Avnet’s Rise program provides career and leadership development and celebrates achievements while promoting diversity of women in the workplace. Each year, the Rise committee celebrates and honors the company’s women through networking opportunities, recognition, events and more. Recently the Avnet Rise committee hosted a celebration and award ceremony for this year’s selection of the 2019 Female Leader of the Year Award and first-ever recipient of the Shining Star Award.

Avnet, along with Microsoft, STMicroelectronics and Verizon, has developed a one-day hands-on workshop for IoT embedded developers interested in leveraging cellular LPWAN technology and reducing time to market. For just $99, attendees receive a complete ST developer IoT kit with on-board sensors and a whole day of interactive labs that will aim to:

Sunny Trinh, vice president of demand creation, represented Avnet on a panel at the Merchant Risk Council (MRC) conference in Las Vegas in March. Alongside business partners Microsoft and BitPay, the panel discussed Avnet’s recent announcement to accept cryptocurrency payments. This major step positions the global technology solutions provider as an industry leader and opens up exciting new opportunities for customers. 

Squirrels Research Labs (SQRL) is among the very first of Avnet’s customers to take advantage of our new partnership with BitPay to accept cryptocurrency payments. SQRL focuses on research projects designed to bring about the next generation of cryptocurrency mining hardware, and as such is deeply invested and active in cryptocurrency.

“Our clientele operate in the crypto space, so we’re often paid in cryptocurrencies,” says David Stanfill, CEO of SQRL. “The ability to conduct our transaction