NEWS
ON THE VERGE
![National Emerging 2024 Technology Conference](https://vergeva.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Disrupt-Up-Card-1080x628.png)
National Emerging 2024 Technology Conference
RBTC announces the launch of a National Emerging Technology Conference In November, the Roanoke-Blacksburg Technology Council will host the first Disrupt UP Conference. The two-day event (Nov. 14-15) will bring brightest minds in tech together to explore the biggest...
![Register for an Ecosystem Navigator Session](https://vergeva.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ecosystem-navigator-image.jpg)
Register for an Ecosystem Navigator Session
![Apply for On RAMP Fall 2024!](https://vergeva.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RAMP-II.png)
Apply for On RAMP Fall 2024!
On RAMP On RAMP supports early-stage companies in the technology and health & life science industries with a pre-accelerator program. The pre-accelerator is for those who have a business idea, and want to get a taste of what it’s like to be a founder, and learn...
![Position Closed: RBTC Program Coordinator](https://vergeva.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/RBTC-Logo-1.png)
Position Closed: RBTC Program Coordinator
Program Coordinator (this position is now closed): RBTC is currently searching for a Program Coordinator to join our passionate team. The Project Coordinator will help build and manage member programming for the region’s technology and biotechnology businesses...
![Sponsor the 2024 WoTech Summer Camp!](https://vergeva.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/wotech-summer-camp.jpg)
Sponsor the 2024 WoTech Summer Camp!
August 1 @ 9:30 am - August 2 @ 4:00 pm REGISTER NOW: WoTech Summer camp is rapidly approaching. Register to secure your spot and ensure that you get to experience our most ambitious event of the summer. Join us for two days of events designed by women in tech...
![RAMP Pitch & Polish: Sep. 24, 2024](https://vergeva.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/RAMP-Pitch-Polish-5-1080x628.png)
RAMP Pitch & Polish: Sep. 24, 2024
REGISTER September 24 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Pitch & Polish clinics provide a valuable opportunity for entrepreneurs to pitch their business ideas to a team of regional mentors who want to help them polish their presentation, provide feedback on their business model,...
![Fall 2024 Cohort Applications are Now Open](https://vergeva.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/cohort-2024-fall.jpg)
Fall 2024 Cohort Applications are Now Open
Are you a passionate Virginia-based entrepreneur looking to take your startup to the next level? RAMP is now accepting applications to our Fall 2024 Cohort, open to both technology and health and life science startups. The accelerator program (RAMP In-Residence) is...
![Sponsor the 2024 WoTech Summer Camp!](https://vergeva.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/wotech-summer-camp.jpg)
Spend Your Summer with WoTech
WoTech is excited to bring you WoTech Summer Camp, our two-day leadership retreat designed by women in technology for women in technology. Spend your summertime learning and connecting with other women in our industry. Join us on August 1-2 at The Preserve at Crooked...
![Register: National Institutes of Health SBIR/STTR Seed Funding Proposal Prep Workshop, May 30](https://vergeva.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/VIPC-workshop-5_30_24-1080x675.jpg)
Register: National Institutes of Health SBIR/STTR Seed Funding Proposal Prep Workshop, May 30
Please be sure to join VIPC in Roanoke on May 30, 2024, by registering for a NIH SBIR/STTR Proposal Prep Workshop! Thursday, May 30, 8:30am - 4:00pm Carilion Clinic Innovation, Room 1701 (Mill Mountain Conference Room, Side B) 4348 Electric Road, Roanoke, Virginia...
![TECHNITE 2024 CELEBRATES THE ELEMENTS OF TECH](https://vergeva.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/technite-2024-winners-copy-1080x627.jpg)
TECHNITE 2024 CELEBRATES THE ELEMENTS OF TECH
The Roanoke-Blacksburg Technology Council’s TechNite 2024 presented by Woods Rogers Vandeventer Black, recognized all the elements that make the Roanoke-Blacksburg innovation ecosystem so dynamic. TechNite 2024 was held Thursday, May, 8 at the iconic Hotel Roanoke...