In 2025, as organizations of all sizes navigate digital transformation, cybersecurity challenges, and the AI revolution, there's a fundamental truth I've observed over my 25+ years leading tech teams across publishing platforms, consulting firms, and startups: what truly sets exceptional performers apart isn't just their technical skills—it's their mastery of digital efficiency.
The most valuable team...
In 2025, workforce development has reached an inflection point where digital skills aren't just advantageous—they're essential for survival across all sectors. Organizations of every size are navigating a rapidly evolving landscape where technology integration, cybersecurity awareness, and AI literacy have become fundamental business requirements rather than optional advantages.
The digital divide between large enterprises...
February 2023 National Skills Coalition (NSC) in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta released Closing the Digital Skill Divide, a real-time snapshot of demand for digital skills in the US labor market. The analysis finds that 92% of jobs analyzed require digital skills. Previous NSC research found one-third of workers don’t have the foundational digital skills necessary to...
OpenHub and Mid-Hudson Computer Science Teachers Association to host the 5th Annual Hudson Valley Youth Hackathon as the core part of the first ever Hudson Valley Digital Rally
Date: May 20, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: Locust Grove Estate, Poughkeepsie, NY
NEWBURGH, NY, May 18, 2024 – OpenHub, first time in collaboration with the Mid-Hudson Computer Science...
NEWBURGH, NEW YORK - Open Hub is thrilled to announce the addition of Lis Hubert to our team as a mentor. With her extensive experience and expertise in customer experience strategy and design, Lis will play a pivotal role in guiding and mentoring our community members to excel in their respective fields.
Lis Hubert is a Founding Partner of...
Action shot, click… Two friends, OpenHub founder and Tech Academy director, Yulia Ovchinnikova (right), and OpenHub Website Development Mentor, Shannah White (left), smile with warm hearts as the year-long Tech Academy workforce development project draws to a close. Helping people achieve a positive transformation that opens doors of opportunity for them, is one of life’s most rewarding joys.
OpenHub’s Tech...
Another successful Hackathon is over! The 2023 ‘From Open Data to AI’ Mini Hackathon was a great evening of innovation, collaboration, and creative problem solving. A big thank you to everyone who helped make it possible, and to all of our participants that brought their ideas to the table. If you missed it, be sure to check out our youtube...
We are so proud of our girls from Newburgh Girls Code Club learning and growing through coding projects, gaining more confidence through their experience of growth in our supportive environment! Technology, empowernemnt, and sisterhood-building activities were highlighted as the key instruments for leadership. Through the Summer Immersive two-weeks bootcamp girls learned web development and were able to build their projects from scratch with HTML, CSS and...
For the Fall 2022 Newburgh Girls Code Club switched gears to experiment with new audiences, and was reformatted as Newburgh Coding Club for the youth.
10 boys and girls enrolled for the Fall 2022 cohort to learn coding and Computer Science basics from scratch with Scratch.mit.edu.
We mixed boys and girls of the age of 8-13 (with Girls:Boys as...
Mark Thursday December 8th on your calendars, it’s the next big step on the Hudson Valley’s road to technology-fueled growth. Open Hub is presenting, and the Newburgh Free Library is hosting a full day of panel discussions and cutting-edge presentations focused on jobs, change, and prosperity through digital technology.
The theme of this free event in two parts is...