Mayor Sam Adams says he’s made Portland’s software companies a key focus of his economic planning.
Mayor Sam Adams says he’s made Portland’s software companies a key focus of his economic planning.
Oregon technology continues to be dominated by computer hardware, and the metro area has been unable to grow a big software or Internet company in well over a decade — even as they sprouted by the score in Seattle and the Silicon Valley.
“I saw this great talent,” Adams said in an interview this week. “You won’t find an industry with more passion or smarts.”
The mayor will discuss his software ambitions Thursday, before a capacity crowd of more than 200 at a “Software Industry Strategy Summit” inside City Hall. He’s planning for a city “perceived as where you go for the best talent to confront the toughest digital challenges.”
Read more at OregonLive.com.
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