New Jersey Tech Weekly

Around New Jersey, Innovation, News, NJ Tech People, NJ Universities, STEM, tech training, Tech Workforce, In August, NJTechWeekly.com visited Jason Frasca and Iain Kerr, professors at Montclair State University (MSU), where they were conducting a 3D printing and innovation workshop for teachers.

Uncategorized, Propelify, the tri-state area’s tech and innovation festival run by TechUnited:NJ, takes place in Hoboken each year. The event offers a great place to catch up with members of the New Jersey technology community. At June’s festival, NJTechWeekly.com spent some time with Michael Dirla, vice president of Edison Partners (Princeton and Nashville), which has been supporting New Jersey companies since its inception in 1986 as a venture capital firm.

Artificial Intelligence, EdTech, Emerging technologies, Meetings, News, NJ Universities, Universities, The 2024 New Jersey Big Data Alliance Symposium, held last spring at Rutgers–New Brunswick, focused on the impacts of AI on society and higher education. NJTechWeekly.com dropped by a session called “AI Impacts on Teaching and Research.” The panelists noted that AI will change all aspects of college-level activities.

computer science, News, NJ Tech People, NJ Universities, Tech and Diversity, Uncategorized, Universities, Women in Tech, Big changes are happening at Montclair State University’s School of Computing. Under the leadership of Liaquat Hossain, director, the school is being transformed to enhance diversity and increase retention in computing education. Along the way, the school has integrated computing programs that had resided at other schools.

entrepreneurship, Innovation, News, NJ Tech Companies, NJ Tech People, Startups, Tech for Business, In May NJTechweekly.com learned that New Jersey serial entrepreneur Jeff Weinstein had spun out a startup from Optima Global Solutions (Lawrenceville) in January. The startup, TranscendAP (Hamilton), which specializes in accounts payment automation, was previously a business unit of Optima. Mahesh Yadav, Optima founder and CEO, is a TranscendAP cofounder.

Emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, fintech, government or politics, Innovation, Insuretech, News, NJ accelerators and incubators, NJ Tech People, NJ Universities, Startups, Tech and Diversity, Uncategorized, The “New Jersey Fintech Accelerator at Stevens Institute of Technology” (NJ FAST), announced by Governor Phil Murphy at Stevens in May, will hold a launch event on September 16 at the Stevens campus, in Hoboken.

entrepreneurship, News, NJ Tech People, tech entrepreneurship, tech training, Tech Workforce, NJTechWeekly.com recently connected with Steve Tafaro, a former tech executive who has also spent years helping SaaS startups master revenue generation through synchronized SaaS sales efforts. His book, Winning at SaaS, is a guide to changing your approach; aligning your teams; and establishing a sustainable, profitable business model. We conducted our interview via email.

Artificial Intelligence, Emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, News, NJ Tech Companies, NJ Tech People, Tech for Business, Uncategorized, Two New Jersey companies, Onvego (Livingston) and Phone.com (Newark), recently collaborated on an AI solution that extends the capabilities of traditional answering services, creating an “AI receptionist” that can handle many tasks for small businesses.

News, NJ Tech Companies, NJ Tech People, NJ Universities, Tech and Diversity, tech training, Tech Workforce, Uncategorized, Universities, Women in Tech, By Steve Sears Princeton-based SheTek, a nonprofit organization that aims to empower and mentor women seeking careers in technology, has partnered with the Rutgers School of Business–Camden, with the shared goal of assisting students in developing their employment and technology skills.

Emerging technologies, entrepreneurship, News, NJ Tech Companies, NJ Tech People, Women in Tech, Universal Display Corporation (Ewing), which has been a publicly traded company since 1996, celebrated its 30th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, NJTechWeekly.com spoke with Janice Mahon, senior VP of technology commercialization and general manager of commercial sales business, who has been a part of the company for most of its history.