2019 Vermont Tech Jam Program Guide

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We are excited to be the lead sponsor of Vermont Tech Jam for the second year. We’re especially looking forward to the 7 Tech Wonders of Vermont — showcasing some of our local entrepreneurs and businesses … Vermont Works is committed to making Vermont a community where our young people can stay and thrive, our companies have ample access to top talent, and we have a national platform for our entrepreneurs. Tech Jam is a big part of this mission — it increases opportunities for all Vermonters.

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Stop by our Tech Jam booth to say hello.

And check out the Trust.IT panel from 3-4 p.m. in the presentation space.

Hear from local entrepreneurs about the importance of building a business based on trust.

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ooking for a career in health tech, engineering, robotics or web development? You’ll find one — or a path to it — at the 2019 Vermont Tech Jam. Recruiters from Vermont’s top tech companies will be there, scouting for talent. So will representatives from some of the state’s postsecondary STEM schools and training programs.

Who else will you see at the Tech Jam? Inventors, entrepreneurs, dreamers, doers, students, teachers … even a retired Vermont Supreme Court justice? Indeed! Former chief justice John Dooley is a member of the state’s Artificial Intelligence Task Force.

The group will report its findings and seek comments from Vermonters at a public meeting at the Jam, starting at 1 p.m.

This year’s program also includes sessions on leveraging blockchain and building businesses around the concept of trust, as well as panel discussions on finding and landing inspiring internships and navigating a career switch.

Both of the latter are led by people who’ve been there and done that.

The day ends with the annual Tech Jam Awards, which recognize nominees selected by judges and crowned by local voters like you. Find the finalists, along with a complete schedule and list of exhibitors, inside this guide.

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Exhibitors with name tags sporting green stickers are actively recruiting employees. Likewise, attendees can wear green stickers to indicate they are looking for a job. Folks with blue stickers are looking for interns.

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THE VOICE FOR VERMONT’S TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS SECTOR & CAREERS We’re a nonprofit business association dedicated to supporting, promoting and growing technology businesses and jobs in Vermont.

Help Us Build Vermont’s Tech Ecosystem Become a vtTA member or sponsor.

Find out more at www.vtta.org

These innovative businesses and organizations are driving the success of the vtTA and Vermont’s technology business sector. We thank them for their leadership and support.

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More Than Just a Job Fair Take a break from talking with exhibitors to check out these two programming tracks in the upstairs presentation rooms.

BUSINESS TRACK

For Entrepreneurs, Executives and Tech Professionals These sessions will give you a crash course in some of the companies and issues driving the state’s tech sector, from AI to blockchain to small satellite propulsion systems.

9:30-11 a.m.

7 Tech Wonders of Vermont

11:30-12:30 p.m. Leveraging Blockchain to Build Startups & Jobs 1-2:30 p.m.

Public Meeting of the AI Task Force

3-4 p.m.

Trust.IT: Trust as the Backbone of Business

CAREER TRACK

For Those Ready to Take It to the Next Level Want to boost your career or start a new one? These sessions might help. Practice your conversation skills, learn how to find the right internship, and get some advice on changing careers from people who’ve made the leap and lived to tell the tale.

9:30-10:30 a.m. High-Speed Networking 11 a.m.-noon

Inspiring Internships

12:30-1:30 p.m. Switch It Up

HEY MAMAS ON THE GO...

Burlington-based Mamava has installed its lactation pods in airports, event stations and public spaces all over the world. This year, we’re excited to host one at the Vermont Tech Jam! Nursing moms who want a private place to breastfeed or pump can stop by the Mamava booth on the Expo floor to find out how to access this and other lactation suites all around the world.

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9:30-11 A.M. | UPSTAIRS, ROOM A Microchips! Mobile robots! Apps for mamas! You might be amazed to discover the wide variety of products that Vermont tech companies produce. Learn about seven of them in this opening session, which features bite-size presentations from startups and established companies from around the state. Featuring:

9:30-10:30 A.M. | UPSTAIRS, ROOM B Start the day off by sitting down for several nano-size meetings with other tech professionals. This isn’t a job interview. It’s a chance to discover a potential new career path, make connections, learn about exciting projects and practice your conversation skills before you head out to the expo floor. You never know who you’ll sit next to!

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Benchmark Space Systems Beta Technologies GlobalFoundries LORD Sensing-MicroStrain Mamava Mobile Virtual Player Revision

Leveraging Blockchain to Build Startups and Jobs 11:30 A.M.-12:30 P.M. | UPSTAIRS, ROOM A NO REGISTRATION NECESSARY “Blockchain developer” is the top-trending job in LinkedIn’s recent U.S. Emerging Job Report, with a 3,300 percent growth rate over the past four years.

