What an amazing night for Santa Cruz tech! It was so inspiring to hear this years Titans of Tech stories of why they do what they do. Videos will be coming soon but in the meantime here are the pictures from the night.

At CES, Santa Cruz’s Gabriella Pleasant (Pleasant Robotics), known as the mother of the pooping turtle PETER was announced the winner with a captivating mission to build a bio-inspired micro plastic eating robot.

Thank you to everyone who came out to the 2020 Titans of Tech Breakfast at the productOps Garage. Here are the photos from the morning.

CruzHacks returns on January 17-19. Over 900 “hackers” have registered to participate. Now in its 7th year, it is the premier and largest annual hackathon on the central coast. How did this all get started, and how has it changed through the years?

Bug Bounty Regional Cyber Competition needs a few more judges for this Saturday, January 10th for the event. If you want to have a boost to start your 2020, come and help judge these amazing students. It's really inspiring and you will get lunch!

Does your business need a video to show off your product or service? Well Owl Eye Media has you covered!

As was expected, Uber Technologies and Postmates Inc. filed a legal challenge against California’s AB5 “Gig Economy” law this past week in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, which is appealable to the Federal Ninth Circuit Court.

Though they were snubbed by the Golden Globes this year, female directors are becoming more commonplace in Hollywood, thanks in large part to Netflix.

In advance of the annual Titans of Tech event on January 8, we asked our Titans to make predictions for 2020 relative to their industry. Due to the holidays, we managed to get 8 out of 11 Titans to provide their predictions.

Predicting the future is hard, even for the people with the most power to influence it. In 2013, Jeff Bezos said he expected Amazon would be delivering packages by drone in four to five years. Here we are seven years later…

As big tech gets bigger, industry leaders have begun making more noise about helping homeless populations, particularly in those regions where high salaries have driven up the cost of living to heights not seen before. 

As the year comes to a close, Crunchbase data shows what ‘overperforming’ really means: 2019 has been a historic year for female-founded unicorns, which were born at an unprecedented pace.

On December 5th Cruzio was awarded a $2.45 Million broadband grant from the California Advanced Services Fund to build high-speed fiber optic internet connectivity to seven under-served mobile home parks in the Capitola area.

Santa Cruz based financial startup Paystand created a B2B solution that will give corporate customers an end-to-end digital payment platform. JBC, a large scale Japanese and Korean financial services firm recently signed on with Paystand. This is major step for the up-and-coming business and is an important progression toward Paystand’s innovative use of blockchain technology.

One of this year’s Titans of Tech honorees is David Haussler, Scientific Director of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. David was kind enough to spend some time with Santa Cruz Works a couple weeks ago to make a video about his journey and discoveries in biosciences.

I recently met with Aaron Brossoit, CEO of the Golden Shovel Agency (“GSA”). Aaron recently moved to Santa Cruz to support existing clients, find new clients, and to enrich his work-lifestyle experience.

Uber’s ambitious plans to launch an urban air taxi service just got a lift from a secretive, well-financed startup. The ride-hailing company said it would join forces with Joby Aviation

It has been a heart-warming and prosperous year for Santa Cruz Works. Our deep-hearted appreciation to this unique community for all the support. Our achievements, your accolades…

Local design company HERBST is known for their design of the Buoy. In collaboration with Pattern, HERBST created the award winning Edison Gold and Good Design hardware solution.

The AWS DeepRacer platform brilliantly made Machine Learning approachable by gamifying the learning process. DeepRacer is a 1/18th scale autonomous racing car with an onboard computer, camera, and a growing list of sensors such as Lidar and stereoscopic vision.