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Looker Challenge: Embedding Analytics vs. Avo Toast Creation. What’s faster?
Take a look at how quickly you can internally embed analytics with Looker.
Girls Who Code program seeks to increase retention of women in tech
When the nonprofit Girls Who Code started a new “College Loops” program last year, students at UC Santa Cruz were quick to establish a branch
What is the SBDC’s plan for 2020?
Santa Cruz County’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is a premier hub of experts experienced in mainstreet, techstreet, and agribusiness. Business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs receive in-depth advising and training to obtain capital, launch businesses, grow sales, and create jobs.
Economic Impacts of Power Outage Survey
October was a dark month for much of northern California. In response to the growing, and now seemingly annual severe wildfire threat, Pacific Gas and Electric implemented mandatory power shutoffs that affected many parts of our community.
Survey: 1 in 2 managers will leave their company in the next year. What would make them stay?
3 million: the number of results you’ll get searching for the term “employee retention”.
Read some of those 3 million blog posts, news articles and surveys, and you’ll notice a pattern. They’re all about why people quit their jobs, the cost of employee turnover
AIoT Developer Summit December 2-3, 2019
The Arm AIoT Dev Summit is a developer-focused conference that provides a platform for you to exchange knowledge, discuss real-world use cases and solutions, and get hands-on with expert-led, deep-dive training and workshops.
Intentional Leaders Delivers Program for Tech
Janice Drescher of Intentional Leaders offers retreats to generate powerful insights for healthy work relationships, collaboration and creative problem-solving. And horses can teach us so much.
Part 3: Why Santa Cruz? Housing and Homelessness
We are in crisis. The realities in San Francisco and Silicon Valley set a very bleak stage. Where do you call Home?
Accept the Challenge! Your Gift = 2x the IMPACT!
This $10,000 Matching Gift Challenge was announced at Digital NEST's 5th Birthday Party on November 10, 2019 by founding Board members Rose Filicetti and Michele Bassi.
Workbench - Building our Community: Interview on KSQD 90.7FM
In this live radio interview with Jamileh Cannon and Tim Gordin from Workbench we discuss what their motivation was to get into the world of design and construction, why more housing is happening in Santa Cruz County, how we can all support the community to keep on developing more housing and what motivates Workbench to do what they do.
Everything You always wanted to know about the Cloud
Cloud is perhaps the most ambiguous term in technology today. Cloud refers to a wide range of internet technology and use cases, yet the term is thrown around as if everyone should understand the context in which it was used in a given moment. It reminds me of the Finnish comedian Ismo and his take on American’s ambiguous use of some words.
Clean Water Action: 2NDNATURE Disrupts the Rain-to-Pollution Cycle
Nicole Beck, founder and CEO of 2NDNATURE, is working to decrease water pollution and transform the rain that falls on our cities back into a valuable resource.
Parallel Flight Building Industry Leading High Power Drones
Scott’s Valley-based Parallel Flight Technologies is building industry-changing unmanned systems to save lives, property, and the environment.
SCW Company Spotlight Breakfast at Almost Human Media
Thank you to everyone who came out to the Santa Cruz Works Company Spotlight Breakfast at Almost Human Media. To learn more about one of our newest partners check out their website: Almost Human Media.
Radical excellence: UC Santa Cruz joins Association of American Universities
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has joined the Association of American Universities, an achievement that underscores the impact and quality of the campus’s research and graduate and undergraduate education.
Part 2: Why Santa Cruz? Room to Grow - Office Space and Wages
This week, backed by an amazing amount of in-depth research and impeccably reported by Leonardo Castañeda, The Mercury News dropped the truth bomb that just 10 entities own about 11% of all the taxable property in Silicon Valley—that’s $59.2 billion of property
Santa Cruz Works Awards Local Subsidized Internships!
Congratulations to the companies that were selected for Santa Cruz Works’ subsidized internships. The winning businesses were selected on the basis of their focus on tech innovation, the ability to scale their business, and their entrepreneurial spirit.
Looker Announces Looker 7
Looker’s annual three-day conference for data professionals, the company announced Looker 7, its next-generation, enterprise-grade data platform.
The Top 10 Female Career Coaches to follow right now!
Business isn’t just a man’s world anymore. Today, when we’re talking about entrepreneurship, career coaches, and success, we’re talking about people – not pronouns.

