RBTC News

January 2012 Member News and Events

2/10/2012

Please help us welcome our new members Barnes & Associates: The financial advisors from Barnes & Associates, a financial advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., have served members of the greater Roanoke-Blacksburg region for years. They are backed by a team of professional who specialize in everything from retirement and tax planning strategies to insurance and asset management. They help their clients to define dreams, develop plans and track their...

Growth Returning to Most Industries in the Roanoke Region

2/10/2012

The recovery has picked up considerable steam in the Roanoke Region over the course of 2011. After years of significant declines, information technology and telecommunications grew by approximately 1,700 jobs over the past year in the extended labor market area. Transportation and logistics, education and related services, and business services also experienced higher levels of growth each adding between 500 and 600 jobs. Read more.

Startups: Apply by March 9th to Showcase Your Business at Entrepreneur Spotlight!

2/10/2012

The Entrepreneur Center at the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) is seeking startups to showcase their business concepts in front of an audience of accredited investors at its next Entrepreneur Spotlight program, May 3rd. The companies selected to participate in the program are truly in the startup phase and may only be looking for small amounts of funding. During the event, technology startups will take five minutes to present their business concepts and will be given 10 minutes...

November 2011 Member News and Events

12/1/2011

Please help us welcome our new members Blue Ridge Interactive: Blue Ridge Interactive, a dynamic, client focused web organization that specializes in building affordable, effective and efficient, custom business applications. PowerHub Systems: PowerHub Systems develops distributed energy storage systems for utility smart grid applications. Our patent pending bidirectional power flow control and communications system enables reliable, secure, and decentralized energy storage to be...

Could Roanoke be the next Silicon Valley?

12/1/2011

While most people associate the phrase "start-up" with Silicon Valley, the fact is that there are millions of budding entrepreneurs outside of America's existing technology centers. BusinessInsider.com has identified Roanoke County on its list of 20 "micropolitan" areas that meet certain demographic requirements for a budding technology economy. Read the full article.

Attention CEOs! Are You Burning Bright or Burning Out?

12/1/2011

Research shows that in an average work week, most CEOs experience just one dozen emotions across work and home life. Those twelve emotions are mostly negative: Being overwhelmed, frustrated, angry, disappointed, and fearful. About half confided they find the job intensely lonely and don't know who to turn to for advice. This CNN article recommends 5 actions to address the challenges of beings a CEO. But if you find yourself struggling with these challenges, the RBTC can be a support system for...

Blacksburg Named Best Place in the U.S. to Raise Kids by BusinessWeek.com

12/1/2011

Businessweek.com evaluated 4,169 places with populations between 1,000 and 50,000 people on a variety of factors with school performance, expenditures, and income being given the most weight. Read the article.

RBTC Highlighted in Virginia Tech Magazine

12/1/2011

In the most recent issue of Virginia Tech magazine, in the "Message from the President", Dr. Steger highlights the innovative and entrepreneurial growth that's taken place in the Roanoke - Blacksburg region and references the RBTC. For a while now, it has been our goal to raise the profile of the RBTC within the VT alumni community. Regardless of where they currently live, most VT alumni have a strong affinity for the University and Blacksburg. Making connections between the RBTC...

October 2011 Member News and Events

11/1/2011

Please help us welcome our new members City of Radford: Our small city is situated in the heart of Virginia's New River Valley, in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Nestled in a large bend in the New River, Radford covers approximatly 9.5 square miles and is a diverse city full of commercial and recreational opportunity. Emishield: Manufactures ceramic coatings for high-temperature, industrial applications. NASA developed the core technology that our clients now use to...

RBTC Kicks-off Innovation Blueprint Initiative

9/23/2011

The Roanoke-Blacksburg Innovation Blueprint initiative aims to help create a stronger and more effective innovation ecosystem in our region. Over the next few months, a handful of working groups will be looking at key challenges we face with a particular focus on four key topics: Energizing Entrepreneurship: Making it easier for local residents to start businesses and to grow them into world-class ventures. Developing Talent: Identify new ways to help existing residents gain new...

