September 2021

Ashley Wardlow, Executive Director, Northwest Arkansas Technology Summit, Greater Bentonville Area Chamber of Commerce “IN OUR RAPIDLY changing world, we are all technologists.” That’s the theme line for this fall’s eighth iteration of the NWA Tech Summit, the increasingly high-profile project of the Greater Bentonville Area Chamber of Commerce. We sat down with the Summit’s […]

BY NOW, YOU’RE used to hearing us at ACDS talk about the Registered Apprenticeship Program, which we believe is the most efficient pathway, in terms of time and capital, to take someone with potential and passion, put them through classroom training customized to an employer’s required skills, and set them on the pathway to a

Lonnie Emard,Apprenticeship Director THE BEGINNING OF Fall is always a nostalgic time for me. I grew up in Iowa, and even though my family never farmed, we couldn’t help feeling the whole community’s excitement at harvest time. Fall marked the end of another year’s effort. For an all-too-brief moment, the worry over rainfall, drought, storms,

FROM BEADS TO BITCOIN Why you’re hearing so much about cryptocurrency these days Kathryn CarlisleSenior Managing Director,Blockchain Center of ExcellenceSam M. Walton College of BusinessUniversity of Arkansas THE FIRST THING to know is that anything can be “money.” This is why cryptocurrency is such a fascinating topic, especially in the beginning. Because it’s really a