OCTOBER 18-20, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC
2021 Innovation Showcase Participants
- Showcase Participants with Maturity: Ready to Market
Waste Resource Recovery Using Supercritical Water Oxidation
A novel approach to Supercritical Water Oxidation that eliminates waste and emerging contaminants (e.g., PFAS, microplastics) while recovering clean water, heat and electricity and inert minerals for reuse.
Touchless user interface for existing smart devices
So far, the only screens we know are either controlled by touch or a remote. However, these types of screens will soon become history. Our technology allows users to control any smart device without any contact by tracking and motioning hand gestures, giving a futuristic feel to various applications.
AI Platform for Discovering Unmet Market Needs
Leveraging vast data sources and AI, we have constructed the world's first and only database of problems and unmet needs. Our platform allows innovators to search and analyze this unique and evolving data to discover new opportunities, and even recommends those most trending or relevant to their company's capabilities.
An Integrated Wide-Area UAV Aeromagnetic Survey System
A calibrated and field-tested automated wide-area unpiloted aerial vehicle (UAV) geophysical survey system that rapidly and accurately locates various magnetic anomalies, such as unexploded ordnance and abandoned oil and gas wells, over wide areas, operating in difficult terrain, dense vegetation, and a wide spectrum of weather conditions.
Corsha, Inc.
Vienna, VA
An API Security Platform
Corsha's API Security Platform provides fully-automated, dynamic multi-factor authentication (MFA) for APIs. Corsha has developed the first and only MFA for machine-to-machine API connections where no human user is involved. We prevent attacks that use compromised API credentials and give visibility and control into an enterprise’s API connections.
DuraBike
Ultra-low maintenance / high reliability mountain bike engineered for deployed environments. Features a sealed gearbox and carbon belt drivetrain. DuraBike offers "hard working bikes for hard working professionals".
3D Printers for Filled Photopolymers
Fortify has commercialized a 3D Printing platform that enables new material properties by processing complex, heavily loaded resins. Areas of focus include: Low loss dielectrics for RF devices, advanced ceramics, and advanced thermal applications. Fortify 3D Printers are open access and ideal for material development
Rapid Liquidation System for Simplification of Food Waste Handling
The first decentralised system to convert food waste into slurry at source by a combination of mechanical and biological actions with the features of high tolerance, simple and neat operation. It can help reduce the manpower and logistic cost while increasing the food waste recycling rate.
In-building Sewage Water Recovery System
A compact and robust sewer mining system with simple operation that can be installed at the basement of a multi-storey residential building to directly purify domestic sewage or greywater for non-potable water uses including toilet flushing, irrigation and cleansing.
An innovative ecofriendly and high resolution roll to roll selective metallization
JetSelectiv® technology own by Jet Metal is a roll to roll high resolution selective metallization for flexible substrates as polymers films or textiles. This eco-friendly process offers high-end industrial solutions for Printed Electronics application.
Ultra-Compact, Highly Effective Thermal Management
Makai’s TFHX represents an important advance in compact heat exchanger technology. Its innovative design enables higher heat transfer surface area densities, maximizing heat transfer performance in a compact envelope. The thin layers of each TFHX plate mean more heat transfer area can be packed into a fixed volume.
An affordable metallic coating to protect surfaces at extreme environments and to reduce use of hexavalent chrome and cyanides
Our advanced coating technology, MaxShield, is made of metal alloys. Carbon steel coated in MaxShield performs almost similar to such expensive superalloys as Hastelloy in corrosive environments. Global companies have successfully tested MaxShield. Adoption of MaxShield is not expected to incur a high capital cost.
FIREFLY Platform
FIREFLY is an innovative, dynamically deployable position, navigation, and tracking platform that integrates location-tracking in GPS-denied areas, environmental sensing, interference-resilience, command and control connectivity, as well as real-time analytics to improve situational awareness and operational visibility.
Essence
Essence s a cybersecurity analytic tool that monitors for OT cyberthreats and instantly provides key indicators to utility experts to defend systems against emerging threats. Essence continuously assesses power grids for anything out of the ordinary. When anomalies are detected, the technology provides real-time indicators, which allows informed decision making.
