August of 08, while [...]
Steve Foehr is the Director of Application and User Services for the Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology(RINET).
I started my working career in the early 70’s as a middle school science teacher and my interest in computer technology in the late 70’s as the Commodore PET, Radio Shack [...]
For those technology entrepreneurs who can't/don't/won't drive into Providence, we're hosting a South County Edition of RI Nexus Open Coffee, an informal get-together where you can talk shop, swap resources and connections, and get caffeinated. Whether you drop in for 15 minutes or [...]
Jordan Frank is VP of Marketing and Business Development at Traction Software. Jordan gathered his education at Dartmouth College and the MIT Sloan School of Business. Sloan's entrepreneurship program cast him off to operations, product management and program management roles at Adero. From there, his product helped to make [...]
This past summer, the EDC had the pleasure of announcing that fast-growing software company inQuest Technologies had decided to relocate from Southborough, MA to Providence.
Now that the build-out of their excellent new offices is complete, they are generously inviting the [...]
Twitter , the super-popular micro-blogging tool is taking off internationally, and Rhode Island is no exception.
Through very short messages, Twitter enables people to connect in all sorts of new ways. By sharing quick happenings, thoughts, advice, experiences, etc., folks are helping and getting [...]
Abe Dane is COO of Providence-based Tizra, whose Tizra Publisher web app lets users create highly flexible websites fast from standard PDF files. He began as a print journalist, including a hitch as science editor at Popular Mechanics, but his career was hijacked by the web while [...]
I have the pleasure of moderating the below event next week. I'm continually impressed with the close-knit and supportive nature of our local tech/startup scene. Having a strong community can really help when the going gets tough. Let's continue to learn from and look out for one another.
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I come from a very entrepreneurial family. We have a joke that GoDaddy.com gets excited whenever my father logs in because they know they're going to have at least 10 new domain names registered through them that day.
But before "dot com" was even [...]
Sara Czyzewicz is a passionate technologist, spending the past 10 years in research, conception, and development of mobile, web, and prototypical systems – from a "mood therapy" cell phone application to motion-sensing installations. As Co-Founder of DandyID.org, Sara is currently pursuing methods for identity management on the social [...]
The Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation will host two financing educational seminars this month targeting the state's small business community: "Navigating the Credit Crunch: Alternative Lending Sources " on Wednesday, November 19 at noon and "Financing Fast Growth " on Tuesday, November 25 [...]
Andrea Jones is an undergraduate chemical engineering student at Brown University, class of 2010. This is her second year of involvement with Brown University's student chapter of Engineers Without Borders. She is currently an executive board member of Brown Engineers Without Borders and a coordinator of the [...]
The weekend of October 18th-19th saw the coming and going of this year's Rails Rumble. The annual event brings together developers from around the world and tasks them with creating a web application using [...]
Wayne Franklin is a Principal of Urban Sun Investments, Inc., a sustainable real estate and economic development firm. Seed Providence is the firm’s newest initiative to promote collaboration and investment in ideas, ventures, and places that further the economic, environmental and social sustainability of the city of Providence, [...]
Co-hosted by the Business Innovation Factory and RI Nexus
Fresh from his appearance at the BIF-4 Summit, 37signals founder Jason Fried will join Rhode Island’s info-tech and digital media community at the [...]
Brad Weinberg is the Chief Fit-Technician of Providence-based Shape Up The Nation, the leading provider of team-based corporate wellness programs to large corporations. Brad will be debuting Shape Up the Nation's new social-networking functionality at the Providence Geeks Dinner on Wednesday Sept. 24th 5:30-9pm. Details and RSVP [...]
Welcome back, everyone! The RI Nexus team is coming off our August blogging hiatus. We took the month to do a bunch of housecleaning and lay the groundwork for all sorts of good stuff - events, new site features, etc. - that [...]
The third annual Rhode Island Innovation Awards (presented by the Providence Business News in partnership with the RIEDC and Tech Collective, and sponsored by Cox Business) are designed to honor Rhode Island-based companies, organizations and individuals that constantly replace existing methods, [...]
