MKE Tech Hub Coalition Bringing More Tech Workers to Milwaukee
Karl Gouverneur, Vice President of Digital Workplace, Corporate Solutions, and Head of Digital Innovation at Northwestern Mutual.
The MKE Tech Hub Coalition is a cross-industry partnership. The Coalition’s vision and the ways in which it will engage the business community, involves education institutions, organizations, and individuals who share the same goal of advancing tech and innovation in the region correct.
In this role, the Coalition’s focused on providing a digital core to enable efficiency and flexibility that enriches the experience of the company’s employees. He does this by partnering with business areas across the enterprise to integrate technology with the company’s business strategies and objectives.
There’s been a lot of great work over the last two years by dozens of Milwaukee companies and organizations that share the goal of growing technology and innovation in southeast Wisconsin. This includes a rather unique collaboration to advance this work, including five local companies, Accenture, Advocate Aurora Health, Kohl’s, Northwestern Mutual and Rockwell Automation, are forming a cross-industry partnership and investing more than $5 million to form the MKE Tech Hub Coalition, a unique collaboration to bolster and grow the Milwaukee region’s economy.
All businesses need tech workers, not just what would traditionally be labeled technology companies. So it is about bringing more tech workers to Milwaukee, which will help local businesses across a spectrum of industries. Technology is impacting the pace of change and talent needs across all industries. The primary objective of the Coalition is to increase the number of tech workers in Milwaukee, which is critical for the region to help the local business economy remain vibrant).
The MKE Tech Hub Coalition is focused on growing, attracting and retaining leading tech talent. Growing the number of tech startups in the region, expanding the number of tech companies that relocate or grow to Milwaukee, creating a vision and image for the region that attracts tech workers and calling out freelancers).
For more information please visit: MKETech.org
