Atlanta's BridgeCommunity commercialization program is in its 3rd year. Get an overview of how startups and corporations are working together to extend their capabilities.
Harbor Research - The Internet of Things Meets the Internet of PeopleHarbor Research
We have entered an era where people, businesses and social organizations are beginning to understand the profound impacts awareness, collaboration, and intelligence will bring. In the not too distant future, hundreds of millions, then billions, of individuals and businesses, with billions, then trillions, of smart, communicating devices, will stretch the boundaries of today’s business and social systems and create the potential to change the way we work, learn, entertain and innovate.
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As CIOs and business leaders try to create a modern infrastructure that can support today’s challenging IT environment, they may find themselves taking wrong turns or pursuing approaches that lead to dead ends. Here’s a technology roadmap for 2012 — one that highlights useful landmarks and identifies areas to steer clear of – that you can refer to as you explore today’s challenging IT environment. Read Now.
There is no escaping the "bring your own device" trend, but organizations need to chart a middle path to strike a balance between employee freedom and corporate control over technology.
Accenture publishes its technology vision annually. It is a distillation of our extensive research over the course of the previous 12 months, the experiences of our research teams and the input of our clients. In it, we outline the emerging technology trends that forward-thinking CIOs will use to position their organizations to drive growth and high performance, rather than just focusing on cost-cutting and efficiency improvements.
Business leaders now accept that their organizations’ future success is bound up with their ability to keep pace with technology. CIOs have to play a key role in helping these business leaders recognize and seize the opportunities enabled by new trends—but the price of progress will have to be paid, along with new risks assumed.
We believe six technology trends will influence business over the next three to five years:
Context-based services. Where you are and what you are doing will drive the next wave of digital services.
Converging data architectures. Successfully rebalancing the data architecture portfolio and blending the structured with the unstructured are key to turning data into new streams of value.
Industrialized data services. The ability to share data will make it more valuable—but only if it is managed differently.
Social-driven IT. Realize that social is not just a bolt-on marketing channel. It will have true business-wide impact.
PaaS-enabled agility. The maturing platform-as-a-service (PaaS) market will shift the emphasis from cost-cutting to business innovation, supporting rapid evolution for business processes that need continuous change.
Orchestrated analytical security. Organizations will have to accept that their gates will be breached and begin preparing their second line of defense—data platforms—to mitigate the damage caused by attacks that get through.
Free download at: http://vint.sogeti.com/downloads/
In the past few years, information technology has become increasingly personal and social and has made its presence very much felt. The emergence of wearable computing and other forms of empathic ‘things’ seems a logical further step: even more intimate, more human-oriented, and ubiquitous. There are more and more devices that count our steps, take our blood pressure or measure the indoor temperature, track our location or conversations.
We are witnessing a computer boom in terms of kinds, shapes and sizes – around, on or inside the body – that behave increasingly smart and link up more and more intuitively with man’s extremely personal and natural interface.
In the next decade Personal Computing will become really personal: inside, on and around the person with attention for the context of the individual. In this study we explore this development and present seven manifestations that can define the impact on business, such as the ‘quantified employee’ and the ‘body as the new password’
Harbor Research - The Internet of Things Meets the Internet of PeopleHarbor Research
We have entered an era where people, businesses and social organizations are beginning to understand the profound impacts awareness, collaboration, and intelligence will bring. In the not too distant future, hundreds of millions, then billions, of individuals and businesses, with billions, then trillions, of smart, communicating devices, will stretch the boundaries of today’s business and social systems and create the potential to change the way we work, learn, entertain and innovate.
http://www.hcltech.com/ -
As CIOs and business leaders try to create a modern infrastructure that can support today’s challenging IT environment, they may find themselves taking wrong turns or pursuing approaches that lead to dead ends. Here’s a technology roadmap for 2012 — one that highlights useful landmarks and identifies areas to steer clear of – that you can refer to as you explore today’s challenging IT environment. Read Now.
There is no escaping the "bring your own device" trend, but organizations need to chart a middle path to strike a balance between employee freedom and corporate control over technology.
Accenture publishes its technology vision annually. It is a distillation of our extensive research over the course of the previous 12 months, the experiences of our research teams and the input of our clients. In it, we outline the emerging technology trends that forward-thinking CIOs will use to position their organizations to drive growth and high performance, rather than just focusing on cost-cutting and efficiency improvements.
Business leaders now accept that their organizations’ future success is bound up with their ability to keep pace with technology. CIOs have to play a key role in helping these business leaders recognize and seize the opportunities enabled by new trends—but the price of progress will have to be paid, along with new risks assumed.
We believe six technology trends will influence business over the next three to five years:
Context-based services. Where you are and what you are doing will drive the next wave of digital services.
Converging data architectures. Successfully rebalancing the data architecture portfolio and blending the structured with the unstructured are key to turning data into new streams of value.
Industrialized data services. The ability to share data will make it more valuable—but only if it is managed differently.
Social-driven IT. Realize that social is not just a bolt-on marketing channel. It will have true business-wide impact.
PaaS-enabled agility. The maturing platform-as-a-service (PaaS) market will shift the emphasis from cost-cutting to business innovation, supporting rapid evolution for business processes that need continuous change.
