Stories of Innovation
INNOVATE® Nashville
INTERAWORKS
IS YOUR ORGANIZATION READY FOR THE FUTURE@WORK?
InteraWorks is an answer to how companies and their employees can elevate the human experience at work, leading to higher performance and new models of leadership, learning, and culture. The world has changed, and it is time that companies realize that people absolutely must come first. Their capacity and...
INNOVATE® Seattle
Watson Immigration Law
Meet the Startup Visa Lawyer trying to change the law while helping startups and founders grow.
Meet the Startup Visa Lawyer trying to change the law while helping startups and founders grow. Tahmina Watson, founder of Watson Immigration Law in Seattle, fell into immigration law by chance and hasn’t looked back since. She is now a nationally acclaimed, award-winning lawyer, best-selling author, podcast host, and go-to...
INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports
ONWARD PLAY
WE PUT GAMING TALENT TO WORK
Onward Play is a nationwide game staffing agency specializing in freelance and direct hire. Onward Play’s niche is linking up creative, technical and production talent with incredible game, XR, and esports studios. Onward Play recruits talent for segments like PC, Console, Mobile, VR, AR, XR, esports, toys, casino and tabletop....
INNOVATE™ Antwerp Vol.2
GUMPTION
TACKLES DIGITAL AND BUSINESS ISSUES WITH CO-CREATION
The health crisis has presented companies with new challenges. The appetite for digitization is now larger than ever before. Start-ups play an important role as drivers of innovation. Gumption is an innovation hub and ecosystem for young companies. The group’s 20 companies focus on business challenges and IT solutions, such...
INNOVATE® Nashville
Brock Family Center
Accelerating the translation of Vanderbilt discoveries through commercialization and industry partnerships
The Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation was established at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2023 through a $10 million gift from the Brock family, including John F. Brock III, his wife, Mary, and their three adult children – Rebecca Brock Dixon, John F. Brock IV and Major Brock. The...
INNOVATE™ Kitchener Waterloo
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO CO-OP
SINCE THE BEGINNING, WATERLOO’S CO-OPERATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM HAS BEEN LAUNCHING SUCCESSFUL CAREERS
Many students dream of landing a job that aligns with their passions, inspires real-world impact or even motivates them to launch their own business. For thousands of University of Waterloo students, that dream has become a reality thanks to co-operative education (co-op), which combines paid work experience with earning a...
INNOVATE® Chicago Vol.1
TIMEDOC HEALTH
NOW THERE’S TIME FOR EVERYONE
Providers have too much to do and not enough time to do it. And the people this really impacts are their most vulnerable patients. TimeDoc Health makes it easier for overstretched providers to support chronically ill patients between visits – while also maximizing reimbursements. They do this by combining the...
INNOVATE™ Botswana Vol.1
HELLO ADSALES BOTSWANA
BOLSTERING NEW FRONTIERS OF MEDIA SALES & ADVERTISING
Hello AdSales Botswana is a Television and digital sales organization. They manage advertising and sponsorship for some of the leading television channels in SubSaharan Africa such as Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera Arabic, The English, Spanish, Italian Football Premier League, StarLife TV, and CBC Television Zambia amongst others. This focused...
INNOVATE® Chicago Vol.1
SAFE STAYS BY RELOSHARE
Changing the Game for Emergency Housing by Providing Anonymous Hotel Bookings for Social Service Agencies
According to the National Network to End Domestic Violence’s 2021 DV Counts Report, agencies were unable to provide emergency shelter to 1,982 adults and 1,184 children nationwide in just one day. Annualized, that’s 723,430 adults and 432,160 children who are left without access to emergency domestic violence shelters each year....
INNOVATE™ Estonia
FIENTA
REDEFINING TICKETING FOR THE RELATIONSHIP ERA
When Fienta first launched, it was built to solve a deeper problem: how can event organisers build stronger relationships with their audiences – not just sell tickets? A decade later, the Estonia-based company has grown from a grassroots solution into a global platform, helping event organisers in more than 50...
