DEABORN - Jason Witty, a Security experts with LaSalle Bank, talks about the state of the Internet in this News Maker Interview. And the state, he said, is growing troublesome by the growing proliferation of organized crime from countries like Russia, North Korea, China - some say state-sponsored cyber terrorism - leading phishing attacks that bedevil the Internet every day.
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DEARBORN - The 20th annual Butzel Long Labor Law Conference is scheduled to run Oct. 12 at the Dearborn Inn. It annually attracts a full house of 300 primarily human relations specialists who get updated on what’s new in Labor law. Dan Tukel, the Chair of the Butzel Long Labor and Employment Law Department, talks about this year’s theme, Best Practices for the Changing Workplace, in this special edition of News Maker Interview. .
DETROIT - Wayne State University Engineering College Dean has some new tools in his quiver to train the next generation of Michigan engineers. Last month, WSU was given almost $408 million in software from the PACE organization. Earlier this week, WSU laid the cornerstone for the new 82,000 square foot engineering development center. Get the details from Kummler in this News Maker Interview recorded Oct. 1 at the E2Detroit conference at the urban campus.
DETROIT - Randal Charlton, the director of Wayne State University’s technology and life sciences incubator, TechTown, talks about the great strides made at this downtown Detroit facility and what’s in store for the future. Charlton, the former chairman of Asterand, and of MichBio, made his remarks during the E2Detroit conference Oct. 1 at WSU in this News Maker Interview.
DETROIT – Wayne State University is working with Rain Source Capital of Minneapolis to create an angel fund to pump money into the fledgling technology and life sciences the university is nurturing at its TechTown incubator. Steve Mercil, CEO of Rain Source Capital, talks about next steps in this News Maker Interview.
PLEASANT RIDGE - Josh Linkner, just 37 years old, already has founded his fourth company, ePrize, an online promotions company that develops interactive marketing for the likes Proctor & Gamble and other Fortune 500 companies. Linkner talks about his Michigan entrepreneurial experiences and the Michigan technology and entrepreneur talent pool in this News Maker interview recorded Oct. 1 during the first day of the E2Detroit conference at Wayne State University.
LANSING - Joe Kuklis, a co founder of GSP Consulting in Pittsburgh, provides a primer on federal R&D Earmarks - often called pork barrel politics - but a friend to small businesses seeking funding. Listen to how your company can use this money, particularly if your company is involved in homeland security and defense. Listen to this News Maker Interview.
PITTSBURGH - Joe Kuklis, a founding partner of GSP Consulting in Pittsburgh, talks about Small Business Innovation Research federal grants and how Michigan companies can get them. SBIR grants help take promising technology from inception to commercialization and don’t dilute the positions of other investors. Learn about this innovative government program in this Newsmaker Interview.
ANN ARBOR – Did Dick Beedon, CEO of Mac Beedon Group, use a performance enhancer to win the New Enterprise Forum’s May Battle of the Elevator Pitches. Some participants contend the serial entrepreneur did. MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan interviews all the players in this spoof of the popular Newsmaker Interview podcast.
LANSING - The Travel Industry Association of America honored Travel Michigan with two Mercury Awards - one for the Best State Tourism Advertising Campaign for its Pure Michigan campaign, and the other for Best State Tourism TV Spots. In this Newsmaker Interview, George Zimmermann, a Michigan Economic Development Corp. vice president and director of the Travel Michigan office, talks about what these awards mean, and how they appear to be driving more tourists to Michigan.
ANN ARBOR - Michael Spink, an intellectual property attorney with Brinks Hofer Gilson and Lione, discusses how bankruptcy and affect the ownership of technology licensing. With the Michigan auto industry consolidating, forcing many auto parts makers into bankruptcy, the fate of technology licensing becomes an important issue. Listen to all the details in this special Newsmaker Interview sponsored by Brinks Hofer Gilson and Lione.
ANN ARBOR - Jim Cleland, an intellectual property attorney with Brinks Hofer Gilson and Lione, talks about when to bring a lawsuit for patent infringement. One wrinkle he explores is you don’t have to own the technology to file a lawsuit. This is a special Newsmaker Interview sponsored by Brinks Hofer Gilson and Lione.
GRAND RAPIDS - MITechNews.Com Editor & Publisher Mike Brennan has taken the KVEST Technology challenge in an attempt to break 100 during his second year as a golfer. He interviews his instructor, Scott Seifferlein, a PGA golf teaching pro at The Mines golf course near downtown Grand Rapids. Seifferlein describes a new golf technology, called KVEST, which helps all golfers improve their posture, swing and overall game. Hear all about KVEST in this special Newsmaker Interview.
