Connecticut is investing $20 million in a 100,000-square-foot artificial intelligence and workforce development center in downtown Hartford.<\/p>\n
The planned Hartford Innovation Center will include collaborative labs, classrooms, and project spaces designed to support the adoption of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.<\/p>\n
Funding for the center, which will be located at State House Square, will come from the Department of Economic and Community Development\u2019s $100 million Innovation Clusters Program.<\/p>\n
That program is designed to strengthen key economic sectors\u2014including biotechnology, financial technology, insurance technology and advanced manufacturing\u2014through public-private partnerships.<\/p>\n
The project has drawn financial commitments from Hartford HealthCare, The Hartford, Travelers, Nassau, Google, and QuantumCT.<\/p>\n
The Hartford award is the second made under the program, following last September\u2019s $50.5 million investment in a downtown New Haven innovation district focused on life sciences and quantum technology.<\/p>\n
The Hartford Innovation Center will focus on Hartford\u2019s insurance and healthcare sectors\u2014two industries that anchor the regional economy and are increasingly integrating AI into their operations.<\/p>\n
The project has drawn multiyear financial commitments from several major regional employers and institutions, including Hartford HealthCare, The Hartford, Travelers, Nassau, Google, and QuantumCT.<\/p>\n
The investment also dovetails with the state\u2019s Tech Talent Accelerator program\u2014funding industry-led AI training initiatives at Connecticut colleges and universities\u2014and with RAISE US, a national workforce initiative that has raised roughly $500 million to help prepare workers for an AI-driven economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday\u2019s investment signals our commitment to accelerating economic growth in Hartford while ensuring workers and employers alike benefit from cutting-edge innovation,\u201d Gov. Ned Lamont said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connecticut is investing $20 million in a 100,000-square-foot artificial intelligence and workforce development center in downtown Hartford. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,49,1817,1138],"class_list":["post-139235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-healthcare","tag-manufacturing","tag-workforce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}