ANN ARBOR - Kathleen Norton-Schock returns to MITech TV for her monthly updates on news and events for the Michigan Council of Women in Technology (MCWT) and her podcast, the award winning Diva Tech Talk. Multifaceted marketing leader, adept at creating and implementing successful plans and tactics to extend a brand, define/achieve a company's mission,
ANN ARBOR - Gary Erickson, managing director of Executive Search Partners, provides tips on how CIOs can land top jobs at major companies even during a pandemic. In fact, he said, demand for CIOs that know the business completely that can develop products that drive sales can write their own ticket. You're going to want
ANN ARBOR - Tamara Shoemaker, who runs the Michigan cyberpatriot program, updates what's happening with the online cybersecurity training and warns that the deadline for middle and high schools to apply for the competition is Oct. 15. Virtual Cybersecurity Nationwide Competition Of special interest to this group is the expansion of the CyberPatriot program across
ANN ARBOR - Epidemiologist Fred Brown's modeling shows that the COVID-19 virus could increase three-fold from Halloween to New Year's Day 2021 as people in northern states hunker down for winter in what is also flu season. Brown lays out his claim in a series of slides he crafted for his clients, which include more
ANN ARBOR - Entrepreneur Monica Wheat, entrepreneur and investor, discusses her selection to the inaugural Visionary Voices speakers bureau, to amplify female and non-binary voices nationwide. Women and non-binary individuals are significantly underrepresented in conversations about tech and venture capital — both at conferences and in media coverage. This perpetuates a cycle where they don’t
ANN ARBOR - Laura Granneman, vice president Quicken Loans Community Fund, asks the Detroit entrepreneur community to check out videos of the Detroit Demo Day Finalists now online at https://detroitdemoday.com/ They are vying for a $1 million cash purse. Rocket Mortgage Detroit Demo Day has been reinvented as an all-virtual event to meet the needs
ANN ARBOR - Kerry Ebersole, from the state's Labor Department, provides an in-depth look at the Future For Frontliners program that offers tuition-free training and educational opportunities for frontliners COVID-19 pandemic workers who were forced to work during the March to June lockdown. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Sept. 10 what she described as the nation’s
ANN ARBOR - In this video interview, Lisa Vallee-Smith, who co-founded Airfoil Group in 2000, talks about all the changes at her agency since it was founded and how her agency is celebrating its 20th anniversary in October. Also on this segment is Keith Donovan, a 13-year Airfoil veteran, who was appointed President of Airfoil
ANN ARBOR - In November and December, when everyone moves inside in the United States, the COVID-19 death rate could climb to 5000 deaths a day and perhaps a total of 600,000 deaths by the end of 2020, predicts infectious disease expert Fred Brown. Brown has been working with a number of states and countries
ANN ARBOR - Infectious disease expert Fred Brown updates where vaccine research stands. He predicts there is little likelihood an effective vaccine will be ready by early November. It may not be until spring 2021 before a vaccine could be ready. Fred Brown comes to the fight against the COVID-19 virus from a forty year
