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2016–2017 Annual Report Posted by The Florida High Tech Corridor
Through a unique partnership with dozens of economic development, workforce, academic, and industry partners, The Corridor has supported the growth of high-tech industry in this region for more than 20 years.
Determined to extend his wife’s life, Peter Travers of LifeBridge Innovations built a Tumor Treating Fields device from the ground up.
As a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Dr. Christina Drake, was so inspired by the technical smarts and problem-solving abilities of the starship Enterprise’s chief engineer, Geordi La Forge, that she decided to pursue a similar path.
It wasn’t until he built a VR flight simulator prototype for a senior design project, however, that the thought of creating a business to pursue these ideas crossed his mind. Encouraged by feedback from his professors and local industry leaders, Naids turned his project into a spinoff company and co-founded Talon Simulations in 2015.