Jan 25 Arizona Photonics Days All Day, Jan. 25 – 27, 2023 Hosted by Optics Valley, Arizona Photonics Days brings together Arizona optics and photonics companies and partners from the Global Photonics Alliance for two days of technical discussions and business-to-business meetings.
Apr 19 Virtual SBIR Speaker Series | Beyond Agriculture: Unlocking the USDA's SBIR Program 10 – 11 a.m., April 19, 2022 This is not a Tech Launch Arizona sponsored event. To encourage a stronger ecosystem, we are sharing this on behalf of the Arizona Tech Council. The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) offers competitively awarded grants to qualified small businesses to support high quality research related to important scientific problems and opportunities in agriculture that could lead to significant public benefits. The program stimulates technological innovations in the private sector and strengthens the role of federal research and development in support of small businesses. Please come and learn about the technologies the USDA is funding and how to gain access to up to $100,000 in non dilutive funding!
Apr 21 HealthTech Connect 3 – 7 p.m., April 21, 2022 This is not a Tech Launch Arizona sponsored event. To encourage a stronger ecosystem, we are sharing this on behalf of the University of Arizona Health Sciences. HealthTech Connect: Hybrid Program and Networking Event Thursday, April 21, 2022 Join us for our upcoming HealthTech Connect event featuring exciting applications being developed in wearables and artificial intelligence at the University of Arizona Health Sciences and University of Arizona. Then, enjoy an evening of networking and the Venture Café – a global platform to connect innovators from all over the world. Don’t miss this informative and engaging event!
Mar 22 Virtual Tech Inclusion Forum 3:30 – 5 p.m., March 22, 2022 This is not a Tech Launch Arizona sponsored event. To encourage a stronger ecosystem, we are sharing this on behalf of the Arizona Tech Council. Please join us for a lively and informative discussion with Alexis Krivkovich, Senior Partner with McKinsey & Company, to review findings from McKinsey’s 2021 Women in the Workplace report, the most extensive study on the state of women in corporate America. Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, women have made important gains in corporate representation, especially in senior leadership. But the pandemic continues to take a toll. Women are now significantly more burned out—and increasingly more so than men. In 2021, McKinsey collected information from 423 participating organizations employing 12 million people, surveyed more than 65,000 employees, and conducted interviews with women of diverse identities, including women of color, LGBTQ+ women, and women with disabilities. These current results will be contrasted with findings from this landmark study over the past decade.
