Stories of Innovation

INNOVATE® Georgia

3CI

HAS BEEN EMPOWERING BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION WITH PEOPLE, PROCESSES, AND TECHNOLOGY FOROVER 40 YEARS, SERVING ATLANTA AND BEYOND.

Atlanta is quickly emerging as one of the premier tech hubs in the nation. Known for its rich history and vibrant culture, the city is now gaining recognition for its innovative spirit and thriving tech ecosystem. Home to a diverse range of startups, established tech giants, and a robust infrastructure,...

INNOVATE® Nashville

HCA HEALTHCARE

How HCA healthcare uses data science to learn, test and deploy solutions to improve patient care

When HCA Healthcare was founded in 1968, we set out to be a different kind of healthcare system. We strived to harness the combined expertise and resources of multiple hospitals to help our frontline caregivers provide high-quality, patient-focused care in a way no single hospital could do alone. Today, that...

INNOVATE® Maryland

Athelas

Creating Opportunity Without Limits

Long before innovation becomes a product or a breakthrough technology, it often begins with a different question: What becomes possible when people are given the opportunity to be seen for their abilities rather than their limitations? For more than four decades, Athelas Institute has worked to answer that question. Across...

INNOVATE® Philadelphia: 250 Years of Innovation

BESTMOW

FOR 250 YEARS, PHILADELPHIA HAS TRANSFORMED IDEAS INTO INFRASTRUCTURE. BESTMOW CONTINUES THAT TRADITION. THIS TIME, THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS AUTONOMOUS.

Engineering the Autonomous Garden Industrial revolutions rarely announce themselves. They begin quietly – inside laboratories, within algorithms, in the convergence of disciplines that once appeared unrelated. BESTMOW represents such a convergence. What appears, on the surface, to be a robotic lawn mower is in fact a distributed low-speed autonomous driving...

INNOVATE® New Jersey Vol.2

SUNRAY SCIENTIFIC

RELIABLE, SCALABLE, ANISOTROPIC INTERCONNECT SOLUTION FOR FLEXIBLE HYBRID ELECTRONICS

Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) are a demanding environment for reliable interconnects and component attachment on the Printed Electronics world. FHE is typically comprised of the combination of simple printed circuitry made with conductive inks and more complexelectronics using microchips, and other high functionality components like LED’s and resistors. These components...

INNOVATE™ Vancouver Vol.2

BOAST AI

Boast’s AI-powered platform maximizes R&D tax credits while accelerating access to funding

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INNOVATE™ Stockholm

WIB CAPITAL

BUILDING A NEW FRONT DOOR TO INVESTMENT; DESIGNED TO REDUCE BIAS

Early-stage investing is often described as data-driven. In practice, first impressions still decide what gets a meeting and what gets ignored. WiB Capital is building a digital front door to investment that helps startups become investor-ready using AI, while reducing identity-based bias by letting the business case speak first. The...

INNOVATE® New Jersey Vol.2

NJEDA

FACILITIES AND SPACESThe New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), the state’s principal agency for driving economic growth, offers numerous resources to support emerging companies choosing to grow in the Garden State. As part of Governor Phil Murphy’s economic development strategy to reclaim New Jersey’s role as a leader in innovation,...

INNOVATE® Detroit

Bamboo

Building a Statewide Ecosystem

Bamboo began in 2013 out of a community movement. It was the first co-working space in Downtown Detroit. The organization’s model has since evolved to develop and operate hubs that serve as centers for entrepreneurship and creativity. When it started, Bamboo borrowed a $5,000 friends-and-family loan and activated a space...

INNOVATE® Nashville

MEMBERS HEALTH CO

DOCTOR LED PROACTIVE HEALTH & WELLNESS DESIGNED TO SAVE MONEY, TIME, & IMPROVE HEALTH OUTCOMES

The Future of Healthcare is Here At Members Health Co, we believe the future of healthcare looks a lot like its past — when your neighborhood doctor truly knew you, advocated for you, and focused on prevention, not billing codes. By removing the middlemen and restoring direct doctor-patient relationships, we...

