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Guest post by Candice Matthews Brackeen, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Hillman Accelerator At Hillman Accelerator, we support women and minority led tech companies in Cincinnati, Ohio, and beyond to provide these underrepresented leaders with access to the education, seed funding, mentorship, and network they need to compete. Portfolio companies are given a $100,000 investment, and most importantly, the follow-on support that is critical to grow. As I’ve said many times before, we don’t think there’s a pipeline problem or a shortage of minority or women led founders with great ideas. We think the problem lies in these teams accessing a community or support system to move their ideas forward. For our companies, access to 5G means they’ll be able to dream bigger and accomplish goals faster. Many of them are using advanced algorithms and AI – working deeply with data analytics – so rapid, real-time information exchange isn’t simply a… Read More

We are at the dawn of the fifth generation of wireless technology and the horizon is seemingly limitless. Today’s smartphone-enabled marvels, which we often take for granted, offer just a hint of the transformations ahead in the 5G world. 5G technological advances are ushering in what Professor Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, sees as the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The First Industrial Revolution occurred in the 18th and 19th centuries as work migrated from farm to factory. Railroads, cars, and telephones, along with advances in production, moved us into the Second Industrial Revolution in the 50 years leading up to World War I. We have been living through the Third Industrial Revolution, often dubbed the digital age, for the last 40 years. Like earlier transformations, the Fourth Industrial Revolution should completely change the human experience. Extraordinary technological advances are merging the physical, digital, and biological… Read More

The race to 5G is on. 5G mobile networks will deliver ultra-fast speeds and capabilities that will create use cases only imaginable in today’s world. 5G will help reduce digital disparities and help enhance opportunities for innovators and consumers everywhere. The future of the economy, education, healthcare, social services, sustainability, and so much more will depend on 5G network deployment. To celebrate this transformative new technology, we launched Faces of 5G – hoping to educate the public on the unbelievable innovations already happening today and the possibilities of tomorrow. Follow Faces of 5G as we meet and hear real stories from innovators across the country. Here are the first Faces of 5G… Clayton Banks, CEO, Silicon Harlem  Silicon Harlem is working to build the largest 5G testbed in the U.S. to help give those in Upper Manhattan the same access to technology and innovation as other parts of the city… Read More

Last year, I wrote this piece in TechCrunch on the importance of streamlining and modernizing infrastructure policies as well as establishing the proper balance of public-private partnerships to encourage investment and deployment of 5G networks. ~~~~~ New fifth-generation “5G” network technology will equip the United States with a superior wireless platform, unlocking transformative economic potential. However, 5G’s success is contingent on modernizing outdated policy frameworks that dictate infrastructure overhauls and establishing the proper balance of public-private partnerships to encourage investment and deployment. Most people have heard by now of the coming 5G revolution. Compared to 4G, this next-generation technology will deliver near-instantaneous connection speed, significantly lower latency — meaning near-zero buffer times — and increased connectivity capacity to allow billions of devices and applications to come online and communicate simultaneously and seamlessly. While 5G is often discussed in future tense, the reality is it’s already here. Its capabilities were displayed… Read More