Triangle Can Be The Silicon Valley Of The Emerging Data Economy – Here’s How

Tom Snyder, executive director of rapidly growing Raleigh-based RIoT, is the newest columnist to join WRAL TechWire’s list of contributors. His column, “Datafication Nation”, premiers today and focuses on the emerging Internet of Things and Data Automation. North Carolina legislators recognized the importance of the semiconductor market in the 70’s and 80’s and invested in the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina. However, the battle for supremacy was lost to Silicon Valley. Today, regions are competing to become the global capital of the Data Economy and RTP has a chance to be crowned the victor. The region has a strong resume, with SAS (headquartered in Cary) being one of the top 4 analytics companies in the world. IBM is the number one analytics company and runs its Watsonx program in RTP.