CEO Updates Congratulations to the Las Vegas Golden Knights, Nevada's professional hockey team, for winning the Pacific Division this past weekend. The Western Conference play-offs begin this Saturday and then off to the Stanley Cup Finals, if they can win the conference. The Golden Knights are just the third team since 1960 to reach the semifinal round in [...]
CEO Updates Congratulations to the Wolf Pack Basketball Teams as they celebrate a great year. The men's team had an amazing NCAA Tournament run. The Wolf Pack, who beat Texas in the first round and Cincinnati in the second round, fell short to Loyola Chicago in the Sweet 16. While the women's team played in the Women's [...]
CEO Updates Congratulations to the Wolf Pack Men's Basketball Team as they celebrate their second straight Mountain West Conference Title Win!Watch as they celebrate a championship and net-cutting ceremony. Go here to view the celebration! Congratulations to David Wise and Moment Skis! Their locally manufactured skis were prominently photographed being worn by David Wise, Gold medalist, in [...]
CEO Update Thanks to all that attended the EDAWN, The Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce and theRSCVA Alliance event: A Regional Business Expo & Economic Update on January 25th. The event focused on educating educating the community on the partnership and combined efforts of these organizations to move our economy in a positive direction. Governor Sandoval [...]
CEO Wow - 2018 already! I hope you had a break over the holidays because from the looks of things, this new year will be even more exciting than last year. Please join us for our annual economic update as part of the new Alliance event - A Regional Business Expo & Economic Update - January [...]
CEO Happy Holidays! Another year has come and gone, and it is exciting to see the progress we've made as a team! As you know, we can't do this alone. Our success would not happen without the continued support of our investors and community partners. On behalf of the EDAWN Board of Trustees and [...]
CEO Congratulations to SWITCH! We are excited to see one of our local Nevada based companies go public. Rob Roy and the SWITCH Team rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange recently. Switch uses clean and renewable energy to power data centers. Amazon, eBay and PayPal are on the company's roster [...]
CEO How did EDAWN do in our fiscal year 2017? The EDAWN Board tracks our progress using a dashboard that details metrics in a few main areas, job attraction, job retention, entrepreneurial job creation and workforce development. This dashboard is aligned with our strategic plan and our funding. The EDAWN team had another great [...]
CEO Great National Media Continues ...and with Burning Man recently, we have seen an uptick in national coverage - In case you missed it: MSNBC: How Reno, Nevada is rebounding from the Great Recession Wall Street Journal: Reno puts out the welcome mat for Burning Man USA Today: Nevada Museum of Art's "City of Dust" [...]
CEO What an amazing amount of positive media in the past few weeks: CBS This Morning News: August 4, 2017 | For decades, Reno, Nevada,was a gambling mecca but when casinos fell on hard times, Reno struggled. Now, the city has reinvented itself as a tech hub. Mayor Schieve joined "CBS This Morning" to discuss how Reno has [...]