The Center for Technology & Innovation (CT&I) seeks to understand why a small community in Upstate NY centered around Binghamton has been a powerhouse of technical creativity for more than a century. Home to the world's first successful test of mobile communications; first flight simulation; world's largest shoe company; high fidelity audio equipment that powered large venue rock concerts at Woodstock, the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound, and others; first automated electronic component insertion machines; and home of IBM's Plant #1, who has been a leader in information management since the introduction of time clocks and punch cards in the 1880s through today's Enterprise systems. Four of the 300 strong US astronaut corps graduated from regional public high schools and the patent production rate in the early 21st c. is more than double the national average (Harvard Business School, Economic Cluster Study). TechWorks!, to be housed in a rehabbed vintage ice cream factory, will showcase CT&I's collection of ideas, oral histories, photos, documents, manufacturing equipment, and products. TechWorks! focuses on Upstate NY ideas and innovations - past, present, and future - that continue to change the way the world does business.