INNOVATE® Philadelphia: 250 Years of Innovation

CENTURY THERAPEUTICS

ENGINEERING AN EVOLUTION IN CELL THERAPY

Century Therapeutics is a Philadelphia-based, biotechnology company working to reimagine the potential of cell therapy across a number of serious diseases. The company is developing investigational cell therapies derived from induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPSCs, to potentially treat autoimmune diseases, like Type 1 diabetes (T1D), as well as cancer....

INNOVATE™ Oeiras

Banco Primus

Is A Portuguese Bank, Based In The Disruptive “Oeiras Valley” Ecosystem.

The Bank was founded in 2005 and is part of Groupe BPCE, the second largest banking group in France. Our statement “O seu Futuro Primeiro” (Your Future First) reflects our mission, the creation of benefits and opportunities for Customers, Partners, Employees and Shareholders. OUR HISTORY Banco Primus started its activity...

Global Innovation Spotlight

6 Simple Tools Solving The Worker Shortage

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Six training tools already at work in real apprenticeship programs across the skilled trades.

Discover six training tools and digital platforms designed to accelerate skill-building and solve the growing worker shortage in the skilled trades. A Shortage That Standards Cannot Ignore The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment of electricians will grow 9 percent from 2025 to 2035, much faster than the average for...

INNOVATE® Puerto Rico

SALES & MARKETING EXECUTIVES ASSOCIATION OF PUERTO RICO

LEADING THE WAY IN SALES & MARKETING

The Sales & Marketing Executives Association of Puerto Rico (SME) is a non-profit organization that brings together a community of more than 500 professionals from diverse industries, major corporations, and local businesses, as well as college students on the island. For the past 72 years, the association has been advancing...

INNOVATE™ South Africa

PARK ADVERTISING

BORNE OUT OF A NEED TO OFFER WORLD-CLASS INNOVATIVE AND PIONEERING MEDIA OPTIONS WITHIN THE SOUTH AFRICAN MEDIA INDUSTRY, PARK ADVERTISING AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN CONTINUALLY DRIVING THIS ETHOS FOR YEARS

In 2018, Park Advertising was formalised as a new central holding company for The MediaShop and sister agency Meta Media....

INNOVATION Quebec

LE « RÉSEAU SDG INNOVATION™ NETWORK »

Under the leadership of eight Quebec academic institutions, the Smart-Digital-Green Innovation™ Network (SDG Innov), a first in Canada, was created on January 16, 2019, with a view to meeting industrial needs requiring inter-university collaboration in research and development (R&D), as well as the training of highly qualified personnel to accompany...

INNOVATE™ Stockholm

Hack for Earth Foundation

Unleashing Citizen-Driven Innovation with the Power of Hackathons

Hack for Earth began as an ambitious experiment to reinvent the hackathon tool, but it has since evolved into a global movement redefining innovation and democracy for the 21st century. At its core is the concept of citizen-driven innovation, which empowers citizens all over the world to co-create solutions for...

INNOVATE™ Estonia

GLOBAL ESTONIAN

BRIDGING BORDERS, BUILDING THE FUTURE

When a nation of just over a million people finds nearly 200,000 of its own scattered across the globe, the question of how to maintain bonds becomes both practical and existential. Estonia’s answer to that challenge is Global Estonian, a government-backed initiative designed to serve as a bridge between Estonia...

INNOVATE® Blockchain

BITCOIN.COM

BITCOIN.COM

Helping to Build and Expose the Works of Africa’s Fintech Innovators to the World

There is no question that the global financial services industry has failed to serve everyone and has for a long time not been for everyone. The fact that more than 1.5 billion people are still without a bank account or have no access to banking services is ample evidence of...

