As part of the San Diego: Life. Changing. campaign, we’re always thinking of different ways to communicate San Diego’s story. And though it’s a mostly digital campaign, we know the value in prospective talent having something tangible to hold, touch, and keep at their desk to flip through whenever daydreaming of a better life. This […]
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CureMatch takes home MetroConnect Grand Prize for export strategies
World Trade Center San Diego, through a grant provided by JPMorgan Chase & Co., and more than 100 business and community leaders awarded the 2017-18 MetroConnect Grand Prize to CureMatch, a local digital health company focused on personalized medicine and oncology. The company will use the $35,000 award to take its life-saving technology into the […]
This Fortune 1000 company just moved its HQ to San Diego
From Intuit to Amazon and more, San Diego is home to numerous companies that come here to tap into the region’s impressive talent pool. However, Qualcomm aside, San Diego is not often thought of as a headquarter town. Teradata, a data analytics company, might be changing that. This week, the company announced that it would […]
EDC celebrates SD at Annual Dinner
Well, that was fun. Thank you to those who joined us at EDC’s 52nd Annual Dinner, underwritten by Point Loma Nazarene University. This event continues to remind us how lucky we are to call San Diego home – we are a region that lifts each other up and celebrates all the life-changing people and innovation […]
Meet our new chair, Janice Brown
This week at EDC’s 52nd Annual Dinner, we were honored to officially welcome Janice Brown as EDC’s new board chair. After two years of leadership, Jim Zortman, retired Northrop Grumman executive and EDC chair since 2016, symbolically ‘passed the gavel’ to Janice. Having served as an EDC board member for eight years, Janice has helped […]
San Diego’s Quarterly Economic Snapshot: Q1 2018
Due to regularly occurring seasonal effects, San Diego, and the overwhelming majority of the most populous metros, experienced a decline in employment during Q1 2018 (January – March). Leaving the holiday season behind, the region’s total nonfarm employment declined 7,300, or 0.5 percent. Compared to a year ago, nonfarm employment was up 27,000, or 1.9 […]
Here’s what you need to know about GDPR
Many of your inboxes have likely been bombarded this week with notifications of privacy policy updates from organizations of every kind. That’s because today is the day that a two year transition period ends and enforcement for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) begins. This new regulation changes the ways in which companies […]
MiraCosta students mingle with Genentech, HLI, and BD at Link to San Diego: Life Sciences
The first cohort of biomanufacturing students at MiraCosta College is half way through their two-year bachelor’s degree program. That’s right – Oceanside-based MiraCosta Community College is one of only 15 community colleges in California to offer a bachelor’s degree program (114 total community colleges in CA). MiraCosta’s existing biotech associates degree program, which is the […]
San Diego Economic Pulse: May
Each month the California Employment Development Department ( EDD) releases industry data for the prior month. This edition of San Diego’s Economic Pulse covers April data, including unemployment, new business establishments, and job postings. Highlights include: The region’s unemployment rate was 2.9 percent in April, down 0.3 percentage points from March’s revised rate of 3.2 […]
Find your dream job at the San Diego Life Sciences Trek
In San Diego, leaders in genomics and connected health are making life-changing breakthroughs every day: unlocking the power of the human genome, turning personalized medicine into reality, and enhancing the way we live on a massive scale. Much of this is due to San Diego’s impeccable local workforce, skilled in bioinformatics, data science, computational biology, […]