Michelle Zellen, communications director at Automation Alley, talks about the technology networking group’s Business To Business Development Program. Seasoned business professionals will teach entrepreneurs, small businesses and even mature businesses how to operate better.
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TROY - Jennifer Bowden, manager of the Information Security Regional Skills Alliance, in this Automation Alley channel edition of News Maker Interview discusses her security organization mission along with an outline of the major projects underway currently. These projects include a security awareness initiative, an information security toolkit, and an educational outreach program.
TROY – Ken Rogers discusses a new report released Monday by Automation Alley says information technology professionals in southeast Michigan earned a 5.1 percent average wage increase from 2004 to 2005, despite the region losing some 6.1 percent of overall technology jobs – suggesting Southeast Michigan has been attracting or generating a fair amount of high-paying tech jobs.
TROY - Michelle Zellen, the communications and events director for Automation Alley, talks about the technology marketing and networking group that represents the 10-counties of Southeast Michigan. Zellen also discusses what Automation Alley can do to help technology businesses in this special edition of News Maker Interview, and the second installment on the new Automation Alley podcast channel.
TROY - ConnecTech replaced the GLIMA Network throughout Michigan in December. Danielle DeLonge, the former GLIMA Network Manager, now heads up the ConnecTech chapters statewide. In this special edition of News Maker Interview, DeLonge talks about why the change was made and what new features it offers to former GLIMA members.
WARREN - Robert Skandalaris, chairman and founder of Noble International, a $1.5 billion laser welding company, said in a keynote address at the awards ceremony for the 2007 Great Lakes Entrepreneur’s Quest that Innovation will be the key to rebuilding Michigan’s battered economy. He summarizes his address in this Newsmaker Interview.
Phil Bertolini, chief information officer for Oakland County, announces that Wireless Oakland has wrapped up phase 1, turning the switch on seven cities. The rest of Oakland County will be able to tap wireless Internet access by the end of 2008, which could make the county a bigger magnet to attract high tech companies.
Interview with Tom Anderson - Director of Automation Alley’s Technology Center and Senior AA Vice President, who talks about the $6 million that the technology networking group has to invest in promising Michigan technologies that can be commercialized - read create high tech jobs for the state.
Interview with Keith Brophy, president of NuSoft Solutions, 
who outlines five technology trends for 2007 that will rock the world. They include: The Emergence of the Health Care Techno Strategist, Computer Disaster, Maniacal Monitoring, Mobile Robotics, and the 7th Sense. Brophy provides an annual update of his take on technology for GLIMA.
Tom Anderson, who heads up Automation Alley’s Technology Center, updates members on the progress made in 2007 at Automation Alley’s Annual Meeting Jan. 30.
Jerry Rush, outgoing president of Automation Alley, presents an overview of his two-years in office and discusses the future of the Oakland County based technology networking and marketing organization at Automation Alley’s January 30 annual meeting.
Interview with Ken Rogers, executive director of Automation Alley, who talks about the technology marketing groups mission in 2007 and highlights its successes in 2006. The Newsmaker Interview was recorded at the 2007 Automation Alley Annual Meeting on Jan. 30 at the Marriott in Troy.
