Empowering Our Partners
To Thrive in the Digital Age
How Can WHIN Help YOU
Use Technology?
The mission of the Wabash Heartland Innovation Network is to accelerate the adoption of transformative technologies. WHIN strengthens the fabric of lives and communities by keeping technology adoption in step with the pace of innovation. By working across private, public, and social sectors, WHIN enables innovation to support essential systems such as food and manufacturing and helps people and communities adapt and endure in a rapidly changing world. Its user-driven model also helps keep innovation efficiently aligned with human needs.
460+
ENTITIES THAT HAVE PARTNERED WITH WHIN
Across our initiatives in Ag, Manufacturing, and Broadband
$138M
REGIONAL ECONOMIC IMPACT
THROUGH WHIN OPERATIONS
TEConomy Partners, LLC,
June 2024
350+
TECH COMPANIES
VETTED BY WHIN
And new companies added at a rate of 50+ each year
The Mira judges were amazed that a small non-profit could effectively bring multi-faceted groups together to work on common goals. Crediting the organization with transforming industries in Indiana, especially in rural areas, they said:
WHIN is having an outsized impact for its size and is working like a corporation as it systematizes and accelerates digital transformation in 10 north-central Indiana counties. Its “Living Lab” works with farmers and manufacturers to form user communities interested in trying new technology. The strategy helped bring the first robotics plant dedicated to agriculture to Indiana. WHIN has also made other investments that support the region’s development into a tech powerhouse, completing in 2023 a $6 million investment in the region’s 28 school corporations to strengthen network-based access and learning for more than 50,000 K-12 students.
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"WHIN is merging the Midwest's unparalleled leadership in agriculture and manufacturing with Purdue University's globally recognized engineering expertise and Ivy Tech's applied education.
It’s building upon all of our world-class abilities – agriculture, manufacturing, and engineering - while keeping focus upon our region's sense of community and affordable cost of living."
Gary Henriott
WHIN Board Chair