Blockchain, the technology that powers Bitcoin, has been proving its value for many key industries and remains one of the most promising solutions in a world seeking more privacy, security and transparency. Blockchain enables peer-to-peer and decentralized transactions, and its uses are still emerging. Speakers in this session will explain how blockchain helps solve specific business problems while offering an exciting career path here in Vermont.

• John Burton, board chair of the Distributed Ledger Governance Association — moderator • Chris Curtis, Vermont Attorney General’s Office • Jonathan Ellerman, RCS Global • Laura Seach, Trace • Amit Sharma, Finclusive

Public Meeting of the AI Task Force 1-2:30 P.M. | UPSTAIRS, ROOM A | NO REGISTRATION NECESSARY Artificial intelligence and machine learning offer great potential for the future of society. In 2018, the Vermont legislature created a task force to study AI and make recommendations for how the state could grow and/or regulate it. For a year, the task force has been deliberating and talking with Vermonters about their hopes, questions and concerns. At this public meeting, attendees can share their thoughts — and get an update on the group’s progress.

Attending Task Force members include: • • • •

Rep. Brian Cina, National Association of Social Workers-Vermont John Cohn, Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering; IBM Fellow Hon. John A. Dooley, retired justice of the Vermont Supreme Court Eugene Santos, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College

Trust.IT: Trust as the Backbone of Business 3-4 P.M. | UPSTAIRS, ROOM A | NO REGISTRATION NECESSARY In this age of data breaches, polarizing views and an ever-increasing pace of business, it’s more important than ever to build your company on the basis of trust — trusting yourself, your team, your tech and your customers. Join Vermont entrepreneurs and moderators Gwen Pokalo and Bonnie Reese from the Center for Women & Enterprise as they discuss building companies with trust as the backbone.

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Inspiring Internships 11 A.M.-NOON | UPSTAIRS, ROOM A NO REGISTRATION NECESSARY Looking for an internship? These temporary positions can enhance your résumé and give you valuable work experience. Most of them come with a paycheck, too! At this session — geared toward potential interns and companies looking to hire them — representatives from companies with successful internship programs share their experiences and the career opportunities they offer. Also, an internship adviser talks about how to get hired.

• Mieko Ozeki, Vermont Intern Program, a project of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility — moderator • Jim Graves, Internship Coordinator at Norwich University • Nathan Brown, C2-Competitive Computing • Brent McGlynn, VEIC

Switch It Up 12:30-1:30 P.M. | UPSTAIRS, ROOM A NO REGISTRATION NECESSARY Feeling burned out on your current career? Been out of the workforce for a while and wondering how to get back in? Want to try something new and not sure where to start? Whether you just graduated college or hit a wall at work and need a boost to get over or around it, this workshop is for you. Hear from a career coach and others who’ve been there about how to zero in on your unique skill set and determine what’s next. You’ll leave this workshop feeling energized and ready to rock.

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2019 Good Citizen Challenge Launch 12:1512:30 P.M. ON THE EXPO STAGE Seven Days, Kids VT and the Vermont Community Foundation will kick off the second Good Citizen Challenge at the Tech Jam. Participants in this youth civics project earn points by answering questions about history, government and news literacy, and doing activities that connect them to their local communities. A custommade game engine developed by Burlington-based GameTheory powers this year’s Challenge, thanks to support from Dan and Jenna Sonneborn and the Evslin Family Foundation. Register for the Challenge, try a civics quiz and get a free copy of the comic book, This Is What Democracy Looks Like, at the GameTheory Tech Jam booth!

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2019 Tech Jam Awards 4:30-5 P.M. ON THE EXPO STAGE Vermont’s tech business of the year, emerging tech business and tech champion will walk away with handcrafted statuettes at the conclusion of this annual award ceremony, hosted by the Vermont Technology Alliance. Find the list of finalists on page 8 of this guide.

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Who Will Win the Jammies?

Optical filters, cloud-based accounting services, a VR system that also uses scents.

The finalists for this year’s Vermont Tech Jam awards have created these and other remarkable products and services. Each year, the Vermont Technology Alliance and Seven Days recognize outstanding local leaders through the Tech Jam Awards, and this year’s crop of finalists is impressive.

After a public nomination round, the judges narrowed the field to a few finalists in each category. Online voting ended at midnight on Monday, October 14. We’ll announce the winners at the Tech Jam on Thursday, October 17. Each receives a robot statuette handcrafted by clay artist John Brickels.

The awards presentation takes place from 4:30 to 5 p.m. on the Expo Floor Stage at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction.

FINALISTS TECH BUSINESS OF THE YEAR AWARD This award recognizes a techfocused or tech-enabled Vermont business or organization whose products, services or business demonstrates innovation, success, market impact or momentum.

Beta Technologies Beta Technologies is working to develop the world’s longest-range, best-performing electric-powered aircraft and associated charging pad technology, building a prototype that can achieve a top speed of 170 miles per hour and raising more than $65 million for next-phase development. Find more at beta.team.

