Stories of Innovation
INNOVATE® Washington DMV Edition
The University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing - MPOWERING THE STATE
Institute for Health Computing Primed to Partner with Life Science Companies.
Institute for Health Computing Primed to Partner with Life Science Companies. The University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing (IHC) is a new academic health research institute in North Bethesda, Maryland, that serves as a hub for health computing innovation and collaboration in Montgomery County. Founded in November 2022, the...
INNOVATE® Jacksonville
Urban SDK
Helping To Transform Cities’ Mobility, Transportation And Safety Operations
Urban SDK streamlines government and IoT data to automate performance measures and discover insights in real-time, helping to transform cities’ mobility, transportation, and safety operations. Established in 2018 by Justin Dennis and Drew Messer, Urban SDK is a digital government intelligence platform combining real-time location data with predictive analytics. It...
INNOVATION Quebec
CEDFOB
CCTT EN FORÊT BORÉALE
Le CEDFOB est un CCTT affilié au Cégep de Baie-Comeau qui a pour mission de réaliser, en collaboration avec les milieux, des travaux de recherche et de développement sur la forêt boréale et mettre en valeur ses ressources dans une optique de développement durable. Le but est de favoriser l’appropriation...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
DAILY MAVERICK
SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER
Innovation is the lifeblood of Daily Maverick – from its origins as a print magazine featuring long-form current affairs, to its current form as a digital news publisher with more than five million unique visitors every month. Founded by Editor-in-chief Branko Brkic and CEO Styli Charalambous in 2009, eagle-eyed...
INNOVATE™ Antwerp Vol.2
VOSSCHEMIE
BECOMES V-SURE -A CHEMISTRY WITH NATURE
OUR STORY BEGAN IN 1968. THAT IS WHEN OUR FOUNDER REMI DE MOOR ENTERED INTO A PARTNERSHIP WITH KLAUS WILLEM VOSS, OWNER OF THE GERMAN COMPANY VOSSCHEMIE. MARC AND CLAUDIA, REMI’S CHILDREN, TOOK OVER IN 2009. TO THIS DAY, WE ARE STILL A GENUINE AND SOLID FAMILY BUSINESS. Our DNA:...
INNOVATE® Detroit
CommuniTee
Your New Favorite Way to Golf with Friends
CommuniTee Golf began with a simple revelation during a college football game:a room full of friends and acquaintances who never realized they shared a love for golf and had never played together. This moment sparked the creation of CommuniTee Golf, a platform designed to help golfers easily connect, find playing...
INNOVATE® Austin Volume 2
ENCAST
DEEPENS CONNECTION BETWEEN PEOPLE, BRANDS, AND CAUSES
Our ecosystem simultaneously uplifts personal interactions, culture, brand affinity, and social impact. THE PROBLEMAbout 10,000 baby boomers retire daily. Millennials and Zoomers are taking their place, currently representing over 60% of the U.S. workforce. Younger generations care deeply about social causes. organizations who give them a greater purpose – other...
INNOVATE® Nashville
VANDERBILT CAREER ADVANCEMENT AND ENGAGEMENT
THIS IS A COMMUNITY OF LEARNING DEDICATED TO THE FULFILLMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL
If you woke up with the opportunity to help empower the next generation of change makers, how would you maximize that opportunity? That’s the question we have the privilege of answering every day for our students. In the 150 years since Vanderbilt University’s founding, we’ve grown from a regional university into...
INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports
FRUITLAB
IS A COMMUNITY PLATFORM FOR THE BILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD THAT ENJOY SMILING OR GAMING OR SMILING AND GAMING
Imagine a social platform built especially for gamers that enabled users to earn cryptocurrency from their content and from playing their favourite games. Now imagine being able to use that cryptocurrency to buy games and in-game upgrades, purchase NFTs of content from top Content creators or to compete against other...
INNOVATE® Seattle
Arzeda.
