Tech Council's Technology & Innovation Series is June 9

The Research Park and Downtown Connection: Developing a Work/Live/Play Community in the Heart of Winston-Salem!

Learn the latest about Winston-Salem's Piedmont Triad Research Park – what’s happening in the north and south districts, what’s being built, what it will look like. Find out what’s going on downtown to create the vibrant “live, work, play” environment that attracts and retains high-level talent. Speakers include: Doug Edgeton – President, Piedmont Triad Research Park; Carol Strohecker – Director, Center for Design Innovation and future tenant of the Park’s South District; and Jason Thiel – President, Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership. June 9; 8:30 – 9:45 a.m.; networking and refreshments follow; Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts. Part of the Winston-Salem Chamber Tech Council’s Technology and Innovation Series. Title Sponsor: Cook Medical; Series Sponsors: BioNetwork, DataChambers, Wake Forest Baptist Health. Free, but registration required. Learn more and register.

Frameworks! A Monthly Seminar and Networking Series

Frameworks! presents:

"Biotechnology: Connectivity along the Commercialization Continuum"

Presenter: Nancy Johnston, Executive Director of the NC Biotechnology Center, Piedmont Triad Office

Tuesday, May 31 @ 7:30am
Piedmont Triad Community Research Center Auditorium
115 Chestnut Street, Winston-Salem

Presented by the Wake Forest University New Venture Incubator. For more information visit http://www.wfubdi.org/

The Research Park and Downtown Connection: Developing a Work/Live/Play Community in the Heart of Winston-Salem!

Learn the latest about the Piedmont Triad Research Park – what’s happening in the north and south districts, what’s being built, what it will look like. Find out what’s going on downtown to create the vibrant “live, work, play” environment that attracts and retains high-level talent. Speakers include: Doug Edgeton – President, Piedmont Triad Research Park; Daniel Cramer -- VP and Regional Executive, Wexford Science & Technology (developer of Park’s North District); Carol Strohecker – Director, Center for Design Innovation and future tenant of the Park’s South District; and Jason Thiel – President, Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership. June 9; 8:30 – 9:45 a.m.; networking and refreshments follow; Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts. Part of the Chamber Tech Council’s Technology and Innovation Series. Title Sponsor: Cook Medical; Series Sponsors: BioNetwork, DataChambers, Wake Forest Baptist Health. Free, but registration required. Learn more and register.

WinstonNet Provides Excellence in Workforce Training

For 10 years WinstonNet, a non-profit community technology initiative, has been diligently working to make computers, broadband, and training accessible to the underserved and disadvantaged. The result -- a better trained workforce, better educated children and a population that is better prepared for today’s technology-based economy. Now, with three recently-awarded grants, WinstonNet will be able to do even more, including more labs, new computers, state-of-the art software, broadband Internet access and expanded training. What WinstonNet has already accomplished -- and is now expanding -- is extraordinary.

WinstonNet currently operates over 40 free public access computer labs in such places as City recreation centers, libraries and churches. And that number is growing. It offers a multitude of free computer training classes, including computer and job skills training in both English and Spanish. And, upon completing the courses, WinstonNet assists students in finding economical Internet connections and can even provide graduates with a subsidized, high-quality refurbished computer to take home for as little as $25.

WinstonNet, a partnership of local government, academic institutions and the WS Chamber of Commerce, is a true economic development asset that is providing huge benefits to our community. Learn More

Terrafinity project gets $145K Biofuels Center grant

A Wake Forest University alternative-energy project will be able to expand the testing of a key catalyst through a $145,665 grant from the Biofuels Center of North Carolina.

The one-year grant is going to Wake's Terrafinity project, which is working to produce biodiesel from inexpensive feed stocks and other sources. Biodiesel is a renewable, clean-burning fuel that also reduces tailpipe emissions. Read more.