BTV Ignite

BTV Ignite Executive Director Michael Schirling and Mayor Miro Weinberger announce the City of Burlington has been named a White House TechHire community, part of a multi­sector White House initiative to link area employers with Burlingtonians, growing the local tech workforce and empowering community members with the skills they would need for well­paying jobs in innovation and technology.

The City of Burlington and BTV Ignite will partner with local educational institutions and employers to train and employ 75 tech workers in 2016 and 400 tech workers through 2020. Key employers, workforce intermediaries, and training partners include the Vermont HITEC Institute for American Apprenticeship at Burlington College, Champlain College, the University of Vermont (UVM), Vermont Technical College, Community College of Vermont, the UVM Medical Center, the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, and Vermont Technology Alliance.

Burlington Mayor Weinberger, BTV Ignite and the Ignite Partners, VT HITEC, and a variety of employers and technical educators and trainers discuss this exciting designation and initiative.

2015 IEEE International Conference on the Edges of Innovation for Smarter Cities featuring Wubin Li, Researcher at Ericsson Research, presents Cloud Computing as an Enabler for Smart Cities.

IEEE offers an exceptional opportunity to interact with industry leaders, engineering experts, scientific experts, key actors and collaborators through multiple tracks that will present recent advances in subject areas that impact smarter cities. As Vermont’s economy continues to grow at a rate faster than that of the US economy as a whole, new challenges have motivated the need for a 2020 set of goals which will be explored during this inaugural conference. For a state with a small and largely rural population, Vermont has an impressive history of innovation. In the 1820s, the town of Windsor was the home of the modern machine shop. Today, Burlington ranks #2 of Business Insider’s list of the 20 most innovative cities in the US. Welcome to Burlington.

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Mayor Miro Weinberger and other Burlington institutional leaders announce a series of steps to strengthen the two-year-old BTV Ignite initiative which is dedicated to aligning Burlington’s powerful gigabit infrastructure as a tool, test bed, and accelerator for economic, educational, and community benefit. These next steps include:

• Formation of a new 501(c)(3) and board of directors for BTV Ignite with funding committed by Burlington organizations
• The board’s selection and hire of Michael Schirling as BTV Ignite Executive Director
• The announcement of the first BTV Ignite Conference to take place in October 2015

“When we announced BTV Ignite two years ago, we had interest and involvement from just about every sector of Burlington in this tech initiative to support entrepreneurial spirit and accelerate economic and community growth,” said Mayor Weinberger. “Today’s announcement gives us the structure, experienced leadership, and technical expertise to strengthen this important effort.”

Full press release here: Former Police Chief Mike Schirling appointed as BTV Ignite New Executive Director