Stories of Innovation

INNOVATE™ Estonia

COMBAT READY

TURNING BATTLEFIELD LESSONS INTO EVERYDAY LEADERSHIP

Combat Ready emerged from a simple but urgent realization: while management courses abound, practical leadership training was missing in Northern Europe. Founded by veterans of elite military units, the company set out to close this gap by adapting the rigorous methods of Special Forces training to the realities of business...

INNOVATE™ Toronto

FOUNDERSBOOST TORONTO

FOUNDERSBOOST TORONTO -PROVES THAT GRASSROOTS EFFORTS CAN DEMOCRATIZE ACCESS TO THE RESOURCES AND RELATIONSHIPS THAT FOUNDERS NEED TO SUCCEED.

PROVES THAT GRASSROOTS EFFORTS CAN DEMOCRATIZE ACCESS TO THE RESOURCES AND RELATIONSHIPS THAT FOUNDERS NEED TO SUCCEED

FoundersBoost Toronto is the city’s only 100% free, not-for-profit preaccelerator program for early-stage founders. We are a volunteer-only organization that runs six-week boot camps that prepare founders for accelerators, investment, and revenue. We take no equity and charge no fees from any of our startups. FoundersBoost Toronto is led by...

INNOVATE® Chicago Vol.1

LEVEL EX

Playing Is Training: Chicago’s Gaming And Healthcare Legacies Meet At Level Ex

Today, Level Ex has 750,000 medical professionals playing its games to advance their skills and earn Continuing Medical Education (CME). The story of how it changed the way medicine is learned and practiced is as much an ode to Chicago as it is a start-up success story....

INNOVATE™ Curitiba

UNIVERSIDADE POSITIVO

STANDS AS A PILLAR OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE WITH A RICH HISTORY OF 35-YEARS

Focused on professional excellence, the university has played a pivotal role in shaping over 10 thousand entrepreneurs in the past 20 years, leading to the establishment of 24 thousand businesses nationwide. Committed to sustainable development since 2019, Universidade Positivo incorporates the United Nation’s sustainable development goals into every facet of...

INNOVATE™ Alberta

VizworX

VizworX - Creating Visibly Better Enterprise Software Solutions Through Advanced Technology

Creating Visibly Better Enterprise Software Solutions Through Advanced Technology

Delivering enterprise-class digital experiences, VizworX is an advanced software solutions services company. Leveraging the latest in augmented reality, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, complex data visualization, web and mobile technologies and techniques, VizworX supports several industries around the world by turning complex data into easily understandable and actionable information. We enable...

Global Innovation Spotlight

Upcoming IT Conferences Focused on Sustainable Technology and Green IT

Sustainable IT Events You Should Consider Attending Next Year

However minimal, we’ve all felt some impact of climate change at one point or another in our lifetime, irrespective of what part of the world we are from. The World Health Organization stated that about 3.6 billion people live in areas especially vulnerable to climate impacts. This is almost half...

INNOVATE® Puerto Rico

ABARTYS HEALTH

Healthcare Data, Simplified

What we do: AbartysHealth focuses on improving healthcare by creating patient centric solutions that streamline data, communication, and services for the healthcare industry. The healthcare industry confronts several difficulties in developing interoperable solutions that reliably and accurately collect and communicate data in a complex, dispersed, and unconnected healthcare environment. Founded...

INNOVATE™ Vancouver Vol.2

GCT GLOBAL CONTAINER TERMINALS INC

SYNCHRONIZING CONTAINER LOGISTICS THROUGH INNOVATION, PRECISION,

GCT Global Container Terminals Inc. (GCT) is Vancouver’s homegrown success story in marine container terminal operations and innovation. GCT is among the most advanced operators on the continent and boasts the largest semi-automated on-dock rail facility in North America. Shipping line customers and cargo owners benefit from easy access to...

INNOVATE® Georgia

WORKOPTI

WORKOPTI SAVES LEADERS TIME. WORKOPTI SAVES LEADERS MONEY.

WORKOPTI: Technology Built for Leaders in the AI Economy WORKOPTI, founded by our CTO Elkanah Reed, is revolutionizing executive decision-making by providing a platform designed for the AI economy. As the only AI-powered leadership platform, WORKOPTI integrates a data management engine that turns unstructured data into actionable insights. This helps...

INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports

INDIE CLUSTER

INDIE CLUSTER-Inspiring The Untargeted

Inspiring The Untargeted, Promoting The Unseen, And Supporting The Unfunded!

The Indie Cluster is a platform providing opportunities, resources, and services centered around supporting indie game developers. We focus on quality assurance testing, discoverability, hands-on production, and curating a traveling booth for our games. As our digital future demands more interactive experiences, sustainability is crucial for these small businesses. We’ve...

INNOVATE™ Adelaide

FIVECAST

Enabling A Safer World

Fivecast is an Australian company based in Adelaide that has gone global capitalising on artificial intelligence and machine learning to uncover insights across the surface, deep and dark web, and help their customers enable a safer world. Whether it’s fraud detection, human trafficking or counter terrorism, the bad guys aren’t...

INNOVATE™ Estonia

PRAKTIKAL

MAKING ABSTRACT SCIENCE TANGIBLE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION

Remember learning to ride a bicycle? No amount of physics equations about angular momentum or center of gravity could replace that moment when you finally felt the balance click into place. Your hands knew when to turn the handlebars, your body learned to lean into curves, and suddenly, you were...

INNOVATION Quebec

ISEQ

THE PÔLE D’EXCELLENCE DE L’INDUSTRIE DES SYSTÈMES ÉLECTRONIQUES DU QUÉBEC (ISEQ)

It acts as a vehicle for collaboration to foster innovation, industry recognition, expanded opportunities, commercialization, and business competitiveness. Promote the export of electronics goods, services, and innovations to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the North American restructuring of electronic systems supply chains. ISEQ was created by the Ministère...

INNOVATE® Chicago Vol.1

SPRINGFOUR

How A Social Impact Fintech Is Improving The Financial Health For Millions

When a financial institution’s customers are financially healthy, everyone wins. SpringFour, an award-winning social impact fintech and a Certified B Corporation, connects financial institutions’ customers with resources that help them make their payments and get back on their feet. With a digital-based platform of more than 20,000 vetted financial resources,...

INNOVATE™ Adelaide

BAILEY ABBOTT

Exploring the art of possible

WHEN THE PHONE WOULDN’T STOP RINGING WITH FORMER COLLEAGUES REACHING OUT AFTER LOSING THEIR JOBS IN THE PANDEMIC, TOM CARLTON HAD HEARD ENOUGH. IT WAS TIME TO ACT. Tom knew there was a better way to not only do business, but to empower teams. When other consultancies were downsizing in...

INNOVATE™ Oeiras

ACTON IT

ACTON IT - Is Part Of Respol Group

Is Part Of Respol Group, A Global Player In The Pine Chemical Industry. Acton It Provides A Team With Extensive Experience In SAP Business One And SAP HANA From SAP, The World Leader In ERP Solutions.

We follow the latest trends in technology, offering the perfect fit to our customer’s needs, effective solutions that enhance business activity and leads to achieving competitive advantages.   All our products incorporate interoperability mechanisms for information systems, including support for Industry 4.0, namely IOT, Machine Learning and remote monitoring. Specific developments for...

INNOVATE™ Curitiba

WIPRO

HERE WE WRITE NEW CHAPTERS OF THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE COUNTRY DAILY

At Wipro Brazil, we are not just a technology company; we are pioneers, charting new territories in the digital world. Our story is woven into the fabric of Brazil’s technological revolution, a journey marked by relentless ambition and a commitment to transform the nation into a more digital and connected...

INNOVATE™ Curitiba

ARAUCARIA FOUNDATION

CURITIBA’S SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM

ARAUCARIA FOUNDATION–CURITIBA’S SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM: A BEACON OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED PROSPERITY. Our mission is to catalyze the ST&I system towards the sustainable development of Paraná, transforming knowledge into wealth and quality of life. We operate across pivotal sectors such as agribusiness, renewable energy, biotechnology, smart cities,...

INNOVATE® New Jersey Vol.2

BIGGINS LACEY SHAPIRO & CO

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN COMPANIES AND THEIR SITE SELECTION NEEDS THROUGH LOCATION ECONOMICS®

OUR STORYBiggins Lacy Shapiro & Company (BLS & Co.) is one of the largest independent firms in the specialty fields of site selection and economic development incentives advisory services. Our principals have been delivering our mix of services for more than twenty-five years and arehighly respected leaders in their field....

