Stories of Innovation
INNOVATE® Georgia
SOUTHWIRE
MORE THAN SEVEN DECADESOF INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP
Southwire’s roots extend back to 1937, when Roy Richards, Sr. started Richards & Associates (R&A) to erect power poles with the ultimate purpose of bringing electric light to his grandmother’s home. During its first two and a half years, R&A strung 3,500 miles of cable, becoming the nation’s second-largest Rural...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
SHARKS RUGBY UNION
NOT JUST BLACK AND WHITE
Rugby isn’t the same as it was 20, or even 10, years ago. COVID-19 had also left a profound impact on sport. Such are the changes that the Sharks’ competition isn’t always facing them on the rugby pitch on Saturday afternoons. Instead, this team competes against other industries and entertainment...
INNOVATE™ Oeiras
C-MORE
Human Rights Are The Foundation Of A Healthy Society And Sustainable Business
Who are We? C-MORE is a socially-driven company supporting international organizations, companies and NGO’s in reaching their objectives on creating sustainable impact from their activities. Our Manifesto We are humans, all of us. It is almost absurd stating such a fact. Do we sometimes forget that? Are we creating the...
INNOVATE® Seattle
Clark Nuber
Dedicated to the Success of our People and our Clients: We are Clark Nuber
Leading the Industry Clark Nuber, the largest locally owned CPA firm in Washington state, proudly stands as a majority women-owned firm. The firm consistently ranks among Accounting Today and Inside Public Accounting’s national lists of “Top 100 Firms.” These lists include the Big 4 and many multi-office, national firms, highlighting...
INNOVATION Quebec
CED
CANADA’S PIONEER IN THE CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL RPAS INDUSTRY
Launched in 2011, the CED is a community of interest and a non-profit organization whose mission is to develop, manage and promote a range of expertise, services and innovations in the Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) sector. Our headquarters are located at the airport in Alma (CYTF), but we offer...
INNOVATE™ Vancouver Vol.2
SLA-STEPHANE LAROYE ARCHITECT INC
Boutique Vancouver architectural firm committed to collaborative design and mixed-use projects using engineered wood solutions. The boutique architectural firm of SLA (Stephane Laroye Architect Inc.) is a Vancouver-based architectural firm focused on collaborative design with a passion for Passive House and engineered wood solutions in British Columbia. Established in 2016,...
INNOVATE™ Curitiba
ESTEIO
55-YEARS MAPPING OUR WORLD
ESTEIO ENGENHARIA E AEROLEVANTAMENTOS S.A. was founded in 1969 as a privately held Brazilian company. Acting as a consultancy company, ESTEIO’s activities are mainly concentrated on the development of projects, services and researches in the area of civil and cartographic engineering. In 1979, ESTEIO was officially recognized by Brazilian Ministry...
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™ Adelaide
PLANET ARK POWER
THE FUTURE OF DISTRIBUTED CLEAN ENERGY IS ELEXSYS™
Planet Ark Power is a leading Australian clean energy provider for solar, storage, EV charging and microgrid solutions across the commercial and industrial (C&I) sector, as well as for recreation, education, health, and government facilities. Internationally, they are known as eleXsys Energy. They are the developer of a unique, enabling...
Global Innovation Spotlight
Top 5 challenges in managing employee absences and how to overcome them
Keeping organisational productivity high can be difficult, particularly when managing employee absences. Manual methods of time recording (e.g., spreadsheets) are famously unreliable, and this is without considering the wealth of issues that come with employee absences! From unclear policies to imbalanced workloads, overcoming these challenges requires a structured approach to...
INNOVATE™ Curitiba
GO ON ASSOCIATED
IS A CONSULTING COMPANY FOCUSED ON PROVIDING BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SOLUTIONS
GO ON ASSOCIATED- IS A CONSULTING COMPANY FOCUSED ON PROVIDINGBUSINESS MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SOLUTIONS WITH EXCELLENCE,THROUGH DEEP BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OFINNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS. Founded in 2015 in Curitiba, Go On Associated is an IT consultancy focused on providing business management solutions through digital transformation. With a track record of...
INNOVATION Quebec
CENTRE PHI
Fondé en 2012, le Centre PHI se consacre à l’innovation aux frontières de la production créative et encourage la conception, le développement, la production et la présentation d’une grande variété de disciplines et de formes, avec un accent sur les technologies numériques et les nouveaux médias. Ses programmes et son...
