How AI Will Shape Humanity’s Future – Yuval Noah Harari – One of the best explanations of AI I’ve heard. Well worth your time and consideration.

The Khan Academy – AI for education – How will AI shape the future of education?

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

Come Home Montana

• Montana Career Opportunities – Loan Officer – Communications and Marketing Specialist – Great Falls Development Alliance

      Loan Officer Are you a problem solver that is driven to look for solutions to obstacles with creative and innovative ideas? Do you have the ability to help entrepreneurs navigate their loan request, analyze financial information, and write professional credit narratives to present to loan committees and agencies?

MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association

• The Khan Academy – AI for education – How will AI shape the future of education?

  Let Khan Academy and our partners—including Code.org, Common Sense Education, aiEDU, and Professors Ethan and Lilach Mollick—be your trusted partners as we navigate this exciting learning journey together! What is generative AI and how does it work? What are some best practices for teaching and learning with generative AI? This course-in-progress answers those questions and many more. Welcome!

• GROWTH or EXIT? Maximizing Business Potential: Aligning Growth Planning with Exit Strategies – 3/26 – Kalispell

  A targeted presentation for business owners navigating the dual objectives of scaling their operations and preparing for an eventual exit.

• Scaling MT Speaker Series Featuring Phil Venables, VP & CISO of Google Cloud – 5/16 – Bozeman, Kalispell, Billings and Zoom

  This month’s featured speaker is Phil Venables, Chief Information Security Officer of Google Cloud. He is a world-renown cybersecurity expert, who also serves on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, as well as the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board of NIST. He will be joined by Sherri Davidoff of LMG Security for a conversation bout cyber and security risks.

• Scaling MT Speaker Series Featuring Greg Avis, Co-Founder of Summit Partners – 4/16 – Bozeman, Kalispell, Billings and Zoom

  This month, we are featuring Greg Avis, the cofounder of Summit Partners, one of the leading private equity firms in the world with investments in over 550 companies over its 40-year history. Greg now leads an impact investing fund called Bangtail Partners.

• Scaling Montana Speaker Series Featuring Xavier Rolet, former head of the London Stock Exchange – 3/27 – Billings, Kalispell, or Bozeman, or watch from your desk

  The Scaling Montana Speaker Series is a hybrid speaker series featuring conversations with technology and industry icons to provide strategic insights and technology content for leaders, builders, and tech enthusiasts across Montana.

• Upcoming Trainings: Business Valuation, DOD Protege Program, Elevate Your Digital Footprint and more!

  What Your Business Is Worth…And Why It Matters Thursday, March 7

Big Sky Economic Development

• Healthtech Forum for Founders & Funders with Early Stage MT & Big Sky EDA – 3/13 – Billings and Zoom

  Whether you’re an entrepreneur, investor, healthcare professional, or simply someone who is passionate about health and technology, this event is an excellent opportunity to learn from experts in the field and connect with others who share your interests. You’ll come away with a deeper understanding of the latest trends in healthtech and the potential they hold for shaping the future of healthcare.

Prospera Business Network

• Prospera Pulse

  Join us for a powerful event that showcases the remarkable initiatives and innovations that are happening in the community.

Montana Business

• ‘Growth and transformation’: Missoula chocolate company expands into big, new facility

  After 19 successful years of growing their brand and selling chocolate all over the country, the couple recently proudly announced that their business is on the “precipice of a groundbreaking evolution.”

Wyoming Business

• Wyoming To Hitch A Ride On “Record-Shattering” US Solar Industry

  The latest news involves the Florida-based solar developer BrightNight. Last summer, BrightNight announced its intent to build the Dutchman project, a new 499-megawatt solar array on private land in Converse County, Wyoming. The land is owned by a sheep rancher, who evidently intends to continue raising sheep alongside the new solar array.

21st Century Education Initiative – “You Should Care…”

• K-12 isn’t enough. It’s time for free pre-K to 14.

  Movements to guarantee that women and people of color could access public education greatly benefited our democracy. Now it’s time to expand the amount of instruction available for free.

Government News & Events

• Revolutionising roads with upcycled plastic waste. A novel bitumen replacement is made from plastic waste otherwise destined for landfills

  The company’s product, NEWBitumen, is a replacement for bitumen, the liquid binder used to hold asphalt together. Where traditional bitumen is produced using crude oil, NEWBitumen is made from plastic waste that would have otherwise been considered non-recyclable and destined for the landfill.

Hellgate Venture Network

• Hellgate Venture Network – 3/21 – Missoula

  Guest Speaker: Samantha Alario – Gemini Mountain Swimwear

MAPS : Media Arts in the Public Schools

• Free film workshop with MAPS Media Institute open to Broadwater County kids – 3/8-9 – Townsend

  The workshop is free and gives youth aged 14 and up hands-on experience with cameras, editing, interviewing, and other related skills.

Transportation

• Rethinking the Notion of Parking as a Public Good – “Carcatecture”

  Parking shapes every element of the urban environment, often to the detriment of a place. Why do we subsidize public parking as a public good, and how can we move forward?

• Robotic, on-demand tech for seamless EV charging

  Subscribing customers can use Kolbev’s app to request e-charging in specific car parks and city hotspots. The robotic charger will then autonomously locate the e-car and manoeuvre beneath the vehicle to initiate charging, offering a space-saving solution in compact city areas.

• Bicycle Lanes Have a Calming Effect on Traffic – Study

  The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) reported in 2022 that bicycle lanes could reduce crashes on local roads by between 30% and 49%.

• All The Ways That Car Domination (“Automobility”)Harms Our Communities (Well, Almost All…)

  A new study seeks to quantify everything car culture costs us. Yet there are still more ways that auto-centrism hurts us all.

Cool Stuff That’s Coming

• Europe Is Breaking Open the Empires of Big Tech
  Tech giants have to comply with a new EU law that is set to change the internet. It aims to force open the biggest platforms to encourage competition and give users more choice in their digital lives.

VR/AR, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Artificial Intelligence and The Internet of Things

• How AI Will Shape Humanity’s Future – Yuval Noah Harari – One of the best explanations of AI I’ve heard. Well worth your time and consideration.

  Stephen Colbert challenges historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari to explain why artificial intelligence may pose a threat to humanity. Watch as the bestselling author speculates on how our future could be shaped by AI, and check out his latest book, “Unstoppable Us: Volume Two,” available now.

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