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Monday Mar 22, 2021
Monday Mar 22, 2021
Howard Stewart is President/CEO of AGM Container Controls, a Tucson manufacturing company with 115 employees. AGM manufactures environmental control hardware for containers that transport missiles, engines and other sensitive equipment, as well as for the actual missiles and satellites themselves. AGM also manufactures the world’s premier wheelchair lift under the brand name “Ascension,” which provides access to stages and platforms in public and private facilities for individuals with disabilities. In 2002, Howard was recognized as Tucson's Small Business Leader of the Year. In 2009, his company was recognized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as "America's Best Small Business of the Year." In 2018, Howard was named Southern Arizona’s CEO of the Year. In 2019, Howard chaired the Tucson Heart Ball for the American Heart Association, which, including matching dollars, raised over $1.7M for heart research and education in Tucson. For the year 2021, Howard will chair the Diaper Bank Gala. Howard currently serves on the Board of Directors for the United Way of Tucson as well as for the Pima Community College Foundation. Howard recently founded an initiative called “Fly Tucson First,” whose mission it is to make Tucsonans realize that our local community significantly benefits whenever we fly from our own Tucson International Airport rather than in and out of Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. Howard is also a champion of providing college tuition reimbursement to EVERY AGM employee. In fact, as many as 26% of AGM’s employees attend college in any given year. Howard is available to make presentations on Fly Tucson First or on College Tuition Reimbursement. https://www.agmcontainer.com
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Encora is an established leader in outsourced product development services that specializes in innovation acceleration for leading-edge technology companies. With over 4,000 associates in 20+ offices and innovation labs across U.S., Mexico, Central & South America, India, and Asia Pacific, Encora’s global talent pool, industry expertise and proprietary agile engineering capabilities enable clients to improve their speed to impact. For more information, please visit our website at https://www.encora.com.
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Phocos is a proven, global leader that holds itself to the highest standards of engineering and innovation in the solar and energy industries. Driven by our passion for off-grid solutions, Phocos was founded in 2000. We earned our strong reputation with high-quality energy solutions designed to provide reliable energy access for people without grid power. Phocos cares about the individuals and communities our products support because we know when people have access to reliable power, their lives are changed for the better. We have expanded our off-grid innovation and success to include on-grid and edge-of-grid applications, thus becoming your Any-Grid partner. Our mission is to make reliable energy access possible anywhere in the world, anytime, and for Any-Grid.
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
International Business Machines Corp. is an information technology company, which provides integrated solutions that leverage information technology and knowledge of business processes. It operates through the following segments: Cloud & Cognitive Software, Global Business Services, Global Technology Services, Systems, and Global Financing. The Cloud & Cognitive Software segment provides integrated and secure cloud, data and solutions to the clients. The Global Business Services segment provides clients with consulting, application management and global process services. The Global Technology Services segment provides comprehensive IT infrastructure and platform services that create business value for clients. The Systems segment provides clients with innovative infrastructure platforms to help meet the requirements of hybrid cloud and enterprise AI workload. The Global Financing segment encompasses two primary businesses: financing, primarily conducted through IBM Credit LLC, and remanufacturing and remarketing. The company was founded by Charles Ranlett Flint and Thomas J. Watson Sr. on June 16, 1911 and is headquartered in Armonk, NY.
Friday Aug 28, 2020
Friday Aug 28, 2020
Listen to Grant Anderson, President, CEO and Co-Founder of Paragon Space Development Corporation talk about best practices in running a successful business and holding on to your top talent. As Paragon Space Development celebrates 26+ years of providing award-winning life support and thermal control solutions for extreme environments, we've recognized that it is our employees that keep our business thriving. By any measure, Paragon is an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our goal is to hire the best and allow you to do the work that you enjoy! We are interested in developing individuals who enjoy a challenge and like working on a variety of projects in a fast-paced environment.
Friday Jul 10, 2020
Friday Jul 10, 2020
The Team at Delta Technology is focused on providing fully integrated custom automation solutions, as well as standard packaging equipment, 4P Consultative services, and contract manufacturing solutions. In this episode, Matthew and Paul share with you, the manufacturing advantages to implementing an automation solutions. You have questions, they have the expertise and knowledge to answer them...
Tuesday Jun 23, 2020
Tuesday Jun 23, 2020
In this episode of TechFocus, LAVIDGE's Chief Innovation Officer, Stephen Heitz, talks about retaining top talent, providing a good work culture, outcome of COVID 19, and more. LAVIDGE is an employee-owned advertising, public relations and digital marketing agency successfully producing results for clients in healthcare, real estate, education, hospitality, technology, sports marketing, retail services, finance, food service and government since 1982. LAVIDGE.com
Monday Jun 22, 2020
Monday Jun 22, 2020
FreeFall 5G was announced by Tucson-based venture capital firms UAVenture Capital and DVI Equity Partners. UAVenture Capital invests exclusively in University of Arizona science and technology spinoffs, and initially invested in FreeFall Aerospace in 2018. The FreeStar5G is a unique mmWave antenna system specifically designed to meet the challenges of the 5G world.
Tuesday May 26, 2020
Tuesday May 26, 2020
In this episode of TechFocus, Tucson-based Universal Avionics CEO Dror Yahav discusses the state of the commercial and business aviation industry, how the company and industry as a whole have been impacted by COVID-19 and the evolving economic downturn, and how Universal Avionics is responding internally and externally.
Thursday May 21, 2020
Thursday May 21, 2020
In this episode of TechFocus, Arizona Technology Council CEO Steve Zylstra shares the exciting things happening in Arizona’s expanding innovation ecosystem, what changes he expects to see in the coming year, the business climate for Arizona companies in the tech industry, opportunities for the state’s technology industry, and the advantages of being a part of Arizona’s only statewide organization serving the technology sector.