INNOVATE® Washington DMV Edition

GOPURSUE

Empowering the Next Generation

GoPursue is a revolutionary organization transforming the landscape of career exploration for K-12 students. This vibrant social impact company has carved a unique niche in the educational technology space, addressing critical gaps in workforce development and career preparedness. Founded by Kathryn Adabonyan, a former math teacher and career and technical...

INNOVATION Quebec

CDRIN

LE CDRIN MET L’INTELLIGENCE NUMÉRIQUE AU SERVICE DE L’EXPÉRIENCE USAGER

Le Centre de développement et de recherche en intelligence numérique (CDRIN) soutient les besoins en matière d’innovation et de développement des petites, moyennes et grandes entreprises québécoises en effectuant de la recherche appliquée, de l’aide techniqueet de la formation spécialisée dans les domaines de l’animation, de la modélisation, du rendu...

INNOVATE® Maryland

OCCAMS GROUP

Building AI That Earns Its Place

Enterprise conversations about artificial intelligence sound very different today than they did just two years ago. Curiosity about what AI can do has given way to a more practical question: what can it reliably deliver? Occams Group helps organizations answer that question by turning complex technologies into practical solutions built...

INNOVATE® Northern Virginia

THE POWER OF CONNECTION

How the Northern Virginia Technology Council Helped Build One of the World’s Most Influential Innovation Communities

“The world’s greatest innovations don’t begin with technology. They begin with people who choose to connect.” — Jennifer Taylor, President & CEO, NVTC Every great innovation has an origin story. Sometimes it begins in a laboratory. Sometimes around a whiteboard. Sometimes over coffee between two people who discover they’re trying...

INNOVATE™ Estonia

CREATOMUS

REPROGRAMMING THE FUTURE OF CITIES

Across Europe, cities face growing pressure: build schools and kindergartens faster, adapt public spaces to changing needs, and cut the environmental cost of construction. Estonian company Creatomus believes it has a solution. By combining modular design with digital precision, Creatomus offers municipalities a way to build smarter, more transparent, and...

INNOVATE® Georgia

3CI

HAS BEEN EMPOWERING BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION WITH PEOPLE, PROCESSES, AND TECHNOLOGY FOROVER 40 YEARS, SERVING ATLANTA AND BEYOND.

Atlanta is quickly emerging as one of the premier tech hubs in the nation. Known for its rich history and vibrant culture, the city is now gaining recognition for its innovative spirit and thriving tech ecosystem. Home to a diverse range of startups, established tech giants, and a robust infrastructure,...

INNOVATE® Nashville

HCA HEALTHCARE

How HCA healthcare uses data science to learn, test and deploy solutions to improve patient care

When HCA Healthcare was founded in 1968, we set out to be a different kind of healthcare system. We strived to harness the combined expertise and resources of multiple hospitals to help our frontline caregivers provide high-quality, patient-focused care in a way no single hospital could do alone. Today, that...

INNOVATE® Maryland

Athelas

Creating Opportunity Without Limits

Long before innovation becomes a product or a breakthrough technology, it often begins with a different question: What becomes possible when people are given the opportunity to be seen for their abilities rather than their limitations? For more than four decades, Athelas Institute has worked to answer that question. Across...

INNOVATE® Philadelphia: 250 Years of Innovation

BESTMOW

FOR 250 YEARS, PHILADELPHIA HAS TRANSFORMED IDEAS INTO INFRASTRUCTURE. BESTMOW CONTINUES THAT TRADITION. THIS TIME, THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS AUTONOMOUS.

Engineering the Autonomous Garden Industrial revolutions rarely announce themselves. They begin quietly – inside laboratories, within algorithms, in the convergence of disciplines that once appeared unrelated. BESTMOW represents such a convergence. What appears, on the surface, to be a robotic lawn mower is in fact a distributed low-speed autonomous driving...

