BTV Ignite

BTV Ignite participates in this year's US Ignite series of "Reverse Pitch" competitions.

Digital solution developers are invited to compete for $30,000 in cash grants to demonstrate innovative ways high-bandwidth ideas can help deliver education - in Burlington, across our state, and by linking our students with national communities and resources.

The theme of the Pitch call is "Delivering Education."

We are challenging participants to consider how 21st-century technology can let educators re-imagine our classroom and other educational experiences.

For more information see this press release: www.btvignite.com/news/2018/4/8/btv-ignite-announces-reverse-pitch-competition

Host Tom Torti of the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce and guest Dennis Moynihan of BTV Ignite, the local chapter of technological resource-focused community development organization US Ignite, explore how emerging innovation is driving growth and what the region can do to take advantage.

More information at www.vcwa.org.

Alan Newman is a Vermont serial entrepreneur who was the founder of Seventh Generation and the co-founder of both Magic Hat Brewing Company and Alchemy & Science, Boston Beer Company's “incubator business.” In this entertaining and compelling session, Alan shares many of the lessons he's learned along the way. A "must-see" for anyone interested in starting or growing a business!

A social sculpture of sorts - bringing people together to explore the meaning of Vermont today and its evolution ahead. Michael Jager, co-founder of Solidarity of Unbridled Labour, opens with a talk on the "brand" Vermont, a perspective on its reality, and concern over a potentially misguided future when our opportunity for cultural thought leadership is at hand. Great drinks, healthy snacks, and diverse interesting people - together for a short talk and facilitated conversation, ideally guiding us toward ideas that matter as we answer with action to the Vermont cause.