Orchestrated analytical security. Organizations will have to accept that their gates will be breached and begin preparing their second line of defense—data platforms—to mitigate the damage caused by attacks that get through.
Free download at: http://vint.sogeti.com/downloads/
In the past few years, information technology has become increasingly personal and social and has made its presence very much felt. The emergence of wearable computing and other forms of empathic ‘things’ seems a logical further step: even more intimate, more human-oriented, and ubiquitous. There are more and more devices that count our steps, take our blood pressure or measure the indoor temperature, track our location or conversations.
We are witnessing a computer boom in terms of kinds, shapes and sizes – around, on or inside the body – that behave increasingly smart and link up more and more intuitively with man’s extremely personal and natural interface.
In the next decade Personal Computing will become really personal: inside, on and around the person with attention for the context of the individual. In this study we explore this development and present seven manifestations that can define the impact on business, such as the ‘quantified employee’ and the ‘body as the new password’
New technology trends are being introduced at a speed faster than ever. Amidst several competitions among themselves and with a desire to provide with better future technology gadgets or future technology devices, the world is getting to see new innovations.
2008 annual report for Absolute Software Corporation (TSX: ABT), the leader in computer theft recovery, data protection and secure IT asset management solutions. Absolute Software provides organizations and consumers with solutions in the areas of regulatory compliance, data protection and theft recovery. The Company's Computrace software is embedded in the firmware of computers by global leaders, including Acer, ASUS, Dell, Fujitsu, General Dynamics Itronix, HP, Lenovo, Motion, Panasonic and Toshiba, and the Company has reselling partnerships with these OEMs and others, including Apple. For more information about Absolute Software and Computrace, visit www.absolute.com and http://www.absolute.com/blog.
FTC Internet of Things Report
The report includes the following recommendations for companies developing Internet of Things devices:
build security into devices at the outset, rather than as an afterthought in the design process;
train employees about the importance of security, and ensure that security is managed at an appropriate level in the organization;
ensure that when outside service providers are hired, that those providers are capable of maintaining reasonable security, and provide reasonable oversight of the providers;
when a security risk is identified, consider a “defense-in-depth” strategy whereby multiple layers of security may be used to defend against a particular risk;
consider measures to keep unauthorized users from accessing a consumer’s device, data, or personal information stored on the network;
monitor connected devices throughout their expected life cycle, and where feasible, provide security patches to cover known risks.
Vidizmo EnterpriseTube - Enterprise Video Streaming SolutionNadeem Khan
A perfect Enterprise Video Streaming Platform and Portal. Setup unlimited YouTube /Vimeo Style video channels, fully branded with corporate look and feel, each channel may use its own authentication system to authenticate users such as Enterprise AD, SAML-P, Google ID, Facebook ID or Microsoft ID or VIDIZMO ID or anonymous access.
TechnoVision 2014: Technology Building Blocks for Digital TransformationCapgemini
Our TechnoVision 2014 introduces a fresh, provocative and innovative approach to today's business technology landscape. Here's a platform business and technology leaders can use to create a new, different dialogue on how these disruptions will affect the near- and long-term business environment, and how you can leverage them to exploit market opportunities for sustainable competitive advantage. TechnoVision 2014 is a strategic asset that can help drive Digital Transformation across your entire enterprise.
http://www.capgemini.com/technovision
New technology trends are being introduced at a speed faster than ever. Amidst several competitions among themselves and with a desire to provide with better future technology gadgets or future technology devices, the world is getting to see new innovations.
2008 annual report for Absolute Software Corporation (TSX: ABT), the leader in computer theft recovery, data protection and secure IT asset management solutions. Absolute Software provides organizations and consumers with solutions in the areas of regulatory compliance, data protection and theft recovery. The Company's Computrace software is embedded in the firmware of computers by global leaders, including Acer, ASUS, Dell, Fujitsu, General Dynamics Itronix, HP, Lenovo, Motion, Panasonic and Toshiba, and the Company has reselling partnerships with these OEMs and others, including Apple. For more information about Absolute Software and Computrace, visit www.absolute.com and http://www.absolute.com/blog.
FTC Internet of Things Report
The report includes the following recommendations for companies developing Internet of Things devices:
build security into devices at the outset, rather than as an afterthought in the design process;
train employees about the importance of security, and ensure that security is managed at an appropriate level in the organization;
ensure that when outside service providers are hired, that those providers are capable of maintaining reasonable security, and provide reasonable oversight of the providers;
when a security risk is identified, consider a “defense-in-depth” strategy whereby multiple layers of security may be used to defend against a particular risk;
consider measures to keep unauthorized users from accessing a consumer’s device, data, or personal information stored on the network;
monitor connected devices throughout their expected life cycle, and where feasible, provide security patches to cover known risks.
Vidizmo EnterpriseTube - Enterprise Video Streaming SolutionNadeem Khan
A perfect Enterprise Video Streaming Platform and Portal. Setup unlimited YouTube /Vimeo Style video channels, fully branded with corporate look and feel, each channel may use its own authentication system to authenticate users such as Enterprise AD, SAML-P, Google ID, Facebook ID or Microsoft ID or VIDIZMO ID or anonymous access.
