Call For Innovation: Smart City Business Actuator
SMART CITY WORKS BUSINESS ACTUATOR
Location: Center for Innovative Technology, Herndon, VA www.cit.org
Important Dates:
Applications Due: March 10, 2017
Acceleration Boot Camp: March 27, 2017 - June 28, 2017
DEMO DAY Pitch to Investors: June 29, 2017
Call For Innovation: Smart City Business Actuator
Smart City Works (www.smartcityworks.io) is pleased to announce the Call for Innovation (CFI) for the Spring 2017 cohort class.
We are looking for entrepreneurs, startups, and companies with emerging products and technologies to apply for the Spring 2017 inaugural Washington DC Metro cohort to be held at the Center for Innovative Technology (www.cit.org) in Herndon, VA. The 90-day program is open to startups globally whose visionary founders are willing to bring their ideas and passions to participate in person in a unique and impactful acceleration process. In particular, we seek innovative commercial solutions that address significant social and civic challenges--safety, security, livability, and resilience--in urban environments across the United States and the world.
For the Spring 2017 cohort, solutions will focus on one of 3 key areas of the infrastructure challenge:
- Transport - Solutions that reduce costs, extend serviceable life, reduce congestion, improve parking, improve inter-modalities (car, train, bus, bike, pedestrian), or leverage smart, autonomous, and intelligent transportation solutions to improve our transportation infrastructure network.
- Resilience and Public Safety - Solutions and/or IoT technologies that address the safety and security of the urban public; that mitigate the impact of rising sea levels, extreme weather events, or other natural or man-made shocks; that protect critical infrastructure; or those solutions that allow cities to be more livable and sustainable.
- Construction Techniques - Solutions that improve the design, construction, or maintenance of infrastructure; reduce lifecycle costs or improve safety, schedules, or margins.
IMPORTANT DATE
Smart City Works Application Deadline: Applications open now, March 1 we will begin selecting companies until the class is full. Final date for any applications is March 10th, 2017.
Apply Now: https://www.f6s.com/smartcityworks/apply
For more information about the program, visit: http://www.smartcityworks.io
Contact us with questions: innovate@smartcityworks.io
About Smart City Works:
Smart City Works (www.smartcityworks.io) was created to galvanize innovation and enable commercialization uniquely focused on improving civil infrastructure (the "built environment") and livability in cities. Through the creation of a new business accelerator, and the first business actuator, Smart City Works will help startups and mature companies transition new ideas or inventions into viable growing businesses that deliver high-impact solutions to make cities smarter, safer, and more resilient.
About Center for Innovative Technology:
Center for Innovative Technology (www.cit.org) accelerates innovation and commercialization in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Created in 1985, CIT, a non-profit corporation, plugs gaps at the earliest stages of the Innovation Continuum - commercialization and seed funding - as it helps entrepreneurs launch high-growth technology companies and create high-paying jobs for the future. Through programs like the MACH37 Cyber Accelerator and the EMERGE First Responder Wearable Technologies Accelerator, we facilitate national innovation leadership and accelerate the rate of technology adoption through partnerships between innovative start-up companies and advanced technology consumers.