Listening Tour Stop @ Winchester

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Executive Director Leigh Evans

Join Leigh Evans, the new Executive Director, as she facilitates a series of round table discussions across the valley to shape the future of SVTC. Your participation is crucial to building a stronger community that the SVTC can support and elevate. Share your thoughts and ideas on what you would like to see SVTC achieve in the next 1 year, 3 years, and beyond. Let’s define our future role together and work towards accomplishing it, with a little fun

Winchester Listening Tour

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Listening Tour Stop @ Stauton Innovation Hub

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Join Leigh Evans, the new Executive Director, as she facilitates a series of round table discussions across the valley to shape the future of SVTC. Your participation is crucial to building a stronger community that the SVTC can support and elevate. Share your thoughts and ideas on what you would like to see SVTC achieve in the next 1 year, 3 years, and beyond. Let’s define our future role together and work towards accomplishing it, with a little fun thrown in along the way for good measure.

Staunton Listening Tour

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SVTC Bits & Grits (monthly)

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Join an informal group of locals -tech users and creators- for breakfast. We call it Bits and Grits, at Mrs. Rowe’s in Staunton! Just show up to drink coffee, have breakfast, or just talk with fellow techies in the Shenandoah Valley. Attendees should look for Kurt Plowman when entering Mrs. Rowe’s.

 

Meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month.

Fall Tech Mixer 2023 & Introduction of Leigh Evans

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Exciting news! The Shenandoah Valley Tech Council welcomes its new Executive Director, Leigh Evans, who is eager to meet the community and kickstart the Listening Tour. Join her and the community, members and non-members alike,  for food, drinks, and conversation at Jack Brown’s Middle Bar in Harrisonburg. The first two drinks are on SVTC, so don’t miss out on this opportunity to connect and collaborate with like-minded individuals. Let’s get this Tour started right!

SVTC Fall Tech Mixer | Oct. 18, 2023

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Shenandoah Valley Entrepreneurship Summit 2023

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The Shenandoah Valley Entrepreneurship Summit is designed for entrepreneurs, small business owners, dreamers, and doers from across the Shenandoah Valley. Whether you are in the idea stage of your business, have been running your side hustle for years, or are ready to scale your business, you will find informative and approachable sessions for you. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in, how much money you make a year, or where you live in the Valley YOU ARE INVITED!

Starting something from nothing is hard. Hearing stories of others’ successes – or failures! – can oftentimes be the motivation to keep pressing through the hard times. Over the course of two days, there will be keynote speakers, presentations, and workshops on a variety of entrepreneurship topics. With lots of time for networking and connecting, you’ll meet local entrepreneur supporters, industry experts, and other fellow entrepreneurs!

 

REGISTRATION AND MORE INFO

Hold the Date | Tech Nite 2024

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TECH NITE 2024 | Pencil in the date in and please subscribe to our newsletter so you’re aware as the event planning gets underway – e.g., the nomination season for the 8 award categories should start in early Feb. 2024. The forms that will collect these nominations will then be active. See more about Tech Nite: https://svtc-va.org/about-tech-nite/

Sponsorships will be available: https://svtc-va.org/tech-nite-sponsorships/

 

Tickets will be sold as well

 

We look forward to seeing everyone!

SVTC Annual Meeting | June 2023 luncheon: Building Healthy Project Teams: Integrating Agile and Traditional Approaches to Foster Innovation and Success

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On June 1, 2023 the SVTC will host its Annual Meeting AND the June 2023 luncheon. Prior to the Annual Meeting, we will conduct our spring 2023 election for class 1 of directors electronically, as we always do. (Members receive an individually-generated email with a voting link in their inboxes.) Any SVTC member who didn’t have a chance to vote electronically can vote in person, on June 1 with a paper ballot at the Annual Meeting.

June 2023 Luncheon | Building Healthy Project Teams: Integrating Agile and Traditional Approaches to Foster Innovation and Success