INNOVATE® Kansas City
KU INNOVATION PARK
SUPPORTING THE NEXT GENERATION OF INNOVATIVE BUSINESS GROWTH
Tucked into a hill on the west campus of the University of Kansas, a group of engineers is tackling global climate change with technology to recycle refrigerants. A team of industry professionals and academic researchers is staying ahead of cybersecurity threats using NSA-licensed technology. A married team of PhDs is...
INNOVATE™ Flanders
TPR @ UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP
Your partner for research and training on transport and regional economics
TPR was founded as a research group within the University of Antwerp in the mid-1990s. It is committed to being an international center of excellence for fundamental and applied academic training, research, and service provision in transport economics, logistics, and regional economics. Its mission is to enhance transport and logistics...
INNOVATION Quebec
INVESTISSEMENT QUÉBEC
A STORY OF THE FUTURE
1998. Investissement Québec is created. This organisation gave businesses and investors access to all the programs offered by the Government of Québec. Although it was never stated at the time, the aim of developing Québec’s economy and positioning it as a breeding ground for innovation, productivity and prosperity was truly...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
DYNAMIC BRANDS MANUFACTURING (PTY) LTD
Birthed from humble beginnings within the Eastern Cape, Dynamic Brands Manufacturing (Pty) Ltd began its journey when current CEO, John Kew, identified a unique gap in the dilutable dairy blend market. Like many great entrepreneurial minds before him, John believed in the power of ideas that at first may not...
INNOVATE® Washington DMV Edition
TO ALL OF OUR DMV INNOVATORS AND DREAMERS! Government and politics: two pillars that have long been synonymous with the identity of the capital region. While these will always remain cornerstones of the DMV, a new narrative is emerging – that of a global innovation hub for startups, emerging tech,...
Global Innovation Spotlight
Flutterwave’s Olugbenga Agboola
What It Takes To Found a Successful Tech Firm
Take it from someone who knows: Scaling a firm from simple startup to unicorn status isn’t for the faint of heart. For Olugbenga “GB” Agboola, the founder and CEO of the African e-payments platform Flutterwave, earning a valuation of more than $1 billion wasn’t about having the best idea or...
INNOVATE™ Oeiras
Alcon Portugal
Driving Innovation To Help People See Brilliantly
Impulsionar A Inovação Para Ajudar As Pessoas A Ver Brilhantemente
Alcon is the global leader in eye care, dedicated to helping people see brilliantly. With a heritage of more than seven decades, we offer the broadest portfolio of products to improve people’s vision and lives. Our surgical and vision care products touch the lives of more than 260 million people...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
RED-LINED INTERNATIONAL
MOTORSPORT ADVENTURE
The CEO and founder of Red-Lined International Terence Marsh had a goal of competing on the world stage at Dakar and established the business in 2013. We set out into the international market in search of a race car and returned to South Africa disillusioned at what the market had...
INNOVATE™ Alberta
NanosTech
PIONEERING A SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TRANSITION
NanosTech, born from the innovative crucible of the University of Calgary, exemplifies the transformative potential of ground-breaking catalytic research. In 2021, it found a new home under the umbrella of Vorsana Environmental Inc., further cementing its position as a catalyst for change within the nanocatalyst and catalyst technologies landscape. NanosTech...
INNOVATION Quebec
OROT
CONNECTED HEALTH INNOVATION HUB
The connected health innovation hub – OROT plays a key role in revolutionizing how health and medical technologies are developed to improve care. Clinicians, researchers, healthcare users and entrepreneurs are challenged to use innovative, human-centred design to create exceptional, lower-cost experiences for healthcare recipients. OROT is part of the Integrated...
INNOVATE™ Estonia
JÄLLE TECHNOLOGIES
TURNING BATTERY WASTE INTO THE WORLD’S THINNEST & STRONGEST MATERIAL
Jälle Technologies is tackling one of the fastest-growing technological and resource challenges: the tidal wave of spent lithium-ion batteries. As the world shifts towards electric mobility and renewable energy, millions of tons of used batteries are expected to flood the market by 2030. These batteries contain valuable metals such as...
INNOVATE™ Atlantic Canada
Nova Scotia Health
Innovation Hub
Making Healthcare in Nova Scotia Better There is a smarter way to deliver quality healthcare, but achieving it requires fresh thinking, a forward-focused approach, and the courage to move beyond traditional methods. That is exactly what the Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub is designed to do. Established in 2023, the...
