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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.

Brown Bag Lunch and Roundtable Discussion with Mayor Miro Weinberger, William Wallace, Executive Director of U.S. Ignite, Ken Hayes, President and CEO, the Enterprise Center, Chattanooga, TN, Lev Gonick, CEO of OneCommunity, Cleveland Ohio, and more share perspectives on the future of emerging technologies and the technology ecosystem in Burlington as well as exciting projects undertaken in other U.S. Ignite communities.
 

Host Lauren-Glenn Davitian talks with Scott Campitelli, Executive Director of RETN about educational access, IPad teacher training, statewide access networks, and the future of community media.

Host Nick Carter, speaks with Greg Epler-Wood of Vermont Access Network, and Bradley Holt, on the future of public access and public control of the internet.