It’s not the tech announcement Newark is hoping to make soon, but Tuesday night at his State of the City address, Mayor Ras Baraka announced the city is going to host a major tech conference in July on the campus of New Jersey Institute of Technology.
“I am pleased to announce today yet another milestone in Newark’s growing importance as a technology hub,” he told the crowd at NJPAC. “We learned over the weekend that Newark has been chosen to host ‘VOICE,’ a three-day summit at the forefront of natural language processing, sponsored by Amazon Alexa.
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