INNOVATE® Georgia
SOUTHWIRE
MORE THAN SEVEN DECADESOF INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP
Southwire’s roots extend back to 1937, when Roy Richards, Sr. started Richards & Associates (R&A) to erect power poles with the ultimate purpose of bringing electric light to his grandmother’s home. During its first two and a half years, R&A strung 3,500 miles of cable, becoming the nation’s second-largest Rural...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
SHARKS RUGBY UNION
NOT JUST BLACK AND WHITE
Rugby isn’t the same as it was 20, or even 10, years ago. COVID-19 had also left a profound impact on sport. Such are the changes that the Sharks’ competition isn’t always facing them on the rugby pitch on Saturday afternoons. Instead, this team competes against other industries and entertainment...
INNOVATE™ Oeiras
C-MORE
Human Rights Are The Foundation Of A Healthy Society And Sustainable Business
Who are We? C-MORE is a socially-driven company supporting international organizations, companies and NGO’s in reaching their objectives on creating sustainable impact from their activities. Our Manifesto We are humans, all of us. It is almost absurd stating such a fact. Do we sometimes forget that? Are we creating the...
INNOVATE® Seattle
Clark Nuber
Dedicated to the Success of our People and our Clients: We are Clark Nuber
Leading the Industry Clark Nuber, the largest locally owned CPA firm in Washington state, proudly stands as a majority women-owned firm. The firm consistently ranks among Accounting Today and Inside Public Accounting’s national lists of “Top 100 Firms.” These lists include the Big 4 and many multi-office, national firms, highlighting...
INNOVATION Quebec
CED
CANADA’S PIONEER IN THE CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL RPAS INDUSTRY
Launched in 2011, the CED is a community of interest and a non-profit organization whose mission is to develop, manage and promote a range of expertise, services and innovations in the Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) sector. Our headquarters are located at the airport in Alma (CYTF), but we offer...
INNOVATE™ Vancouver Vol.2
SLA-STEPHANE LAROYE ARCHITECT INC
Boutique Vancouver architectural firm committed to collaborative design and mixed-use projects using engineered wood solutions. The boutique architectural firm of SLA (Stephane Laroye Architect Inc.) is a Vancouver-based architectural firm focused on collaborative design with a passion for Passive House and engineered wood solutions in British Columbia. Established in 2016,...
INNOVATE™ Curitiba
ESTEIO
55-YEARS MAPPING OUR WORLD
ESTEIO ENGENHARIA E AEROLEVANTAMENTOS S.A. was founded in 1969 as a privately held Brazilian company. Acting as a consultancy company, ESTEIO’s activities are mainly concentrated on the development of projects, services and researches in the area of civil and cartographic engineering. In 1979, ESTEIO was officially recognized by Brazilian Ministry...
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™ Adelaide
PLANET ARK POWER
THE FUTURE OF DISTRIBUTED CLEAN ENERGY IS ELEXSYS™
Planet Ark Power is a leading Australian clean energy provider for solar, storage, EV charging and microgrid solutions across the commercial and industrial (C&I) sector, as well as for recreation, education, health, and government facilities. Internationally, they are known as eleXsys Energy. They are the developer of a unique, enabling...
Global Innovation Spotlight
Top 5 challenges in managing employee absences and how to overcome them
Keeping organisational productivity high can be difficult, particularly when managing employee absences. Manual methods of time recording (e.g., spreadsheets) are famously unreliable, and this is without considering the wealth of issues that come with employee absences! From unclear policies to imbalanced workloads, overcoming these challenges requires a structured approach to...
INNOVATE™ Curitiba
GO ON ASSOCIATED
IS A CONSULTING COMPANY FOCUSED ON PROVIDING BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SOLUTIONS
GO ON ASSOCIATED- IS A CONSULTING COMPANY FOCUSED ON PROVIDINGBUSINESS MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SOLUTIONS WITH EXCELLENCE,THROUGH DEEP BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OFINNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS. Founded in 2015 in Curitiba, Go On Associated is an IT consultancy focused on providing business management solutions through digital transformation. With a track record of...
INNOVATION Quebec
CENTRE PHI
Fondé en 2012, le Centre PHI se consacre à l’innovation aux frontières de la production créative et encourage la conception, le développement, la production et la présentation d’une grande variété de disciplines et de formes, avec un accent sur les technologies numériques et les nouveaux médias. Ses programmes et son...
