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Colorado Tech Weekly #160: Tech and Politics

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This week has had some big news combining Colorado tech and politics. Our Governor decided to celebrate Colorado’s tech success with Tech Week in August and the two most popular US Presidential candidates visited the state. Hillary Clinton visited Galvanize and talked about tech, education and entrepreneurship and Donald Trump visited Colorado and, while he didn’t say anything specific about technology he did say that Colorado could win so much we would be tired of winning. I don’t think it’s possible to get tired of winning. The Colorado tech community has been mostly winning for the past 3 years and I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of it.

Regardless of party affiliation we all need to be more involved in politics (this means doing more than just voting in November and posting rants on social media. I need to be better at this too), especially local politics, because like technology, politics affects everything whether we like it or not.

Top Colorado Technology News

  • Highlands Ranch-based Zen Planner partners with Denver-based Cloud Elements on replatforming venture [CTA]
  • Hillary Clinton touts entrepreneurship, tech education at Denver’s Galvanize [DBJ]
  • Colorado Technology Association announces organizational changes to expand leadership team [CTA]
  • How Colorado coding schools are helping veterans — and filling the gap in tech worker demand [BuiltinColorado]
  • Louisville-based GHX acquires Omaha software firm [BizWest]
  • Seagate begins cutting 1,600 jobs, some possibly in Longmont [DenverPost]
  • Centennial-based ULA downsizing triggers hundreds of layoffs, buyouts [DBJ]
  • Hickenlooper proclaims August 1-5 as Tech Week to celebrate Colorado as a tech hub [CTA]
  • Virtual companions, interactive incubators and more at Denver’s 10.10.10 health event [DBJ]
  • Report cites $50M-worth of unpaid software jobs in Boulder [BizWest]

Top Upcoming Events

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