A new leadership is emerging in the private sector that is transforming Upstate New York with new exciting business models and new approaches to support sustained growth. Upstate will again take its place among global competitors fueled by widespread business expansion and energized by an entrepreneurial spirit. Upstate’s new economy will continue to re-emerge over the next several years, driven by technology and leveraged by creative talent and capital.

fuse℠ is evolving as Upstate New York’s signature event focused on accelerating business growth across the regions from East to West and North to South. fuse will be widely recognized as a showcase of Upstate New York business where leading companies gain recognition for their achievements and get connected to statewide and global growth opportunities.

The fuse initiative will showcase and spotlight the best of Upstate’s business growth initiatives, technologies, emerging opportunities and success stories. It will serve as a connector and an aligning force in bringing the private sector together with higher education and the public sector across the NY State on an annual basis (and in smaller events throughout the year). fuse will serve as a vehicle to generate positive “buzz” and to transmit and amplify the signal across Upstate and to the world that Upstate is a player in the high tech, high value global economy.

Importantly, fuse will help to connect Upstate companies to each other and to national and worldwide technology and business leaders, thus creating real business development and growth opportunities and contributing to building Upstate New York’s 21st Century economy.