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For the week of July 2, 2021, here’s what we’re reading:
- New port of entry to open in Otay Mesa in 2024
- Sorrento Therapeutics, U.S. Navy to deploy COVID-19 tests and treatments
- Infinium Spirits relocates corporate headquarters to downtown San Diego
- Innovate78 – North County’s Higher Ed: Fueling the future
- Apply now: Startup San Diego’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program
- Trovata.io raises $20M to aggregate enterprise bank accounts with AI
- Local life sciences firms take advantage of nationwide IPO boom
- Element Biosciences raises $276M to develop DNA sequencing platform
- Vista and Ramona to host X Games events
- Carlsbad and Solana beaches named among cleanest in the state
…and here are the events we’re attending:
- July 13 – CMTC
Virtual – Thinking Differently: How to Innovate & Gain the Full Value of Additive Manufacturing - August 14-15, 2021 – San Diego Convention Center, American Kennel Club
Meet the Breeds – Use promo code: WOOF - June 9, 2022 – San Diego Regional EDC
Save the date: EDC’s Annual Dinner at Petco Park (registration to come)
Study: Cybersecurity cluster faces talent shortage amid productivity gains
Together with CCOE and Booz Allen Hamilton, EDC released the second study in a series—Securing the Future: AI and San Diego’s Cyber Cluster—which quantifies the economic impact of the region’s Cybersecurity cluster and explores the proliferation of AI and ML technologies being used to thwart cybercrimes, among other critical needs by the private sector and government.
Additional resources:
- Find more COVID-19 business information and resources at EDC’s COVID-19 page
- Find North County information at Innovate78’s COVID-19 page