Posts Tagged ‘New Mexico’

The 2^nd Annual National Security Technology Conference will be held at the Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces on March 2-4, 2010.  The conference is hosted by the National Security Technology Incubator (NSTI) operated by the Arrowhead Center at New Mexico State University. NSTI is funded by the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration division. NSTI promotes the development of new and expanding technology business in New Mexico.

The conference will introduce companies to major contractors and government decision makers working in the national security sectors. Panels will address various teaming arrangements and potential funding opportunities, and includes a classified session on cyber security. If you are a technology company wishing to do business in this region’s billion dollar industry, you should plan on attending and/or exhibiting.

Detailed information including the conference agenda, speakers and contractors attending, and registration information is available on the NSTI conference website.

Employment Extravaganza 2010 is the last recruiting opportunity of the academic year. It will be held in the Corbett Center Student Union on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 from 9:00a.m. - 3:00p.m.

Employment Extravaganza 2010 is a venture to unite the students of New Mexico State University with employers in the state of New Mexico and regionally. However, any employers still addressing staffing requirements in the area of Internships, Cooperative Education, temporary summer work, or Professional Employment are cordially invited to attend. This is the last general career fair of the academic year.

Employers will have opportunities to:

• Connect with potential candidates
• Showcase upcoming career opportunities in your organization
• Meet dynamic students for part-time, temporary, summer, internship, co-op, or full-time employment
• Interact with candidates from 82 Bachelor’s, 50 Master’s, and 22 Doctoral degree programs at NMSU

Students can distribute resumes and learn about career opportunities for current and future positions. Freshmen through Alumni are invited to participate.

Employers may register on-line.  Parking information and maps are available on-line http://careerservices.nmsu.edu/fairs/parking.html.

For more information call 575-646-4115 or via e-mail: extrav@nmsu.edu.

On Monday, January 25, Governor Bill Richardson unveiled an interconnected system that will eventually link 33 sites around the state to Encanto, New Mexico’s Supercomputer.  Encanto is the fastest public supercomputer in the world. The Supercomputer, which is housed at Intel in Rio Rancho, can perform 172 trillion calculations per second.

The “Connect New Mexico” event connected all eight new gateway sites into the Supercomputer using its new teleconferencing capability. The sites are:

• The University of New Mexico
• New Mexico State University
• Eastern New Mexico
• Western New Mexico University
• New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
• Santa Fe Community College
• San Juan College
• The State Capitol

These sites will be utilized by the universities and local businesses that need high performance computing for design and modeling purposes. The Supercomputer can be used for research, educational activities, training, and business modeling in the areas of energy, environment, digital film, aerospace, and biotechnology, among others.

The founding institutions for the New Mexico Computing Applications Center, which runs the Supercomputer, are UNM, NMSU, New Mexico Tech, and Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories.

For more information about the event and future Supercomputer gateways, see the Governor’s newsroom and the NMSU News Center.

Announcement Courtesy of WESST, SBDC, and SCORE

National news sources have reported a staggering decrease in bank lending to small businesses in 2009.  Small businesses have faced a variety of challenges during this latest recession and are hopeful the lending will improve in 2010.

What can small businesses expect from lenders in 2010?

• What has changed in lending, if anything?
• What do banks expect from borrowers?
• What lies ahead in small business loans?
• What SBA programs or guarantees exist now? In the future?

A panel of local lenders and Small Business Administration (SBA) officials will answer many of these questions during a “Free Lender’s Forum” on February 4, 2010. The forum will be held at the Dona Ana Community College Workforce Development Center, 2345 E. Nevada in Las Cruces, New Mexico from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Food and beverages will be provided, but space is limited. Please pre-register by calling 541-1583.

Article courtesy of the Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce

The Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce’s Commercial Space Committee will hold its first 2010 Dona Ana County Spaceport Community Council Meeting from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 26, in the commission chambers at the Dona Ana County Government Center, 845 Motel Blvd.  The meeting is a free forum that is open to the public to present the newest information available on Spaceport America and the burgeoning aerospace industry in southern New Mexico.

The evening’s presentations will focus on tourism-related activities taking place in the area and across the state that are focused on the one-of-a-kind combination of Spaceport America and New Mexico’s unique tourism assets.

The two-hour event will be hosted by Bob Diven, and start with an update on construction and business development progress from Steve Landeene, executive director of Spaceport America. Additional presentations will be given by an outstanding set of panelists including:

• Jennifer Hobson - New Mexico Tourism Department
• Randall Hayes - New Mexico Museum of Space History
• Bob Pofahl - Picacho Mountain Development
• Jerry Brown - Spaceport America Hard Hat Tours
• David Hicks - Las Cruces Convention Center
• Davin Lopez - Mesilla Valley Economic Development Alliance (MVEDA)
• Dr. Janet Green - NMSU’s School of Hospitality, Restaurant and Tourism Management

The remainder of the evening will be question-and-answer time for those in attendance to learn more about the project and its impacts on local/regional tourism. Questions will be gathered from attendees as they enter and will be presented to the panel by Diven.

The event will be taped and will air at a later time on CLC-TV cable channel 20 for those that are unable to attend.

The Spaceport Community Council Meetings will continue to be a regular quarterly event allowing the community to stay current with the status of Spaceport America and stay engaged in the process of “Building a Spaceport Community”.  Future meetings scheduled for 2010 will focus on educational and economic development impacts of the growth of Spaceport America and a new Commercial Space Industry in the region.

For more information, contact the Chamber office at 524-1968.