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“We think technology is one of the biggest drivers of our economy. It’s one of the only industries that’s experienced positive job growth over the last twelve months,” Matt Coursen, managing director at Jones Lang Lasalle told What’s Working in Washington.

Techweek runs from October 2-6 this year and is seeing growing numbers in attendance.“It’s the leading technology conference and festival across the country,” said Coursen.

Techweek has also worked hard to identify the largest tech contributors in U.S. cities. “Companies like the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, and what that was able to do for that entire economy,” he said.

Coursen says Techweek hopes to encourage large companies such as Ford to not gravitate to Silicon Valley.

“There’s tendency, as you may know, for companies to move out their headquarters to San Francisco or Silicon Valley, and they leave behind a community that could otherwise benefit.”
“If you really start looking at northern Virginia and Maryland, combining it with downtown D.C., you see that we’ve got two or three hundred technology companies here… there really are a lot of companies here doing great things,” Coursen said.

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