Global Innovation Spotlight

Agricultural Software Trends Transforming Industry in 2025 and Beyond

Agtech is changing farming in exciting ways by using smart digital tools and machines to solve old problems. Farmers today face higher costs, fewer workers, and more pressure to farm in ways that protect the environment. To handle these challenges, more farms are using agtech than ever before. At the...

INNOVATE® Puerto Rico

FALCÓN SÁNCHEZ & ASSOCIATES

FALCÓN SÁNCHEZ & ASSOCIATES-40 years of excellence and leadership as a reliable business partner

40 years of excellence and leadership as a reliable business partner

The wholly owned Puerto Rican consultancy continues to make its mark by implementing a strategy rooted in constant evolution to not only address, but also anticipate its clients’ needs. In many industries, the client-supplier relationship has grown stale over the years, mired in a cookie-cutter operational model where “rocking the...

INNOVATE® Detroit

MiSide Community Impact Network

Bringing A Theory To Life

East Chadsey-Condon is a multi-cultural community that faces a unique set of challenges – high instances of crime among youth, a large percentage of residents without insurance, limited access to transportation, and low homeownership rates, among others. And yet hope remains as residents report having pride in their community, a...

INNOVATE™ Curitiba

AEROSAT

Our HistoryFounded in 1990, with headquarters in Curitiba – PR, it initially began operating in the field of Architecture and Civil Construction, in activities related to the execution of architectural projects and civil engineering works. With the registration in category “A” from the Ministry of Defense and ANAC obtained in...

INNOVATE™ Stockholm

POTATO IMPROVER

ENGINEERING RESILIENCE IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

In a world of rapidly rising temperatures and unstable growing conditions, Potato Improver is reshaping the future of agriculture by empowering one of the world’s most essential food crops—potatoes—to thrive in heat-stressed environments. Founded with a singular mission to safeguard global food security, this Swedish biotech startup has developed a...

INNOVATE™ Estonia

COMBAT READY

TURNING BATTLEFIELD LESSONS INTO EVERYDAY LEADERSHIP

Combat Ready emerged from a simple but urgent realization: while management courses abound, practical leadership training was missing in Northern Europe. Founded by veterans of elite military units, the company set out to close this gap by adapting the rigorous methods of Special Forces training to the realities of business...

INNOVATE™ Toronto

FOUNDERSBOOST TORONTO

FOUNDERSBOOST TORONTO -PROVES THAT GRASSROOTS EFFORTS CAN DEMOCRATIZE ACCESS TO THE RESOURCES AND RELATIONSHIPS THAT FOUNDERS NEED TO SUCCEED.

PROVES THAT GRASSROOTS EFFORTS CAN DEMOCRATIZE ACCESS TO THE RESOURCES AND RELATIONSHIPS THAT FOUNDERS NEED TO SUCCEED

FoundersBoost Toronto is the city’s only 100% free, not-for-profit preaccelerator program for early-stage founders. We are a volunteer-only organization that runs six-week boot camps that prepare founders for accelerators, investment, and revenue. We take no equity and charge no fees from any of our startups. FoundersBoost Toronto is led by...

INNOVATE® Chicago Vol.1

LEVEL EX

Playing Is Training: Chicago’s Gaming And Healthcare Legacies Meet At Level Ex

Today, Level Ex has 750,000 medical professionals playing its games to advance their skills and earn Continuing Medical Education (CME). The story of how it changed the way medicine is learned and practiced is as much an ode to Chicago as it is a start-up success story....

INNOVATE™ Curitiba

UNIVERSIDADE POSITIVO

STANDS AS A PILLAR OF ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE WITH A RICH HISTORY OF 35-YEARS

Focused on professional excellence, the university has played a pivotal role in shaping over 10 thousand entrepreneurs in the past 20 years, leading to the establishment of 24 thousand businesses nationwide. Committed to sustainable development since 2019, Universidade Positivo incorporates the United Nation’s sustainable development goals into every facet of...

