From March 1-3, 2019, about 50 people took part in TechStar’s Startup Weekend Jackson, an intensive business accelerator program that Innovate Mississippi locally organized at Coalesce Coworking in downtown Jackson. The title sponsor of the event was the Mississippi Development Authority. The program began with a welcome and opening keynote…
Accelerate: The 19th Annual Conference on Technology Innovation took place on November 13-14, 2018 at the Westin Jackson in Missisippi's capital city. Convened by Innovate Mississippi, the conference began with the Company and Investor Spotlight on November 13th, where companies were able to pitch to an audience of mentors and…
Wade H. Creekmore, Jr. and James H. Creekmore, Sr., founders of C Spire, the largest privately held wireless company in the country, headlined the honorees present at the 2018 Mississippi Innovators Hall of Fame Awards Gala at the Country Club of Jackson on September 13, 2018. The Creekmore brothers received the…
Seventeen startup business teams from Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi—all part of the Delta Regional Authority's Delta I-Fund program—converged on the Innovation Hub in downtown Jackson for their Opening Weekend on June 9th and 10th. Sponsored by Innovate Mississippi, with support from TeamJXN and Coalesce Coworking, the Opening Weekend event saw…
The inaugural MVMT 2018 ("movement") event took place this month at the Jackson Convention Center. The day-long conference presented by C Spire was really two different events—one was a serious cyber security conference for technology professionals and the other was technology fair for students, teachers and the general public. Mississippi…