What: Ignite the Night LAS VEGAS, a NASA iTech Event
When: Jan. 8 from 6-9 p.m.
Where: Sands Expo and Convention Center | 201 Sands Avenue

Ignite the Night LAS VEGAS offers area entrepreneurs an opportunity to present a technology that is solving a real-world problem and might also address a similar challenge with NASA’s Moon to Mars mission.

Ignite the Night LAS VEGAS focus areas include Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning, Biotechnology, System Autonomy, Advanced Manufacturing, and X-Factor Innovations.

Innovators presenting (in alphabetic order):

Agri-Tech Producers LLC – Columbia, South Carolina
ATP’s CRBBP Process

Aperiomics Inc. – Ashburn, Virginia
Xplore-PATHO Microbial Identification Technology

Nanolog Audio Inc. – Edmonton, Canada
Nanolog Devices

Otolith Labs – Washington, District of Columbia
OtoBand

re:3D Inc. – Houston, Texas
Gigabot 3D Printer

Sixdof Space – Jerusalem, Israel
High-speed 6DOF Indoor Optical Tracking & Navigation

Smardii – Miami, Florida
Smardii Smart Diaper

StoryUP – Columbia, Missouri
Healium XR

SWR Technology Inc. – Sunnyvale, California
Smart Wireless Power

TLG Inc. – Boulder, Colorado
SenseScreen Technology

The top innovator from Ignite the Night LAS VEGAS earns a position as one of the 25 semifinalists for the current cycle. As a semifinalist, their technology will be evaluated and has a chance to be selected as one of the top 10 finalists to present at the 2020 NASA iTech Cycle I Forum in Kansas City, Missouri.

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NASA iTech is an initiative by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate and is managed by the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) in Hampton, Virginia.

For information about the NASA iTech initiative, visit: www.nasaitech.org

For information about NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, visit: www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/home

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Harla Sherwood
National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, Va.
757-636-6300
sherwood@nianet.org