September 25 at SPARK Central in Ann Arbor, Pitch Club Michigan will be hosting a pitch club from 5 to 8 pm. YOU CAN STILL REGISTER TO PITCH BY THE SEPTEMBER 1st DEADLINE. APPLICATION
Networking, Tech Events
Ann Arbor & Detroit Tech Events: August 2019
We’re adding more Detroit tech events this month as we begin to expand our tech news coverage into other regional tech towns in Michigan. Let us know if we’ve missed your event, and please add us to your press lists and newsletters to keep us in the loop on your meetups!
Announcements, Tech Events
Register By August 16th for the 10th Annual Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition
November 19th, 2019, at the State Savings Bank in Detroit, Invest Detroit will be holding their 10th annual Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition for tech-based startups. According to Invest Detroit, AMIC, which is a program run by ID Ventures, “is a pitch competition that supports Michigan’s entrepreneurial ecosystem by offering entrepreneurs the opportunity to showcase their companies to investors while building connections with entrepreneurs, business acceleration resources, and experts in their sector during carefully curated individual meetings.”
Announcements, Tech Events
Pitch Club Michigan Is Coming to Ann Arbor
September 25 at SPARK Central in Ann Arbor, Pitch Club Michigan will be hosting a pitch club from 5 to 8 pm. YOU CAN STILL REGISTER TO PITCH BY THE SEPTEMBER 1st DEADLINE. APPLICATION
Networking, Tech Events
Ann Arbor & Detroit Tech Events: August 2019
We’re adding more Detroit tech events this month as we begin to expand our tech news coverage into other regional tech towns in Michigan. Let us know if we’ve missed your event, and please add us to your press lists and newsletters to keep us in the loop on your meetups!
Announcements, Tech Events
Register By August 16th for the 10th Annual Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition
November 19th, 2019, at the State Savings Bank in Detroit, Invest Detroit will be holding their 10th annual Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition for tech-based startups. According to Invest Detroit, AMIC, which is a program run by ID Ventures, “is a pitch competition that supports Michigan’s entrepreneurial ecosystem by offering entrepreneurs the opportunity to showcase their companies to investors while building connections with entrepreneurs, business acceleration resources, and experts in their sector during carefully curated individual meetings.”
Tech Events
Ann Arbor Tech Events: July 2019
Ann Arbor’s busy a2tech360 tech week of conferences is done, summer has finally arrived, and it’s time for a tech event every day in July. Here are the meetups, conferences, and other tech-adjascent events going on around Ann Arbor Ypsi and the surrounding Detroit burbs in July. This is never quite exhaustive. If you have an event to add, please email the editor.
Fun, Tech Events
Hack:A2 Hackathon Winners Build a Better City of Ann Arbor
The judging criteria for the inaugural a2tech360 Ann Arbor tech week hackathon Hack:A2 was this: Innovation and/or Ambition (slightly weighted over other categories) User Interface or Experience Overall Quality Product Viability Technical Achievement We couldn’t wait to see what the teams came up with. All went in looking pretty enthusiastic, assuring us that we could…
Tech Events
And We Leave You With Hack:A2 Hackathon
It has been a crazy couple of weeks. From sliding in from a University of Michigan writing conference straight to interviewing nearly two dozen people at Intermitten, speaking with Duo’s Dug Song to trekking around Ann Arbor’s tech scene and tech talk, to future-proofing our automotive software and learning where the mobility tech industry is…
Tech Events
Tech Trek: How Trick or Treating for Geeks Turned to 6,000 People and a 10-Day Journey Through Future Tech
“I’m having so much fun,” a boy tells his mom. We’re on Liberty, and the green Tech Trek backpacks are so ubiquitous that an extra 500 people registered on site to visit the local tech companies who opened their doors around downtown Ann Arbor for Tech Trek for a total of 2101 attendees. Kids and…
Tech Events
Tech Talk 2019: Thought Leaders Speak on the State of Technology in Ann Arbor and Beyond
“Ann Arbor is the best educated city in the U.S.,” Wacker Chemical president and CEO David Wilhoit told us before the start of Tech Talk, capping off Ann Arbor’s 2019 tech week before the Tech Trek this afternoon that started it all. Companies like Wacker, which according to Wilhoit and one of his divisional managers…
Mobility Tech, Tech Events
Ann Arbor Mobility Summit 2019
“People used to drive for fun. It’s not fun anymore. It’s not working,” said John Tolva the founder of Cityfi at the opening of the a2Tech360 Mobility Summit at The Graduate hotel on Huron Street in Ann Arbor. Americans spend 75 minutes a day on daily trips, he said, and we know that cycling to…
News, Tech Events, Tech News
a2Tech360 Behind the Scenes 2029: What The Future Holds
Honestly, it’s tricky, predicting the future. Would you listen to anyone who told you what to expect in 5 years, much less 10? We went into the a2Tech360 conference 2029: What The Future Holds with a teeny bit of skepticism since all we do is future tech and now tech and vaporware tech that will…