Burlington Code Academy Burlington Code Academy is addressing the need for tech skills with coding boot camps that have attracted a growing number of students and hiring partners, and reporting results that include a 94 percent employment rate and $78,000 average starting salary for many of its graduates. Find more at burlingtoncodeacademy.com.

Chroma Technology Corp.

Chroma Technology is an employee-owned manufacturer of optical filters for scientific, biomedical, photonics and imaging industries worldwide and recently completed a $22 million expansion that allowed it to grow to 140 employees. Find more at chroma.com.

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DealerPolicy’s technology platform enables car buyers to view competing auto insurance quotes and connect with insurance agents when purchasing a new car at a dealership, an innovation that has seen the company grow to operate in 11 states with plans. It plans to expand nationwide in 2020. Find more at dealerpolicy.com.

Faraday Faraday is a cutting-edge, growing artificial intelligence company whose platform is being used by more than 100 leading consumer product companies, financial institutions and home service providers to help them identify and reach potential customers. Find more at faraday.

EMERGING TECH BUSINESS AWARD This award recognizes a techfocused Vermont business that is gaining attention and recognition for its progress, success, market potential and growth. This could be a startup or newer business, or an established business that is moving to the next level.

A Home Outside, Inc. A Home Outside combines sustainable landscape-design expertise with a family of apps and online services for homeowners, and is growing its business with the development of a new AI tool, participation in Boston’s 2019 MassChallenge startup accelerator, and developing relationships with major home retail partners. Find more at homeoutside.com.

OVR Technology OVR Technology is building the first virtual reality system to include an olfactory component — scents in combination with VR to deepen the immersive experience. This system has broad potential applications for medical, entertainment and training markets. Find more at ovrtechnology.com.

Reconciled Reconciled offers cloud-based accounting and bookkeeping tools and services, and in less than four years has grown to a staff of more than 20 serving more than 100 customers nationwide. Its received recognition includes “US Firm of the Future” from Intuit. Find more at getreconciled.co.

Step Ahead Innovations, Inc. Step Ahead Innovations is an Internet of Things water tech company creating real-time water quality monitoring products using sensors and advanced fluorescent indicator science. Its flagship MindStream Monitor product is now in production and experiencing growing demand.

Read more at mindstreamh2o.com.

Widget Brain Widget Brain is a fast-growing international AI company with a Burlington-based North American office; it offers advanced workforce management algorithms to help companies across the U.S. and Canada solve complex labor challenges in areas including labor laws, capacity planning, workforce optimization and logistics. Learn more at widgetbrain.com.

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TECH CHAMPION AWARD This award recognizes an individual making a mark in the growth of Vermont’s tech ecosystem.

This could be an entrepreneur instrumental in the success and development of a Vermont technology-focused business or individuals in business, academia, nonprofits or government whose work supports, promotes and enables the awareness and growth of Vermont’s tech economy and ecosystem.

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PREVIOUS TECH JAM AWARD WINNERS • 2012: Champlain College Emergent Media Center (Ambassador) and MicroStrain, now LORD Sensing-MicroStrain (Innovation) • 2013: Pwnie Express (Innovation) and FreshTracks Capital (Ambassador)

Jane Adams – UVM Complex Systems Center

• 2014: FoundLine (Ambassador) and Greensea (Innovation)

Jane Adams is the data visualization artist-inresidence at the University of Vermont Complex Systems Center, where she collaborates with researchers to make the complex comprehensible through engaging visualization.

She also runs the Vermont Women in Machine Learning and Data Science meetup group. Find more at universalities.com.

• 2015: Logic Supply (Innovation) and Generator (Ambassador) • 2016: THINKMD (Innovation and Startup); Sara Simon of VPR (Newcomer); and Hunter Hedenberg, Sam Roach-Gerber and David Bradbury of VCET (Ambassador)

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• 2017: Jake Blend (Newcomer); Brook Chipman, Shannon Mitchell and Marguerite Dibble of GameTheory (Innovation); and Berenice Fernandez and Gary Tilden of Protean (Startup); David Feinauer (Ambassador) not present

Nick Floersch – Code for BTV Nick Floersch is a brigade cocaptain of Code for BTV, helping lead this organization of volunteer “civic hackers” who build digital technology tools for Vermont social and civic justice organizations, including apps for Vermont Legal Aid, Reach Up and Vermont Green Up. Find more at codeforbtv.org.

• 2018: Maureen McElaney (Ambassador); Ben Boas and Alex Horner of Burlington Code Academy (Startup); Gary Margolis, founder of Social Sentinel (Innovation)

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Karen McCalla – The Mint Karen McCalla helped start and is the executive director of the MINT, a maker space in Rutland, and coaches Lego Robotics teams in Rutland County. She also helps kids learn about technology as the Mill River School librarian.

