The number of green tech companies in Santa Cruz is rising.

With all the technologies out there, it's hard to cut through online chatter and determine which innovations are mostly just hype and which might actually change the way we market.

This is amazing! A clip from Disney+ show The Imagineering Story showing a possible test for a Spiderman Animatronic.

It’s no secret that women and non-binary folks are severely underrpresented within the tech community. In fact, women make up only about 20% of programmers and software developers, according to 2019 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Santa Cruz company Jolokia announced a new strategic partnership with NexTech AR Solutions.

The Santa Cruz City Council voted on and passed a living wage increase during Tuesday's City Council meeting.

Engineer and philanthropist Jack Baskin was a generous supporter at UC Santa Cruz over several decades, providing advice to faculty and campus leaders as well as transformational gifts. "His philanthropy has been strategic, multifaceted, and transformational to our campus, and his support included extensive contributions of his time and energy," said Chancellor Cynthia Larive. Baskin died in January 2020 at 100.

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.