Category Archives: Events

Educating tomorrow’s Tech Talent

Upcoming on April 16, 2016

BizStrat Technology will present on how to feed the talent (tech talent of 6th to 9th grade girls who have innovative aspirations in STEM) at the Illinois TechSavvy Event being held at Oakton College in Des Plaines, IL.   In addition to the main stage presentation to 100+ parents of these girls, they will exhibit with a partner company in game development, Webfoot Technologies, to show girls that being a female leader in Information Technology is a real possibility.  Exhibition items will include Raspberry PI and the gaming platform on Linux, Windows and native Raspberrian, together with touch screen kiosk devices, with BizStrat Technology prototypes from the urEZsolutions line, targeted to restaurant, hospitality, retail and most recently municipality uses.  Integrated with maps, voice and touch technology together with custom hooks into reservation systems, POS, payment and web driven sites, the releases are both practical for business use and interesting with high level graphics, exciting content and robust delivery of real-world needs.

Partnering to Cultivate Technology Talent

Webfoot Technologies and BizStrat Technology are pairing up to deliver emerging changes in business and gaming technology to future talent.  Utilizing the Raspberry PI platform, they are showcasing what can be done at the educational level.  The two companies are also partnering up to give a new fun and exciting face-lift to business technology, converging what has been drab and functional, to graphically exciting and entertaining through BizStrat Technology’s Kiosk systems that are now being expanded to include the Webfoot Technologies game suite.  Stay tuned for upcoming events and press on this emerging technology that is sure to change the way people think about technology for business.

Dana Dominiak (Left)  and Michelle Mikka-Van Der Stuyf (Right)

President, Webfoot Technologies and AutomateTheWorld  and President & CEO, BizStrat Technology Corporation

NCWIT Aspirations in Computing

April 17, 2015

At Bank of America, downtown Chicago location, fifty high school girls were honored as winners and runner-up recipients of the NCWIT (National Center for Women In Technology) Aspirations in Computing Award.  Corporate and Academia worked together to honor these girls and their technology talent from Illinois.  Illinois continues to have honorees who earn awards at the National level as well as regionally.  Michelle Mikka-Van Der Stuyf, President & CEO, BizStrat Technology, Illinois Technology Foundation board member, Lewis University Computer Science & Math Advisory board member and NCWIT executive committee member delivered inspirational real world closing remarks to the 125+ in attendance and announced a $1,000 scholarship opportunity for 2 of the girls who would be selected from applications toward their collegiate endeavors.

This annual competition (NCWIT Aspirations in Computing) is open in October each year, and applications are taken through the end of December.  Awardees are notified in Feb/March of the following year and the host organization varies from year to year.  2016 Awards Ceremony will be held at Lewis University – Romeoville Campus.