Applications for the 2026 #NCTECHAwards are officially OPEN You have only 4 weeks to put your company on North Carolina's biggest tech stage.
🗓️ Deadline: June 30 → Apply now: https://t.co/a8GAGFNDqZ
Don't wait — June 30 will be here before you know it.
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“If you’ve met one person with a disability, you’ve met ONE person with a disability.” 🙌 The @Lenovo team at #GAADRaleigh reminded us that inclusive research means designing WITH, not FOR. Get people with lived experience in the room at ideation — not just validation. @Ablr360
“AI governance requires asking: for what purpose, to what end, and for whom might it fail?” @RealRegT at #GAADRaleigh today when we automate biased systems without interrogation, we don’t just preserve inequality, we scale it. Lived experience=the credential AI governance needs!
“Help me understand.” Three simple words that can transform how managers support employees with disabilities. 💡 Incredible insights from today’s panel at #GAADRaleigh on psychological safety, ERGs, and building inclusion into your foundation — not just on your website. @Ablr360
Panels. Fireside chats. Networking. Community. That’s #GAADRaleigh at @SASsoftware campus. Thank you @Ablr360 for making accessibility the conversation it deserves to be.
@pendoio went from NC Tech Awards finalist → Raleigh-based unicorn ($2.6B) and a two-time NC Tech Great Tech Places to Work winner ('23 and '24). They're also a recognized NC Tech HQ Company winner ('22) and Software Solutions winner (‘25).
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Last week Wireside was proud to be a sponsor of @NCTA (NC TECH) TechFest. It was great connecting with so many innovators, founders, technology leaders and entrepreneurs in the technology space.
Thank you to the organizers, speakers, partners and attendees who made TechFest such a valuable experience. We’re feeling inspired by the ideas shared and the connections made!
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Brooks Pierce proudly sponsored @NCTA (NC TECH) TechFest in Durham, NC! Partner Will Quick joined the cybersecurity panel, “Words Matter: Communicating Cybersecurity Readiness, Risk and Reality,” with Jennifer Fix, Chuck Kesler, Keith Stouder, and Amy Reeder Worley.
‘By the time a vulnerability is announced, it’s being exploited within hours. Soon it’ll be minutes.’ ‘If you’re not doing MFA in your environment, your setting yourself up to be exploited.’ Getting past vulnerabilities is just one piece - harden your infrastructure.’ @Cisco
Closing out #TechFestNC with a conversation on cybersecurity and AI security — Omar Santos, Paul Giralt, and Jon Heaton from @Cisco close us out. The perfect note to end on. #CyberSecurity#AI#NCTech
The Startup Showcase sponsored by @SASsoftware starts now, at the Durham Convention Center. Five NC companies are about to take the stage — Fixxr, NexStratus, Nuream, Roboro, and Tesslate. This is what building in NC looks like. 👀 #TechFestNC#NCTech#Startups
Three TurboTech Talks on the expo floor during lunch at #TechFest2026 — Brandon Walker from HOAi on marketing AI in real time, Mark Bavisotto from RDULABS on the multi-trillion dollar opportunity nobody’s talking about, and John Samuel from @Ablr360 Future tech x human access.
‘If AI continues to be a side project and not a top-down operational model, NC will just become an AI hosting state — data centers and smart people, but no real adoption.’ The opportunity is here. The universities, the research, & industries. But it’s on all of us, it’s our job.
AI adoption is everybody’s job.’ The model is not the strategy — it’s rapidly commoditizing. The real opportunity is governance, operating models, and getting people to actually use it. Start small, connect your data, and scale what works. AI pilots ➡️ enterprise value! #AI
Breakout sessions continue at #TechFestNC— from AI pilots to enterprise value with @CGI_Global , making AI defensible and compliant with @BlueAlly_IT , building NC’s next-gen tech workforce with @Dell , and AgTech right here in North Carolina. Something for everyone. #NCTech#AI