INNOVATION Quebec
ÉCOBES
A CCTT DEDICATED TO SOLVING SOCIAL INEQUALITIES IN EDUCATION AND HEALTH
A CCTT DEDICATED TO SOLVING SOCIAL INEQUALITIES IN EDUCATION AND HEALTH THROUGH APPLIED AND PARTNERSHIP RESEARCH UNDERSTAND, COLLABORATE, ACT At Centre d’Étude sur les COnditions de vie et BESoins de la population (ECOBES), we have established ourselves as a leader in socio-organizational innovation in education and health n the Quebec...
INNOVATE® Miami
8base
Computing Infrastructure, Application Core Services And Integrations Delivered Through A Single API Endpoint
ELEVATOR PITCH8base is a next-generation backend-as-a-service for building SaaS and other go-to-market applications. The 8base Platform includes computing infrastructure, application core services, and integrations delivered through a single API endpoint. 8base also offers 8base Labs, a team of SaaS architects, designers, and engineers that help companies build on the 8base...
INNOVATE™ Antwerp Vol.2
THE ECOLOGICAL ENTREPRENEUR
THE PATHWAY TO YOUR CLIMATE NEUTRAL BUSINESS
The “Why” of sustainability is clear for most, the “how” and “what”, unfortunately much less. For many, sustainability remains an utterly vague, complex, and confusing concept. And even without confusion, questions concerning usefulness of actions and impact arise. The Ecological Entrepreneur translates complexity to concrete guidelines, policies, and activities...
INNOVATE™ Vancouver Vol.2
BLACK BUSINESS ASSOCIATION OF BC (BBABC)
UNITY – EXCELLENCE – LEGACY
The Black Business Association of BC was founded by Nerissa Allen and Clavia Alleyne out of a need and passion for helping businesses at a critical point of time, when the Covid 19 pandemic was ravaging small businesses. They set out on a journey to not only support businesses through...
INNOVATE™ Bristol & Bath
INVEST BRISTOL + BATH
How Invest Bristol & Bath Can Help You
Invest Bristol & Bath (IBB) is the inward investment agency for the West of England Combined Authority. Our team is here to support businesses interested in growing, innovating and collaborating in the West of England through a range of tailored services to help your business thrive. Our team is experienced,...
INNOVATE™ Alberta
Innovate Calgary
Bridging the gap between discovery and creating economic and societal impact
We are the innovation engine for UCalgary, one of the top research universities in Canada. We support existing business models while nurturing innovative and disruptive thinking through a plethora of services such as providing IP/patent support for University of Calgary (UCalgary) faculty, managing an investment fund, managing unique facilities for...
INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports
WETHINK
Build Better Humans By Empowering Individuals With Data-Driven Feedback In Regards To How They Interact With Others Through Esports And Gaming
The team at weThink spent years working directly with schools, coaches and players to develop programs that focused on social and emotional skill growth backed by research with the Assessment and Achievement institute at Kansas University. Team-based games and esports are the perfect environment for social skills to flourish, and...
INNOVATE® Georgia
HONEYWELL
SOFTWARE THAT POWERS BETTER DECISIONS INNOVATION IS HONEYWELL’S LEGACY, AND ITS FUTURE
Honeywell’s software innovation group, Honeywell Connected Enterprise (HCE), is proud to call Atlanta home. HCE transforms the way the world works, solving tough challenges through relentless innovation that is grounded in Honeywell’s heritage of invention. Honeywell founded HCE in 2018 to develop Honeywell Forge software, solutions that securely unite data...
INNOVATE® Blockchain
MetaVRse
Is On A Mission To Unlock The Power Of XR For Everyone
MetaVRse is a proprietary, code-optional, web platform that makes it easy to create & share interactive 3D/XR experiences instantly to over 7b compatible devices from a one-click publish. In 2010, we introduced Emulator, the world’s first touchscreen performance system for DJ’s. After being invited to perform at Curiosity Camp (Eric...
