We had a great time with the gentlemen from Spanner, Senior Product Designers Damien Golbin and Niall Macken. We got the chance to learn why they became designers and what excites them about going to work each day. We also discussed the group they started - The Santa Cruz Hardware Group.

If you have been following Santa Cruz Works for the last few months you know we are huge Drako Motors fans, including fans of the co fonder Shiv Sikand. So, you can understand our excitement when the Drako GTE was just featured on Jay Leno’s Garage.

After an exciting weekend of collaboration and innovation, CruzHacks 2020 was a great success. Revealing the positive power of tech, diverse and passionate individuals mobilized their coding skills to solve real problems. 

Santa Cruz Works and Empower Innovation are excited to invite you to a free webinar demonstrating an online platform for entrepreneurs, established developers, and other members of the cleantech community.

n February, Santa Cruz Works will host two (2) New Tech events: Design Thinking on February 5, and Green Tech on February 19. We interviewed Zoé Bezpalko with Autodesk and learned that she would be a valuable speaker at both events. Why? Because design, technology, and sustainability go hand-in-hand.

A little known benefit of being a Santa Cruz Works Sponsor is that you get $1000 of AWS credits each year. You might be ask yourself, how can I actually use this great benefit? Our partner Cloud Brigade, a local Tech-knowledgy consulting agency is helping us answer that question.

Santa Cruz County Schools have a new program. Become a Computer Networking and Cybersecurity Expert

Plastic packaging is awfully convenient for consumers. But as most of us are guiltily aware, that convenience is taking a toll on the planet.

We close out the decade with 20 percent of global startups raising their first funding round in 2019 having a female founder. The proportion of female co-founded companies has doubled since 2009 which stood at 10 percent.

Merchant Savey collated the most recent and reliable global remote working data from official government statistics, large independent surveys, census data and academic studies to bring you the definitive guide to the state remote working around the world.

Last week, Microsoft, the company for which I’ve worked for nearly twenty years, announced an ambitious goal and a new plan to reduce and ultimately remove its carbon footprint. By 2030, Microsoft will be carbon negative, and by 2050, Microsoft will remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted

“Design thinking isn’t the right way to think about every problem. It’s just one tool in your toolbox.” And it has a dark side.

Joby Aviation making history: a $590 million Series C round, including $394M by Toyota Motor Co., is moving the startup and the emerging electric flight industry into view. Finally we know what it looks like. And, 120+ jobs immediately available.

Toyota AI Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm dedicated to helping discover what’s next for Toyota, launched a global “call for innovation” today at CES® 2020 to find and fund early-stage startups building solutions for smart and connected cities.

For many of us, New Years Resolutions likely include less social media, more time with friends, or a renewed focus on health and wellness (which is probably why my gym is packed throughout the month of January ... ).

Amazon announced that its popular voice assistant will be added to a handful of new vehicles. Automobili Lamborghini is bringing Alexa to its Huracán Evo, and buzzy EV startup Rivian will integrate Alexa into its first two all-electric vehicles…

Contending that California needs to better encourage small players with ideas to address the climate crisis, Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to include a $1 billion revolving loan program in his new budget Friday to seed recycling, low-carbon transportation and climate-smart agriculture projects, according to a summary document obtained by CalMatters.

The world's fastest cooler is here. Tired of carrying heavy coolers? We were. So we teamed up with Yeti to introduce the fastest and most advanced cooler the world has ever seen.

Known for their stylish, user-friendly, and powerful cargo, commuter, cruiser and folding ebikes, Blix is shifting to a consumer direct business model, offering more affordable prices and taking a unique approach by creating showrooms with local bike shops.

At the 4th Annual Titans of Tech, Kate Roberts / President & CEO of Monterey Bay Economic Partnership, made some very bold predictions for 2020.