Find more at rutlandmint.org.

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In her role with University of Vermont Innovations, Kerry Swift is involved with licensing and marketing new technologies, developing relationships between industry and UVM researchers, and organizing the annual UVM Invention2Venture conference. She also serves on the board of the Vermont Bioscience Alliance. Find more at linkedin.com/in/ kerry-swift-4263283.

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Doug Webster – Champlain Maker Faire Doug Webster founded and produces the annual Champlain Maker Faire, which brings together engineers, artists, scientists and other makers to share their projects. This year’s event, the eighth, included a new School Maker Day. Find more at linkedin.com/in/ doug-webster-787b72.

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EXHIBITORS AEROSPACE ●Beta Technologies G1 South Burlington, beta.team Beta Technologies is engineering the future of aviation right here in Vermont! Its growing team designs and develops electric aircraft and recharging solutions at an office located at the Burlington International Airport.

EDUCATION AND JOB TRAINING ●Champlain College’s Senator Leahy Center for Digital Investigation G5

★● Norwich University D4 Northfield, norwich.edu

Norwich University, now celebrating its bicentennial, educates students in the tradition of university founder Capt. Alden Partridge. Norwich offers 35 on-campus academic programs and numerous options online, which all provide students with the means, motivation, confidence and empathy to address today’s real-world scenarios through hands-on learning enhanced by a liberal arts foundation of critical thinking. Norwich students are disciplined and innovative thinkers who are inspired to create the industries, systems, processes, machines and structures of tomorrow.

The College of Professional Schools — one of five that make up the entire university — covers a unique breadth of technical fields, including business, cybersecurity, data science, computing, nursing, architecture and construction, as well as civil, electrical and mechanical engineering.

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● University of Vermont College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences B3

●Green Mountain Semiconductor C2

Burlington, champlain.edu Founded in 1878, Champlain College is a professionally focused college with additional campuses in Montréal, Québec, and Dublin, Ireland. Champlain College is also a longtime leader in providing careerfocused education to adult learners, offering online degree programs since 1993 in high-growth fields like cybersecurity, health care administration and human resource management. Champlain’s Senator Leahy Center for Digital Investigation is a world-class laboratory focused on establishing and assisting with public- and private-sector initiatives surrounding cybercrime, digital forensics and information assurance.

As a leader in the digital forensic higher education arena, Champlain College offers undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to learn by participating in professional-level lab work.

●Community College of Vermont G2 12 locations statewide and online, ccv.edu Community College of Vermont is the state’s second-largest college. CCV’s 12 locations and extensive online learning options ensure that students don’t have to travel far to access degree and certificate programs, prior learning assessment, workforce education and secondary education initiatives, continuing education opportunities, and academic and veteran support services. CCV offers a quality education at the lowest cost of any college in Vermont. Program offerings of special interest include design and media studies, digital media production, graphic design, information technology, media communications, STEM studies, and web development.

CCV has a simple, free admissions process that begins with an online application.

Joanne Jastatt, leadership and career coach F3 Burlington, joannejastatt.com Joanne Jastatt is a professional certified coach focusing on leadership, career and negotiation who helps her clients find their beat. After nearly 20 years in technology, she transitioned to a role as an executive coach to support women and LGBTQ professionals making meaningful career transitions, becoming effective leaders and getting paid equitably.

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Burlington, learn.uvm.edu The UVM Department of Computer Science’s mission is to create, share, and apply knowledge in computer science, including in interdisciplinary areas that extend the scope of computer science and benefit humanity; and to educate students to be successful, ethical and effective problem solvers and lifelong learners who will contribute positively to the economic well-being of our region and nation and who are prepared to tackle complex 21st-century challenges facing the world.

★Vermont Works Management Company B1 Burlington, vermontworks.co Vermont Works Management Company is dedicated to delivering capital, mentorship and connectivity to Vermont’s innovation ecosystem. Vermont Works sees the dynamic changes sweeping the country and the globe as an achievable opportunity for Vermont to create large numbers of livable-wage and sustainable jobs that help retain and attract talent and innovation, while staying true to the Vermont brand and what it represents to citizens. Vermont Innovation Commons is an affiliate project, dedicated to bringing in outside resources to help amplify the entrepreneurial ecosystem within the state. The organizations recently hosted the third annual Vermont Investors Summit, connecting local entrepreneurs with investors and high-quality mentors from Vermont and beyond.

Waitsfield, creativemicro.com Inventing the impossible: Creative MicroSystems Corporation routinely does jobs that couldn’t be accomplished elsewhere or were deemed “impossible.” CMC provides serious technical capability for a company of its size. Cofounders (and Massachusetts Institute of Technology grads) Bill and Julie Parker lead a diverse team that focuses on challenges from the idea stage through proof of concept, prototyping and pilot production. Deep expertise across a wide range of skills and fields allows a multidisciplinary approach that often results in unique, technologically significant solutions and IP, while also providing state-of-the-art fabrication and implementation to clients and partners.

