“Tapping Tech 2.0” is brought to you by the Vermont Technology Alliance and the Vermont Technology Council. The vtTA is a trade group, formerly known as the Vermont Software Developers’ Alliance. It was founded in 2004 — by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs — to support and promote Vermont’s thriving software and technical community. Its members share ideas, expertise and strategies for success. The Technology Council was founded in 1994 to support technology-enabled economic development, and it serves as the statewide board for the National Science Foundation- sponsored VT EPSCoR program. The VTC also creates the state Science and Technology Plan, and has helped found organizations such as the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering and Vermont Manufacturing Extension Center. VTC and vtTA created this publication to tell the story of the state’s growing tech sector, which is one of Vermont’s best-kept secrets.