TechnoVision 2014: Technology Building Blocks for Digital TransformationCapgemini
Our TechnoVision 2014 introduces a fresh, provocative and innovative approach to today's business technology landscape. Here's a platform business and technology leaders can use to create a new, different dialogue on how these disruptions will affect the near- and long-term business environment, and how you can leverage them to exploit market opportunities for sustainable competitive advantage. TechnoVision 2014 is a strategic asset that can help drive Digital Transformation across your entire enterprise.
http://www.capgemini.com/technovision
We are proud to present in this e-book a wide range of AI solutions from 15 Greek and Cypriot Microsoft partners. As we are actively working with those partners to develop and co-sell their solutions across the world, we hope this will serve as an inspiration to Start-Ups as well as established software and solution providers to work with our partner team to build the strongest AI ecosystem across Greece, Cyprus and Malta.
The Product Dev Conundrum: To Build or Buy in a Digital World?Aggregage
Any PM or technical leader who’s led the charge of building a digital product knows that product engineering is one of the most expensive elements of business. In most cases, actually building software should be the last avenue that companies explore to deliver great products, as software engineering, data science and product development are complex, uncertain and hard to manage.
Updated for the Vista UX/UI Summit in Dallas, TX
You can view a video of this presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfASJamxjy4
User Experience has a direct impact on your bottom line, and it’s about time we start telling execs in their own language. I’m sure many of you spend a good amount of time evangelizing what it is that you do, and the value it adds. Over the past 15 years I’ve introduced User Experience to everyone from CEOs to developers — using storytelling, metrics, and case studies you can prove without a doubt the value that you bring.
In this talk I’ll explain what metrics to track, how to position your work, and stories where User Experience directly effected the bottom line.
The activity of using methods, skills and tools to understand user engagement with a website is called a UX Audit.
Even in case this was done at the time of website development, it could not have included future traffic behaviour or change in design trends and optimisation techniques.
Per this article on Forbes, every dollar invested in improving UX has multifold returns. Good design is just good business.
DAN Brand Accelerator: Client Pitch KeynoteJason Newport
Here is the Brand Accelerator pitch deck I began using to pitch current clients more than two years ago. I refined as we advanced through each phase once clients had signed on and we adjusted as necessary. I pitched this to more than twenty clients, all household brand names -- an converted each of them. Not a single brand declined to move forward.
Riding and Capitalizing the Next Wave of Information TechnologyGoutama Bachtiar
Delivered in guest lecture session for International Business Accounting Program, Faculty of Business and Management, Petra Christian University, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.
UX STRAT 2018 | Flying Blind On a Rocket Cycle: Pioneering Experience Centere...Joe Lamantia
After Oracle acquired Endeca, we all had to figure out what to do next. This case study describes building a learning-driven strategy capability to guide an adventurous product development group focused on the new domains of big data analytics and machine intelligence. I’ll share the outcomes of our efforts to launch new products chartered directly around customer experience value; outline the methods, tools, and perspectives that powered product discovery and strategic planning; share a framework and patterns for identifying and understanding emerging domains; and review the application of this toolkit to new situations.
Rohit Talwar - The Future of Business, OMN Book Launch eventOMN
Rohit Talwar, Futurist & Author, presentation on The Future of Business.
Presented at OMN London's The Future of Work – The All-Stars Edition on 11th June 2015 aboard the HMS President, London.
Transcending the Hype: A Transformative IoT EmergesCognizant
The Internet of Things is finally taking shape. Here’s a glimpse at how a few initial pilots are increasing productivity, improving the customer experience and altering the competitive landscape.
Including the User: How insights drive business #pswud2017Jeremy Johnson
Design is inclusive by nature. The ability to understand people, their needs, and emotions throughout a journey is what User Experience Designers excel at! That said, many organizations still need that nudge to really get out build true empathy for the people they’re building tools, systems, and apps for. This talk will help you ramp up with modern best practices in insights gathering, while helping you build the case to invest in user understanding through showcasing the value to both your business and your brand.
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What You're Going to Learn
- How These 4 Leaks Force You To Work Longer And Harder in order to grow your income… improve just one of these and the impact could be life changing.
- How to SHUT DOWN the revolving door of Income Stagnation… you know, where new sales come into your magazine while at the same time existing sponsors exit.
- How to transform your magazine business by fixing the 4 “DON’Ts”...
#1 LEADS Don’t Book
#2 PROSPECTS Don’t Show
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#4 CLIENTS Don’t Stay
- How to identify which leak to fix first so you get the biggest bang for your income.
- Get actionable strategies you can use right away to improve your bookings, sales and retention.
Best Crypto Marketing Ideas to Lead Your Project to SuccessIntelisync
In this comprehensive slideshow presentation, we delve into the intricacies of crypto marketing, offering invaluable insights and strategies to propel your project to success in the dynamic cryptocurrency landscape. From understanding market trends to building a robust brand identity, engaging with influencers, and analyzing performance metrics, we cover all aspects essential for effective marketing in the crypto space.
Also Intelisync, our cutting-edge service designed to streamline and optimize your marketing efforts, leveraging data-driven insights and innovative strategies to drive growth and visibility for your project.
With a data-driven approach, transparent communication, and a commitment to excellence, InteliSync is your trusted partner for driving meaningful impact in the fast-paced world of Web3. Contact us today to learn more and embark on a journey to crypto marketing mastery!