SOLVING TODAY’S HARDEST CHALLENGES THROUGH INTELLIGENT PROTEIN DESIGN
SOLVING TODAY’S HARDEST CHALLENGES THROUGH INTELLIGENT PROTEIN DESIGN It’s no secret that the future of more sustainable products is already being driven by cutting-edge technology and groundbreaking innovation. Among the leaders defining this future is Seattle-based industry-leading Protein Design Company, Arzeda. Recognizing the vast potential and opportunity to transform the...
INNOVATE™ Bristol & Bath
Atkins
A Member Of The SNC-Lavalin Group, Is One Of The World’s Most Respected Design, Engineering And Project Management Consultancies.
There is an expectation that Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) will play a significant role in the future of transport. They have the potential to address critical safety issues associated with human-driven vehicles, and to increase accessibility and inclusivity, addressing some of the broader socio-economic challenges faced by an ageing...
INNOVATE™ Alberta
BUOYANCY
Empowering employment agencies to scale their impact through technology-enabled behaviour change
Buoyancy Works is a Calgary, Alberta-based wellness tech and behavioural insights company that empowers employment agencies to scale their impact through technology-enabled behaviour change techniques. The Buoyancy platform helps organizations scale programs, measure engagement, and support their clients through the emotional and motivational challenges of the job search. Buoyancy’s tools...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
FLOW COMMUNICATIONS
WHERE MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS MAGIC HAPPENS
Flow Communications believes in working with great people, on work it loves, and on work that will make the world a better place. That’s not a glib statement. Indeed, it goes to the very heart of what kind of company Flow is: it speaks to its values and integrity, how...
INNOVATE™ Flanders
B4PLASTICS
Redesigning tomorrow’s plastics. Today.
B4Plastics is a Belgian Biopolymer Tech Company specialised in: Creating (R&D), Producing (up to kton), Selling and Licensing novel biomaterials, based on a unique range of Bio Based Building Blocks (hence the B4), tailored to an extended variety of applications. This Belgian-based company, located in Limburg, is a pioneer in...
INNOVATE™ Curitiba
WORLD TRADE CENTER CURITIBA
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CLUB
The World Trade Center (WTC) is the largest business network in the world and one of the most important associations of executives and entrepreneurs. It was created in the 1960s from a fair in Queens, New York City, by the Rockefeller family. Currently the WTC is present in 91 countries,...
INNOVATE® South Florida
HADO - USA
DRIVING INNOVATION & COMMUNITY IN THE SOUTH FLORIDA VENTURE ECOSYSTEM
DRIVING INNOVATION & COMMUNITY IN THE SOUTH FLORIDA VENTURE ECOSYSTEM HADO USA: Pioneering the Future of Augmented Reality Techno Sports In South Florida’s vibrant tech scene, HADO USA is a pioneering leader in augmented reality (AR) techno sports. Blending physical activity with digital innovation, HADO offers an adrenaline-pumping experience that...
INNOVATE™ Oeiras
ALTRONIX
ALTRONIX IS A TECHNOLOGICAL COMPANY SPECIALIZED IN DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING LABELLING, BARCODE AND RFID SOLUTIONS IN DIFFERENT MARKETS, SUCH AS HEALTHCARE, PUBLIC SECTOR, LOGISTICS, TRADE AND INDUSTR
Due to our scope of action, we have a key role in the digital transformation of more than 30,000 companies and institutions in Portugal and abroad, and innovation is part of our DNA! Since the very beginning in 2004, what distinguishes us as a company is undoubtedly the human...
INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports
JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY (JCSU)
ESPORTS AND GAMING TRIFECTA, THE FIRST AT AN HBCU
In February 2019, a mere conversation that I had with a JCSU athletics administrator about the paucity of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that possessed structured on-campus esports programming became the impetus behind my development of a proposal later that day for an esports and gaming academic program. The...