INNOVATE™ Alberta

VizworX

VizworX - Creating Visibly Better Enterprise Software Solutions Through Advanced Technology

Creating Visibly Better Enterprise Software Solutions Through Advanced Technology

Delivering enterprise-class digital experiences, VizworX is an advanced software solutions services company. Leveraging the latest in augmented reality, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, complex data visualization, web and mobile technologies and techniques, VizworX supports several industries around the world by turning complex data into easily understandable and actionable information. We enable...

Global Innovation Spotlight

Upcoming IT Conferences Focused on Sustainable Technology and Green IT

Sustainable IT Events You Should Consider Attending Next Year

However minimal, we’ve all felt some impact of climate change at one point or another in our lifetime, irrespective of what part of the world we are from. The World Health Organization stated that about 3.6 billion people live in areas especially vulnerable to climate impacts. This is almost half...

INNOVATE® Puerto Rico

ABARTYS HEALTH

Healthcare Data, Simplified

What we do: AbartysHealth focuses on improving healthcare by creating patient centric solutions that streamline data, communication, and services for the healthcare industry. The healthcare industry confronts several difficulties in developing interoperable solutions that reliably and accurately collect and communicate data in a complex, dispersed, and unconnected healthcare environment. Founded...

INNOVATE™ Vancouver Vol.2

GCT GLOBAL CONTAINER TERMINALS INC

SYNCHRONIZING CONTAINER LOGISTICS THROUGH INNOVATION, PRECISION,

GCT Global Container Terminals Inc. (GCT) is Vancouver’s homegrown success story in marine container terminal operations and innovation. GCT is among the most advanced operators on the continent and boasts the largest semi-automated on-dock rail facility in North America. Shipping line customers and cargo owners benefit from easy access to...

INNOVATE® Georgia

WORKOPTI

WORKOPTI SAVES LEADERS TIME. WORKOPTI SAVES LEADERS MONEY.

WORKOPTI: Technology Built for Leaders in the AI Economy WORKOPTI, founded by our CTO Elkanah Reed, is revolutionizing executive decision-making by providing a platform designed for the AI economy. As the only AI-powered leadership platform, WORKOPTI integrates a data management engine that turns unstructured data into actionable insights. This helps...

INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports

INDIE CLUSTER

INDIE CLUSTER-Inspiring The Untargeted

Inspiring The Untargeted, Promoting The Unseen, And Supporting The Unfunded!

The Indie Cluster is a platform providing opportunities, resources, and services centered around supporting indie game developers. We focus on quality assurance testing, discoverability, hands-on production, and curating a traveling booth for our games. As our digital future demands more interactive experiences, sustainability is crucial for these small businesses. We’ve...

INNOVATE™ Adelaide

FIVECAST

Enabling A Safer World

Fivecast is an Australian company based in Adelaide that has gone global capitalising on artificial intelligence and machine learning to uncover insights across the surface, deep and dark web, and help their customers enable a safer world. Whether it’s fraud detection, human trafficking or counter terrorism, the bad guys aren’t...

INNOVATE™ Estonia

PRAKTIKAL

MAKING ABSTRACT SCIENCE TANGIBLE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION

Remember learning to ride a bicycle? No amount of physics equations about angular momentum or center of gravity could replace that moment when you finally felt the balance click into place. Your hands knew when to turn the handlebars, your body learned to lean into curves, and suddenly, you were...

INNOVATION Quebec

ISEQ

THE PÔLE D’EXCELLENCE DE L’INDUSTRIE DES SYSTÈMES ÉLECTRONIQUES DU QUÉBEC (ISEQ)

It acts as a vehicle for collaboration to foster innovation, industry recognition, expanded opportunities, commercialization, and business competitiveness. Promote the export of electronics goods, services, and innovations to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the North American restructuring of electronic systems supply chains. ISEQ was created by the Ministère...

INNOVATE® Chicago Vol.1

SPRINGFOUR

How A Social Impact Fintech Is Improving The Financial Health For Millions

When a financial institution’s customers are financially healthy, everyone wins. SpringFour, an award-winning social impact fintech and a Certified B Corporation, connects financial institutions’ customers with resources that help them make their payments and get back on their feet. With a digital-based platform of more than 20,000 vetted financial resources,...