Burlington, greenmountainsemi.com This established, dynamic chip-design firm in downtown Burlington offers leading-edge electrical engineering services for new technologies such as artificial intelligence and ultra-low power computing.

●LORD Sensing-MicroStrain H9 Williston, microstrain.com MicroStrain Sensing Systems makes tiny sensors and systems that are used in a wide range of applications, including advanced manufacturing, off-highway vehicles, commercial and military manned and unmanned vehicles, civil structures, and down-hole tools. Its sensors have won numerous awards, and its employees pride themselves on being both innovative and responsive to customers’ unique requirements.

Based in Williston, Vt., MicroStrain Sensing Systems was founded in 1987. There is a broader line of micro-displacement sensors that can withstand extreme temperatures, hundreds of millions of cycles and complete submersion in saline. MicroStrain was one of the first sensor companies to add wireless capability so that low-power, miniature digital sensors could communicate easily with personal computers and send data to the internet.

Essex Junction, mantech.com ManTech is a leading provider of cloudmanaged services, agile software development, DevOps, systems engineering and IT service management. Its team works collaboratively with multiple Department of Homeland Security and federal civilian agencies to solve their biggest challenges through a commitment to delivering innovation, agility and maximum value. Its current contract is SPEDI: Support for Platform Engineering & DevOps Integration. ManTech is searching for clearable candidates to support the DHS U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services customer in the Williston/South Burlington area.

ManTech is searching for dedicated, full-time employees to support this contract: support for platform engineering and DevOps integration.

ManTech provides a full employment benefits package, which also includes health insurance; 401(k) matching; free bachelor’s and/or master’s degree programs in cybersecurity, data analytics, cloud computing and enterprise IT; free training and certifications through a partnership with Skillsoft; and corporate programs that promote continued learning and career progression.

University of Vermont Alternative Energy Racing Organization B4 Burlington, uvmaero.org The Alternative Energy Racing Organization is a team of students at the University of Vermont that designs and builds electric open-wheel race cars to compete at Formula Hybrid, an international collegiate competition. AERO members apply skills learned in and out of the classroom to build race cars that are as fast as they are efficient, all while making professional connections and strengthening their résumés.

Find out more at the UVM AERO Tech Jam booth, generously provided by Consolidated Communications.

● VEIC A7 Burlington, veic.org VEIC is a sustainable energy company with a mission to enhance the economic, environmental and societal benefits of clean and efficient energy use for all people. Headquartered in Vermont with offices in Ohio; Washington, D.C.; and New York State, VEIC has more than 32 years of experience transforming energy systems, specializing in energy efficiency, clean transportation and renewable energy.

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EXHIBITORS GOVERNMENT/ NONPROFIT ★ The Agency of Commerce and Community Development D1 Montpelier, accd.vermont.gov/ economic-development The Agency of Commerce and Community Development works with businesses of all sizes — on site location and expansion, financing, technical assistance, and workforce training initiatives — to ensure they have the support they need to grow and succeed in Vermont.

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★● Vermont Technology Alliance A1 Burlington, vermonttechnologyalliance.org The Vermont Technology Alliance is a nonprofit business association with a mission to support, promote and grow technology businesses and technology jobs in Vermont. It is the only statewide business organization focused solely on Vermont’s technology business sector and careers. The vtTA’s members range from individual entrepreneurs to large companies, including those that work with and support tech businesses. The vtTA promotes Vermont tech businesses and job opportunities, advocates on behalf of its members, collaborates with institutional partners, and connects the tech community through its events, website, newsletter and social media.

Burlington, coeforbtv.org Code for BTV is the local chapter of the nonprofit Code for America. The all-volunteer group helps deliver free custom software for civic and social-justice organizations, such as Vermont Legal Aid, Green Up Vermont and the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition, that serve Vermonters in the digital age. Code for BTV members span the entire spectrum of tech, from design to development and community advocates to project management.

As more community programs are delivered digitally, good tech is becoming a matter of equity and social justice. Stop by the Code for BTV booth to learn how you can get involved and work on things that matter. Code for BTV’s booth is sponsored by C2-Competitive Computing.

●Vermont Agency of Digital Services D2 Montpelier, digitalservices.vermont.gov This team of information technology professionals provides services and resources to partners in state government, ultimately for the benefit of the residents, businesses and visitors of the state of Vermont.

