On September 22nd, the Charleston Area Alliance held their Business After Hours at Baer Place, 950 Kanawha Blvd E! It was a cool evening with perfect weather, and everyone enjoyed food and drinks catered by 1010 Bridge Road.

The Business After Hours the prime networking event in the Charleston Metro Area. Hosted monthly by the Charleston Area Alliance and their members, it provides a fun and unique way for business professionals and entrepreneurs to meet with one another outside of regular business hours.

At Advantage Technology, we’ve found that leaders are really having a difficult time with cybersecurity. The topic is difficult, so webinars and presentations just don’t cut through the complexity. So we decided a more intimate setting where we can meet everyone and address individual questions would be more productive. So on August 25th, we booked a wine tasting at Stone House Urban Winery in Hagerstown and invited Arctic Wolf Networks, an industry leader in cybersecurity, to join us. There we met casually, enjoying some wine and answering questions.

On Wednesday, June 29th Advantage Technology held our first Advantage Lunch in the Morgantown area. We invited our friends at Extreme Networks to explain the giant leap forward that is Wi-Fi 6E. Wi-Fi 6E is the biggest change to Wi-Fi in the last 30 years! But what it all means to businesses takes a little unpacking, which makes it a perfect topic for an Advantage Lunch.

Check out the recap and let us know what thought of the event.

Advantage Technology began with Richard Wilbur III providing IT consulting from a spare bedroom in early 2000. After working for several consumer-driven IT businesses directly out of college, he saw an opportunity to provide groundbreaking, enterprise-quality IT solutions to the business community. He quickly hired staff and moved to a small office complex in downtown Charleston, WV. It wasn’t long before that facility was too small and Advantage Technology moved to 814 Quarrier street where it remained for over a decade.