MICHauto Summit

• Connected: Industry experts share ‘Smart Cities’ insight at WCC symposium

    May 30, 2018 “Seek creative collusions of opportunity.” That was the advice Ford Motor Company’s Vice President of Research and Chief Technology Officer Ken Washington gave attendees at the Smart Cities symposium at Washtenaw Community College on April 6. …

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• Lyft plans permanent hub in Detroit

  By: Kurt Nagl May 29, 2018 Lyft is planning to consolidate its Detroit operations and open a new permanent location in the city as part of a $100 million nationwide investment by the San Francisco-based ride-sharing company. The new office …

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• As downtown Detroit rebounds, suburbs look to keep their edge

  Sept. 25, 2018 The Detroit News By: Breana Noble A month after L. Brooks Patterson said he’d rather “join the Klan” than a new group he claimed was luring businesses from the suburbs to Detroit, the Oakland County executive is softening his …

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• Detroit Regional Chamber hopes ‘Let’s Detroit’ helps stop the city’s brain drain

  Sept. 24, 2018 – WXYZ Detroit – Channel 7

  Attracting and retaining talent in Detroit has been a big discussion over the past few years. Michigan has great colleges and universities. Could better networking opportunities help keep some of those graduates here at home?

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• The Paul W. Smith Show feat. Patti Poppe – September 24, 2018

  September 24, 2018 – The Paul W. Smith Show

  Patti Poppe, Consumers Energy CEO and Chairman of the 2019 Greater Detroit Regional Mackinac Policy Conference tells Paul W. Smith she is attending the West Michigan Policy Forum to bring the two groups together to make Michigan a great place to live, work and play.

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• Butzel Long adds attorney specializing in labor and employment law; Brett Rendeiro joins firm as Shareholder

  Attorney Brett Rendeiro has joined Butzel Long as a Shareholder practicing in the firm’s Bloomfield Hills office. Rendeiro concentrates his practice in employment law and complex commercial litigation. His broad employment and business litigation experience includes matters involving claims of …

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• Rehmann named to 2018 MSSP Alert Top 100 Managed Security Services Providers list

  Second annual list honors leading mssps & cybersecurity companies that safeguard customers’ digital assets MSSP Alert, published by After Nines Inc., has named Rehmann to the Top 100 MSSPs list for 2018 (http://www.MSSPAlert.com/top100). The list and research identify and honor …

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• Empower Yourself—and Your Future—at OCC Open House

  It has never been easier for prospective students, their family members and the community to learn how an education from Oakland Community College can empower the future. Call it OCC 101—a one-stop shopping opportunity. OCC’s Open House will be Saturday, …

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• ‘Let’s Detroit’ is what region needs to retain talent

  Sept. 24, 2018 – Crain’s Detroit Business

  In today’s innovation-driven economy, human talent is the lifeblood of every successful business — and the backbone of a prosperous state. That’s why in Michigan, where 36 percent of college graduates leave the state within a year of graduating, we need to revolutionize our strategies to retain and attract the best talent.

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• Distance between Ann Arbor and Detroit shrinking as entrepreneur links strengthen

  Sept. 23, 2018 – Crain’s Detroit Business 

  Bill Ford Jr. envisions the 104-year-old train depot in Detroit that Ford Motor Co. bought this year could create a mobility corridor on Michigan Avenue from Detroit to Ann Arbor. But the connection between those two cities — one that was tenuous at best only a year ago — is already beginning to blossom as Detroit’s entrepreneurial community grows.

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