Vermont 3.0: Innovation Jam Links Creative Tech Jobs and Entrepreneurship

 Vermont 3.0: Innovation Jam Links Creative Tech Jobs and Entrepreneurship 

http://vermont3.com
 
What: Vermont 3.0: Innovation Jam
When: Monday, October 26, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Where: Sheraton Burlington Hotel & Conference Center
Who: Paula Routly at Seven Days, 864-5684 
or Cari Kelley at Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, 863-3489 x227
 
Many of Vermont’s most successful businesses — dozens of which are still growing and hiring — were launched by a single individual with a great idea. Vermont 3.0 is celebrating that spirit and how it shapes the state’s economic landscape with an “Innovation Jam” on October 26 at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel & Conference Center. Not just a job expo, the daylong event showcases the state’s entrepreneur-founded creative technology companies while fostering the start-up drive that inspires it all. 
 
“There’s an upside to a challenging economy: opportunities for entrepreneurs,” notes Paula Routly, publisher and co-founder of Seven Days. “The Innovation Jam covers the whole spectrum, from start-up resources for people thinking about starting a business to presentations by some of the state’s most successful CEOs.” 
 
Don’t want to be your own boss? Then work for a good one. Many of Vermont’s coolest creative, tech, green and bioscience companies will be there, recruiting and showing their stuff.
 
The day will combine the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber’s “Invent Yourself” program, designed to help Vermonters navigate the road to self-employment; a “tech showcase” of innovative local companies exhibiting and demonstrating their products; and a series of talks by some of the state’s most successful founder-CEOs, including Michael Jager of JDK Design, Microstrain’s Steve Arms, Richard Tarrant, Jr. of MyWebGrocer, Paul Millman of Chroma Technology, BioTek’s Adam Alpert and Lisa Groeneveld of Logic Supply. 
 
“The Vermont Department of Labor is very pleased to be supporting this ‘jam’ for the third time. It’s an excellent opportunity for folks to see there are jobs available right now, even in this economy,” commented Labor Commissioner Patricia Moulton-Powden. “It’s also a chance for young people to see the breadth of careers in Vermont and the education needed to obtain them.” 
 
Vermont 3.0 was conceived two years ago by a consortium of local colleges, government organizations and media companies in an effort to reverse the state’s “brain drain.” The October 26 event is presented by the Vermont Department of Labor, the Workforce Investment Board, Vermont Business Magazine, the Vermont Software Developers’ Alliance, Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce and Seven Days.   

For more information:
Paula Routly, 802-864-5684, paula@sevendaysvt.com
Cari Kelley, 802-863-3489 x227, cari@vermont.org

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