Press Release

Orlando Tech Council Launches New Online Tools for Companies

Orlando Tech Council launches a new online resources designed to help grow and connect Orlando’s innovation ecosystem.

Orlando, Fla. – Today, the Orlando Tech Council released new tools to aide Orlando tech companies in connecting with and collaborating across the region’s tech and innovation ecosystem. InnovateInOrlando.org is a new online resource featuring information, events, content and connections designed to help the region’s new and established tech companies connect, innovate, raise capital and scale.

InnovateInOrlando.org also features an engaging new video that presents a behind-the-scenes peek at Orlando’s diversity of tech talent and industry that make up the region’s innovation ecosystem.

“This new site is dedicated to telling the story of the Orlando region’s tech and innovation history,” says Partnership Vice President of Innovation Sheena Fowler.

This new free resource for the region’s tech companies furthers the Orlando Tech Council’s mission to broaden and deepen the interconnectivity of Orlando’s innovation ecosystem while also helping to elevate the region’s profile as a tech and innovation hub.

Vice President of Innovation, Sheena Fowler
The Orlando Tech Council produced a new video to highlight Orlando’s history of tech and innovation.

Tools available to the region’s tech companies include:

Orlando Regional Tech + Innovation Ecosystem Directory BETA  
A new offering from the Orlando Tech Council, the Orlando Regional Tech + Innovation Ecosystem Directory allows tech companies from across the region to list themselves for potential future connection and work. The complimentary resource allows users to list their companies or organizations as well as view company profiles and create custom searches across a variety of categories including industry verticals, event spaces, capital sources, business services, freelance talent and more.

Orlando Regional Community Calendar
The new Orlando Regional Community Calendar allows users to submit and promote innovation and tech-focused community events to new, diverse audiences. Individuals and organizations can submit events using this link: https://orlando.org/l/submit-event/.

Orlando Tech Council Weekly Tech Round Up 
Individuals and organizations can subscribe to weekly roundups of the top tech and innovation news, stories, events and opportunities in the Orlando region. To submit content to be included in the newsletter, please contact Lindsey Sandrin.
 
“Successful ecosystems are made up of talent, businesses and collectives working together towards a common goal, each playing a significant role,” says Orlando Tech Council Chair and Founder and CEO of Informulate Rajiv Menon.

By aligning these entities, the community benefits. We – at the Orlando Tech Council – seek to better align our region’s extraordinary resources for the greater benefit of the talent and organizations that make up the Orlando tech and innovation ecosystem. InnovateInOrlando.org is a big step forward in accomplishing this goal.

Orlando Tech Council Chair and Founder and CEO of Informulate Rajiv Menon

“The Orlando Tech Council’s vision is to reinforce the foundation of and increase the maturity of Orlando’s innovation ecosystem,” says Orlando Tech Council Past-Chair and Vice President of IT at Massey Services, Inc. Adam Scheinberg. “InnovateInOrlando.org helps make that possible by uniting our efforts across the region to work smarter together, to leverage resources for the better benefit of the economy and to amplify the successes so that more may have the opportunity to know what’s happening in the Orlando region’s tech community.”

The Orlando Tech Council, a core component of the Orlando Economic Partnership, consists of a group of private industry, resource organizations and public partners that collaborate with the singular focus of organizing and aligning our region’s resources to accelerate progress towards an innovation-based economy.

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About the Orlando Economic Partnership

The Orlando Economic Partnership (the Partnership) is a public-private, not-for-profit economic and community development organization that works to advance broad-based prosperity by strengthening Orlando’s economy, amplifying Orlando’s story, championing regional priorities, empowering community leaders and building a brilliant region. These five foundational objectives serve to improve the region’s competitiveness while responding to the needs of communities, residents and businesses.