Digest #129

A big THANK YOU to Imprivata for becoming our newest partner! Imprivata is headquartered in Lexington, MA but they've got a local team of software developers right here in downtown Santa Cruz. They've got jobs posted on our jobs page.

As always, we have the news you need to know. Find out what's new at PayStand and Imprivata. Find out what Cabrillo Robotics Club is doing with NASA. Learn about three upcoming events: the 28th Annual Science & Engineering Fair on March 12, The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence on March 16, and Cruz Cares on April 6 (apply to pitch by March 12). And, here's a question I've been asked more than a couple times: What's up with Amazon in Santa Cruz?

All this, and more. Scroll down and start reading.

Sara Isenberg

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Santa Cruz Tech Beat

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Top Stories

Imprivata has announced that Steward Healthcare System will implement Imprivata Cortext across all nine of the organization's hospitals. Read this story.

What's up with Amazon in Santa Cruz? Amazon is still here in Santa Cruz and still hiring. Read this story.

ONE UP partners with PayStand to power its low-cost digital payment service for small businesses. Read this story.

Cabrillo's Robotics Club has been selected to compete in the First Annual NASA Swarmathon, a challenge to develop cooperative robotics to advance space exploration. Read this story.

The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: The End of Humanity As We Know It? This forum is March 16 at CSUBM. Tech expo, too. Read this story.

"Our business has been extremely intentional, introspective, and has had the stated purpose of supporting us and our team financially, intellectually and spiritually." Learn more about Peter Chester of Modern Tribe. Read this story.

AgTech Insight is targeting $10M initially for a seed stage fund that will invest in 8-10 early startups and aims to help incubate them into commercial technologies. Read this story.

CruzCares announces this year's judges for the April 6 event. Applications to pitch are due by March 12. It's the focus of the April Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup at the Del Mar Theatre. Read this story.

Santa Cruz County Office of Education celebrates local science and engineering student achievement at the 28th Annual Science & Engineering Fair on Saturday, March 12, 2016. Read this story.

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