The parent organizations of two of our member incubators invite business attendance at a technology showcase featuring speakers from Syracuse University, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and Welch Allyn. The CASE Center sponsors an incubation program, and Griffiss Institute is in the process of bringing a new incubator program online. For registration click here.

Spotted at the Fuse 2007 conference (themed "accelerating business growth in upstate New York") were: Paul Brooks and the entire staff of the Syracuse Technology Garden (which was a major sponsor); Gina Lee-Glauser of the CASE Center incubator program; Roger Williams of the Cornell Center for Life Science Enterprise incubation program; William Wolf of Griffiss Institute incubator program; Kelly Tyler of NYSERDA's Saratoga Technology and Energy Park; Terrence Kane of Binghamton University's Start-Up Suite incubator program; Jerome Mahone of RIT's Venture Creations incubator; Jeff Lawrence, Nick Viggiani, and Peter Pritchard of CEG's Watervliet Innovation Center. If we missed any, apologies! BIA/NYS is proud to be a supporting organization of Fuse for the second year in a row.

Griffiss Institute, a research and training collaborative in "information assurance" based in Rome, has joined BIA/NYS as it anticipates opening a second, 23,000 square-foot building dedicated in large part to business incubation.

The GI incubator program will be our first member in the Mohawk Valley, and BIA/NYS will now have a member incubator in every one of the state's 10 economic regions as recognized by Empire State Development.

GI was created in 2002 to help anchor Griffiss Research and Technology Park, the redevelopment of the former Griffiss Air Force Base, realigned in the 1993 BRAC round. GI levers the Rome Research Site, where the Air Force Research Laboratory still headquarters its Information Directorate among other programs in the Sensors Directorate.

An informational PowerPoint presentation on GI is attached at the link below. Please warmly welcome the GI incubator program to membership!