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Newsletter for July 8, 2024 | We're back after a publishing break during the holiday with a piece about a new fellowship for tech execs and founders. Before you say anything, no, it's not another accelerator or incubator focusing on how to pitch or scale, or trying to get you in the room with investors. Instead, this one focuses on something you might not think about while in the trenches of entrepreneurship: What the humanities can do for you. Read more about this new program from Virginia Tech, as well as info about one of our biggest annual honorific series, by scrolling down. — Sameer, Technical.ly editor for Baltimore and DC | Image of the Day: Image Engineering drones in flight during last week's July 4th fireworks show. (Kaela Roeder/Technical.ly) Have a photo or chart we should feature here? Hit reply and send in your submission. | At Vanguard, IT isn’t just another division living in a silo. Technologists at the investor-owned global company are deeply embedded in cross-functional teams, empowered to experiment and move quickly while making real business decisions. Want to be part of it? Visit Vanguard’s Directory Page. | What humanities can do for tech leaders | Rishi Jaitly, a Virginia Tech professor and advisor for OpenAI whose resume includes stints at some of the world's biggest tech companies, sees the arts and related fields as crucial to the tech sector — and not opposed or tangential to it. "A world in which the humanities are more accessible and available," Jaitly said, "is a world that's more curious [and] more compassionate." That's why he created the Institute for Leadership in Technology, which recently wrapped its first cohort of 11 mid-career professionals. Comprising a mix of startup leaders and employees at massive regional companies like Amazon and Boeing, the class spent two semesters learning how the arts, religion and other humanities fields shape leadership practices across history. Members supplemented the seminars with their own writing and trips to places like Miami. ➡️ Learn more about the program's first year in Kaela Roeder's latest | Help us honor community-boosting engineers | 📰 News Incubator: What else to know | • As a cyberattack's fallout and updated protocols leave them taking on more work, nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital and other providers say these threats show how major healthcare entities are prioritizing systems protection over worker and patient well-being. [Baltimore Banner] • The second cohort of the Maryland Innovation Lab, a program linking international and local companies to foster innovation, will focus on supply chain and logistics solutions. [Maryland Department of Commerce] • Out in Kent Island, Choptank Fiber will be upgrading broadband infrastructure as part of a multiagency, state-funded project to make the Chesapeake Bay Business Park better connected. [Queen Anne's County Economic and Tourism Development] • Bloomberg Philanthropies gifted its founder's alma mater Johns Hopkins $1 billion to make most medical students' tuition totally free, as well as provide more financial aid across other graduate schools. [The Hub/Baltimore Sun] • Defense contractor TRAX International Corp. hired 460 people, with plans to add at least 31 more this summer, through a $692 million contract with the Aberdeen Test Center. The contract aims to help the US Army agency test military vehicles and combat responses at Aberdeen Proving Ground. [Biz Journal] • Annapolis-based SIXGEN acquired fellow cyber company Secure Enterprise Engineering of Hanover for an undisclosed amount late last month. [Sixgen/Biz Journal] | Sponsored news: Point of interest | The research park’s perfectly matched location and array of startup-supporting resources makes it an invaluable pillar for a growing number of life science startups — and the entire Maryland ecosystem. |
| 🗓️ On the Calendar • July 12: Startup Grind Maryland's latest virtual Founders Forum focuses on AI's role in fundraising. [Details here]
• July 16: UpSurge Baltimore and the #BaltimoreTech meetup partner for a special joint networking event. [Details here]
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