After an intensive competitive process that pitted us against the city of Worcester, MA I am pleased to announce that we have landed a new member of the info-tech and digital media community here in Rhode Island! Inquest Technologies will be relocating during the [...]
Two of 2008's terrific new additions to the fair city of Providence - Christopher Lydon, of Radio Open Source, now a Fellow at Brown's Watson Institute, and John Maeda, formerly of MIT's Media Lab, now President of [...]
37signals CEO and founder Jason Fried, hacker and personal technology innovator Joshua Klein, tech writer and thinker Clay Shirky, and electronic drum pad and MIDI standard inventor Dave Kusek are among those ITDM storytellers participating the Business Innovation Factory’s BIF-4 Summit on October [...]
Annette Tonti, CEO of MoFuse, Inc. found her 'next big thing' literally reading the February RI Nexus email newsletter. She will be presenting along with founder David Berube at next week's Providence Geeks Dinner, Wed. 16th 5:30-9pm. Details and RSVP here.
Mary Kay Ash, the founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, once said, “Every silver lining has a cloud.” Not to be outmatched, P.T. Barnum once said, “Every crowd has a silver lining.” Which one of them captured the essence of the “silver lining” metaphor better? I believe they [...]
Last week's RI Nexus event - Meet John Maeda: RISD's New President Connects with R.I.'s Info-Tech and Digital Media Community - was a big success. And good stuff is already coming out of it. For starters, John and Steve Cronin, CEO of Pawtucket's Mercury Print [...]
Sean Ransom is the VP of Technology at BatchBlue Software, maker of software for small businesses and entrepreneurs. An advocate of open source software, he can be found sourcing stripers around local waters when not thinking about, writing or pushing code. BatchBlue Software will be presenting at the [...]
Planning for the Business Innovation Factory's BIF-4 Collaborative Innovation Summit is heating up. BIF-4's storyteller lineup features a host of info-tech and digital media heavyweights including:
Meet John Maeda: RISD's New President Connects with RI's Info-Tech and Digital Media Community
June 11th, 5:30 - 7:30pm (please come no later than 5:45pm in order to get a seat)
Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation
555 Valley St., Providence
FREE, Light refreshments will [...]
The Rhode Island Science and Technology Council (STAC) has debuted a new statewide collaborative research website that creates a one-stop-shop where researchers, entrepreneurs and community leaders can learn about research and development in Rhode Island, register for events, apply for programs and [...]
We've been running bi-weekly RI Nexus Open Coffee events for tech entrepreneurs for a few months now, as an alternative to the large scale evening festivities of Providence Geeks. It's been a great place for founders of tech/web startups to float their new ideas, find [...]
Providence Business News is a true friend of Rhode Island's info-tech and digital media (ITDM) community. They provide excellent, extensive coverage of our sector. Moreover, if you haven't noticed, they give us free access to ITDM-related paid content by generously providing [...]
Carl Dunham, CTO and Founder of The Search Agency(TSA), can tell you anything you need to know about optimizing online media campaigns and frequent flier program miles. He will be presenting at the Wednesday, May 21st Providence Geeks - RSVP and details here.
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Did you know that approximately 23,000 Rhode Islanders, or about 5% of our state's total workforce, are employed by U.S. subsidiaries of foreign-owned corporations? Those figures put Lil' Rhody a strong 11th in the country for the share of workforce supported by [...]
I just got out of an afternoon working session for the GPCC and Providence Foundation's Knowledge-Based Economy project. To set the mood, Richard Seline, the consultant running the sessions, played the following video. Despite the hokey music, I think it's a brilliant metaphor for working together [...]
Tomorrow I'm going to be speaking at the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce's Business EXPO 2008.
I feel honored to be included in the lineup the Chamber has put together. This year's EXPO has a ton to offer entrepreneurs and innovators, and especially those [...]