Ready to elevate your Web3 project to new heights? Contact InteliSync now and unleash the full potential of your crypto venture!
2. What is the
BridgeCommunity?
The BridgeCommunity is a unique program designed to engineer
and accelerate relationships between early-stage startups and
global corporations.
—— Connect with startups that fit core business needs
with first mover competitive advantage
—— Network with fellow Corporate Members, share insights,
collaborate & learn from each other
—— Support the local community through targeted
entrepreneurial training
Startups receive world-class enterprise sales, marketing, and
negotiations training, plus coaching throughout the program as
they look to launch pilots with Corporate Members.
Corporations receive targeted introductions, help streamlining
pilots and minimizing roadblocks, and enjoy a peer-to-peer
component to learn from each other’s innovation practices.
The Bridge by Coca-Cola began in 2014 as a collaboration
between The Coca-Cola Company and the entrepreneurial tech
community in Tel Aviv, Israel. The program helps corporations
approach thinking, planning and executing in innovative
ways through meaningful relationships with startups. In 2016,
Coca-Cola launched a second commercialization program
in Atlanta, Ga. The Atlanta BridgeCommunity helps cultivate
the entrepreneurial ecosystem through startup engagement,
partnerships and a local community initiative to help raise the
technical skill level from high school onwards. Since inception,
74 startups have participated in the program, and nine
corporations have served as partners, including Mercedes-Benz
and Turner in Tel Aviv, Capgemini, COX Enterprises, MailChimp,
Porsche North America, SunTrust Bank, IHG and The Weather
Company in Atlanta.
To learn more about joining the program refer to the last page
and connect with the executive team.
“There are accelerators and there are
incubators, and then there’s the Bridge
Community. The ability to connect our
swiftest and most disruptive startups with
corporate partners who can actually use
their technology has become a hallmark
in metro Atlanta, and has helped us shine
the light on our technology ecosystem.”
—Grant Wainscott
Senior Director, Technology Ecosystem
Expansion. Metro Atlanta Chamber
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3. Big Team brings seamless feedback to companies and
networks.
BigTeam is replacing the “survey” with an award winning
user experience and new advances in machine learning.
BigTeam allows marketing, product, customer and
innovation teams to stress test their product, campaign,
design or content ideas with their entire network from
one platform. Users upload what they’re working on,
and BigTeam will use machine learning to automatically
suggest 5-7 questions as well as a list of who in their
network has the right expertise to provide feedback. All
feedback is then filtered through our NLP platform to
immediately show the dominant trends in the feedback as
well as suggestions on what to fix first. Agencies can use
it to connect their global network, while companies can
use it to engage their employee base and customers.
Aquagenuity provides easy access to real-time water
quality data
Aquagenuity provides data-driven solutions for the global
water crisis with the world’s first intelligent water quality
database & ratings system driven by real-time water
quality data. Aquagenuity helps corporations mitigate
water-related risks & better engage consumers. Founder
and data scientist Doll Avant spent two years aggregating
water quality data (from the EPA & research partners) for
the entire country into the only database of its kind. The
proprietary database now fuels a suite of apps - currently
in market for corporations; coming soon for consumers &
smart cities
www.bigteam.co
Trevor Wolfe, CEO
Trevor@bigteam.co
404.924.5475
www.aquagenuity.com
Doll Avant, CEO
doll@aquagenuity.com
404.599.7479
Keith Carter, Founder
keith@aquagenuity.com
aquagenuity
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4. Filtered is a platform to hire technical talent on ability
not on resumes.
Filtered.ai removes unconscious bias from hiring technical
talent with objective based coding evaluations and video
interviewing. Filtered is a platform used by startups,
Fortune 500 companies and staffing firms, helping
companies hire better engineers based on ability, not
resumes, allowing non-technical teams all over the world
to feel empowered hiring engineers.
www.filtered.ai
Derek Bugley, Head of Growth
derek@filtered.ai
781.248.2470
Paul Bilodeau, CEO
paul@filtered.ai
Henry Morris, Head of Sales
henry@filtered.ai
Evisort is artificial intelligence for contracts.
Save time and costs while improving operations by
activating the data within your organization’s contracts.
Evisort can find contracts stored in different systems
mixed with other documents and classify them based
on date, subject matter and type. Evisort then extracts
important operational details - renewal dates, clauses,
terms, and party names. Evisort’s platform works across
all documents, including scanned PDF’s, non-standard
contracts and amendments, helping drive sales, ensure
compliance, inform procurement, and support strategic
planning and financial analysis.
www.dasdak.com
Jerry Ting, CEO
jerry@evisort.com
Memme Onwudiwe, EVP Sales
memme@evisort.com
937 902 7038
Riley Hawkins, Director of BD
riley@evisort.com
Fyiio is a tutorial management platform for creating
guides that work.
How many times have you tried watching or reading a
tutorial and were frustrated? fyiio is working to make sure
that never happens again by helping companies onboard,
train and support customers more effectively including
guidance on creating short-form video and written
tutorials tailored to how people prefer to learn.
Graph Story offers graph databases as a service.