INNOVATE® New Jersey Vol.2
PRINCETON NUENERGY
REVOLUTIONIZING LITHIUM-ION BATTERY RECYCLINGTHE RISE OF PRINCETON NUENERGY
In the heart of innovation, within Princeton University, a remarkable journey began that will soon redefine the landscape of lithium-ion battery recycling. Founded in 2019, Princeton NuEnergy (PNE) embarked on a mission to revolutionize the way we view, handle, and recycle critical materials throughout all stages of battery production and...
Global Innovation Spotlight
CHAPTER
For nearly every retiring American, Medicare is both universal and universally complex
For nearly every retiring American, Medicare is both universal and universally complex. Yet, Medicare enrollment remains broken, and the program is near-impossible to navigate. Anyone who has signed up for Medicare or helped a loved one knows this reality firsthand. The problem is so bad that nearly 40% of the...
INNOVATE® Washington DMV Edition
DC DAO AND ETHDC
Building a Web3 Hub in the Nation’s Capital
“Our mission is to build a vibrant community that empowers connection, champions innovation, and works with leading industry participants to add a builder-focused voice to forward-thinking policies.” DC DAO and ETHDC are at the forefront of a transformative movementin the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia region. As a steward of...
INNOVATE® Washington DMV Edition
Intention 2 Impact
Innovating Social Impact Measurement
Intention 2 Impact (I2I) is a dynamic social change organization at the forefront of impact measurement. Founded in October 2018 by the visionary Nina Sabarre, I2I is a minority, women-owned small business known for disrupting the status quo in philanthropy through innovative and equity-centered monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL)...
INNOVATION Quebec
UQAT
RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MINES AND ENVIRONMENT (RIME)
RIME, Solutions for Sustainable Mining DevelopmentLocated in the heart of a world-class mining sector, the Research Institute of Mines and Environment (RIME-UQAT) has been created in 2012, a strategic decision demonstrating the institution’s commitment to sustainable development in the mining sector. With a strong and constant growth since its inception,...
INNOVATE® Washington DMV Edition
The University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing - MPOWERING THE STATE
Institute for Health Computing Primed to Partner with Life Science Companies.
Institute for Health Computing Primed to Partner with Life Science Companies. The University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing (IHC) is a new academic health research institute in North Bethesda, Maryland, that serves as a hub for health computing innovation and collaboration in Montgomery County. Founded in November 2022, the...
INNOVATE® Jacksonville
Urban SDK
Helping To Transform Cities’ Mobility, Transportation And Safety Operations
Urban SDK streamlines government and IoT data to automate performance measures and discover insights in real-time, helping to transform cities’ mobility, transportation, and safety operations. Established in 2018 by Justin Dennis and Drew Messer, Urban SDK is a digital government intelligence platform combining real-time location data with predictive analytics. It...
INNOVATION Quebec
CEDFOB
CCTT EN FORÊT BORÉALE
Le CEDFOB est un CCTT affilié au Cégep de Baie-Comeau qui a pour mission de réaliser, en collaboration avec les milieux, des travaux de recherche et de développement sur la forêt boréale et mettre en valeur ses ressources dans une optique de développement durable. Le but est de favoriser l’appropriation...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
DAILY MAVERICK
SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER
Innovation is the lifeblood of Daily Maverick – from its origins as a print magazine featuring long-form current affairs, to its current form as a digital news publisher with more than five million unique visitors every month. Founded by Editor-in-chief Branko Brkic and CEO Styli Charalambous in 2009, eagle-eyed...
INNOVATE™ Antwerp Vol.2
VOSSCHEMIE
BECOMES V-SURE -A CHEMISTRY WITH NATURE
OUR STORY BEGAN IN 1968. THAT IS WHEN OUR FOUNDER REMI DE MOOR ENTERED INTO A PARTNERSHIP WITH KLAUS WILLEM VOSS, OWNER OF THE GERMAN COMPANY VOSSCHEMIE. MARC AND CLAUDIA, REMI’S CHILDREN, TOOK OVER IN 2009. TO THIS DAY, WE ARE STILL A GENUINE AND SOLID FAMILY BUSINESS. Our DNA:...