AI Québec
L’INSTITUT INTELLIGENCE ET DONNÉES (IID)
UN ENVIRONNEMENT DE COLLABORATION INCONTOURNABLE DANS LES DOMAINES DE L’INTELLIGENCE ARTIFICIELLE ET DE LA VALORISATION DES DONNÉES
Inauguré en janvier 2020, l’Institut intelligence et données (IID) de l’Université Laval réunit les forces vives de la recherche et de l’innovation en intelligence artificielle (IA) et en valorisation des données de la grande région de Québec. De la recherche appliquée ou fondamentale, en passant par les grands enjeux éthiques,...
INNOVATION Quebec
CINTECH AGROALIMENTAIRE
CCTT EN AGROALIMENTAIRE
Chez Cintech agroalimentaire c’est en collectif que nous entendons bien agir. En misant sur l’association des expertises de nos équipes, mais également en nous appuyant sur les savoirfaire spécifiques de chacun de nos clients, nous cherchons à répondre aux nouvelles attentes des consommateurs, plus généralement de la société en matière...
INNOVATE® Milwaukee
ECOURT REPORTERS
TECHNOLOGY TO LOCATE AND BOOK LEGAL SERVICE PROVIDERS
eCourt Reporters is a court reporter/women-owned company. eCourt Reporters was created out of a need for locating qualified, experienced court reporters and legal videographers. eCourt Reporters’ app is a custom-built, high-tech, innovative technology to schedule court reporters and other legal services. Karen Renee, CEO; Judy Gerulat, COO; and Justin Furst,...
INNOVATE® Nashville
NASHVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
ADVANCING REGIONAL PROSPERITY THROUGH INNOVATION AND PARTNERSHIP
ABOUT PARTNERSHIP 2030 The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce’s Partnership 2030 is the Nashville region’s public-private economic development initiative dedicated to Middle Tennessee’s long-term economic prosperity. The Partnership was formed in 1990 to maintain and grow the Nashville region’s economy by creating jobs through relocating and expanding businesses, attracting and...
INNOVATE® Georgia
TAG - TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
25 YEARS OF INNOVATION
There has never been a more exciting time to be part of Georgia’s technology industry. Since our founding in 1998, the Technology Association of Georgia has made great strides to provide our members with the best resources available to both working and aspiring technologists. We are building our ecosystem together....
INNOVATE® Nashville
INTERAWORKS
IS YOUR ORGANIZATION READY FOR THE FUTURE@WORK?
InteraWorks is an answer to how companies and their employees can elevate the human experience at work, leading to higher performance and new models of leadership, learning, and culture. The world has changed, and it is time that companies realize that people absolutely must come first. Their capacity and...
INNOVATE® Seattle
Watson Immigration Law
Meet the Startup Visa Lawyer trying to change the law while helping startups and founders grow.
Meet the Startup Visa Lawyer trying to change the law while helping startups and founders grow. Tahmina Watson, founder of Watson Immigration Law in Seattle, fell into immigration law by chance and hasn’t looked back since. She is now a nationally acclaimed, award-winning lawyer, best-selling author, podcast host, and go-to...
INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports
ONWARD PLAY
WE PUT GAMING TALENT TO WORK
Onward Play is a nationwide game staffing agency specializing in freelance and direct hire. Onward Play’s niche is linking up creative, technical and production talent with incredible game, XR, and esports studios. Onward Play recruits talent for segments like PC, Console, Mobile, VR, AR, XR, esports, toys, casino and tabletop....
INNOVATE™ Antwerp Vol.2
GUMPTION
TACKLES DIGITAL AND BUSINESS ISSUES WITH CO-CREATION
The health crisis has presented companies with new challenges. The appetite for digitization is now larger than ever before. Start-ups play an important role as drivers of innovation. Gumption is an innovation hub and ecosystem for young companies. The group’s 20 companies focus on business challenges and IT solutions, such...
INNOVATE® Nashville
Brock Family Center
Accelerating the translation of Vanderbilt discoveries through commercialization and industry partnerships
The Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation was established at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2023 through a $10 million gift from the Brock family, including John F. Brock III, his wife, Mary, and their three adult children – Rebecca Brock Dixon, John F. Brock IV and Major Brock. The...