INNOVATE® New Jersey Vol.2

SUNRAY SCIENTIFIC

RELIABLE, SCALABLE, ANISOTROPIC INTERCONNECT SOLUTION FOR FLEXIBLE HYBRID ELECTRONICS

Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) are a demanding environment for reliable interconnects and component attachment on the Printed Electronics world. FHE is typically comprised of the combination of simple printed circuitry made with conductive inks and more complexelectronics using microchips, and other high functionality components like LED’s and resistors. These components...

INNOVATE™ Vancouver Vol.2

BOAST AI

Boast’s AI-powered platform maximizes R&D tax credits while accelerating access to funding

innovationsoftheworld.com

...

INNOVATE™ Stockholm

WIB CAPITAL

BUILDING A NEW FRONT DOOR TO INVESTMENT; DESIGNED TO REDUCE BIAS

Early-stage investing is often described as data-driven. In practice, first impressions still decide what gets a meeting and what gets ignored. WiB Capital is building a digital front door to investment that helps startups become investor-ready using AI, while reducing identity-based bias by letting the business case speak first. The...

INNOVATE® New Jersey Vol.2

NJEDA

FACILITIES AND SPACESThe New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), the state’s principal agency for driving economic growth, offers numerous resources to support emerging companies choosing to grow in the Garden State. As part of Governor Phil Murphy’s economic development strategy to reclaim New Jersey’s role as a leader in innovation,...

INNOVATE® Detroit

Bamboo

Building a Statewide Ecosystem

Bamboo began in 2013 out of a community movement. It was the first co-working space in Downtown Detroit. The organization’s model has since evolved to develop and operate hubs that serve as centers for entrepreneurship and creativity. When it started, Bamboo borrowed a $5,000 friends-and-family loan and activated a space...

INNOVATE® Nashville

MEMBERS HEALTH CO

DOCTOR LED PROACTIVE HEALTH & WELLNESS DESIGNED TO SAVE MONEY, TIME, & IMPROVE HEALTH OUTCOMES

The Future of Healthcare is Here At Members Health Co, we believe the future of healthcare looks a lot like its past — when your neighborhood doctor truly knew you, advocated for you, and focused on prevention, not billing codes. By removing the middlemen and restoring direct doctor-patient relationships, we...

INNOVATE® Philadelphia: 250 Years of Innovation

CENTURY THERAPEUTICS

ENGINEERING AN EVOLUTION IN CELL THERAPY

Century Therapeutics is a Philadelphia-based, biotechnology company working to reimagine the potential of cell therapy across a number of serious diseases. The company is developing investigational cell therapies derived from induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPSCs, to potentially treat autoimmune diseases, like Type 1 diabetes (T1D), as well as cancer....

INNOVATE™ Oeiras

Banco Primus

Is A Portuguese Bank, Based In The Disruptive “Oeiras Valley” Ecosystem.

The Bank was founded in 2005 and is part of Groupe BPCE, the second largest banking group in France. Our statement “O seu Futuro Primeiro” (Your Future First) reflects our mission, the creation of benefits and opportunities for Customers, Partners, Employees and Shareholders. OUR HISTORY Banco Primus started its activity...

Global Innovation Spotlight

6 Simple Tools Solving The Worker Shortage

Dakota Prep NEC exam practice platform shown on desktop and mobile

Six training tools already at work in real apprenticeship programs across the skilled trades.

Discover six training tools and digital platforms designed to accelerate skill-building and solve the growing worker shortage in the skilled trades. A Shortage That Standards Cannot Ignore The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment of electricians will grow 9 percent from 2025 to 2035, much faster than the average for...

INNOVATE® Puerto Rico

SALES & MARKETING EXECUTIVES ASSOCIATION OF PUERTO RICO

LEADING THE WAY IN SALES & MARKETING

The Sales & Marketing Executives Association of Puerto Rico (SME) is a non-profit organization that brings together a community of more than 500 professionals from diverse industries, major corporations, and local businesses, as well as college students on the island. For the past 72 years, the association has been advancing...