INNOVATE® Kansas City
KU INNOVATION PARK
SUPPORTING THE NEXT GENERATION OF INNOVATIVE BUSINESS GROWTH
Tucked into a hill on the west campus of the University of Kansas, a group of engineers is tackling global climate change with technology to recycle refrigerants. A team of industry professionals and academic researchers is staying ahead of cybersecurity threats using NSA-licensed technology. A married team of PhDs is...
INNOVATE™ Flanders
TPR @ UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP
Your partner for research and training on transport and regional economics
TPR was founded as a research group within the University of Antwerp in the mid-1990s. It is committed to being an international center of excellence for fundamental and applied academic training, research, and service provision in transport economics, logistics, and regional economics. Its mission is to enhance transport and logistics...
INNOVATION Quebec
INVESTISSEMENT QUÉBEC
A STORY OF THE FUTURE
1998. Investissement Québec is created. This organisation gave businesses and investors access to all the programs offered by the Government of Québec. Although it was never stated at the time, the aim of developing Québec’s economy and positioning it as a breeding ground for innovation, productivity and prosperity was truly...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
DYNAMIC BRANDS MANUFACTURING (PTY) LTD
Birthed from humble beginnings within the Eastern Cape, Dynamic Brands Manufacturing (Pty) Ltd began its journey when current CEO, John Kew, identified a unique gap in the dilutable dairy blend market. Like many great entrepreneurial minds before him, John believed in the power of ideas that at first may not...
INNOVATE® Washington DMV Edition
TO ALL OF OUR DMV INNOVATORS AND DREAMERS! Government and politics: two pillars that have long been synonymous with the identity of the capital region. While these will always remain cornerstones of the DMV, a new narrative is emerging – that of a global innovation hub for startups, emerging tech,...
Global Innovation Spotlight
Flutterwave’s Olugbenga Agboola
What It Takes To Found a Successful Tech Firm
Take it from someone who knows: Scaling a firm from simple startup to unicorn status isn’t for the faint of heart. For Olugbenga “GB” Agboola, the founder and CEO of the African e-payments platform Flutterwave, earning a valuation of more than $1 billion wasn’t about having the best idea or...
INNOVATE™ Oeiras
Alcon Portugal
Driving Innovation To Help People See Brilliantly
Impulsionar A Inovação Para Ajudar As Pessoas A Ver Brilhantemente
Alcon is the global leader in eye care, dedicated to helping people see brilliantly. With a heritage of more than seven decades, we offer the broadest portfolio of products to improve people’s vision and lives. Our surgical and vision care products touch the lives of more than 260 million people...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
RED-LINED INTERNATIONAL
MOTORSPORT ADVENTURE
The CEO and founder of Red-Lined International Terence Marsh had a goal of competing on the world stage at Dakar and established the business in 2013. We set out into the international market in search of a race car and returned to South Africa disillusioned at what the market had...
INNOVATE™ Alberta
NanosTech
PIONEERING A SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TRANSITION
NanosTech, born from the innovative crucible of the University of Calgary, exemplifies the transformative potential of ground-breaking catalytic research. In 2021, it found a new home under the umbrella of Vorsana Environmental Inc., further cementing its position as a catalyst for change within the nanocatalyst and catalyst technologies landscape. NanosTech...
INNOVATION Quebec
OROT
CONNECTED HEALTH INNOVATION HUB
The connected health innovation hub – OROT plays a key role in revolutionizing how health and medical technologies are developed to improve care. Clinicians, researchers, healthcare users and entrepreneurs are challenged to use innovative, human-centred design to create exceptional, lower-cost experiences for healthcare recipients. OROT is part of the Integrated...
INNOVATE™ Estonia
JÄLLE TECHNOLOGIES
TURNING BATTERY WASTE INTO THE WORLD’S THINNEST & STRONGEST MATERIAL
Jälle Technologies is tackling one of the fastest-growing technological and resource challenges: the tidal wave of spent lithium-ion batteries. As the world shifts towards electric mobility and renewable energy, millions of tons of used batteries are expected to flood the market by 2030. These batteries contain valuable metals such as...
INNOVATE™ Atlantic Canada
Nova Scotia Health
Innovation Hub
Making Healthcare in Nova Scotia Better There is a smarter way to deliver quality healthcare, but achieving it requires fresh thinking, a forward-focused approach, and the courage to move beyond traditional methods. That is exactly what the Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub is designed to do. Established in 2023, the...