INNOVATE™ Kitchener Waterloo
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO CO-OP
SINCE THE BEGINNING, WATERLOO’S CO-OPERATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM HAS BEEN LAUNCHING SUCCESSFUL CAREERS
Many students dream of landing a job that aligns with their passions, inspires real-world impact or even motivates them to launch their own business. For thousands of University of Waterloo students, that dream has become a reality thanks to co-operative education (co-op), which combines paid work experience with earning a...
INNOVATE® Chicago Vol.1
TIMEDOC HEALTH
NOW THERE’S TIME FOR EVERYONE
Providers have too much to do and not enough time to do it. And the people this really impacts are their most vulnerable patients. TimeDoc Health makes it easier for overstretched providers to support chronically ill patients between visits – while also maximizing reimbursements. They do this by combining the...
INNOVATE™ Botswana Vol.1
HELLO ADSALES BOTSWANA
BOLSTERING NEW FRONTIERS OF MEDIA SALES & ADVERTISING
Hello AdSales Botswana is a Television and digital sales organization. They manage advertising and sponsorship for some of the leading television channels in SubSaharan Africa such as Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera Arabic, The English, Spanish, Italian Football Premier League, StarLife TV, and CBC Television Zambia amongst others. This focused...
INNOVATE® Chicago Vol.1
SAFE STAYS BY RELOSHARE
Changing the Game for Emergency Housing by Providing Anonymous Hotel Bookings for Social Service Agencies
According to the National Network to End Domestic Violence’s 2021 DV Counts Report, agencies were unable to provide emergency shelter to 1,982 adults and 1,184 children nationwide in just one day. Annualized, that’s 723,430 adults and 432,160 children who are left without access to emergency domestic violence shelters each year....
INNOVATE™ Estonia
FIENTA
REDEFINING TICKETING FOR THE RELATIONSHIP ERA
When Fienta first launched, it was built to solve a deeper problem: how can event organisers build stronger relationships with their audiences – not just sell tickets? A decade later, the Estonia-based company has grown from a grassroots solution into a global platform, helping event organisers in more than 50...
INNOVATION Quebec
ÉCOBES
A CCTT DEDICATED TO SOLVING SOCIAL INEQUALITIES IN EDUCATION AND HEALTH
A CCTT DEDICATED TO SOLVING SOCIAL INEQUALITIES IN EDUCATION AND HEALTH THROUGH APPLIED AND PARTNERSHIP RESEARCH UNDERSTAND, COLLABORATE, ACT At Centre d’Étude sur les COnditions de vie et BESoins de la population (ECOBES), we have established ourselves as a leader in socio-organizational innovation in education and health n the Quebec...
INNOVATE® Miami
8base
Computing Infrastructure, Application Core Services And Integrations Delivered Through A Single API Endpoint
ELEVATOR PITCH8base is a next-generation backend-as-a-service for building SaaS and other go-to-market applications. The 8base Platform includes computing infrastructure, application core services, and integrations delivered through a single API endpoint. 8base also offers 8base Labs, a team of SaaS architects, designers, and engineers that help companies build on the 8base...
INNOVATE™ Antwerp Vol.2
THE ECOLOGICAL ENTREPRENEUR
THE PATHWAY TO YOUR CLIMATE NEUTRAL BUSINESS
The “Why” of sustainability is clear for most, the “how” and “what”, unfortunately much less. For many, sustainability remains an utterly vague, complex, and confusing concept. And even without confusion, questions concerning usefulness of actions and impact arise. The Ecological Entrepreneur translates complexity to concrete guidelines, policies, and activities...
INNOVATE™ Vancouver Vol.2
BLACK BUSINESS ASSOCIATION OF BC (BBABC)
UNITY – EXCELLENCE – LEGACY
The Black Business Association of BC was founded by Nerissa Allen and Clavia Alleyne out of a need and passion for helping businesses at a critical point of time, when the Covid 19 pandemic was ravaging small businesses. They set out on a journey to not only support businesses through...
INNOVATE™ Bristol & Bath
INVEST BRISTOL + BATH
How Invest Bristol & Bath Can Help You
Invest Bristol & Bath (IBB) is the inward investment agency for the West of England Combined Authority. Our team is here to support businesses interested in growing, innovating and collaborating in the West of England through a range of tailored services to help your business thrive. Our team is experienced,...