Graph databases are about the value of relationships that
exist between data to uncover valuable patterns, increase
visibility of risks, and find bottlenecks. Graph Story
provides an on-demand Database as a Service (DBaaS)
focused on graph data & analytics in retail, manufacturing,
supply chain & logisitcs, IoT and finance.
www.fyi.io
Alex Kuklinski, CEO
alex@fyi.io
1.402.689.3722
www.graphstory.com
Greg Jordan, CEO
greg.jordan@graphstory.com
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5. MoQuality is a self-learning artificial intelligence that
tests mobile apps better than humans.
MoQuality’s vision is a world of software where AI
automatically tests apps and find issues before users
run into them, allowing developers to address them and
launch perfect products.
www.moquality.com
Shauvik Roy Choudhary, CEO & Cofounder
shauvik@moquality.com
575.742.8845
Pushkar Kolhe
pushkar@moquality.com
Inspector 6 is an AI-powered brand analytics tool.
Inspector 6 is using AI to change the way that companies
define, manage, measure, and build their brands.
Managing your brand is hard. It takes time to review
creative assets to make sure that they are on-brand.
That is time your team doesn’t have. As a result, people
from across the organization are producing sales and
marketing communications that are off-brand and off-
message. It breaks down your brand identity and hinders
your ability to grow.
www.inspector6.com
John Wolf, Founder
johnwolf71@gmail.com
404.939.6537
NeuroLex Laboratories empowers patients with tools
to measure their overall health through collecting and
analyzing speech samples.
NeuroLex is the only deep learning / machine learning
platform to focus exclusively on voice data with two
products: SurveyLex and ModLex. ModLex is a machine
learning tool to build machine learning models from
voice files. All that’s needed are two folders of audio/
video files to export a model file for customers to deploy,
deploying faster and at a 10x cost reduction. SurveyLex
is a voice-enabled survey tool. With this product, survey
takers speak, as opposed to type, their responses to
survey questions and applies machine learning algorithms
to auto-label features such as age, gender, ethnicity,
and mood for responses, leading to authentic survey
responses, 1.5x reduced number of survey questions,
up to 5x reduced survey fraud, and up to 2x higher
conversion rates.
Pass it Down is a digital storytelling platform innovating
how cities tell their story.
Pass It Down is an award-winning digital storytelling platform
that innovates how communities, museums and businesses
tell their story. Storytelling is the most powerful way to put
ideas into the world but most businesses and communities
and museums don’t know how to bring their stories to life.
Pass It Down is comprised of award-winning technologists
and storytellers that use our platform technology to collect,
preserve and share stories in a fun and intuitive way. Our
main clients are in two channels: 1) community history (cities,
museums, and libraries) and 2) Organizational Knowledge
(Businesses and non-profits)
www.neurolex.ai
Jim Schwoebel, CEO
js@neurolex.co
412-613-0772
www.passitdown.com
Christopher Cummings, Founder & CEO
chris@passitdown.com
423.255.5647
Josh Waggoner, Creative Director
josh@passitdown.com
Rodger Maarfi, CTO
admin@passitdown.com
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6. Sidewalk helps tech companies and lifestyle brands
close more sales to SMBs.
Selling to SMBs is like boiling the ocean. There’s no
authoritative source for SMB data and analytics that
measures where consumers go, what products they
consume, and who they are. Sidewalk provides business
intelligence for field sales, market insights, brand
managers, and innovation teams that enables them to
grow sales and market share faster with influential SMBs.
Sidewalk helps customers find their ideal SMB client.
www.getsidewalk.com
Mo Yehia, Crossing Guard
mo@getsidewalk.com
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7. 2017 Pilot Spotlight Coca-Cola Pilots
with Reply.ai to Drive
Consumer Engagement
in sub-Saharan Africa
Reply.ai, the AI-powered customer experience
platform, has landed a pilot with Coca-Cola during their
participation in the Atlanta BridgeCommunity program.
The startup enables businesses to scale personalized, 1:1
communication with their customers across messaging
and voice channels, in any market or language, all while
maintaining the highest security standards. Reply.ai works
with Samsung, Kia, and Ryanair to facilitate their B2C
communication via chatbots and is the only startup to
make Forrester Research’s ranking of “Top 10 Chatbots
for Enterprise Customer Support.”
Reply.ai became aware of the BridgeCommunity through
an accelerator in the commercialization program’s
referral network. Co-founder, Clara de Soto, joined the
BridgeCommunity to expand her startup’s corporate
network and put a framework around the corporate sales
cycle Reply.ai was navigating on their own.
The workshops and toolkit
the BridgeCommunity
provided gave us a
concrete look into the
best way to get into
enterprises, build a pilot,
work through KPI’s and
move into an agreement.
We finally saw the process
in black and white.
—Clara de Soto,
Co-founder, Reply.ai
In the BridgeCommunity’s Connect Days, each startup
meets with interested corporation participants on their
home turf to discuss piloting opportunities. Reply.ai’s
meetings with Coca-Cola sparked immediate internal
interest. Word spread that a bot startup had been hand
selected to work with the company. When Coca-Cola’s
West Africa Business Unit circulated they were looking
to start a consumer engagement bot initiative, Reply.ai
surfaced as an obvious option given their participation in
the BridgeCommunity.