★ ●Vermont Department of Labor E1 Montpelier, labor.vermont.gov The Vermont Department of Labor connects job seekers, workers and businesses with the tools and the resources they need to grow careers, companies and Vermont’s economy. The department’s Workforce Development Division offers a full range of workforce-related services through a network of 12 regional Career Resource Centers, including one federally recognized One-Stop American Jobs Center location in Burlington. The department’s staff have the resources and tools to assist with job matching, registered apprenticeships, a database of education and training resources, statewide and national job listings, labor market and career information, and federal funding to help with skills training for new and incumbent workers.

FIN TECH ● DealerPolicy G4 Williston, dealerpolicy.com DealerPolicy is a complete insurance marketplace for automotive retailers and their valued customers. With its seamless integration into the car-buying process, the company’s innovative solution allows car-buying customers the opportunity to purchase insurance by connecting them with licensed insurance agents while at the dealership. The company delivers this benefit through an industry-first combination of partnerships with car dealers, a growing insurance carrier network and access to licensed agents. DealerPolicy is currently operating in 11 states, with plans to operate nationwide by 2020.

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GREEN TECH ★● Green Mountain Power H8 Colchester, greenmountainpower.com Green Mountain Power serves approximately 265,000 residential and business customers in Vermont and is focused on a new way of doing business to meet their needs with integrated energy services that help people use less energy and save money, while continuing to generate clean, cost-effective, reliable power in Vermont.

GMP earned a spot on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in the World list in 2017, 2018 and 2019. GMP is the first utility in the world to get a B Corp certification, meeting rigorous social, environmental and transparency standards and committing to use business as a force for good. J.D. Power’s 2018 and 2019 rankings put GMP among the top utilities for customer satisfaction. In 2019, GMP was named “One of the Best Places to Work in Vermont” by Vermont Business Magazine and the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, and won the Deane C. Davis Outstanding Vermont Business of the Year Award.

THERE’S NO BETTER PLACE TO START OR ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. VERMONT HAS A THRIVING TECH INDUSTRY full of innovative businesses that succeed here because we foster originality and bring out the best in people. Positions are open at every level with lots of room for advancement. If you are looking to find the right opportunity to grow your professional networks and advance your career, we can help.

Get in touch, email info@thinkvermont.com.

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★ ●SunCommon H2 Waterbury, suncommon.com SunCommon starts from the belief that everyone has the right to a healthy environment and brighter future — and renewable energy is where it starts. Energy from the sun can power our lives and build vibrant communities.

SunCommon’s mission is to tear down barriers to clean energy and use its business as a force for good. SunCommon is a market-leading renewable energy company operating in Vermont and New York’s Hudson Valley. Organized as a Benefit Corporation and certified as a BCorp, SunCommon is committed to the triple bottom line of people, planet and profit. There are more than 7,500 customers and nearly 200 employees in the SunCommon community. Join in!

HEALTH CARE ★ ●Data Innovations C1 South Burlington, datainnovations.com By enabling clinical labs of every size to harness innovation and optimize performance across all disciplines, Data Innovations empowers them to focus on what matters most: their patients. The company’s leading solutions, world-class service and support for an open ecosystem transform lab enterprise management. A global software company, serving 6,000-plus hospitals and laboratories in 85-plus countries, Data Innovations has been the industry leader for more than 30 years.

Mamava A8 Burlington, mamava.com Mamava is the leading expert in lactation space design. Mamava celebrates and supports the 21st-century breastfeeding mama-on-the-go with freestanding lactation pods, a mobile locator app and an engaged digital community. Mamava is a brand committed to playful disruption, great design, human connection and inspiring action.

QGenda D5 South Burlington, qgenda.com QGenda is the leading provider of automated health care workforce management software.

Since its launch in 2006, QGenda has grown to serve more than 1,200 customers in more than 30 medical specialties across 5,000 hospitals.

The subscription-based automated scheduling software is used by practice groups, hospitals, academic medical centers and enterprise health systems to build optimal schedules for clinicians and medical staff to provide the best possible care. QGenda is headquartered in Atlanta, Ga.

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Colchester, qor360.com This Burlington-area startup sells revolutionary QOR360 chairs — an “active” chair developed

by University of Vermont trauma surgeon Dr. Turner Osler, who hopes to change how everyone in the world sits. Using his patented RedRocker technology, Dr. Osler’s chairs improve health at an affordable price. Bodies were meant to move, even while sitting, but conventional chairs restrict the spine’s freedom.

Dr. Osler’s chairs encourage a healthier sitting posture. QOR360 has been in business for two years — selling more than 650 chairs — and is starting to scale up.

● University of Vermont Medical Center H3 Burlington, uvmhealth.org

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A technology partner, strategic adviser and problem preventer, NPI Technology Management makes sure clients have the right system and network. As these evolve, NPI keeps clients ahead of the curve by building on their staff ’s expertise. The company’s integrated IT services make the technology environment a powerful, reliable vehicle for reaching business goals.

