What: Ignite the Night Chicago, a NASA iTech Event
When: Nov. 14 from 6-9 p.m. CST
Where: TechNexus Venture Collaborative | 20 N. Upper Wacker Drive, Suite #1200

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

Innovators presenting (in alphabetic order):

Advanced Ionics – Milwaukee, Wisconsin Hydrogen for Industrial Materials Production

Energetically PBC – Short Hills, New Jersey Energetically Platform

Froberg Aerospace LLC – Champaign, Illinois Multimode Micro Propulsion

NiveauUp Inc. – Chicago, Illinois eXtreme Fast Charging (XFC) Batteries

Noland Industries – Chicago, Illinois ELFRAM Electricity from Artificial Material

Orbital Transports Inc. – Chicago, Illinois Payload Return for SmallSat Missions

ParaNetics Inc. – San Diego, California ParaNetic Ion Propulsion Drive

Stofiel Aerospace – St. Louis, Missouri Positive Structural Molding

Xenesis – Lisle, Illinois Software Defined Optical Comms

The top Innovator from Ignite the Night CHICAGO 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