Chicago – City Tech Collaborative (City Tech) will join fellow winners of the Chicago Innovation Awards, the Chicago region’s foremost annual celebration of innovation, in New York City on Wednesday, August 18th to ring the Closing Bell of the Nasdaq Stock Market. The event will emphasize the surge of innovation that is occurring in the Chicago region and shine a spotlight on the organizations that make up its vibrant economy.
“Chicago Innovation Award winners cut across all industries and represent the best in new product and service development from large companies, startups and non-profits,” said Tom Kuczmarski, co-founder of the Chicago Innovation Awards. “Their winning innovations are solving a range of unmet needs in the marketplace, and we’re proud to celebrate their successes on a global stage by ringing the Nasdaq Bell.”
Joining City Tech will be other winners of the 2020 Chicago Innovation Awards, including: 2nd Kitchen, A Safe Haven Foundation, Abbott, ActiveCampaign, BMO Harris, Chicago Community Covid-19 Respond Fund, Chicago Hopes for Kids, CMC Materials, Enduvo, FLEX Lighting, Gensler, Hologram, Horizon Therapeutics, I Grow Chicago, InstaShield, NOCD, Novartis Gene Therapies, NowPow, Quest, Sabanto, The Small Exchange, and Threekit.
City Tech received the Wintrust Chicago Neighborhood Award for its work on the Chicago Health Atlas; the award recognizes organizations solving problems for Chicago’s neighborhoods and residents.
In 2021, the Chicago Health Atlas moved from its home at City Tech Collaborative to the University of Illinois Chicago's School of Public Health. The Chicago Health Atlas – which is managed through a partnership between UIC’s School of Public Health, Metopio, and the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) – is a free community health data resource that residents, community organizations, and public health stakeholders can use to easily search, analyze, and download neighborhood-level health data for Chicago’s 77 community areas. For nearly 10 years, the Chicago Health Atlas has created opportunities for learning and action on more than 160 public health indicators and datasets from more than 30 participating healthcare, community, and research partners, including CDPH, MAPSCorps, and the Sinai Urban Health Institute.
The Chicago Health Atlas is generously funded by the Otho S.A. Sprague Memorial Institute.
About City Tech Collaborative (City Tech)
City Tech is an urban solutions accelerator that tackles problems too big for any single sector or organization to solve alone. City Tech’s work uses IoT sensing networks, advanced analytics, and urban design to create scalable, market ready solutions. Current initiatives address advanced mobility, healthy cities, connected infrastructure, and emerging growth opportunities. City Tech was born and raised in Chicago, and every city is a potential partner. Visit
www.CityTech.org and follow us on
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About Chicago Innovation
Chicago Innovation was established in 2002 as the Chicago Innovation Awards, an annual ceremony to celebrate the most innovative products and services in the Chicago region. The organization has evolved into a year-round series of events and activities designed to educate, connect and celebrate innovators in the Chicago region. The organization’s expansion includes the Chicago Student Invention Convention to empower Chicago’s youth to be innovators, the Chicago Innovation Women Mentoring Co-op to support female innovators, and Ageless Innovators to support older adult innovators and bridge generations in the workplace. For more info, visit
www.chicagoinnovation.com. To follow Chicago Innovation on social media, find it on Twitter (@Chi_Innovation) or Facebook (Chicago Innovation).