INNOVATE® Detroit
CommuniTee
Your New Favorite Way to Golf with Friends
CommuniTee Golf began with a simple revelation during a college football game:a room full of friends and acquaintances who never realized they shared a love for golf and had never played together. This moment sparked the creation of CommuniTee Golf, a platform designed to help golfers easily connect, find playing...
INNOVATE® Austin Volume 2
ENCAST
DEEPENS CONNECTION BETWEEN PEOPLE, BRANDS, AND CAUSES
Our ecosystem simultaneously uplifts personal interactions, culture, brand affinity, and social impact. THE PROBLEMAbout 10,000 baby boomers retire daily. Millennials and Zoomers are taking their place, currently representing over 60% of the U.S. workforce. Younger generations care deeply about social causes. organizations who give them a greater purpose – other...
INNOVATE® Nashville
VANDERBILT CAREER ADVANCEMENT AND ENGAGEMENT
THIS IS A COMMUNITY OF LEARNING DEDICATED TO THE FULFILLMENT OF HUMAN POTENTIAL
If you woke up with the opportunity to help empower the next generation of change makers, how would you maximize that opportunity? That’s the question we have the privilege of answering every day for our students. In the 150 years since Vanderbilt University’s founding, we’ve grown from a regional university into...
INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports
FRUITLAB
IS A COMMUNITY PLATFORM FOR THE BILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD THAT ENJOY SMILING OR GAMING OR SMILING AND GAMING
Imagine a social platform built especially for gamers that enabled users to earn cryptocurrency from their content and from playing their favourite games. Now imagine being able to use that cryptocurrency to buy games and in-game upgrades, purchase NFTs of content from top Content creators or to compete against other...
INNOVATE® Seattle
Arzeda.
SOLVING TODAY’S HARDEST CHALLENGES THROUGH INTELLIGENT PROTEIN DESIGN
SOLVING TODAY’S HARDEST CHALLENGES THROUGH INTELLIGENT PROTEIN DESIGN It’s no secret that the future of more sustainable products is already being driven by cutting-edge technology and groundbreaking innovation. Among the leaders defining this future is Seattle-based industry-leading Protein Design Company, Arzeda. Recognizing the vast potential and opportunity to transform the...
INNOVATE™ Bristol & Bath
Atkins
A Member Of The SNC-Lavalin Group, Is One Of The World’s Most Respected Design, Engineering And Project Management Consultancies.
There is an expectation that Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) will play a significant role in the future of transport. They have the potential to address critical safety issues associated with human-driven vehicles, and to increase accessibility and inclusivity, addressing some of the broader socio-economic challenges faced by an ageing...
INNOVATE™ Alberta
BUOYANCY
Empowering employment agencies to scale their impact through technology-enabled behaviour change
Buoyancy Works is a Calgary, Alberta-based wellness tech and behavioural insights company that empowers employment agencies to scale their impact through technology-enabled behaviour change techniques. The Buoyancy platform helps organizations scale programs, measure engagement, and support their clients through the emotional and motivational challenges of the job search. Buoyancy’s tools...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
FLOW COMMUNICATIONS
WHERE MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS MAGIC HAPPENS
Flow Communications believes in working with great people, on work it loves, and on work that will make the world a better place. That’s not a glib statement. Indeed, it goes to the very heart of what kind of company Flow is: it speaks to its values and integrity, how...
INNOVATE™ Flanders
B4PLASTICS
Redesigning tomorrow’s plastics. Today.
B4Plastics is a Belgian Biopolymer Tech Company specialised in: Creating (R&D), Producing (up to kton), Selling and Licensing novel biomaterials, based on a unique range of Bio Based Building Blocks (hence the B4), tailored to an extended variety of applications. This Belgian-based company, located in Limburg, is a pioneer in...
