Sponsors & Partners
Program Partners
Innovation Works is one of the most active early-stage investors in the country. We help tech entrepreneurs go further faster with our unique combination of capital and a continuum of resources tailored to each startup’s needs, led by experienced entrepreneurs.
The Robotics Factory, a set of programs led by Innovation Works and the Pittsburgh Robotics Network, is a part of the $63 million Build Back Better Regional Challenge grant awarded by the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) to the Southwestern Pennsylvania New Economy Collaborative. The Robotics Factory will create, accelerate and scale robotics startups in the Pittsburgh region.
Associate Sponsor
Woolpert is a global leader in architecture, engineering, and geospatial (AEG) services, with over a century of experience driving innovation and delivering impact. We fuse deep technical expertise with a forward-thinking mindset to solve complex challenges across the public, private, and government sectors. Woolpert is proud to be a certified Great Place to Work, a Top 50 Design Firm by Engineering News Record and a Global Top 100 Geospatial company. As the fastest-growing global AEG firm, Woolpert operates from more than 75 offices across five continents-building smarter, more resilient communities around the world.
Co-Sponsors
The Allegheny Conference on Community Development is a leading organization committed to improving the Pittsburgh region's economy and quality of life. We bring together public and private sector leaders to define and communicate a vision of economic vitality for our region, build strategic partnerships and mobilize action to advance our shared vision for the future.
Esri, the global leader in GIS software and location intelligence, helps customers unlock the full potential of data to improve operational and business results. Esri software is deployed in more than 350,000 organizations globally and in over 200,000 institutions in the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, including Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, nonprofits, and universities. Esri has regional offices, international distributors, and partners providing local support in over 100 countries on six continents. Esri engineers the most innovative solutions for digital transformation, the Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics.
NV5 is a provider of technology, conformity assessment, and consulting solutions for public and private sector clients supporting infrastructure, utility, and building assets and systems. NV5 primarily focuses on six business verticals: Conformity Assessment; Infrastructure Support Services; Utility Services; Environmental Health Sciences; Buildings & Technology; and Geospatial.
Supporting Partners
The Pittsburgh Robotics Network facilitates commercial business growth and economic development opportunities for the Greater Pittsburgh region's robotics, autonomy, and AI cluster. This ecosystem is a globally recognized powerhouse of more than 250+ advanced technology companies, offering 11,300+ high-impact jobs across 18 industry verticals, including autonomous transportation, defense, healthcare, agriculture, space, manufacturing and more. Together, we are not just shaping the future of technology-we're redefining the landscape of global innovation.
Institutional Partner
At OGC, we bring together a global network of organizations and experts across government, industry, research institutions, and the wider geospatial community. For more than 30 years, we have served as a trusted hub for collaboration-working to advance open standards and improve interoperability across the geospatial ecosystem.
Our work supports a wide range of real-world applications, from climate resilience and urban planning to defense and emergency response, by helping stakeholders access, share, and apply geospatial information with confidence.
As a U.S.-registered non-profit with offices in Belgium and the UK, we are committed to shaping a future where geospatial data and technology improve lives and support sustainable development.
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Following its mission of "Making a Difference through Geospatial Knowledge in the World Economy and Society", Geospatial World is an open, diverse, inclusive, collaborative and humane organization that has pursued thought leadership, policy advocacy, technology evangelism for the past 27 years. An integral part of the geospatial ecosystem, Geospatial World will continue to work as a knowledge organization, advancing knowledge for sustainability