INNOVATE™ South Africa

PARK ADVERTISING

BORNE OUT OF A NEED TO OFFER WORLD-CLASS INNOVATIVE AND PIONEERING MEDIA OPTIONS WITHIN THE SOUTH AFRICAN MEDIA INDUSTRY, PARK ADVERTISING AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN CONTINUALLY DRIVING THIS ETHOS FOR YEARS

In 2018, Park Advertising was formalised as a new central holding company for The MediaShop and sister agency Meta Media....

INNOVATION Quebec

LE « RÉSEAU SDG INNOVATION™ NETWORK »

Under the leadership of eight Quebec academic institutions, the Smart-Digital-Green Innovation™ Network (SDG Innov), a first in Canada, was created on January 16, 2019, with a view to meeting industrial needs requiring inter-university collaboration in research and development (R&D), as well as the training of highly qualified personnel to accompany...

INNOVATE™ Stockholm

Hack for Earth Foundation

Unleashing Citizen-Driven Innovation with the Power of Hackathons

Hack for Earth began as an ambitious experiment to reinvent the hackathon tool, but it has since evolved into a global movement redefining innovation and democracy for the 21st century. At its core is the concept of citizen-driven innovation, which empowers citizens all over the world to co-create solutions for...

INNOVATE™ Estonia

GLOBAL ESTONIAN

BRIDGING BORDERS, BUILDING THE FUTURE

When a nation of just over a million people finds nearly 200,000 of its own scattered across the globe, the question of how to maintain bonds becomes both practical and existential. Estonia’s answer to that challenge is Global Estonian, a government-backed initiative designed to serve as a bridge between Estonia...

INNOVATE® Blockchain

BITCOIN.COM

BITCOIN.COM

Helping to Build and Expose the Works of Africa’s Fintech Innovators to the World

There is no question that the global financial services industry has failed to serve everyone and has for a long time not been for everyone. The fact that more than 1.5 billion people are still without a bank account or have no access to banking services is ample evidence of...

INNOVATE® Washington DMV Edition

GOPURSUE

Empowering the Next Generation

GoPursue is a revolutionary organization transforming the landscape of career exploration for K-12 students. This vibrant social impact company has carved a unique niche in the educational technology space, addressing critical gaps in workforce development and career preparedness. Founded by Kathryn Adabonyan, a former math teacher and career and technical...

INNOVATION Quebec

CDRIN

LE CDRIN MET L’INTELLIGENCE NUMÉRIQUE AU SERVICE DE L’EXPÉRIENCE USAGER

Le Centre de développement et de recherche en intelligence numérique (CDRIN) soutient les besoins en matière d’innovation et de développement des petites, moyennes et grandes entreprises québécoises en effectuant de la recherche appliquée, de l’aide techniqueet de la formation spécialisée dans les domaines de l’animation, de la modélisation, du rendu...

INNOVATE® Maryland

OCCAMS GROUP

Building AI That Earns Its Place

Enterprise conversations about artificial intelligence sound very different today than they did just two years ago. Curiosity about what AI can do has given way to a more practical question: what can it reliably deliver? Occams Group helps organizations answer that question by turning complex technologies into practical solutions built...

INNOVATE® Northern Virginia

THE POWER OF CONNECTION

How the Northern Virginia Technology Council Helped Build One of the World’s Most Influential Innovation Communities

“The world’s greatest innovations don’t begin with technology. They begin with people who choose to connect.” — Jennifer Taylor, President & CEO, NVTC Every great innovation has an origin story. Sometimes it begins in a laboratory. Sometimes around a whiteboard. Sometimes over coffee between two people who discover they’re trying...

INNOVATE™ Estonia

CREATOMUS

REPROGRAMMING THE FUTURE OF CITIES

Across Europe, cities face growing pressure: build schools and kindergartens faster, adapt public spaces to changing needs, and cut the environmental cost of construction. Estonian company Creatomus believes it has a solution. By combining modular design with digital precision, Creatomus offers municipalities a way to build smarter, more transparent, and...

Ecosystems