Luiz DaSilva, executive director of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI), shared how the collaborative research taking place at CCI's member institutions is positioning Virginia to set the course for the future of the internet. 

Jay Lowell is a principal senior technical fellow at The Boeing Company, where he helps guide technical strategy and research implementation regarding disruptive emerging technologies.

With its diverse economy and the fastest-growing port on the East Coast, Hampton Roads, Virginia is a region engineered for the future of global business, offering an integrated transportation network, technical innovation, and a skilled workforce.

In Northern Virginia, GMU created the first cybersecurity engineering major in the country, which helps support its bustling C5I center. The major launched with 105 students 10 years ago. A decade later, 800 students are enrolled in what is now a department, and interest continues to increase unabated. 

La Vida Cooper is the communications and navigation line of business manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the deputy program manager for strategic initiatives within the exploration and space communications projects division at Goddard, and the executive director of the Washington Metropolitan Quantum Network Research Consortium (DC-QNet), a joint initiative among six federal agencies and two affiliates to operate a quantum network testbed.

$65 million investment to create up to 3,500 jobs in Virginia

Joel Salatin owns and operates Polyface Farms and speaks about how he runs a successful farm without betraying his sustainable operating principles.

RICHMOND - Governor Terry McAuliffe today announced that Concept Plus, LLC, an IT service provider specializing in end-to-end design, development, and operational support of database, middleware, and business applications, will invest $140,000 to expand its IT operation to create a shared lab for application developers in Fairfax County. Virginia successfully competed against Colorado, Maryland, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C. for the project, which will create 31 new jobs.

Behind facilities from coffee and tea titans, Hampton Roads stakes its claim as "Virginia's Caffeine Capital." 

With collaboration from academic, industry, and local and state governments, life sciences startups and quickly expanding companies are calling Northern Virginia home.