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Tech trade group to Congress: Let’s collaborate

January 24, 2017 By Nancy Cleveland

A trade group representing some of the largest IT companies is calling for a collaborative approach among the new Congress, the Trump administration and the tech industry.

ITICIn a blog post explaining the tech industry’s legislation priorities for the 115th Congress, the Information Technology Industry Council outlined four priority areas that share commonalities with President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda. Chief among them is reforming acquisition and procurement, the blog states.

“Federal agencies spend approximately 80 percent of their total technology budget on maintaining outdated legacy computer systems,” the blog states. “Congress should reform the way the federal government procures and utilizes technology to ensure all government users keep pace with innovation and modern solutions.”

Keep reading this article at: http://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2017/01/tech-trade-group-new-congress-lets-collaborate/134507

Filed Under: Contracting News Tagged With: collaboration, industrial base. IT, information technology, marketplace, technology

Emerson opens The Helix Innovation Center at Georgia Tech

September 13, 2016 By Nancy Cleveland

Emerson on September 8th celebrated the opening of The Helix Innovation Center at Georgia Tech, a new collaboration and innovation space located in Technology Square. The site expands Emerson’s global network of innovation facilities focused on climate solutions, including The Helix Innovation Center at the University of Dayton in Ohio, The Europe Solution Center in Aachen, Germany, and The Emerson Innovation Centre in Pune, India.

Emerson executives joined by Georgia Institute of Technology President G.P. "Bud" Peterson officially open The Helix Innovation Center at Georgia Tech in Technology Square. The new site expands Emerson’s global network of innovation facilities focused on climate solutions and will serve as the focal point of Emerson’s development and collaboration on big data and Internet of Things concepts.  Emerson is among the more than a dozen corporations that have either opened or announced innovation centers in and around Tech Square.
Emerson executives joined by Georgia Institute of Technology President G.P. “Bud” Peterson officially open The Helix Innovation Center at Georgia Tech in Technology Square. The new site expands Emerson’s global network of innovation facilities focused on climate solutions and will serve as the focal point of Emerson’s development and collaboration on big data and Internet of Things concepts.
Emerson is among the more than a dozen corporations that have either opened or announced innovation centers in and around Tech Square.

The Tech Square location will serve as the focal point of Emerson’s development and collaboration on big data and Internet of Things concepts.

“Our investment in this collaboration and innovation space is a key part of our strategy to build relationships with academics, students, technology leaders and entrepreneurs. We want to create the right environment and culture for innovation to address industry challenges and better serve our customers,” said Mark Dunson, group vice president of electronics & solutions for Emerson.

The Helix Innovation Center at Georgia Tech is a nearly 1,600 square-foot facility, featuring the latest technology for effective in-person and virtual collaboration.

Georgia Tech President G.P. “Bud” Peterson welcomed Emerson to the Tech Square community and recognized the company as one of the world’s powerhouses in the electronics industry.

“We’re impressed by Emerson’s innovation speed,” Peterson said. “While we’re at the grand opening event today, the Emerson team has been active in the Tech Square community for more than a year, and is already deeply engaged with our students, faculty, and our innovation and entrepreneur community.”

Over the past couple of years more than a dozen corporations have opened or announced plans for innovation centers in Tech Square to access the talent and technologies that exist at Georgia Tech.

Emerson will leverage a variety of projects to explore solutions to customer problems through The Helix Innovation Center at Georgia Tech. Early projects already completed include multiple industry and product ideation sessions, reviews of new technology and entrepreneurial concepts, early development of advanced components for Emerson building management systems, and student engagements in research projects and prototyping product concepts.

Emerson will employ approximately a dozen people in The Helix Innovation Center at Georgia Tech; roughly half will be employees who rotate through from other Emerson locations.

Emerson employs more than 200 management, engineering, technical support, sales and manufacturing associates at its Kennesaw location, which focuses on serving the retail supermarket, convenience store, refrigerated transport and foodservice industries.

At The Helix, Emerson focuses on HVACR industry markets (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning and Refrigeration), including: supermarket refrigeration, food service operations, residential connected homes, data center cooling, industrial refrigeration and light commercial buildings.

Source: http://www.news.gatech.edu/2016/09/08/emerson-opens-helix-innovation-center-georgia-tech

Filed Under: Georgia Tech News Tagged With: collaboration, electronics, Georgia Tech, HVACR, innovation, Tech Square, technology

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