Metro Hartford Leaders Craft Broad Strategy to Advance Region’s Economy, Opportunity

Metro Hartford Leaders Craft Broad Strategy to Advance Region’s Economy, Opportunity

There’s a new strategy in town. Multiple towns, in fact.  The Metro Hartford Metropolitan Region has revealed a strategy aimed at achieving inclusive economic growth and strengthening the region’s position in the global economy.  The forward-looking strategy covers approximately one million people in 38 municipalities.

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Innovative Insurance Start-Ups Selected to Return to Hartford in 2020, With Industry Access

Innovative Insurance Start-Ups Selected to Return to Hartford in 2020, With Industry Access

Hartford InsurTech Hub expected 10, but ended their Selection Days with 11.  After two days of intensive interviews with representatives of Connecticut’s leading insurance companies and related organizations, 11 start-ups from across the U.S. and beyond were selected by judges for a 12 week acceleration program.

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Bradley Advertises to Attract Southern CT Travelers, Lamont Seeks to Grow Competitor Closer to Home

Bradley Advertises to Attract Southern CT Travelers, Lamont Seeks to Grow Competitor Closer to Home

The advertising campaign’s message is concise and clear:  if you’re doing business in New Haven or Fairfield County, your airport of choice ought to be Bradley International in Windsor Locks, north of Hartford. That may change if Gov. Lamont’s plan for Sikorsky Tweed come to fruition.

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State Unveils Business Recruitment Video Promoting “Place People Love to Live”

State Unveils Business Recruitment Video Promoting “Place People Love to Live”

“It’s a state where people wanna be,” exclaims Gov. Ned Lamont in the state’s new business recruitment video.  The 7-minute video has an impressive line-up of a dozen co-stars, extolling the state’s virtues and urging corporate decision-makers from elsewhere to “Choose Connecticut.”

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Millennials Under the Microscope As Businesses Look Ahead to Future Workforce, Growth, Leadership

Millennials Under the Microscope As Businesses Look Ahead to Future Workforce, Growth, Leadership

It seems rarely a month goes by that the Connecticut Business & Industry isn’t posting a new article to its website, publishing a story in its print magazine, or devoting a podcast, into one aspect or another about millennials in the workforce. The numbers explain why.

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Sports Media, Spanish Media Degree Programs Unite University of Saint Joseph, Connecticut Public

Sports Media, Spanish Media Degree Programs Unite University of Saint Joseph, Connecticut Public

An innovative undergraduate program in Digital Media and Communication will launch in January 2020 at the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) in West Hartford, part of a pioneering collaboration with Connecticut Public. The undergraduate degree program offers students two distinct concentrations: Spanish Media and Communication or Sport Media and Communication. 

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Start-up Companies from Seven Countries Land in Hartford’s Urban Hub, Seek to Advance by Working with Local, National Industries

Start-up Companies from Seven Countries Land in Hartford’s Urban Hub, Seek to Advance by Working with Local, National Industries

Upward Labs, Connecticut’s first pilot lab for tech companies creating the future of smart buildings and aged care, is hosting an interactive demonstration of its inaugural cohort’s technologies on October 22, 2019. Upward Labs Demo Day: The Experience invites the public to participate in a live exhibition of the first cohort’s tech solutions in action, allowing attendees to experience a tech-enabled urban hub in which to live, work, and play.

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