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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

When it comes to understanding the forces that drive a local economy many economic development teams are seriously uninformed on the science and methodologies around a concept called Creative Placemaking.  The fact that this unfortunately set of circumstances is consistently repeated throughout the @I85Cyber, the State of Alabama and the entire Southeastern US has not … Read more

Many individuals and organizations throughout the I85Cyber.org region and the State of Alabama have much to say and to share about workforce development and how the region needs to be training up the next generation of talent,  Then there is Andrew Albrecht, CEO of the AUBIX Data Center in Auburn, AL who has been doing … Read more

Air University Innovation Accelerator (AUiX) would like to welcome our special guest to include Dr. James M. Locke, Assistant Professor – AUM College of Business Dr. Mike White Dr. Brianne Smith Dr. Zack Jourdan

During its high school’s 2024 Spring Semester 2023 YASS Prize Recipient Valiant Cross Academy partnered with the membership of the I85Cyber to launch an 8 weeks “Industry Driven” Technology Training Pilot Program. 10 Valiant Cross High School students were chosen to participate in this training effort where the primary focus of the endeavor was to … Read more

10 Years Building, Creating, Innovating It Started Back In Q1 2014 With A Habakkuk 2:2 Moment (“Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.”)   AIRR(Advancing Innovation With Regional Resources) Then Later That Summer Tech ‘Revolution’ Coming To Alabama Brad Harper, Montgomery Advertiser, June 29, 2014. Central Alabama … Read more