Brendon Ringlever of BL Government Affairs office in Lansing discusses the negotiations on the 2008 Michigan budget in this special edition of Newsmaker Interview. Some chips on the table include making Michigan a Right To Work state, meaning employees would have the option of joining, or not joining, a union that represents workers.
TRAVERSE CITY - Brendan Ringlever of BL Government Affairs’ Lansing office provides an update of the top themes and stories from this year’s National Governor’s Conference in Traverse City. Universities providing innovation for entrepreneurs to commercialize and Internet predators were some of the top issues in this special edition of Newsmaker Interview.
TROY - Blaze Biomedical Devices, which develops diagnostic devices for blood transfusions, won the 2007 spring New Business Idea category at the Great Lakes Entrepreneurs’ Quest contest. Founder Michael Tarasev talks about his new company in this special GLEQ podcast.
TROY - RealKidz, a company that makes plus sizes for children and a social network for parents, was the runner up in the 2007 spring Great Lakes Entrepreneur’s Quest competition. RealKidz founder Merrill Guerra talks about her company in this special GLEQ podcast.
LANSING - JL Needham, manager of public sector content partnerships at Google, talks about a new search partnership with the state of Michigan that will let the state’s residents find out which beaches are closed and which highway lanes are shut down during construction season in this Newsmaker Interview.
LANSING -Republican members of the Michigan House announced last week a statewide effort to seek ideas from tax payers, public policy experts and government officials to develop initiatives to get Michigan back on its feet. Assistant Republican leader Rep. Kevin Elsenheimer from Bellaire discusses the GOP Road Trip in this Newsmaker Interview.
MANISTEE - Amy Garrison, communications and program coordinator for the Michigan Corn Marketing Program, talks about corn’s role in creating a new green fuel, Ethanol, and what will happen to corn demand in Michigan. Garrison, interviewed at the 2007 Michigan Energy Fair, also dispels some corn myths in the Newsmaker Interview.
Brendan Ringlever of BL Government Affair’s Lansing office discusses in this Newsmaker Interview what’s happening with the federal Real ID Act, which would create a federal identity card for all US citizens. Michigan could become a laboratory for testing the new ID since the state leads the nation in foreign trade, primarily with neighboring Canada.
MANISTEE - Manistee County Commissioner Allan O’Shea talks about the success of the 2007 Michigan Energy Fair, which featured exhibits on green energy technologies at the Manistee County Fairgrounds in June. O’Shea is one of the founder fathers of the event, which attracted thousands of alternative energy advocates.
TROY - Blizzard Boost, which makes an electric engine power enhancer somewhat like a turbo charger, won two specialty awards at the Spring 2007 Great Lakes Entrepreneur’s Quest contest competition - $12,500 each from Automation Alley and Next Energy. In this special edition of Newsmaker Interview, co founder Mark Schwartz talks about the future of his Michigan technology company.
LANSING - Democratic State Rep. Steve Bieda, one of the players behind the new Michigan Business Tax, provides and overview for businesses on what they can expect from the replacement for the archaic Single Business Tax. Rep. Bieda expects the new tax to actually become a magnet for new business attraction in this special BL Government Affairs edition of Newsmaker Interview.
ONEKAMA – Rep. Frank Accavitti Jr. (D-Eastpointe) has introduced legislation in the Michigan House to create a renewable energy portfolio standard for the state. Anyone who generates electricity in Michigan will have to generate 10 percent of that energy by 2015. This is a special edition of Newsmaker Interview recorded at the 2007 Michigan Energy Fair.
LANSING - Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) has introduced legislation to prevent illegal aliens from getting a Michigan driver’s license. Agema said his legislation would complement the proposed new regulations that would allow a Michigan driver’s license to substitute for a United States passport for Michigan residents entering and leaving Canada. This is a special edition of Newsmaker Interview underwritten by BL Government Affairs.
ONEKAMA - Jennifer Alvarado, Executive Director of the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association, talks about how the Michigan Energy Fair, held in Manistee County from June 22-24, was much larger than a year ago – signaling that Green technology and renewable energy have become part of mainstream thinking. This is a special edition of Newsmaker Interview.
ONEKAMA - Eric Larson, a self admitted professional camper, spent his summer holiday in 2006 on a 70-day hike to the North Pole. Larson’s mission was to call attention to the impact of global warming, particularly on the Polar Bears who live on the ice. Hear what he discovered in this special Michigan Energy Fair edition of Newsmaker Interview.
LANSING - State Rep, Steve Bieda from Warren was one of the chief negotiators for the development of recently announced plan to replace the single business tax. Bieda, chair of the House Tax Policy Committee, provides the inside story on the negotiations for the new Michigan Business Tax plan that almost never was. This interview was arranged by the BL Government Affairs group in Lansing and is part of the BL Government Affairs Tax and Legislative Update series.