Advertise Your Jobs on VTalumni.com for FREE via the RBTC Job Board

9/21/2011

The RBTC job board provides our members with a free way to recruit the best talent from not only this area but also around the world and we are now pushing jobs to VTAlumni.com, an exclusive site for Virginia Tech graduates and students. Whenever you post a job to our (FREE) job board and enable sharing with other job boards, your job will now appear on VTalumni.com in addition to all the other jobs boards we already push to! If you would like to know more about the new RBTC job board please...

August 2011 Member News and Events

8/31/2011

Please help us welcome our new members DaPro Systems, Inc.: Provides software and professional services for the Public Sector. Our clients include Sheriff’s Offices, Police Departments, Emergency Communications Centers and Colleges & Universities. JSW Financial: Provides business consulting and financial planning services. Juniper Networks: Offers a high-performance network infrastructure built on simplicity, security, openness, and scale. ...

July 2011 Member News and Events

7/21/2011

Please help us welcome our new members Dixon Hughes and Goodman LLP: We combine deep industry experience, comprehensive tax, accounting and advisory services and a strong commitment to personal service. We have more than 1,700 professionals located in 30 offices in eleven states and D.C. and 240 Partners and Principals who direct these resources to your best advantage. Member Events August 7-11th: Virginia Tech: 8th Annual "International Workshop on...

August 11th - Leadership Workshop: "Alignment Leads to Engagement"

7/21/2011

Growing businesses often struggle with many seemingly unrelated problems. These challenges consume a lot of time and resources and ultimately hinder profitability. Join us for a half-day workshop on August 11th when we discuss employee engagement and leadership alignment, and how those dynamics affect the efficiency and profitability of your business. Learn more and register.

Registration Now Open for the RBTC Fall Gala on September 29th!

7/21/2011

The RBTC Fall Membership Gala will be held Thursday, September 29th at The Inn at Virginia Tech. The speaker this year will be Rackspace Chairman, Graham Weston. Weston leads Rackspace's corporate strategy, business development and M&A activity efforts. Register now.

Save the Date - RBTC Access to Capital Seminar: "Small Bucks, Big Bang" is September 30th!

7/21/2011

Save the date for a ½ day conference on capital access in RBTC region. This event, held at the Inn of VT, is being developed by the RBTC Access to Capital committee. Note: Sept 29 is RBTC Fall Gala and Oct 1 is Clemson @ VT. "Small Bucks, Big Bang!": bootstrapping and raising minimal amounts of capital to get big results. The agenda is being built around Ian Sobieski who is the director of Band of Angels (Silicon Valley). Band of Angels is a successful angel...

Upcoming Contests and Competitions

7/21/2011

2011 Annual Workforce Awards Event Nominations The Western Virginia Workforce Development Board is seeking nominations to recognize individuals, professionals and businesses who have made outstanding contributions to the local workforce system in meeting the needs of local employers and individuals. Award categories include: Business of the Year, an organization who supports professional development within its own workforce and supports workforce development issues and strategies; and...

June 2011 Member News and Events

6/27/2011

Please help us welcome our new members VT Applied Research Corporation: Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation, a non-profit corporation, draws upon the rich multi-disciplinary fundamental research found within Virginia Tech to form cross-disciplinary teams that are able to identify and apply innovative solutions to complex real-world problems. Member Events June 28th: Optical Cable Corporation Inside Sales Representatives Job Fair: Join Optical Cable...

RBTC Job Board Upgrade: New Features, Easier to Use, and Still FREE

6/27/2011

Our goal with the RBTC job board is to promote available opportunities in our region's tech sector and to help our members recruit the best talent from throughout the world. Not only is it FREE to post your openings to our job board, but we help advertise your jobs by pushing them to a host of other websites including LinkedIn, SimplyHired, Jobster, and more. This "push" function means we get your jobs out where the talent is already looking and has resulted in RBTC member hires from...

