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During April 1 – 3, 2025 the City of Montgomery, AL hosted “THE POWER OF COMMUNITY” South and Appalachian Creative Placemaking Conference The theme of this annual conference is centered on social and economic justice, equity and inclusion, and grassroots community-led efforts that create positive impact and enhance the quality of life for smaller … Read more
Mayor Steven Reed and his team from the City of Montgomery released version 2.0 of the City of Montgomery Open Data Portal earlier today. and IT IS A BEAST TO BEHOLD!! Powered by ArcGIS Hub technology, the platform upon which the new Open Data Portal is built Creates a most excellent collaboration tool upon which … Read more
Central Alabama Datacenter and I85 Cyber Corridor Community member AUBIX signs and on boards new customer Core Scientific, Inc. As a result of this effort Core Scientific, Inc., a publicly traded company and leader in providing digital infrastructure for high-performance computing, is expanding the AUBIX Datacenter facility with an initial investment of $135 Million and … Read more
Back in September of 2017 Bryce Roberts of Indie.vc fame wrote a most interesting piece entitled “Permissionless Entrepreneurship.” In this media segment the author states that “We want to enable a world where founders DON’T NEED PERMISSION from an increasingly small group of FICKLE FUNDERS to exist.” Within this piece the author goes on to share … Read more
I85 Cyber Corridor Initiative Launch & Learn Labs Startup Accelerator has finalized the membership of its upcoming Winter/Spring 2025 Cohort. Against conventional postures in this particular professional space this upcoming cohort will be excessive large with 35+ founders. “We simply had far too many solid founders ‘who are hungry and ready to go after it’ … Read more
Almost 5 years after the inaugural “State Of The I85 Cyber Corridor” (February 2020) event our team was asked to provide regional stakeholders, leadership and the general citizenry an update of trials & failures, the triumphs & successes that are being experienced on a day-to-day basis by the team of “COMMUNITY STEWARDS” who are … Read more
The I85Cyber team had the privilege of participating in this year’s Alabama Higher Education AI Exchange that was held on the campus of Auburn University on October 10-11, 2024. During this year’s event there were many great speakers and presentations but in the humble opinions of our team members the pinnacle of the 2024 AI … Read more
Earlier in the Spring of 2024 the global tech titan META, along side State of Alabama and local Montgomery County/City officials, announced the construction and operations of an $800 million data center along Interstate 65 just south of the City of Montgomery. This news was been met with much optimism and rightly so. 1000+ construction … Read more
During the first week of November 2024 the I85Cyber.org Launch & Learn Labs completed its 2024 Summer/Fall Cohort of its Creative stARTup Accelerator. This particular cohort members consisted of musicians, artists, and designers along with a few founders within other business verticals. These startup founders completed completed a 13 session business training workshop series which … Read more
I85Cyber.org community member ALANOG(Alabama Network Operators Group) along with 20+ network engineers/operators/administrators from around the State of Alabama meet together on September 26, 2024 at the meeting facilities of Stovehouse Event Center in Huntsville, AL. The entire ALANOG membership would like to thank both Oak Cyber and the I85 Cyber Corridor Initiative for both the … Read more