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.

Digital Transformation: No Organization Left Behind

The digital divide between large enterprises...

The November 10th crowd brainstorming workshop was set as a continuation of our efforts to reinvigorate the once thriving tech community of the Hudson Valley, NY.

At our first one, we were able to define the core Purpose-Principles-Participants-Practices we'd like to see. For the second one, we decided to play with another Liberating Structure frequently used to facilitate innovative...

Based on our First HVTech workshop brainstorming on October 6th, we came up with the following:

Purpose (answering the question, "Why is this work important to you and the larger community?") We expressed purposes that included making local technical work and knowledge visible, shared, and part of our everyday life.  People also expressed sentiment about including more people and...

Pandemic lockdown revealed not only Digital Divide, but challenges with students engagement, curriculum relevance , limited alternatives for high schoolers to finish education and acquire relevant skills. The education industry will change, and COVID is one of the factors pushing it forward. It is not an evolution, but revolution due to long awaited changes needed.

When changes are long awaited,...

Say the word “techie” and most are likely to quickly conjure up an image of an individual possessing elusive, innate technological skills that consume that person’s life. A further vision of one of these prototypes includes someone who has always known exactly what he or she wanted to do because of this unwavering passion, reserved to a few elite: The...

Welcome to the reboot!

After completing our 5 part series: Pivoteers & Pioneers: Technology Enabled Recovery in the Age of Social Distancing, we are taking what we have learned and applying it to a reboot of our series.

• The same great theme. 
• New name:
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Watch the episode on Facebook or on our YouTube: channel here

On Friday, July 10, 2020, OpenHub livestreamed its 5th episode of its webisode series

Pivoteers & Pioneers: Tech-Enabled Recovery in the Age of Social Distancing.

The theme was

Rethinking Remote Education: Maintaining Relationship and Engagement while Socially Distant.

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Watch the episode on Facebook or on our YouTube:channel here

On Friday, July 26, 2020, OpenHub livestreamed its 4th episode of its webisode series Pivoteers & Pioneers: Tech-Enabled Recovery in the Age of Social Distancing.

This episode of Pivoteers & Pioneers featured our tech hub neighbor...

Pivoteer #2 - Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union

To see the episode, follow either Facebook https://www.facebook.com/OpenHubProject/videos/590253788538412/

or watch in on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fbNXST5mNKA

On Friday, May 29, 2020, OpenHub livestreamed its second episode of its...

OpenHub and HVTechFest 2020 present the next episode
in their 5-part interactive, livestreaming webisode series:

Pivoteers & Pioneers features local businesses, sharing stories about how technology helped businesses adapt during the pandemic shutdown. OpenHub believes sharing...