When technology works as it should, projects get done on time, security is rock-solid and problems give way to productivity. The NPI suite of Canopy packages allows clients to choose the level of IT support that’s right for their business.

NPI creates a strategic plan that delivers the results clients need, because systems are key to business success.

Love Where You Work is a movement focused on challenging the status quo of company culture.

Its mission is to empower employees to ask the question, “Do I love where I work?” Its goal is to educate and inform about the ways a positive high-performance culture founded on trust, respect and open communication can bring impactful career change and help employees feel fulfilled in their work. Be heard. Be respected. Be engaged.

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The University of Vermont Medical Center is an academic medical center affiliated with the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences.

It serves as both a regional referral center (providing advanced care to approximately 1 million people in Vermont and northern New York) and a community hospital (for approximately 160,000 residents in Chittenden and Grand Isle counties). The organization generates approximately $900 million in annual revenue.

The UVMMC is part of a four-hospital network, and through this network and collaborative relationships throughout Vermont and northern New York, UVMMC is able to provide the highest quality care, informed by academic research, to patients throughout the region.

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Latham, N.Y., teksystems.com TEKsystems is a full-stack technology and talent-service provider with more than 150 locations worldwide supporting 80 percent of the companies on the Fortune 500. The Albany office has dedicated account managers and recruiters who specialize to support verticals such as government, education, health care, financial and others. TEKsystems offers clients advisory, engagement and co-led services for larger-scale initiatives that require thought leadership and guidance through implementation. TEKsystems also offers talent services by leveraging a diverse talent population to support its clients’ workforce planning.

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C2-Competitive Computing is a Vermont-based IT solutions company specializing in digital commerce, cloud infrastructure and 24-7 managed services. C2’s industry-leading technology solutions are custom designed to help position clients to compete in a fast-paced and highly connected world. For more than 25 years, C2 has worked with brand-name businesses and educational and governmental institutions throughout the northeast and U.S. to deliver award-winning solutions.

GlobalFoundries is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing a unique combination of design, development and fabrication services to technology companies around the world. With a global manufacturing footprint spanning three continents, GlobalFoundries makes possible the technologies and systems that transform industries and give customers the power to shape their markets.

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Burlington, csl-uk.com Founded in 1992, at the start of the digital revolution, CSL has grown to become a global solutions provider for businesses and organizations across multiple continents. CSL focuses on the health care sector, encompassing the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Its adaptable software can also transform business for clients in other sectors, such as animal health and financial services.

●Logic Supply F5 Logic Supply is an independent, privately held industrial computer company designing highly configurable computers engineered for reliability.

The systems operate in the harshest environments and power innovation in the evolving Internet of Things. Fueled by a unique direct-to-customer business model that combines vertical integration, modular product design and a powerful online platform, Logic Supply offers computers “designed to last, built to order and delivered in days.” Founded in 2003, the company has helped more than 70,000 customers solve their most difficult hardware challenges from offices in North America, Europe and Taiwan.

●Revision A5 Essex Junction, revisionmilitary.com Headquartered in Essex Junction, Revision develops and delivers purpose-built eye protection for military and tactical use worldwide. Revision specializes in integration for the optimum and necessary balance of protection and performance. To that end, Revision brings together the most advanced expertise, state-of-the-art technology and the finest technical minds.

MEDIA ●Awesome Graphics H1 Rutland, awesomegraphics.com This award-winning, large-format print company creates timely graphic solutions that elevate and advance businesses. From vehicle wraps to signage and trade show displays, and from concept to completion, design to professional install — they have clients covered! Awesome Graphics: “Printing BIG since 1994.”

★Vermont Business Magazine F4 South Burlington, vermontbiz.com Vermont Business Magazine is Vermont’s only source for statewide business information. Since 1972, VBM has published the latest and most accurate information and economic data available in the state. VBM’s monthly magazine, along with its annual Business Directory and Book of Lists, focuses on subjects such as Vermont’s largest companies ranked by sales, the largest employers, technology, construction, health, and travel and tourism news, to name a few. VBM hosts several events a year, including the most anticipated Made in Vermont Marketplace, which showcases a variety of Vermont-made products. VBM also publishes free daily and weekly e-newsletters on newsmakers, health and environmental news.

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●PMI Champlain Valley Chapter E4 Burlington, pmivt.org PMI Champlain Valley Chapter is a volunteeronly nonprofit organization serving the project management and business community of the Champlain Valley region. Chapter activities, meetings, professional programs and educational programs are designed to strengthen project management knowledge and awareness for members and the general public.

ROBOTICS Robot Draws You! C4 Burlington, robotdrawsyou.com Robot Draws You! is an interactive art project where pictures of people or objects are drawn with a pen on paper instead of printed with a conventional inkjet or toner printer. A weekend project to create a photo booth for a holiday party eventually led to multicolor artwork, maps and now a custom-made CNC machine drawing robot. Creator Mat Gilbert brings his new take on an old technology with Robot Draws You!

