Based in Richmond, Virginia, the Greater Richmond Technology Council serves to promote the region as a technology center and provides a vehicle for addressing the needs of Central Virginia's dynamic technology community. The Council also serves as a forum for members to network, exchange ideas, form alliances and seek solutions to the common competitive challenges that face them.

Founded in 1989 as the Central Virginia High Technology Network, the Council adopted its current name in 1995 and joined a growing association of regional technology councils in the Commonwealth. With a membership that had grown from 39 in late 1995 to 80 by the end of 1997, the Council's Executive Committee responded to the needs of this rapidly expanding community by hiring its first full-time Executive Director in January of 1998. As of January of 2001, the Council has grown to nearly 400 member companies.

Council membership is representative of the Central Virginia economy, diverse. The technology sector of that economy is actually a combination of several key technology based industries including: information technology, semiconductor, biotechnology, telecommunications, high-performance manufacturing and others. This diversity is our strength and our members not only represent technology producers, users and service providers, but also the supporting industries, organizations and institutions that provide the infrastructure and catalyst necessary for economic expansion.

As the representative for Virginia's central region, the Greater Richmond Technology Council directly supports the Virginia Technology Alliance which unites us with Virginia's other eight regional Councils. We work closely with Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology in addressing issues affecting: the availability of a highly skilled workforce, growth of our existing technology community, the establishment of a high technology infrastructure that facilitates electronic commerce and attracts research and development, and the entrepreneurial environment upon which the technology community has been built.

For more detail, including contacts, products and services of our members, please visit the Member List and Member Database.