Grow Your Career

Keep advancing in your career with the support of educational and research institutions and continuing education programs. Whether you’re growing in your current position or learning a new skill set, tech education opens the door to new opportunities. You’ll also find professional development organizations and events ready to give you the leadership skills you need to continue to move forward in your career.

Learning and development

Lead The Way

You’ve come a long way in your career. If you’re ready to tackle big problems in the community and worldwide, you’ll find roles working on essential products and services like energy-efficient water tech that helps to combat climate change and industry-forward projects like automation innovation, smart products, legacy modernization, and more. Local non-profits also offer opportunities to use your tech skills to give back to the community through mentorship and volunteerism.

Solving the real problems

Connect With Others

Milwaukee is a city of collaboration, and that extends to its tech scene. From events and meetups to hackathons and large conferences, you can expand your network with a diverse array of tech and tech-enabled professionals ready to support each other in their careers. This welcoming community makes it easier to build an impactful network and make the connections that matter for your professional future.

Networking and connection

Integral top-ranked places to start your career

MKE Start-Up Scene

The engaged, innovative tech community in Milwaukee lets you have a career while on the path to bringing your start-up to life. Early-stage incubators like FOR-M, the nationally-ranked gener8tor accelerator, and dedicated funds for Black founders can help bring your start-up to life. A high concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the region provides a rich potential customer base.

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Makers, Creators, & Innovators

Known as the city that feeds and supplies the world, Milwaukee is a place that makes and creates vital products that impact people everywhere. The area’s manufacturing history is still alive today in an industrial, entrepreneurial spirit that fuels makers and innovators of all kinds. Digital innovation is key to building the products of the future, and you’ll find those hands-on, emerging projects right here in Milwaukee.

Manufacturing in Milwaukee

Committed to Increasing Diversity in Tech

Milwaukee’s tech community recognizes that it is our responsibility to bring changes in equity and diversity in the field. Major local corporations have made a commitment to increasing diversity in tech at a scale that can impact the national underrepresentation of minorities in tech. MKE Tech Hub’s goal is to reach 50% tech employees who have been traditionally underrepresented, including people of color, women, disabled people, and veterans. Networking groups like Social X and Latinos in Tech (LIT) are dedicated to the professional advancement of people of color.

Social X Latinos in Tech