Sponsor Spotlight – Arrow
What is your name, title, and role at your company? Donna Johnston – Field Sales Representative Brett Daniel – General Manager, Carolinas, and Georgia. Arrow’s role is to help support engineering, new product development, global supply chain and ultimately serve as a trusted advisor. What does your company do? Arrow Electronics guides innovation forward [...]
Utilities call for more government funding and pilot projects to drive smart utility development – new Wi-SUN Alliance survey shows
Energy security seen as most exciting area of IoT technology development; EV charging and outage management set to be a big focus for smart utilities this year SAN RAMON, Calif., February 20, 2023 - Senior professionals at utility companies are calling for more government funding to help drive smart utility development, according to a survey [...]
Announcing the RIoT Accelerator Program XIV Cohort
RIoT is excited to announce RAP XIV – the Spring 2023 cohort of the RIoT Accelerator Program (RAP). RAP XIV will take place at the Gig East Exchange in Wilson, NC. The RAP XIV cohort is a diverse group of individuals coming from various industries, backgrounds, and cities throughout North Carolina and Arizona. The [...]
IoT to Spark Efficiencies in Government and Opportunities for Downtown Businesses in Wake Forest
The town of Wake Forest is paving the way for the future by investing in technology and joining the smart city movement. The town recently installed Internet of Things (“IoT”) devices at seven locations along Owen Avenue and South White Street. By using sensors and other data-collecting devices, the town can increase their understanding of [...]
Sponsor Spotlight – Innovation Orange
What is your name, title, and role at your company? Ken Runkles, Founder and Managing Partner, at Innovation Orange. What does your company do? IT Management/ Cybersecurity Managed IT services Cybersecurity compliance and governance assessments (for example: NIST, HIPPA, PCI) 24x7 Security Operations Center (SOC) Incident Response Penetration testing What are some neat projects that [...]
Sponsor Spotlight – Lithios
What is your name, title, and role at your company? Kyle Linton, VP of Operations, and role: Manager/Head of Lithios What does your company do? We design and build mobile and web software applications for growth-stage startups and Fortune 500 companies. What are some neat projects that your company is currently working on? [...]
Mentor Spotlight- Tom Collopy
January is National Mentoring Month and today we are going to highlight one of our mentors from our RIoT Accelerator Program (RAP), Tom Collopy, CEO and Co-founder of Unbiased Insights, Inc Learn more about why he spends his time mentoring and the benefits you can receive from working with a mentor while you build your [...]
Sponsor Spotlight – Sento
What is your name, title, and role at your company? Wouter Potman, COO, Head of Business Development USA What does your company do? Sento is a startup created by hardware entrepreneurs for hardware entrepreneurs. We create agile and flexible electronic design and assembly solutions focused on startups. We understand the reality of startups, which is [...]
Tech and Business Trends to Watch in 2023
As the nation and world emerged (mostly) from the pandemic, the tech news cycle once again rode the alphabet soup of tech acronyms in 2022. AI, VR, NFT, IoT, AR, 5G, ML, LoRa and many more took center stage at tech conferences, in corporate boardrooms and in startup accelerators. Media covered the huge hype cycles [...]
That’s a Wrap 2022! A Message from our Executive Director
In 2010 when we founded WRC, there were few entrepreneurial support resources in our home region and "IoT" as a buzzword was in its infancy. In fact, we didn't add the RIoT brand and services until 2014. As we approach the close of 2022 and approach our 13th anniversary next year, it is worthwhile to [...]
Sento: Visit of the USA ambassador for Colombia
During his stay in Antioquia, the ambassador Francisco Palmieri undertook a visit to the SENTO facilities. The last 4 of November, the business delegate and in charged ambassador of the United States of America for Colombia, Francisco Palmieri visited the city of Medellin, to know more about the productive sector and the growing entrepreneurial ecosystem, [...]
Smart Cities company Cocoflo Innovations to launch business in Virginia, fueling economic growth in the US
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE STAFFORD, VA, December 6 (PR Newswire) - Cocoflo, a rapidly growing software as a service company that provides cloud-based city service solutions to governments around the world, announced its business expansion into the state of Virginia. The company’s official U.S. launch was commemorated at a ribbon cutting ceremony on November 30, 2022 [...]
RIoT’s Big Job Contest
Are companies hiring? That's the question job seekers today are asking. The answer is yes and RIoT took the opportunity to offer an unconventional way to land an interview this week. Two lucky contestants, Brandon Mathis and Karly Pavlinac Blackburn took the stage Tuesday evening at the All Things Open Conference in Raleigh to kick [...]
Announcing the RIoT Accelerator Program XIII Cohort
RIoT is excited to announce RAP XIII – the Fall 2022 cohort of the RIoT Accelerator Program (RAP). RAP XIII will take place at the Virginia Smart Community Testbed in Stafford, VA. The RAP XIII cohort represents a variety of industries and backgrounds hailing from across Virginia, the United States, and internationally. Stafford County Economic [...]