#362: Toyota Research Institute, Modern Tribe, WGCIT, and more tech

Digest #362

Dennis Donohue lays out his top five opportunities for agtech in 2021. Find out what Donohue, Director at Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology, has to say.

Modern Tribe may not be headquartered in Santa Cruz any longer but we still like to follow their news. Check out the latest.

Self-driving cars from Toyota Research Institute may soon be roaming around the Marina Municipal Airport. You may recall that Joby Aviation, the company building electric flying taxis, also leases hangars at the airport in Marina.

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Top Stories

Dennis Donohue, Director at Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology, shares his top five agtech opportunities in 2021. Read the article.

Toyota Research Institute leases space at the Marina Airport to test self-driving cars. Read the article.

Liquid Web aquires The Events Calendar, the number one events calendar plugin on WordPress, from Modern Tribe. Read the article.

Six student teams at UCSC have been chosen for funding this year through the Tech for Social Good Program. Read the article.

Friends of Lick Observatory designates $75K for support of wildfire relief efforts at Lick Observatory, where telescopes were saved but infrastructure was damaged. Read the article.

Techstars Startup Weekend returns to CSUMB for a ninth year. This year’s event will be held online February 5-7. Read the article.

CruzHacks, the annual student-run hackathon at UCSC, is going virtual in 2021 and will be held online January 15-17. Read the article.

"Even after a return to the office option is available, a significant number of companies around the world plan to maintain workforces that are remote or hybrid by design rather than circumstance." (Poly/IDC report) Read the article.