Meet Kimberly Petersen, Fremont’s seventh Police Chief, who was sworn in last week and has loyally served the department for over two decades and implemented new programs such as the Trailing Dog Program and the Mobile Evaluation Team (MET). Read on to learn more about Chief Petersen’s passion to continue the City’s proactive approach to […]
Taking our smart city initiative to new heights, Fremont was recently featured as the only North American location for IBM’s Call for Code Challenge. In partnership with 42 Silicon Valley, the City itself was the subject of this hackathon, which tackled a topic very near and dear to our hearts — disaster preparedness. Innovating through […]
As more employers value and invest in work-life balance, Fremont is turning heads — for good reasons. This year, Fremont has been named the least-stressed city by WalletHub, which compared 182 cities across 37 key metrics ranging from job security to family stability and crime rates. According to the study, Fremont has the lowest separation […]
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a drone! Well, technically it’s a DJI Mavic Pro, but not to worry, it’s not there to spy on you or drop off your Amazon package. This summer, my partner, Haojin Chen, and I took a school project out of the classroom and […]
California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) awardees joined a number of other exciting cleantech startups at CleanTech Open’s (CTO) National Academy West in June this year. “I really enjoyed the weekend in Fremont Joe Hinostroza of South 8 Technologies said after the event. “Getting to see all the big cleantech companies around Fremont on the […]
Last week, we said goodbye to former Fremont Economic Development Director Kelly Kline, who is moving on to a new opportunity with the City of San Jose. Of course, we thought it only fitting to reflect on her impact on the City of Fremont here on Takes From Silicon Valley East. After all, this blog […]
Self-driving cars are a staple in today’s headlines. This rapidly changing industry is shaping the way we move around and get places in urban environments. One of the leaders in the field is Pony.ai — the first company to offer fully autonomous self-driving car rides to the general public in China. It also became the […]
It’s impossible to describe the role of City Manager. The breadth of issues encountered within a city organization defies categorization. One minute you are knee-deep in budget planning and the next minute you are confronted with a public safety issue that is literally life or death. Over the course of 31 years, the last 14 […]
Exactly how does the Bay Area stack up against the nation’s top knowledge-based economies? How competitive is the Bay Area economy on a global scale? How well have we recovered from the Great Recession? This month, the Bay Area Council Economic Institute published the 10th economic profile of the Bay Area since 1997, which answers […]