SOFTWARE AND DIGITAL PRODUCTS ●Accessible Web H6 Burlington, accessibleweb.com Accessible Web connects businesses and organizations with accessibility web developers and UX testers with various disabilities. Together, this team is building a web that’s accessible to everyone.

●Bytes.co H7 Burlington, bytes.co A company specializing in website design and development, digital marketing, and hosting and support, Bytes.co has offices in Burlington and Portland, Maine, and services small-, medium-, and large-size businesses all over New England.

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This global company includes 33,000 team members in more than 200 locations. Dealer. com, a Cox Automotive brand, has about 1,300 team members. Dealer.com is the industry’s leading provider of integrated digital marketing software and services, and helps retailers and original equipment manufacturers create personalized online shopping and buying experiences through a connected platform of websites, digital retailing, digital advertising and managed services, all backed by strategic advisory and support teams.

GameTheory Co C6 Burlington, gametheoryco.com GameTheory is an award-winning, femalefounded and -run game design and development collective. GameTheory works with clients who have big goals and are looking to create a meaningful change. By leveraging the unique motivational framework that guides game development work, GameTheory designs products that empower learning, inspire creativity and build perseverance. Visit the GameTheory booth at Tech Jam to register for and learn more about the Good Citizen Challenge, a youth civics project developed by Seven Days and Kids VT, with support from the Vermont Community Foundation. This year’s Challenge launches at the Jam. GameTheory developed the online game engine that powers it, a project made possible by support from Dan and Jenna Sonneborn and the Evslin Family Foundation.

● Perficient A4 Burlington, perficient.com Perficient is a technology consulting firm that helps Fortune 500 companies and other large organizations with business-critical IT and software development projects. It has more than 3,000 employees around North America, including a “remote work” team in Vermont which is focused on the communications technology practice. Perficient’s communications technology practice helps companies get better at customer service through new technology, using cloud call center/contact center platforms from partners like Amazon and Twilio. With Perficient, you can work remotely from Vermont while having access to the career opportunities and newer tech stacks of a large, growing company.

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●Reading Plus A6 Winooski, readingplus.com Reading Plus is a growing EdTech company with a rich history of innovation and passion for helping young people become successful, lifelong readers. It offers a leading adaptive and personalized literacy improvement solution for students in grades 3 through12.

Validated by more than a decade of careful research, its unique program addresses not only reading comprehension but dramatically improves a student’s reading efficiency and motivation. Reading Plus offers a high-growth, team-focused environment that comes with an amazing employee culture of collaboration, innovation, transparency and camaraderie.

●Systems & Software D3 Williston, ssivt.com Systems & Software, 45 years young, is a hightech firm that creates business solutions for the utility industry under the Harris conglomerate.

Under new leadership in 2017, S&S is consistently hustling to grow its business offerings and its people. The company’s approach to work encompasses the agile and swarm methodologies. Its leadership team believes in working on the right things — not just working hard.

Its customers are its partners in every sense of the word. The company’s latest focus is all about the cloud, and S&S is proud to have customers live and wanting more offerings in the sky. Successful candidates must possess three key attributes: customer focus, accountability and innovation. The new S&S offices promote a team-based, positive and supportive environment that includes Friday breakfasts, lunchtime workouts, daily guitar jam sessions, giving back to the community and work/life flexibility.

S&S is committed to reinventing itself, as the status quo is not acceptable.

★● Vermont Information Processing F1 Colchester, public.vtinfo.com VIP is a 100 percent employee-owned company. Using the latest technologies, VIP provides an innovative suite of solutions to distributors, bottlers, suppliers and brand owners in the beverage industry. At the heart of VIP’s innovation is the company culture, which embraces a collaborative problem-solving approach and puts a premium on employees’ health and wellness. For more than 40 years, VIP has built long-lasting relationships with many of the largest and most successful companies in the beverage industry. The company motto is: “Our customers are our friends.” VIP values customer relationships and constantly strives to help customers reach their goals in an ever-changing industry. At VIP, hard work is recognized and a healthy work/life balance is encouraged. VIP’s famous midday basketball and street hockey games, on-site fitness center, cycling club, softball team, and on-site childcare center are just a few examples of the activities and perks that bring VIP employees together.

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● Vermont Systems A3 Essex Junction, vermontsystems.com Vermont Systems is a market leader in recreation management software. An employeeowned company, VSI provides a range of applications that increase its clients’ efficiency and productivity. Since 1988, VSI has specialized in developing software products for managing recreation and parks operations for municipal, county, state and federal military governmental entities. VSI markets and fully supports this software primarily on a national basis. The software is also marketed to private businesses with similar needs, such as golf courses and fitness centers

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