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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 40+ 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

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