CHICAGO INNOVATION AWARDS

Kenmore/Sears Holdings Corporation

PVPower

Smarter Will: Powered by Hedeker & Perrelli, Ltd.

Metro Chicago Information Center

Tap Me Inc.

Molex Incorporated

Molex Incorporated

Alterian

KeyLimeTie

From the Barrio Foundation

YWCA Metropolitan Chicago

The Model YWCA

In response to the changing economic climate, YWCA Metropolitan Chicago created the concept of the Model YWCA – a more holistic, comprehensive approach to serving the city’s changing demographics. The Model YWCA turns the dreams of individual women into concrete economic progress, resulting in a stronger workforce, reduced gender- and race-associated violence, and increased opportunities for Chicago’s working women. With innovative new programs in Economic Empowerment, a Center for Racial Justice and Activism, and the opening of two new empowerment centers, the Model YWCA is changing the landscape for women across the Chicago metropolitan area.

Trustwave

Trustwave DataControl

Trustwave DataControl seamlessly combines data loss prevention (DLP) software with state-of-the-art encryption. It allows customers to systematically identify at-risk data and automatically protect it to reduce the risk of data breaches.  Integrating Trustwave DLP Discover and Encryption (specifically Smart Tag™ technology), DataControl enables organizations to understand the content distributed within the enterprise while securing the data with the appropriate encryption policies.

Abbott

Abbott ARCHITECT HIV Ag/Ab Combo Test

Abbott's ARCHITECT HIV Ag/Ab Combination test, is now available to give people very early detection to find out if they have HIV sooner.  Approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and developed based on innovative science and technology, this novel test can help stem the spread of the infection by detecting the virus earlier than ever before, up to twenty days earlier than most tests currently available in the U.S.

PC Rebuilders & Recyclers

Microsoft Windows Refurbishers Pre-Install Kit

PC Rebuilders & Recyclers (PCRR) is the worldwide vendor for Microsoft’s Refurbishers Pre-Install Kit (RPK). The RPK code creates a product package for the testing of hardware, installing and imaging windows based operating systems. RPK will allow a Microsoft Registered Refurbisher of any size to efficiently re-image any PC, making the reuse of prematurely retired equipment available in a more cost effective and timely manner.

HEALTHSTRING, LLC

Initiate, an IBM® Company

Firebelly Foundation

Reason to Give Online Storefront of Needs

Reason To Give is an innovative online storefront that makes donating simple and direct. Reason To Give provides families, small businesses and organizations in Chicago’s Humboldt Park community with basic necessities purchased from responsible retailers and/or sustainable manufacturers. Through the website, potential donors can view video interviews of participants explaining their situations and needs, donate towards those needs from a list of basic items, and then check back to watch a follow up video success story.

Nalco Company

OxiPRO Monitor

Paper manufacturing environments provide favorable conditions for microbial growth.  If growth is not controlled, microbial spoilage and deposit formation reduce the efficiency of the papermaking process.  Nalco commercialized OxiPRO Deposit Control Technology to increase paper machine efficiency.  The OxiPRO offering includes an innovative on-line monitor that allows for real-time, continuous monitoring of microbial activity and surface deposition.

Accertify

Interceptas

Accertify's Interceptas® platform is the first fully-integrated transaction screening, fraud prevention, and case management application designed from a merchant’s perspective.  It is used by leading global e-commerce companies in a wide variety of industries and is proven to significantly reduce fraud and fraud prevention related costs.

Darkstrand

Aquascape, Inc.

RainXchange® System

Traditional methods of harvesting rainwater do not add beauty or value to a home or office setting. Aquascape has created a filtration system used in conjunction with a decorative water feature that captures, filters and stores rainwater run-off for future use.  The system also reduces flooding, which is typical when heavy rains follow a period of drought.    

AArrow Advertising Chicago

Vanguard Wrestling All Star Alliance inc.

Vanguard Wrestling All Star Alliance inc.

Vanguard Wrestling All-Star Alliance is a Chicago Indy Wrestling Scene which takes pride in their production value. In the dozen or so other Indy wrestling companies in the area, there is no one that focuses more on how it presents itself. Vanguard Wrestling All-Star Alliance has full DMX controlled lighting and online video production. Peaking at their biggest show of the year, Manifest Destiny III, introduced a giant projection screen complete with recap videos, interviews, and the best produced Entrance Videos that can be found on the local Indy circuit.

Electronic Knowledge Interchange

Chicago Health Alert Network (HAN)

The updated Chicago HAN, launched in 2009, is now a far-reaching collaboration tool that connects a diverse network of healthcare professionals and government organizations. Within mere moments, urgent and secure voice, text, e-mail and fax alerts can be sent to thousands of HAN members, including health departments, the City of Chicago, hospitals, clinics, labs, medical research organizations, emergency responders and the FBI. 

S2EO

S2EO Online Resource Center

S2EO Online Resource Center helps companies transform their websites into hubs that inform, educate and entertain both current and potential customers and also encourage repeat business. S2EO works directly with companies to first assess the current business situation—the company itself, the industry in which it participates and the customers it presently attracts. S2EO's Online Resource Center service generates content for a variety of industries and topics in any or all of the following formats in order to reach the company’s goals: Podcasts, white papers, videos, articles, games, puzzles, social media content and more. Through a maintenance agreement, S2EO supplies fresh content to continually engage customers. The end result is a website that is both informational and current and one enables the business to connect with customers and ultimately, generate sales. 

Lidia Varesco Design

Greetings by Lidia Varesco Design

With businesses spending so much time on digital communications (email, web, social media)Greetings by Lidia Varesco Design saw a need to revert back to handwritten communications. Founded by a graphic designer who understands the power of marketing, Greetings by Lidia Varesco Design created a line of greeting cards and stationery especially for small businesses. The cards feature unique, upscale, non-corporate designs, allowing small businesses to stand out from their competition, stay top-of-mind with clients and new prospects, and elevate their company’s brand awareness through the use of handwritten communications.

Sebiza, LLC. DBA HippMAMA

HippMAMA Belt

The HippMAMA is the tool belt for moms.  The HippMAMA belt has five pouches in different sizes for all of mom/baby daily essentials at your fingertips. Easy in and easy out with baby bottles, sippy cups, pacifiers, cell phones, camera, snack, tissue, id, money, moms water bottle, diaper and wipe. All the pouches velcro on and off the belt. This allows you to use as many pouches as you wish and place them around the adjustable belt where you feel most comfortable. 

NCSA Athletic Recruiting (National Collegiate Scouting Association)

NCSA Recruiting Management System (RMS)

Every year, thousands of high school student-athletes are overlooked, not because they lacked the qualifications or desire to play at the next level, but because college coaches did not know about them and they did not understand how to maximize the athletic recruiting process.   NCSA is the Athletic Recruiting Network that connects four communities:  College Coaches, Qualified Student-Athletes and their parents, High School Coaches and the Professional Community.

Etymotic Research

etyBlu2

The etyBLU2 headset provides 30 dB of noise cancellation at the microphone plus 30 dB of noise isolation at the ear.  The result is that the etyBLU2 wireless headset delivers the highest noise isolation on the market, for both talking and listening.  Unlike so-called "cheekbone" Bluetooth headsets -- which require people to raise their voices so the sound is picked up by the microphone located far away from the speaker's mouth -- the etyBLU2 headset allows people to speak in normal tones and be heard clearly.