Delaware daily roundup: First-ever ATOM hackathon; CrowdStrike outage takeaways; $700k for East Dover industrial park

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UD hosts first-ever ATOM hackathon

Accelerating Therapeutics for Opportunities in Medicine, or ATOM for short, is a National Cancer Institute and Department of Energy collaboration. Earlier this month, it had its first hackathon at the University of Delaware, drawing participants from across the region and beyond.

➡️ Read my coverage of the hackathon here

CrowdStrike outage highlights a disconnect

How can businesses prevent losses from another outage like what happened with CrowdStrike?

In a guest post today, Tina Williams-Koroma, founding CEO of Baltimore-based cybersecurity companies CyDeploy and TCecure, talks about the choice between updating possibly untested cybersecurity protection as soon as possible to stay up to date and waiting until a patch is tested before fully updating.

➡️ Read Tina’s guest post here

News Incubator: What else to know today

• The Council on Development Finance approved $700,000 to prep for a new East Dover industrial park. [Delaware Business Times]

• Blue Tech update: The US Wind project on the coast of Maryland and Delaware is a step closer to approval. [Delaware Business Now]

• Federal grant money starts coming in for zero-emissions charging infrastructure on I-95. [Delaware Public Media]

• Dela-pony? Rocky Run Shetland pony escapes, and doesn’t quite go viral. [WDEL]

• Join Chris Wink and Ballard Spahr partner Kimberly M. Klayman for a virtual BuildersLive event “How lawyers can use storytelling to engage entrepreneurs” on July 31 from 11:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

🗓️ On the Calendar

• Tuesday, August 6 — Get 15% off your Millsummit 2024 ticket when you register with the code TECHNICALLY24! [Details here]

• Saturday, August 17 — The Power Woman Experience: BLOOM 2024 [Details]