Rappahannock Community College's Westmoreland Workforce Training Center has allowed the school to expand its offerings to include customized learning opportunities the school has developed with employers in the region.
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.
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.
Joel Salatin owns and operates Polyface Farms and speaks about how he runs a successful farm without betraying his sustainable operating principles.
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.
Northern Virginia Community College has the partnerships and curriculum to help train a growing regional tech workforce.
The quantum age is rapidly approaching. So rapidly, in fact, that any approach to developing a workforce must account for the changes happening at the speed of light as quantum science shifts from theoretical to practical application.