The Business Council of Westchester’s (BCW) Westchester Innovation Network is helping the video feedback platform Jotto introduce its technology to residents of the Yonkers Housing Authority. Developed by Quadrant 2, Jotto is a pioneering platform that leverages groundbreaking social justice applications to redefine community engagement for local government and large organizations. Jotto, a BCW WIN participant, recently held two demonstration sessions with the authority’s residents to explain how its technology can help them communicate more effectively with the authority’s building managers. Jotto enables people to share feedback instantly by turning diverse forms of feedback—video, audio, and text—into actionable insights. This […]

BCW Member Iona University unveiled plans this week for the new Gabelli Center for Teaching & Learning. The new center is envisioned as a vibrant hub for institutional innovation, faculty development and thought leadership. It was made possible through the generosity of Marc Gabelli, of Gabelli Group, and his mother, Elaine Madonna Gabelli, a longtime Catholic elementary school teacher, of the EMG Madonna Foundation. The EMG Madonna Foundation is committed to supporting and strengthening Catholic education in the New York City area through grants and active student involvement.   The Gabelli Center’s first initiative will be AI@Iona, an institutional commitment […]

Congratulations to BCW Member Clarapath, a medical robotics company transforming the way pathology laboratories process tissue, which announced this week it has entered into a strategic collaboration with Mayo Clinic to propel a new era of laboratory automation. For decades, laboratories have relied on labor intensive, manual procedures to process tissue specimens for purposes of diagnosing cancer and other diseases. Faced with labor shortages, quality control challenges, and the rapidly increasing volume of samples, laboratories need to innovate and improve the reliability and efficiency of creating glass slides for pathological review. Clarapath’s SectionStar™ is an automated tissue sectioning, transfer and […]

Two of Westchester’s significant transformational projects — Standard Amusements Playland and Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts — were the focus of a highly informative Business Council of Westchester State of Economy forum held April 11. Featured speakers were Evonne Keeler, CEO of Standard Amusements Playland and Taryn Duffy, Vice President of Public Affairs at Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts. Keeler outlined Playland’s public-private partnership between Standard Amusement and Westchester County which is providing a $150 million investment for a transformational multi-year development project. “The Playland of yesterday and today is evolving for the future. And that includes infrastructure […]

The Rising Stars Leadership Council and the Rising Stars Alumni partnered with Neighbors Link to increase awareness about their mission. Each year, the BCW’s Rising Stars Alumni Not-For-Profit Partnership focuses their support on not-for-profits that have Rising Stars Winners. For the 2023-2024 Partnership, in addition to Neighbors Link, other not-for-profit partners include Feeding Westchester; the YMCA of Central and Northern Westchester; the Westchester Children’s Museum; and the Youth Shelter Program of Westchester. Earlier this month, the partnership presented a $2,000 check to Neighbors Link to purchase ten Chromebooks for their Tech Ed Program that promotes digital literacy. Neighbors Link serves […]

Tuesday’s KeyBank Speaker Series—FutureEd: Harnessing the Power of AI in Academic Innovation—was a historic gathering of Westchester County’s college and university leaders, who gathered for the first time to discuss artificial intelligence’s implications for higher education. As part of the BCW’s yearlong AI Alliance 360° program, the leaders described how their institutions are innovating and adapting their practices to AI, which poses challenges to inclusion, academic authenticity, ethics, and security, among other issues. Panelists included Dr. Seamus Carey, President of Iona University; Marc M. Jerome, President of Monroe College; Jonathan Hill, Dean of the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and […]