Software companies learned in the 1990s that traditional waterfall project management might work well to build a skyscraper, but does not work well to satisfy changing customer requirements. The 2001 Agile Manifesto helped create new ways for software teams to deliver value while adjusting to market realities and new technology. Agile methods, such as Scrum, are now being adopted in many knowledge industries, such as finance, insurance, human resources, and more. But, most leaders, managers, and team members have studied neither traditional nor agile approaches. How can leaders and organizations find the right balance for their project teams? What basic concepts should every leader and manager know to foster healthy and productive project teams? Our speakers worked with a Fortune 100 company to co-create and co-teach a new non-credit training course titled, Foundations of Project Management & Team Communication. Almost 200 people have taken the course in the first year. Come to learn essential project team leadership paradigms, and discover how this short training may benefit your organization and leadership.
Speakers:
Thea Litchfield Campbell, Co-Creator and Instructor for JMU SPCE’s Foundations of Project Management & Team Communication; Professional Development Program Manager for JMU’s School of Professional & Continuing Education
Kai Degner, Senior Director of Certificate Programs at University of Virginia’s School of Continuing & Professional Studies; Co-Create and Instructor for JMU SPCE’s Foundations of Project Management & Team Communication; CEO of Listening Strategiess LLC; Doctoral Candidate in JMU’s School of Strategic Leadership Studies; SVTC Board Member

SVTC Luncheon | Mar. 30 | “Technology in Agriculture: Data Collection, Sustainability, and Carbon Offsetting” @ Wood Grill Buffet

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Alex Mann

 

Join us on Thursday, March 30, as Alex Mann lays out the collaboration between technology and agriculture.

About the speaker:

Growing up in rural Virginia amid vineyards, orchards, farms, and the Blue Ridge provided Alex Mann with exposure to a multitude of growing environments and practices. He assisted with commercial agriculture installations in California as well as being a harvest intern at two local wineries for multiple seasons. Inspired by a love of nature, a mind for science, and a desire to make a positive impact on the planet, Smart Grow AgriTech was born in 2018. Since then he has gone full time in the Ag sector partnering with Pure Shenandoah, one of Virginia’s leading hemp companies, and recently turned his focus on carbon offset generation and blockchain technology.

 

 

SVTC Luncheon Sign-up | March 30, 2023

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SVTC Luncheon | Jan 19 | Hiring Tech Talent in the New Normal

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Marcy Engle [Vice President of Human Resources at Rockingham Insurance] and Matt Fravel [SR Human Resources Business Partner, Shentel]

Since March 2020, the work world has changed, and companies have had to adapt and change how they do business. Marcy and Matt will share the opportunities and challenges they have experienced in hiring tech talent in this current environment.

About the speakers:

Marcy Engle is the Vice President of Human Resources at Rockingham Insurance. In her capacity at Rockingham, she focuses on HR strategy, benefits, and employee relations. Prior to her time at Rockingham Insurance, she served in leadership of the human resources function at Eastern Mennonite University, Shentel, and Shenandoah Manufacturing.  In each of these capacities, Marcy was heavily involved in the recruitment process.

Marcy has supported the HR profession by serving as president of both the local SHRM chapter (Shenandoah Valley SHRM), as well as the Virginia SHRM State Council (now called HR Virginia). Currently, Marcy serves as the Co-Chair of the Speakers Committee for the HR Virginia annual conference to be held in April 2023.

Marcy obtained an MBA from Eastern Mennonite University and holds a SHRM-SCP and PHR certification in the HR profession.

Matt Fravel is an SR Human Resources Business Partner with Shentel supporting their IT, Accounting, Finance, and Technical Support teams. Prior to that, Matt worked in a similar capacity for nTelos Wireless. He has over 20 years of Human Resources experience, of which the last 10 have been supporting the Telecommunications industry.

Matt is a graduate of Eastern Mennonite University and holds HR certifications from both SHRM and HRCI. Additionally, since 2020, Matt has served as President of the Shenandoah Valley Society for Human Resources Management (SVSHRM.)

SVTC Luncheon Sign-up | Jan. 19, 2023

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Coffee with Virginia Venture Partners (VIPC – The Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation)

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Registration Required: RSVP Here
Past panelists and the Virginia Venture Partners’ team answer all your questions about building a startup followed by small groups.
 

Office Hours with VVP Investment Associates:

https://calendly.com/virginiaventurepartners/ia

VIPC’S Mission

Connecting innovators with opportunities is our business.

The Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC) was formed to support the Commonwealth’s vision for the expansion of innovation, opportunity, and job creation here in Virginia.

VIPC creates technology-based economic development strategies to accelerate innovation, imagination, and the next generation of technology and technology companies. VIPC, a non-profit corporation, bridges gaps at the earliest stages of the Innovation Continuum. Through commercialization and seed funding VIPC helps entrepreneurs launch and grow high-growth technology companies and create high-paying jobs for the future. VIPC helps facilitate national innovation leadership and an accelerated rate of technology adoption through partnerships with innovative technology start-up companies and advanced technology consumers.

The Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC) is the operating non-profit of the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority (VIPA).

The Commonwealth of Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority | VIPA