Takeaways from the Global Insurance Symposium Insurance industry professionals came together this week for the 2022 Global Insurance Symposium in Des Moines, which focused this year on the future of insurance and looking ahead to the next decade. Chick Herbert, chief experience officer at NCMIC, moderated a panel Wednesday covering the emerging technology trends for insurance […]
Cedar Rapids-based Stratafolio, a provider of real estate management software, has been accepted into the 2022 Commercial REACH Scale-up Program run by the National Association of Realtors. The program is for companies that are ready to scale and provides them mentorship, networking opportunities and exposure to the real estate marketplace. REACH is led by Second […]
Iowa State University’s Student Innovation Center will host the Ignite Innovation Showcase next week, April 18-22. Each day of the weeklong event will feature a keynote address that is open to the public for in-person attendance or to watch live on YouTube. The last day of the event includes a keynote as well as the Innovation […]
IowaWorks, in conjunction with JobWorks Education and Training Systems, is partnering to offer an accelerated information technology course aimed at people who lost their job during the pandemic “through no fault of their own.” The 12-week online course will provide participants with two IT training certificates, A+ Certification and IT Fundamental Certification, that will prepare […]
Christian Williams, co-founder and chief operating officer of telemedicine startup OpenLoop, led a breakout session at the Iowa Technology Summit Tuesday on how the company has developed its hybrid work environment. Founded in 2020 by Williams and Dr. Jon Lensing, OpenLoop started as a service placing available physicians in rural hospitals that needed shifts covered […]
Takeaways from Iowa Technology Summit keynote speaker Ian Khan Ian Khan wanted the one word audiences took away from his presentation at the Technology Association of Iowa’s Iowa Technology Summit to be “change” as an acknowledgement that currently emerging technologies are set to dramatically disrupt and alter the world of work as well as people’s lives. […]
Jill Skinner has been named chief marketing officer of real estate and home equity lending fintech LenderClose. Skinner has served in marketing leadership roles at Wells Fargo for the last 12 years, most recently as senior vice president of marketing. LenderClose grew its leadership hires in 2021 following a Series B round raising $10 million. “Jill will […]
Pi515 is one of four finalists in the Kids Tech Summit hosted by national nonprofit Connected Nation and sponsored by AT&T. The competition challenges students to develop ideas using digital skills that directly benefit their community. The Pi515 students competing have focused their project on improving the digital literacy skills of seniors so they can […]
Austin Mac Nab, CEO of payment processor VizyPay, has been named a member of the Electronic Transaction Association’s 2022 Forty Under 40 class. The honor recognizes individuals shaping the future of the payments industry. ETA members and industry leaders submitted nominations and previous Forty Under 40 honorees selected the final class, according to a release. […]
A team of University of Iowa researchers has received an $800,000 grant as part of an initiative with the National Science Foundation and Amazon to make machine learning less discriminatory. Algorithms learn to do their task and improve on accuracy by analyzing data, but the researchers said the algorithms can learn discriminatory things due to […]