Orion AIM Artificial Intelligence Mission System
The Orion Artificial Intelligence Mission system is a wearable high-performance AI/ML ATAK computer system, 295g FIPS 140-2 SDR, a power management module and a 169g full AI/ML nUAS. AIM was designed to process, collect and present streaming real-time data and video to warfighting edge users and headquarters simultaneously.
Biodegradable nanofiber membrane for filtration applications
NnF MBRANE PHB is a nanofiber based filtration membrane used mainly for production of Personal Protective Equipment (face masks and respirators) and other products. It is a new alternative for classic PP or PES materials dramatically decreasing the amount of the plastic waste in the environment!
Post-Process Surface Finishing and Optimization of Additively Manufactured Nickel-Based Superalloys
This novel technology is a combinatory process capable of surface finishing additively manufactured nickel-based superalloys to increase surface condition, component life, mechanical performance, and fatigue life.
CellSage Battery Health Analysis and Prognostics Software
CellSage is an advanced battery and cell aging software simulation tool that represents over a decade of research in electro-chemistry, physics, and thermodynamics. CellSage can asses how various battery chemistries age and degrade in response to different usage profiles and operating conditions for electric vehicles and other battery powered systems.
Sesame Solar Nanogrids: mobile, solar-powered, charging Solution for EVs with an emergency/command office inside
Sesame Solar Mobile Nanogrids have 100kWh of solar power that can be easily towed. Sesame Solar Nanogrids are powered by a 10kW solar array. Setup by one person in <15 minutes with minimal training. Sesame Solar Nanogrids can charge EVs, provide export power and serve as a Mobile Emergency Office.
Ultra Fast Optical Tracking
Sixdof Space has created an optical tracking approach offering long-awaited breakthroughs in speed/latency, accuracy and power. Our patent-pending technology leverages visible or infrared lighting to serve as location beacons. Embedded in any manufacturer’s existing hardware, our products will independently report accurate position at a very high speed.
SSS Affordable Weather Station Vessel
SubSeaSail (SSS) has developed a light-weight, low-power draw, submergible weather station with 360° light base placed on the top of the mast that functions when on the surface. Combined with wave measurements from the vessel IMU, this creates a highly capable, affordable, autonomous weather station vessel.
Nodeworks
Nodeworks is an opensource, low/no-code scientific workflow platform that accelerates scientific discovery by enabling novice users to quickly construct complex workflows. Using a library of preconstructed nodes, users add and connect elements to define a series of operations that manipulate the data flowing through the network.
CFD on the Wafer Scale Engine (WSE)
NETL is developing a new computational fluid dynamics (CFD) capability on the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) computational platform, originally developed for artificial intelligence. The new capability can solve transport equations more than 200 times faster than any current generation supercomputer with over 1500 times less energy consumption.
Fully Biodegradable (Green) Filter Media for Medical, Transportation, Defense and Related Applications
Billions of masks, home filters and industrial filters are disposed after single use which will result in gigantic quantities of landfill harmful to the environment. We have developed Merv 13 efficiency innovative 100% biobased biodegradable filter media which has wide range of applications - medical and beyond.
Uptimai - Uncertainty Propagator and Statistical Optimizer
Uptimai is a state-of-the-art tool for Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) and Statistical Optimization (SO). UptimAI allows CAE engineers to deeply understand the dependencies between inputs and results of engineering simulations. Uptimai proposes to engineers the steps leading to the design of a well-performing product for the whole range of operational conditions.
Uptimai - Uncertainty Propagator and Statistical Optimizer
Uptimai is a state-of-the-art tool for Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) and Statistical Optimization (SO). UptimAI allows CAE engineers to deeply understand the dependencies between inputs and results of engineering simulations. Uptimai proposes to engineers the steps leading to the design of a well-performing product for the whole range of operational conditions.
Treating Neurological Disorders Caused by Opioid Addiction – Targeting the µ Opioid Receptor
Novel compounds for the study and treatment of opioid addiction.
VisionCraft AI driven computer vision and data analytics
We use computer vision to analyze data from our own, autonomous IoT sensors, or from existing camera/video streams. The results are combined with other relevant data sources. By using AI based algorithms we are able to derive and visualize reliable and actionable information. All is done in real time.