Our Connect Days were some of the best corporate
meetings we’ve ever had. It was clear all of the
right people were in the room and we left with a
stamp of approval internally.
—Clara de Soto, Co-founder, Reply.ai
Waithera Kabiru, Digital Marketing Manager for Coca-Cola
Central, East and West Africa, is working with Repy.ai for
Coca-Cola’s Under The Crown Promotion in Mauritius,
Africa. When a consumer buys a Coca-Cola product,
they receive a unique code under the cap to redeem
digital prizes from Coke’s flagship TV and Online show
on the continent, Coke Studio Africa. This code unlocks
access to exclusive music content that is teen centric
and uniquely African, packaged as playlists and ringback
tones suitable for mobile consumption. In most sub-
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8. One of the most exciting things about this project
is that although Mauritius is a small island, the
impact of a Facebook Messenger chatbot can be
enormous in terms of one-on-one engagement. For
the 2017 Coke Studio Under the Crown Promotion,
we took a mobile first approach to provide a
seamless experience for the consumers, on a
platform (Facebook) that they spend a lot of time
on.
Mauritius is home to 1.28 million people with a
striking internet penetration rate of 63%. When
Mauritians go online, 720K of them are monthly
active users of Facebook, which is about 60% of the
population of the island.* The chatbot from Reply.
ai is the first step in providing a consumer driven
experience.
—Waithera Kabiru, Coca-Cola,
Central, East and West Africa
Coca-Cola chose Reply.ai not only because of the
seamless user experience, but also for their platform’s
easy integration into all of the necessary internal systems
and security requirements. Since inception, Reply.ai
has been working to ensure their platform is as globally
capable as possible - building in features so companies
can scale bots across messaging channels and markets.
A prudent decision, as Mauritius is just a part of Reply.ai’s
redemption rollout.
Coca-Cola’s West Africa Business Unit is looking to
expand it fairly swiftly across other markets as piloting
benchmarks are hit, starting with Nigeria. Reply.ai has a
code-free bot building interface so expansion is as easy
as spinning up another account for the next market and
customizing it.
*Source: Digital in 2017: Hootsuite We are Social
Saharan markets, code redemption relies on traditional
mobile platforms such as SMS, which are expensive for
consumers due to the long consumer journey. Through
Reply.ai’s chatbot, Coca-Cola in Mauritius is able to
create one-on-one meaningful engagements with
consumers who participate in the promotion.
The chatbot experience is mostly guided, with the
ability for users to ask open-ended questions about the
redemption process and select from a menu of items,
giving consumers more control over what they redeem
than ever before. Reply.ai’s bot is being rolled out over
Facebook Messenger, a fertile frontier in the sub-Saharan
African market.
Startups and Members spent time socially and in organized
Connect Days to find opportunities to collaborate.
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9. Previous Cohort Startups
Provisioning the right access to the
right people at the right time.
The world’s first AI-based cyber security
platform, delivering unmatched threat detection
& prioritization capabilities
Multi-camera HD live streaming
and recording made easy.
Mobile commerce in large, populated venues
a cc essn w
A trusted marketplace for improved auto loan
acquisition and direct-to-consumer refinancing.
Compliance automation platform that helps you
cost effectively manage GDPR compliance and
security risk without overwhelming operations
America’s medical cost
savings company helping millions save billions
via medical cost transparency.
Cuts out the ubiquity of synthetics with non-
toxic, biodegradable, plant-based pesticides. full
of ingredients you can trust.
pratter.us
A multi-award winning Augmented Reality (AR)
platform placing visual content in location.
accessed via a smartphone or tablet device.
Branded Text Conversations
Between Influencers.
Generates insights into firm culture from internal
communication data to improve performance
and address hidden systemic risk.
Reduce up to 60% of waste created in the
interviewing process by combining digital interviewing
and messaging to accelerate your hiring process.
Increasing operational uptime
while simplifying support infrastructure.
FIXD increases customer retention
at auto dealership service centers.
Consumer facing businesses use ENGAGEcx
to see and build relationships with their omni-
channel customers.
Intelligent vending in your hands.
Integration free, cloud based Adtech. We help companies achieve their social impact
& sustainability goals through payment and data
management software
A location-intelligent mobile advertising and
sales enablement platform
Insurance for the miles you drive.
Savings for the miles you don’t.
Pushing the limits of 3D printing. re:3d’s flag-
ship technology is the Gigabot® —The world’s
largest, affordable 3D printer.
A new way to discover and experience music
across multiple streaming platforms.
Enterprise chatbot solution making B2C
communication suck less.
SiteWhere provides a framework for the rapid
development of complex IoT applications.
Provides identity & trust as a service by empowering
enterprises to authenticate and recognize their
customers to transact business safely.
We make stolen credentials
a thing of the past for enterprises.
Bridging the gap between traditional
accounting systems, firms and standards with
cryptocurrency, blockchain assets and tokens.
A Comprehensive Marketing Intelligence
Platform for Executives & Analysts.
Mogean unleashes black box intelligence
and connects marketers to real life information
about their mobile customers.
Distributed cloud storage marketplace
that runs on the Bitcoin blockchain.
We are rethinking our relationship with water. Catalyzing the growth of the electric vehicle
market by increasing the accessibility and
affordability of charging infrastructure.
