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Hudson Valley Digital Rally Hackathon 2025
Hudson Valley Digital Rally Hackathon 2024
This year's theme is: "Changing the Community: Digital Champions for Social Good."
Your goal is to create an application that addresses a problem you know about in the community using the resources provided in the Hackathon Toolkit or other… READ MORE
Monthly Tech Meetups - Call for Speakers
While the annual HVTechFest brings together people who care about technology to highlight the trend, our monthly Meetups allow us to get a grasp on what's relevant for our region and people.
WHO
SHOULD
ATTEND
Tech Talent
Whether an emerging or professional Techie, please come and up your game, network with your community, share expertise, learn from experts, and grow in new directions!
Business
Tech-driven solutions will be part of your business recovery and future growth. But which tech? Software, hardware, retraining, or all of the above? Get answers that will give you the edge to thrive over the next 10 years.
Government
Tech hubs join large institutions to businesses and people in their community around a common goal to build prosperity, growth and innovation. Join OpenHub in celebrating Hudson Valley’s Tech Future!
What's going on here?
To get clear about the HV Tech Festival - WHAT is it, What does it do, and Why does it Matter
- What is it? HVTechFest is a conference for technology people who want to find people to collaborate with, it’s A Get Together
- What does it do? HVTechFest brings together people who care about technology. It creates a marketplace for buyers and sellers of technology expertise - people who are good at technology and people who want to hire those who are good at technology, or who want to learn from tech experts
- Why does it matter? It creates opportunities for enrichment, income, and growth. People might partner, consult, brainstorm, experiment, build, and fight or fail in a collaborative environment - we are creating a very messy thing to facilitate innovative thinking, creativity and business.
We want to create as many as possible meaningful (purposeful) connections accomplishing.something.
You can choose the role which you want to accomplish. Finding similar minded people and allies. Finding partners, finding talents, finding jobs or mentors…
There is a significant mismatch between supply side and demand side in technology, and because of that mismatch the supply chain for tech services and talent pipeline is not only broken,but getting worse. By running HVTechFest we are solving this problem by creating a collaborative space and facilitating innovations.
HVTechFest is the missing link that connects academia, industry, individuals, potential employers, and it offers a space for those that never thought they could be developers.
Testimonials
These talks were stimulating. I spend too much time doing practical things, I just need to step out and observe the big picture
One of the things I discovered was the strength of the local startup community, their needs, and how invisible they are to the larger community. High tech employees already in this area who are looking for new jobs are likely to leave the area because they are unaware of the jobs available here
News
Tech Academy: Facilitating Positive change
We are proud to introduce Tech Academy - the new program to upskill Newburgh residents with relevant digital skills. The program to be launched by Newburgh Free Library's at the newly renovated Tech Hub space in 2023.
Our goals:
To make tech skills available for all, providing career ad...
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Meet our 2022 Keynote Speaker
Don't miss our Keynote speaker revealing one of the largest open datasets for understanding global human society, - GDELT project. GDELT is the largest, most comprehensive, and highest resolution open database of human society ever created.
Its vast archives of more than a quarter bill...
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HVTechFest'21 Hackathon Recap
The third Hudson Valley Tech Hackathon was held virtually on October 29-30th on Zoom and Discord. The theme was ‘Digital Collaboration/Using Open Data For Social Good’ and our Hackers really took that and ran with it! More on their innovative projects coming up soon - don’t miss it.This...
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