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GFDA Top Ten for 10-13-24 – The inaugural IEDC Rural Summit, scheduled for next June in Great Falls, Montana!

Team GFDA along with Nathan Ohle, CEO of the International Economic Development Council, announced during the IEDC Annual Conference the inaugural IEDC Rural Summit, scheduled for next June in Great Falls, Montana!

TSA implements new identity verification technology at Bozeman airport

The new identity verification technology is available at four other airports across the state, including the Billings-Logan International Airport, Helena Regional Airport, Great Falls International Airport and the Missoula Montana Airport.

Montana Media Coalition wants to keep film industry alive for Montana Filmmakers

“This is such an important legislative session. I cannot emphasize enough how important this is, we could have 1000 displaced MT workers,” said Lynn-Wood Fields, MT Media Coalition president, at the beginning of her presentation. The media credit cap included in the MEDIA Act is what incentivizes filmmakers to shoot in Montana. Since 2022, that cap has been $12 million per year, but it won’t renew after 2024.

Montana State’s TechLink Center receives FAST Award to advance technology commercialization for Montana small businesses

The FAST program is a federal initiative from the U.S. Small Business Administration that aims to bolster the commercialization of technologies developed by small businesses and enhance their capacity to take part in federal research and development programs, specifically SBIR and STTR.

SBA Announces 14 New Awards (One in Montana) for Regional Innovation Network to Drive Nationwide Small Business Growth, Job Creation and Innovation

Shadow Ridge Analytics https://shadowridgeanalytics.com/ will support small businesses in the advanced engineering and critical materials industries in Southwest Montana.

Prospera to Host Two Free Business Expos 10/18 (Livingston) 10/25 (Belgrade)for Local Businesses

These expos are free for businesses to attend and offer an exciting chance to meet and engage with representatives from key organizations that support local, state, national and internation-wide economic development. Attendees will have the opportunity to connect with:

AI’s big gift to society is…pithy summaries?

I point out that this might lead to an AI arms race. “I’m going to send my avatar to every meeting, and so will everyone else,” I explain. Meetings will be just a bunch of AI avatars talking to each other—afterward, people will check out the summary to see what the AIs said to each other.

The Happiest Cities in the World All Have These 4 Things in Common – How is Your City Doing?

The Institute for Quality of Life recently issued its latest Happy City Index, which breaks down the happiest cities in the world into three tiers – Gold, Silver, and Bronze. Only one US city made the list of the 250 happiest cities around the world.

Bozeman 2024 Q2 Economic and Market Report

Notable changes from 2023 Q2

Use Your Supercharger Votes To Help National Parks!

First, I voted for Gardiner, Montana and Cody, Wyoming. These stations are both near Yellowstone National Park, and would put Superchargers on three sides of the park. There’s already one in West Yellowstone, Montana, but sadly it’s not a V3, so non-Tesla vehicles can’t use it. Opening up two more routes into the park and helping Cody, Wyoming have something more than a dealer charger would be all-around fantastic.