INNOVATE™ Curitiba
WORLD TRADE CENTER CURITIBA
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CLUB
The World Trade Center (WTC) is the largest business network in the world and one of the most important associations of executives and entrepreneurs. It was created in the 1960s from a fair in Queens, New York City, by the Rockefeller family. Currently the WTC is present in 91 countries,...
INNOVATE® South Florida
HADO - USA
DRIVING INNOVATION & COMMUNITY IN THE SOUTH FLORIDA VENTURE ECOSYSTEM
DRIVING INNOVATION & COMMUNITY IN THE SOUTH FLORIDA VENTURE ECOSYSTEM HADO USA: Pioneering the Future of Augmented Reality Techno Sports In South Florida’s vibrant tech scene, HADO USA is a pioneering leader in augmented reality (AR) techno sports. Blending physical activity with digital innovation, HADO offers an adrenaline-pumping experience that...
INNOVATE™ Oeiras
ALTRONIX
ALTRONIX IS A TECHNOLOGICAL COMPANY SPECIALIZED IN DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING LABELLING, BARCODE AND RFID SOLUTIONS IN DIFFERENT MARKETS, SUCH AS HEALTHCARE, PUBLIC SECTOR, LOGISTICS, TRADE AND INDUSTR
Due to our scope of action, we have a key role in the digital transformation of more than 30,000 companies and institutions in Portugal and abroad, and innovation is part of our DNA! Since the very beginning in 2004, what distinguishes us as a company is undoubtedly the human...
INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports
JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY (JCSU)
ESPORTS AND GAMING TRIFECTA, THE FIRST AT AN HBCU
In February 2019, a mere conversation that I had with a JCSU athletics administrator about the paucity of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that possessed structured on-campus esports programming became the impetus behind my development of a proposal later that day for an esports and gaming academic program. The...
INNOVATE® New Jersey Vol.2
PRINCETON NUENERGY
REVOLUTIONIZING LITHIUM-ION BATTERY RECYCLINGTHE RISE OF PRINCETON NUENERGY
In the heart of innovation, within Princeton University, a remarkable journey began that will soon redefine the landscape of lithium-ion battery recycling. Founded in 2019, Princeton NuEnergy (PNE) embarked on a mission to revolutionize the way we view, handle, and recycle critical materials throughout all stages of battery production and...
Global Innovation Spotlight
CHAPTER
For nearly every retiring American, Medicare is both universal and universally complex
For nearly every retiring American, Medicare is both universal and universally complex. Yet, Medicare enrollment remains broken, and the program is near-impossible to navigate. Anyone who has signed up for Medicare or helped a loved one knows this reality firsthand. The problem is so bad that nearly 40% of the...
INNOVATE® Washington DMV Edition
DC DAO AND ETHDC
Building a Web3 Hub in the Nation’s Capital
“Our mission is to build a vibrant community that empowers connection, champions innovation, and works with leading industry participants to add a builder-focused voice to forward-thinking policies.” DC DAO and ETHDC are at the forefront of a transformative movementin the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia region. As a steward of...
INNOVATE® Washington DMV Edition
Intention 2 Impact
Innovating Social Impact Measurement
Intention 2 Impact (I2I) is a dynamic social change organization at the forefront of impact measurement. Founded in October 2018 by the visionary Nina Sabarre, I2I is a minority, women-owned small business known for disrupting the status quo in philanthropy through innovative and equity-centered monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL)...
INNOVATION Quebec
UQAT
RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MINES AND ENVIRONMENT (RIME)
RIME, Solutions for Sustainable Mining DevelopmentLocated in the heart of a world-class mining sector, the Research Institute of Mines and Environment (RIME-UQAT) has been created in 2012, a strategic decision demonstrating the institution’s commitment to sustainable development in the mining sector. With a strong and constant growth since its inception,...