INNOVATE™ Adelaide

BAILEY ABBOTT

Exploring the art of possible

WHEN THE PHONE WOULDN’T STOP RINGING WITH FORMER COLLEAGUES REACHING OUT AFTER LOSING THEIR JOBS IN THE PANDEMIC, TOM CARLTON HAD HEARD ENOUGH. IT WAS TIME TO ACT. Tom knew there was a better way to not only do business, but to empower teams. When other consultancies were downsizing in...

INNOVATE™ Oeiras

ACTON IT

ACTON IT - Is Part Of Respol Group

Is Part Of Respol Group, A Global Player In The Pine Chemical Industry. Acton It Provides A Team With Extensive Experience In SAP Business One And SAP HANA From SAP, The World Leader In ERP Solutions.

We follow the latest trends in technology, offering the perfect fit to our customer’s needs, effective solutions that enhance business activity and leads to achieving competitive advantages.   All our products incorporate interoperability mechanisms for information systems, including support for Industry 4.0, namely IOT, Machine Learning and remote monitoring. Specific developments for...

INNOVATE™ Curitiba

WIPRO

HERE WE WRITE NEW CHAPTERS OF THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE COUNTRY DAILY

At Wipro Brazil, we are not just a technology company; we are pioneers, charting new territories in the digital world. Our story is woven into the fabric of Brazil’s technological revolution, a journey marked by relentless ambition and a commitment to transform the nation into a more digital and connected...

INNOVATE™ Curitiba

ARAUCARIA FOUNDATION

CURITIBA’S SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM

ARAUCARIA FOUNDATION–CURITIBA’S SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM: A BEACON OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED PROSPERITY. Our mission is to catalyze the ST&I system towards the sustainable development of Paraná, transforming knowledge into wealth and quality of life. We operate across pivotal sectors such as agribusiness, renewable energy, biotechnology, smart cities,...

INNOVATE® New Jersey Vol.2

BIGGINS LACEY SHAPIRO & CO

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN COMPANIES AND THEIR SITE SELECTION NEEDS THROUGH LOCATION ECONOMICS®

OUR STORYBiggins Lacy Shapiro & Company (BLS & Co.) is one of the largest independent firms in the specialty fields of site selection and economic development incentives advisory services. Our principals have been delivering our mix of services for more than twenty-five years and arehighly respected leaders in their field....

Global Innovation Spotlight

Agricultural Software Trends Transforming Industry in 2025 and Beyond

Agtech is changing farming in exciting ways by using smart digital tools and machines to solve old problems. Farmers today face higher costs, fewer workers, and more pressure to farm in ways that protect the environment. To handle these challenges, more farms are using agtech than ever before. At the...

INNOVATE® Puerto Rico

FALCÓN SÁNCHEZ & ASSOCIATES

FALCÓN SÁNCHEZ & ASSOCIATES-40 years of excellence and leadership as a reliable business partner

40 years of excellence and leadership as a reliable business partner

The wholly owned Puerto Rican consultancy continues to make its mark by implementing a strategy rooted in constant evolution to not only address, but also anticipate its clients’ needs. In many industries, the client-supplier relationship has grown stale over the years, mired in a cookie-cutter operational model where “rocking the...

INNOVATE® Detroit

MiSide Community Impact Network

Bringing A Theory To Life

East Chadsey-Condon is a multi-cultural community that faces a unique set of challenges – high instances of crime among youth, a large percentage of residents without insurance, limited access to transportation, and low homeownership rates, among others. And yet hope remains as residents report having pride in their community, a...

INNOVATE™ Curitiba

AEROSAT

Our HistoryFounded in 1990, with headquarters in Curitiba – PR, it initially began operating in the field of Architecture and Civil Construction, in activities related to the execution of architectural projects and civil engineering works. With the registration in category “A” from the Ministry of Defense and ANAC obtained in...

INNOVATE™ Stockholm

POTATO IMPROVER

ENGINEERING RESILIENCE IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

In a world of rapidly rising temperatures and unstable growing conditions, Potato Improver is reshaping the future of agriculture by empowering one of the world’s most essential food crops—potatoes—to thrive in heat-stressed environments. Founded with a singular mission to safeguard global food security, this Swedish biotech startup has developed a...

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