INNOVATE™ Alberta
Innovate Calgary
Bridging the gap between discovery and creating economic and societal impact
We are the innovation engine for UCalgary, one of the top research universities in Canada. We support existing business models while nurturing innovative and disruptive thinking through a plethora of services such as providing IP/patent support for University of Calgary (UCalgary) faculty, managing an investment fund, managing unique facilities for...
INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports
WETHINK
Build Better Humans By Empowering Individuals With Data-Driven Feedback In Regards To How They Interact With Others Through Esports And Gaming
The team at weThink spent years working directly with schools, coaches and players to develop programs that focused on social and emotional skill growth backed by research with the Assessment and Achievement institute at Kansas University. Team-based games and esports are the perfect environment for social skills to flourish, and...
INNOVATE® Georgia
HONEYWELL
SOFTWARE THAT POWERS BETTER DECISIONS INNOVATION IS HONEYWELL’S LEGACY, AND ITS FUTURE
Honeywell’s software innovation group, Honeywell Connected Enterprise (HCE), is proud to call Atlanta home. HCE transforms the way the world works, solving tough challenges through relentless innovation that is grounded in Honeywell’s heritage of invention. Honeywell founded HCE in 2018 to develop Honeywell Forge software, solutions that securely unite data...
INNOVATE® Blockchain
MetaVRse
Is On A Mission To Unlock The Power Of XR For Everyone
MetaVRse is a proprietary, code-optional, web platform that makes it easy to create & share interactive 3D/XR experiences instantly to over 7b compatible devices from a one-click publish. In 2010, we introduced Emulator, the world’s first touchscreen performance system for DJ’s. After being invited to perform at Curiosity Camp (Eric...
AI Québec
L’INSTITUT INTELLIGENCE ET DONNÉES (IID)
UN ENVIRONNEMENT DE COLLABORATION INCONTOURNABLE DANS LES DOMAINES DE L’INTELLIGENCE ARTIFICIELLE ET DE LA VALORISATION DES DONNÉES
Inauguré en janvier 2020, l’Institut intelligence et données (IID) de l’Université Laval réunit les forces vives de la recherche et de l’innovation en intelligence artificielle (IA) et en valorisation des données de la grande région de Québec. De la recherche appliquée ou fondamentale, en passant par les grands enjeux éthiques,...
INNOVATION Quebec
CINTECH AGROALIMENTAIRE
CCTT EN AGROALIMENTAIRE
Chez Cintech agroalimentaire c’est en collectif que nous entendons bien agir. En misant sur l’association des expertises de nos équipes, mais également en nous appuyant sur les savoirfaire spécifiques de chacun de nos clients, nous cherchons à répondre aux nouvelles attentes des consommateurs, plus généralement de la société en matière...
INNOVATE® Milwaukee
ECOURT REPORTERS
TECHNOLOGY TO LOCATE AND BOOK LEGAL SERVICE PROVIDERS
eCourt Reporters is a court reporter/women-owned company. eCourt Reporters was created out of a need for locating qualified, experienced court reporters and legal videographers. eCourt Reporters’ app is a custom-built, high-tech, innovative technology to schedule court reporters and other legal services. Karen Renee, CEO; Judy Gerulat, COO; and Justin Furst,...
INNOVATE® Nashville
NASHVILLE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
ADVANCING REGIONAL PROSPERITY THROUGH INNOVATION AND PARTNERSHIP
ABOUT PARTNERSHIP 2030 The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce’s Partnership 2030 is the Nashville region’s public-private economic development initiative dedicated to Middle Tennessee’s long-term economic prosperity. The Partnership was formed in 1990 to maintain and grow the Nashville region’s economy by creating jobs through relocating and expanding businesses, attracting and...
INNOVATE® Georgia
TAG - TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
25 YEARS OF INNOVATION
There has never been a more exciting time to be part of Georgia’s technology industry. Since our founding in 1998, the Technology Association of Georgia has made great strides to provide our members with the best resources available to both working and aspiring technologists. We are building our ecosystem together....