ANN ARBOR - Dick Beedon, of MacBeedon Partners in Ann Arbor, thinks Michigan-based pension funds should put their money where their mouths are. Beedon, who is developing a $50- to $100 million venture fund to invest in Michigan technology start ups, thinks the $40 plus billion state of Michigan pension fund, and the multi-billion dollar pension funds run by state universities and colleges, should invest in Michigan, and not other states as has been past practice.
Dick Beedon - State Pension Funds Should Invest In Michigan: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (328)MANISTEE - Manistee County has been named one of the 2007 winners of our America’s Crown Communities Awards this year for its work on the Michigan Energy Fair. Manistee is among an elite group of communities whose projects represent some of the finest examples of local leadership at work. County Commissioner Alan O’Shea will represent the county at the event. The interview is with Associate Publisher Bill Wolpin.
Interview with Brandan Ringlever of BL Government Affairs office in Lansing on Michigan’s efforts to develop alternative energy - in this case E85 ethanol gas. Ringlever examines the pros and cons of this conversion attempt.
Interview with Brandan Ringlever of Butzel Long’s Government Affairs Group in Lansing. Ringlever kicks off a new podcast news series at MITechNews.Com that will update Michigan citizens about what tax and budget issues are afoot in Lansing. This week’s episode examines the budget compromise that has been proposed to close the state’s nearly $1 billion budget deficit.
An interview with Fred Killeen, CTO, for the information Systems Group at General Motors Corp., talks about globalization and the Impact on Business Process and IT at General Motors. Killeen was a speaker at the Midwest Technology Leaders 2007.
Art DeMonte, executive director of the Great Lakes Entrepreneurs Quest, said the new FastTrac TechBusiness seminar series attracted so much attention in April that the business plan writing contest plans to triple it starting next fall. Seminars will be offered in West Michigan, Central Michigan and Southeast Michigan for entrepreneurs seeking to kick start their businesses.
Paul Neeb, a vice president at Southwest Michigan First and head of the economic development group’s First Angels investment group, offers entrepreneurs some tips on how they can attract investors. Neeb was part of Great Lake Entrepreneur’s Quest’s seminar series in April. His remarks were recorded in Grand Rapids.
David Van Andel, chairman of the Van Andel Research Institute, talks about what the Phase II expansion of the center funded by his parents, Jay and Betty Van Andel, means to him personally. He also discusses how the VAI has become the catalyst for a nearly $1 billion construction boom on “Pill Hill” in Grand Rapids. He also urges Michigan’s legislative officials to stop the partisan politics and becomes the leaders the people of the state hoped they would be when they were elected.
Interview with George VandeWoude, director of the Van Andel Research Institute, talks about the Phase II expansion of the cancer R&D facility in downtown Grand Rapids, and how it will create 550 new jobs, pour $170 million into the local economy, and lead to the labs bright future which could one day help eradicate diseases that effect an aging population, including cancer.
Interview with Doug Rothwell, president of Detroit Renaissance on the proposed $50 million fund that would help Southeast Michigan accelerators, like Automation Alley, Ann Arbor SPARK, and Wayne State University’s TechTown, provide seed capital to promising Michigan technology and life sciences companies.
Interview with Martyn Coombs, the new CEO of Detroit human tissue bank company Asterand. Coombs, like founder and outgoing CEO Randal Charlton, is from the United Kingdom and has a lot of experience working with the life sciences industries in Europe and Asia.
Interview with David Fry of Ann Arbor’s Fry Inc., an e-commerce design, development and managed services provider, which purchased San Francisco-based Pinnacle Rock Associates, a consulting firm providing business and technology consulting services to multi-channel retailers, catalogers and consumer goods manufacturers.
Interview with Jeff Mason from the Michigan Economic Development Corp. on the status of the first 85 projects named by the state to receive start up funding. Some want it, some have said no, most already have received their checks. But some $34 million from the first round has yet to be allocated by the Michigan Strategic Fund.
Interview with University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman about how U-M will provide $1 million a year for the next three years to recruit as many former Pfizer research scientists as possible. Coleman also said more than 170 Pfizer scientists have contacted the U-M Education School about joining its Fast Track program, which could give them the credentials within a year to teach.
Interview with Michigan House Speaker Andy Dillon who said changes are coming to the 21st Century Jobs Fund to get more money into the hands of entrepreneurs who can commercialize technology rather than perform basic research that may have little chance of creating jobs - what Michigan desperately needs.
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.
Interview with Michael Finney, president of Ann Arbor SPARK, who talks about what happened at the Jan. 29 emergency meeting of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County and state business and government leaders that tried to respond to Pfizer announcement that the pharma giant will close its Ann Arbor R&D labs and terminated 2,100 high paying tech jobs.