The Waunakee Innovation Center will host an open house to update business and community partners on its construction progress. A brief update and tour of the Innovation Center and traditional lab areas will be offered, along with a chance to network with other professionals, students and staff.

View the event flyer.

 

Join the Beloit startup community to learn more about the Irontek coworking space and the gBETA pre-seed accelerator program that will be running out of it! Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be followed by introductions from Erin Clausen of Irontek, Abby Taubner and Maggie Brickerman of gBETA, finishing with five-minute pitches from four gBETA alumni.

If you are an entrepreneur, learn about the resources available to you through Irontek and gBETA.

If you are a business executive, community member, investor, mentor, young professional, student, professor, or just generally interested in startups, learn about how you can get involved!

Register online.

Global dairy is facing an unprecedented, complex mix of challenges and opportunities. Multiple factors are influencing dairy production, processing and profitability including the interconnectedness of global dairy industry, consumer demands for traceability and the growing use of information technology on production.

To help sort out these complex issues the WI Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection is hosting a global dairy symposium during the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Leading experts on the current and future state of the global dairy industry will share trends in dairy production, the global impact of economic fluctuations, as well as their predictions on where the global dairy sector is heading.

Learn more and register online.

With the school year underway and many parents hoping to replace “screen time” with homework time, the Sept. 27 meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network will focus on the pros and (occasional) cons of online games and learning.

Two gaming companies and two academic experts will discuss educational games and what current research says about how it affects learning and other behaviors, particularly in younger users.

Presenters are Dan White, co-founder of Filament Games and a founding member of Games+Learning+Society at UW-Madison; Mary Romolino, co-founder of Acme Nerd Games, which teaches nutrition through its inaugural game, “Houston, We Have Spinach;” David Gagnon, director of the Field Day Lab at the UW-Madison Wisconsin Institute for Discovery; and Richard Halvorson, a UW-Madison education professor who co-founded Games+Learning+Society and is a renowned researcher in the field.

“The ‘Pokémon Go’ craze is the latest example of how games can both entertain and educate, even if the education part is sometimes lost on parents whose kids have their noses buried in a screen,” said Tom Still, president of the Tech Council. “We’ll have fun learning about gaming and hear from some homegrown Wisconsin companies.”

Learn more and register online.

A new season of the Evansville Area Inventors & Entrepreneurs (I&E) Club begins Thursday, September 8. The Evansville I&E Club will now meet on Thursdays, with the format to focus more on round-robin discussions.

At the upcoming meeting, Nicole Genz will discuss her idea for a unique outdoor theater and upscale restaurant for Evansville. Nicole and her husband, Scott, have completed their business plan. This is a great opportunity to ask questions and offer ideas that could bring this wonderful dream to fruition.

If you are on a quest to find a particular supplier or a piece of property, or if your invention is stuck and you could use a couple of ideas, join us. There is no charge to participate, and everyone is welcome to attend.

Visit the group’s facebook page for more information.

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