FAIRMONT, W.Va. — The inaugural Tech Yeah convention started Monday, with organizers hoping to showcase the alternatives obtainable to potential employers contemplating a transfer to West Virginia.
Monday’s occasion was a welcome reception on the Marriott at Waterfront Place in Morgantown. A number of shows will occur Tuesday on the Robert H. Mollohan Analysis Heart in Fairmont.
Occasion organizer Randy Cottle mentioned the middle’s location on the I-79 Expertise Park permits corporations to know the enterprise prospects in West Virginia.
“We really stay on Silicon Mountain,” Cottle mentioned on Monday’s “MetroNews Talkline.”
“They’ve Silicon Valley out in California, however right here we’ve got all these authorities expertise businesses, and we actually need to ensure persons are conscious of this as a result of we are attempting to carry extra jobs and alternatives to our state.”
Cottle mentioned he desires corporations to be taught extra in regards to the work taking place on the I-79 Expertise Park and the relationships between personal companies and the general public sector.
“You see these huge satellites on the hill and surprise what it’s,” Cottle mentioned. “With the climate occurring, they don’t understand a lot of the information that’s being collected is popping out of there.”
Organizers have bought all obtainable tickets for this 12 months’s convention. U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Gayle Manchin, the federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Fee, will ship remarks Tuesday morning.
