Tech Collective to Host Booth at Women’s Summit® 2010

“Grow With Us” theme will showcase Tech Collective initiatives and promote women in the technology fields.

Providence, RI, February 26, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Tech Collective, Rhode Island’s Information Technology and Biotechnology Industry Association, today announces it will be hosting a booth at the Women’s Summit® 2010, presented by Bryant University on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at the University’s Smithfield, R.I. campus.

This is Tech Collective’s first organizational presence at the event, and it’s booth will feature a “Grow With Us” theme, showcasing Tech Collective services and initiatives, including: member services, workforce development training funding, job scouting and marketing programs, youth involvement and cross industry, education and government collaboration.

Aligning with the mission of the Woman’s Summit, the Tech Collective booth will additionally promote professional women in technology fields – an initiative Tech Collective has supported enthusiastically through its acclaimed Women in Technology (WIT) event series. Attendees to the Women’s Summit will receive free admission to Tech Collective’s upcoming WIT event, “The Struggle to Juggle” on March 24th from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. at the Twenty Water Street Warehouse Tavern in East Greenwich, R.I.

“Tech Collective is ecstatic to have a booth presence at the Bryant Women’s Summit this year,” said Colleen Burg, industry liaison for Tech Collective. “Many of our staff have attended the Summit throughout the years, and we continually admire the quality of the event, which has attracted nationally-renowned speakers and attendees alike into one high-powered forum for professional women of every level and industry. If you are attending the Women’s Summit on March 11th, be sure to stop by, check out our display and say hello. We’d love to see you!”

Tech Collective members and the public are encouraged to stop by the Tech Collective booth with a friend to receive a special gift and learn how Tech Collective can help grow their business in 2010. For more information about the Women’s Summit, visit http://wsummit.bryant.edu.

About Tech Collective:
Tech Collective is Rhode Island’s Information Technology and Bioscience Industry Association. Uniting industry, government and academic stakeholders, our mission is to inspire, engage, educate and employ a high-skill, high-wage Knowledge Economy in Rhode Island. Since its transition from the Rhode Island Technology Council (RITEC) in 2004, Tech Collective has received more than $6M in federal, state and private grant funding to foster industry collaboration, awareness and development through events and initiatives including: GRRL Tech, Women in Technology, Bio-Ed, Tech Laureates’ Night and STEM-based education and training programs for K-16 students as well as incumbent and transitioning workers. For more information about Tech Collective, please visit www.tech-collective.org.

Contact:
Giselle LaFrance
Manager of Media Relations
Tech Collective
401.829.8321
glafrance@tech-collective.org

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