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10. Atlanta
BridgeCommunity
Outreach
Program
The BridgeCommunity Outreach Program is seeding
the next set of future technology startups. By supplying
technical, business, entrepreneurship and financial
literacy training, the program is encouraging the creation
of startup companies and promoting intrapreneurship
in Atlanta communities that have traditionally been
overlooked when growing and searching for skilled
technical talent.
Anthony Newstead, Co-Founder
of Atlanta BridgeCommunity,
and Valarie W. Mackey, Founder
of WrightNow Solutions,
coalesced the local nonprofit
sector and BridgeCommunity
member companies to create
three Future Entrepreneurship
Programs in 2017:
“I am so proud of what all the students have
achieved during these courses. It has been
incredibly rewarding to see them all grow and
develop through our time together and I hope
and believe we are seeing the next set of future
Atlanta entrepreneurs in the making. I also want
to thank our corporate members, our startups,
CapTech, TAG-ED, Year Up, PowerMylearning, all
our volunteers and of course our Outreach Lead,
Valarie Mackey, all who collectively breathed life
into this initiative, provided the resources and
the passion to make this happen. This was truly a
community effort that I am honored to be a part of.
I look forward to continuing the journey together.”
—Anthony Newstead Global Group Director,
Emerging Technology & Strategic Innovation,
Co-Founder Atlanta BridgeCommunity
The High School Future
Entrepreneurship Program
A four week summer coding camp focused on front and
backend web design and development, app design,
3D printing and graphical interface design, open to any
10th—12th grade student attending a Title 1 Atlanta
Public School.
Non-profit organizations, Technology Association
of Georgia - Education Collaborative (TAG-Ed) and
SteamSport, facilitated the summer camp. Kristina Smith,
Exploring STEM Careers Pipeline Program Manager of
TAG-Ed, created the application process and worked
with schools to recruit the students. Kristina teamed up
with William Oliver, Executive Director of SteamSport, to
create the curriculum and run the camp. Instructor, Tony
Tatum and Teaching Assistants—Sydney Hubbert, recent
Spelman graduate; and Ashley McCray, recent Clayton
State University graduate, taught the technical curriculum
and shared life experiences with the students to support
their personal growth.
Twenty students from nine different high schools
completed the High School Future Entrepreneurship
Program. Participants crafted a pitch for products or
services each week - collectively coming up with more
than thirty ideas over the course of the program. From
solar panel blinds to a sneaker exchange app, the
students presented the best of their ideas to an audience
of city officials, venture capitalists, corporate partners and
parents in a showcase event.
The camp was held at John Hopkins Community
Center in Atlanta and featured Friday field trips to
BridgeCommunity member corporations and startups to
connect the camp curriculum to the real world.
Students visited
BridgeCommunity startup,
GridQuire Labs, where they
learned from CEO, Andy
Katz, new marketing tips
and how to present an idea,
both verbally and visually,
to an audience of potential
investors.
“I have been an entrepreneur for over five years.
Today was one of the top 10 days. Thank you for
letting us host these wonderful, smart kids.”
—Andy Katz, CEO GridQuire Labs
At The Weather Company, students were welcomed
by Chris Huff, Executive/Head of Engineering - Waston
Marketing, and team for a tour of their digital space
followed by a Q&A panel focused on how The Weather
Company’s data supports commonly used apps, websites
and products.
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11. SunTrust hosted the final field trip, giving students an
overview of the role that technology plays in the finance
industry. After presentations from the Marketing, User
Experience, and Design Accelerator groups; the students
used their newfound user experience knowledge in a user
experience design thinking exercise that tasked them with
ideating and mocking up a personalized web experience.
Outside of field trips, the program enlisted the expertise
of amazing professionals to visit the camp classroom and
speak on various topics.
Michael Connor, Senior Platform Architect of
Coca-Cola, kicked things off with an engaging
presentation and conversation about Artificial Intelligence.
Irvin Bishop, Global Digital Leader of Brands, Global
Campaigns & Partnerships at Coca-Cola, taught the
students about digital marketing and the importance of
building your career from things that you are passionate
and excited about.
Tonia Osby, Chief Operating Officer of BridgeCommunity
cohort startup, PayLow Rate, conducted a fun and
interactive exercise on User Interface Prototyping -
introducing the students to a new UX Design app that
they later utilized in prototyping their final products.
Andrew Gowasack, CEO of BridgeCommunity cohort
startup, TrustStamp, spoke on the ever-important topic
of social and professional networking while Heather
Turney, Culture and Innovation Manager of Porsche Cars
North America, wowed the students with a presentation
on public speaking. Both Andrew and Heather gave the
students practical tips for establishing a professional
presence.
Following the camp, students attended a business basics
and life skills course held at The Coca-Cola Company’s
Technology Offices.
The Young Adult Future
Entrepreneurship Program
The program hand selected student alumni from Year
Up workforce development training to learn Amazon
Alexa voice programming on the Echo Dot, cloud
skills and business basics. Over two and half months,
student teams were charged with creating a new Alexa
functionality.
