Tune in to a webinar on Wednesday December 4 to learn about LS Greenlink USA’s planned $680 million investment in a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Chesapeake that will bring a massive 660-foot tower – the tallest building in Virginia.

The webinar also will highlight the growing offshore wind industry in Hampton Roads.

The Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development's Office of Broadband manages a portfolio of nearly $2 billion in combined state and federal grants to close the digital divide in Virginia, including local and private investments on broadband infrastructure projects across the state. The agency also will manage an additional  $1.5 billion in federal funding from the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program and $18 million in Digital Equity Act program that will support access, affordability, and adoption. 

Hampton Roads is emerging as a hub for hydrogen innovation. Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center in Newport News is spearheading the Hydrogen Tech Center initiative, a collaborative hydrogen research and demonstration project that aims to better define and showcase how clean hydrogen and other emerging technologies could play a role in the region’s energy mix.

Magazine Jukebox is a Norfolk-based startup designed as the first digital entertainment platform that allows customers to access popular magazines and other content in waiting rooms and coffeeshops without needing to download an app and at no cost to the customer.

The data center industry is seeing rapid growth in the I-64 Innovation Corridor megaregion, with tens of billions of dollars in projects approved or proposed. And more are on the way.

Richmond-based Grenova has developed game-changing technology that allows for substantial reduction in laboratory carbon emissions and plastic waste.

Richmond-based Babylon Micro-Farms is revolutionizing agriculture by creating accessible indoor micro-farming solutions for growing salad greens, herbs, and vegetables. The company’s customers include hospitals, senior living centers, universities, schools, institutional foodservice clients like Aramark, and even a cruise ship.

Technology transfer offices at Old Dominion University, William & Mary, and Virginia Commonwealth University serve as a vital bridge between academic research and practical application in the commercial world., transferring knowledge, innovations, and intellectual properties developed within the university to businesses, startups, or other institutions. Learn how research and discoveries made at universities in the I-64 Innovation Corridor have been licensed to businesses and entrepreneurs who turn them into commercial products.

Virginia’s Community Colleges plan to educate more students from high school through adulthood to meet the needs of the state’s residents and employers. Dr. David Doré, the new Chancellor of Virginia’s Community College System, will discuss these ambitious plans and what it means for Virginia.

IvWatch, the Newport News-based medtech company, has developed game-changing technology to monitor and detect when an IV is leaking. ivWatch is addressing the silent epidemic of IV injury head-on with its proprietary sensors, developed and made in Virginia.