INNOV8 is a showcase of creativity and innovation in Lafayette, La. The festival is a project of the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce. Now in its second year, it boasts over 40 events and expects thousands in attendance from April 19 to April 26, 2013 for the eight-day festival of innovation. The INNOV8 Awards, given [...]
Another code-a-thon is approaching on the Silicon Bayou. CajunCodeFest, now in its second year, is an event held in Lafayette where participants compete over 27 hours (April 24-26) for a grand prize of $25,000. The coding competition is focused on transforming data into innovative healthcare solutions.The event is hosted by the Center for Business & [...]
Lafayette, LA has been named one of the 20 finalists for this year’s Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge. “The challenge is all about identifying a need, solving a problem, and sharing local knowledge so that other cities and citizens can benefit from the insight and actions of their peers.” Lafayette could win up to $5M to fund [...]
A Symposium will be held on January 16, 2013 from 8:30 am to 12:00 pm to educate executives about the opportunity to use state tax credits to fuel job creation and offset tax liability. The event is held at the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) in Lafayette and hosted by the Lafayette Economic Development Authority [...]
After two years of the Silicon Bayou 100 running fairly similarly and smoothly, there are still remaining questions and some confusion as to how it works. This post is meant to be a clarification of the #SBN100 and provide a starting point for discussions on how the process may change next year. What the Silicon Bayou [...]
1st Gear – Start Making Innovation Real is a Lafeyette event hosted by Opportunity Machine, a company designed to bring together key elements of startups to accelerate their growth and success. 1st Gear is a day-long session where attendees will come in with an idea or product and learn how to implement important product development [...]
Senator Mary Landrieu invited Google to host a “Get Your Business Online” event in Lafayette. She wrote that getting online is essential for businesses of the 21st century. On August 9th, she heard back that Google would be coming to town, hosting the event on Friday, August 24th, 2012 from 8:30am – 3pm at the [...]
Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise’s (LITE), the 3-D visualization center in Lafayette,, appointed Dr. Kam Ng as its new CEO last month. Ng joins the LITE team after retiring from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) as the deputy director for research and comes more than a year after of searching for a replacement. Ng is relieving [...]
Cajun Code Fest was held in Lafayette over the weekend. Lafayette is known for being a regional medical hub, so it was the perfect fit for the code fest. The focus is on transforming data into healthcare solutions through the free, two-day competition. The theme this year was improving childhood obesity outcomes. Cajuncodefest.org explains the [...]
The Cajun Code Fest 2012 is a free two-day coding competition focusing on transforming “data” into health care solutions on April 27th-28th, 2012 at the University of Louisiana Lafayette Research Park. This year the competition aims to specifically address childhood obesity. Participants, including developers, designers, innovators, health care leaders, educators, and entrepreneurs, will organize themselves into teams, [...]