Save the Date - the RBTC Fall Gala is September 29th!

6/27/2011

August 11th - Leadership Workshop: "Alignment Leads to Engagement"

6/27/2011

Roanoke-Blacksburg Region Identified as "Emerging Epicenter of High Tech Industry"

6/27/2011

Wired Magazine asked the Cluster Mapping Project at Harvard Business School to provide the top 20 job-creating areas for the following fields: Plastics, Chemicals, Automotive, Aerospace vehicles, Information technology, Biopharma, Metal manufacturing, Communication technology, Medical technology, Analytical instruments, and Electrical equipment. Roanoke-Blacksburg Region was identified by Wired Magazine and NPR as an "Emerging Epicenter of High Tech Industry". Click here to view the...

Will Your Company Be One of the "12 to Watch" in 2011?

6/27/2011

"12 to Watch" is an initiative of the US Senate Productivity and Quality Award Program for Virginia (VA SPQA) to promote the participation of 12 selected small businesses in the VA SPQA Discovery Program and provide related performance excellence technical assistance at no cost. Small businesses selected to be one of the 12 are considered to be those poised for positive and sustainable job growth in the Commonwealth.Offered in partnership with the VA Department of Business Assistance,...

Upcoming Contests and Competitions

6/27/2011

One of the best ways to highlight our region's "budding technology community" is when one of our RBTC members wins a contest/competition. So, we'd like to encourage you to enter some of these contests and competitions. If you win, we'll help you brag about it! Here are a few with approaching deadlines (and all offer cash). Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards Competition The Tayloe Murphy Center at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business is asking your help in promoting...

May 2011 Member News and Events

6/9/2011

Please help us welcome our new members Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation: Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation, a non-profit corporation, draws upon the rich multi-disciplinary fundamental research found within Virginia Tech to form cross-disciplinary teams that are able to identify and apply innovative solutions to complex real-world problems. Member Events June 2nd: Varrow Lunch and Learn: "Desktop Virtualization': Join Varrow for lunch and...

The NCTC is now the RBTC! What do you think?

6/9/2011

At our annual TechNite Awards banquet on May 12th, we announced that the NewVa Corridor Technology Council (often referred to as the NCTC) changed its name to the Roanoke - Blacksburg Technology Council (RBTC). As an organization that serves the Roanoke and New River Valleys, our board felt that this new name would better identify us as a representative of and ambassador to our region. Read more about the name change. Let us know your thoughts on the new name on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter!

2011 TechNite Award Winners Announced!

6/9/2011

Award finalists and winners were announced at TechNite on May 12th at the Hotel Roanoke in front of 430+ RBTC guests. TechNite is an annual celebration of the Roanoke - Blacksburg region's technology community. The evening was highlighted with an awards ceremony, where leaders were recognized in five categories. Click here to view the 2011 TechNite Winners.

Save the Date- the RBTC Fall Gala is September 29th!

6/9/2011

Stake a Claim on the Startups Across America Map- Add Your Startup!

6/9/2011

StartupsAcrossAmerica.com is the first entrepreneurial map of the United States, where startups can stand up and be counted. While spotlighting the innovation, imagination and self determination that abounds among this country's entrepreneurs, the Startups Across America map and its listings intend to give investors, community leaders, and other finance-related decision makers a keener understanding of the real dollars needed, state-by-state, for these new enterprises to succeed. The interactive...

Upcoming Contests and Competitions

6/9/2011

Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards Competition The Tayloe Murphy Center at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business is asking your help in promoting the second annual Tayloe Murphy Resilience Awards Competition. The competition spotlights businesses in Virginia that have succeeded in spite of difficult local economic conditions and have given back by helping their community face economic challenges head-on. Five Resilience Award winners receive recognition and resources to help their...

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