Google has opened its first office in Minnesota in the Collider Coworking space in downtown Rochester, Collider announced Thursday. The office will open later this year in Collider's space in the Conly-Maass-Downs Building in downtown Rochester.
The office will support Google's ongoing partnership with Rochester's Mayo Clinic. The Mayo Clinic picked Google as its partner on artificial intelligence projects in 2019. The deal is good for 10 years, though terms weren't disclosed. The new office will be led by Chris Mueller, a software engineer for Google Cloud.
"Part of what drew us to partner with Google was our shared cultures of collaboration. We’re excited to have this physical space designed to deepen our bond and facilitate innovation, where Google engineers will work side by side with Mayo Clinic researchers, physicians, information technology staff and data scientists, to apply advanced computing techniques to health care problems," Mayo Clinic Chief Information Officer Cris Ross said in a statement.
"We look forward to the work that Google and Mayo Clinic are doing together to change the future of healthcare," Interim Executive Director of the Collider Foundation Jamie Sundsbak said in a statement.
Collider also announced it will open a second location at the Mayo Clinic Business Accelerator.
