The Tech Industry in Boulder

Coffee shops with rows of laptops on every table, a venture capitalist next to you at dinner, hikers on the trail speaking developer lingo...you'll see right off the bat that Boulder is steeped in tech, with companies drawn to the small city for its laid-back lifestyle, huge VC presence and highly educated workforce. Boulder was named the best small metro area in the midwestern U.S. for women working in tech by CoworkingCafe thanks to a high number of tech job openings and coworking spaces. One of the best-known tech accelerators in the U.S., Techstars, was founded in Boulder, and the world's largest tech companies have offices here. Your group will be eager to attend your conference in tech-savvy Boulder, feed off its forward-thinking energy and intellectual capital, and leave here better for it.

"Boulder is an entrepreneurial powerhouse like no other." — Inc.

Tech Companies Based in Boulder

Here are some of the top IT, software and other tech companies that have made Boulder their home base.

• Agilent Technologies
• Apple
• Fanatics
• Google Boulder
• Lexmark
• MojoTech
• NetApp
• Nvidia
• Qualcomm
• Ricoh
• S&P Global
• Spectra Logic
• Sphero
• TeamSnap
• Zayo Group

Tech Groups That Have Met in Boulder

The following technology-focused teams and conferences have held meetings or events here in Boulder.

• Techstars StaffCon
• Techstars FounderCon
• 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) / NYC / Association for Computing Machinery
• NIST Structural Reliability Meeting
• Boulder Startup Week
• Revel Health
• UX Strategic Design Conference

Your Tech Group in Boulder

Technology groups are a natural fit in Boulder. Visit Boulder can connect you with state-of-the-art, tech-equipped venues, innovative leaders who can speak at your events and plenty of places to unwind with a beer — really, the fourth highest of any city in the nation (per capita) — after a day of sessions.