CapTech Consulting, Inc. created the technical curriculum
and generously taught the students pro-bono. The
businesses basics classes for both the high school and
youth adult program were taught by volunteers from
our member corporations, area companies and startup
companies in the BridgeCommunity cohort:
Dane Bamburry, Sr. Manager, Business Platform Services,
Solutions Architecture & Systems Administration at Cox
Enterprises, taught a class on negotiation techniques.
“The Atlanta BridgeCommunity program is a
positive disruptive force in the on-going challenge
to develop the next STEM generation. I was
honored to have the opportunity to engage
with these intelligent young minds in a session
focused on negotiations from a corporate and
entrepreneur perspective. What impressed me the
most was their level of engagement, innovative
thought process, and drive which compelled me to
attend their showcase presentation. The showcase
far exceeded my expectations and I can say with a
high-level of confidence that these students are well
on their way to becoming major contributors in
STEM field.”
—Dane Bamburry, Sr. Manager, Business
Platform Services, Solutions Architecture &
Systems Administration at Cox Enterprises
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12. —— Founder of GridQuire Labs - a member of the
BridgeCommunity startup cohort, came back to
teach the young adults about startup funding and
sales.
—— DeWayne Griffin and Jeff Scott from State Farm
spoke to the students about innovation trends and
topped off their involvement by giving a book to
each student as a gift for their completion of the
program.
—— Mark Labs CEO and Founder, Kevin Barrow helped
the group understand how to set up their business.
The Future Entrepreneurship Program Showcase
highlighted the young adult’s Alexa-centric business
ideas. The winning team, myPulse, is a fitness app
that gives a Fitbit user an activities overview with goal
comparison and a detailed description of their heart rate
with facts on how to improve heart health.
mypulse group members- Akilah Toomer, Laikram
Beniprasa, Damian Deavila & Danny Kalika
Thank you so very much for including Year Up
students in the Young Adult Entrepreneurship
Showcase at the Coca-Cola Company
Headquarters. The event was absolutely amazing
and our young adults learned many valuable
lessons through their participation in the program.
They are now thinking bigger about their future---
not just a career, but possibly launching their own
technology business one day in the future! What
a great partnership… Year Up gets them started
with a career and your program gets them started
in business! This is truly a life-changing experience
for our young adults and I do hope that the Atlanta
BridgeCommunity will continue offering this
opportunity for more of our students and young
adults.
—Kim Williams, Executive Director,
Year Up - Atlanta
The App Development Elective Class
A partnership between PowerMyLearning and Arthur M.
Blank’s Family Foundation to run an app development
elective class in Washington High School during the
school day. Approximately 20 students took the class in
the Fall 2017 semester.
“It has been a privilege to come together with the
Atlanta BridgeCommunity to create the overall
Future Entrepreneurship Program. Being able to
see the students on day one of the program with
limited to no knowledge in the topic areas to being
able to confidently pitch a viable product/solution
is inspiring. These are our next entrepreneurs and
our next innovators taking companies to the next
level ”
—Valarie W. Mackey, WrightNow Solutions
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13. BridgeCommunity Team
Executive
Noa Davidson, Enterprise Architecture and
The Bridge Program Manager
davidson@coca-cola.com
Anthony Newstead, Co-Founder
vanthony@coca-cola.com
Bill Maynard, Co-Founder
bill@coca-cola.com
Management
Carie Davis, Program Director
carie@yourideasareterrible.com
Shane Reiser, Program Director
shane@yourideasareterrible.com
Communications
Tricia Whitlock, Marketing Director
trish@yourideasareterrible.com
Corporate Members
Noa Davidson
Program Manager of Enterprise
Architecture
Ben Bronfman
Director of Strategy
Todd Redmon
Principal - Strategy, Innovation & Digital
Adam Agnew
Executive Vice President Consumer
Products Practice
Ravi Andrade
Digital Strategy & Transformation
Arielle Hart
Manager, Corporate Strategy &
Investments
Tim Howe
Senior Director Corporate Strategy &
Investments
Kimberly Shriver
Strategy & Corporate Development
Manager
Matt Kogan
Corporate Strategy & Investments Manager
Spencer Boice
Senior Director Strategy & Corporate
Development
Heather Turney
Culture & Innovation Manager
John Claiborne
Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy
Joe Uhl
VP of Operations
Jon Smith
Vice President of Customer Support
Kathryn Pope
kathryn.pope@mailchimp.com
Alla Burshteyn
alla.burshteyn@mailchimp.com
Recreate PMS(from pdf)
Adam Harlow
SVP Strategic Partnerships
(Corporate Strategy)
Patrick Paris
Senior VP, Corporate Strategy
Innovation and Partnerships
Partners
Christian Boyd, Atlanta Office Lead & Dir.
bchristian@captechconsulting.com
404.220.7055
Technology Association of Georgia -
Education Collaborative
Errika Moore, Executive Director
errika@tagonline.org
404.920.2038
The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation
blankfoundation.org/
William Oliver, Executive Director
678-523-4589
woliver@steamsport.com
Oneisha Freeman, Marketing &
Communications Manager
ofreeman@powermylearning.org
404-390-1023
Grant Wainscott, Senior Director of
Technology Ecosystem Expansion
gwainscott@macoc.com
Kim William, Executive Director
KWilliams@YearUp.orgs
470-891-5183
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