The Montana High Tech Business Alliance is pleased to announce our Montana High-Growth Companies to Watch 2019 in tech and manufacturing…

A two-week program for 7th and 8th graders taught by faculty at the University of Montana this June offered hands-on activities designed to get students excited about STEM fields.

The Montana High Tech Business Alliance is excited to announce that we’ve added three new membership levels:

• Industry Professional (1 employee; consultants, remote workers, or employees not covered under a company membership; $250/year)

• Startup (1-4 employees; available for tech and manufacturing companies under 3 years old with the intent to grow; $100/year)

• Emerging Professional (available up to two years for a student, new graduate or transitioning veteran; $50/year)

In 2018, the city of Allentown, Pennsylvania suffered an attack from a banking trojan called Emotet that affected the city’s financial processing, police database access, and 185 security cameras. The attack reportedly cost over $1 million to mitigate…

It’s often said that technology removes geography as a barrier to running successful tech companies, but infrastructure still provides challenges in the most rural states. Montana is the fourth largest state in the US, but it ranks at 48 in terms of population density…

The managing director of Frontier Angels and Early Stage Montana was elected to the board of directors overseeing the nation’s top association for angel investors at the Angel Capital Association this week.

Tucked in a large (and often Nerf-dart littered) building in southern Kalispell, WaterStreet Company takes a serious approach to making its employees and its clients happy.

By Mari Hall/Missoula CurrentCognizant’s Advanced Technology Group hired 26 students who graduated from the company’s first class in a new specialized training program at the University of Montana Wednesday night.

Nemont Communications and Diamond BTS hosted 50 Alliance members and Billings-area technology workers at the new Nemont Billings office (Parsec Data Management), with food from the Windmill. Attendees from the Montana High Tech Business Alliance mingled with members of the Yellowstone Tech Alliance and the Montana Bioscience Alliance among others during the evening reception…

As the Montana high tech economy continues to grow, high tech businesses have become an increasingly integral component of life in the Big Sky State…

After retiring from the Air Force with a career that spanned nearly 10 years, Adam Watson and his family settled down in Orlando, Florida. They were close to family and not far…

Volunteers for the nonprofit Clark Fork Coalition often find themselves in the mud, fishing out litter from the river’s banks or restoring riparian areas.But on February 20, 17 employees from digital marketing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) TOMIS…

Rocky Mountain Bank provided a warm reception, exciting door prizes, and free pint glasses to the Alliance members and guests who attended the February 28 member reception in Bozeman.

High-tech companies continue to be an important component of Montana’s economy, generating more than $2 billion in revenue in 2018 and growing at rates up to nine times faster than the statewide economy, according to a recent study conducted by the University of Montana Bureau of Business and Economic Research.

Founded by a pair of former Forest Service employees in 1966, planning and design firm WGM Group’s first project was the lift at Montana Snowbowl…

In 2012, a report from Regional Technology Strategies identified a quickly growing cluster of optics and photonics companies and research institutions in Montana. According to this report, the cluster of more