NASA iTech's Ignite the Night Orlando Announces Presenters
What: Ignite the Night ORLANDO, a NASA iTech Event
When: Sept. 10 from 6–9 p.m. EDT
Where: Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S Magnolia Avenue
Ignite the Night ORLANDO 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 ORLANDO focus areas include Improve Energy Storage Density; Radiation – Protection, Mitigation, and Hardware; Power Efficient Technologies; Medical Breakthroughs; and X-Factor Innovations.
Innovators presenting at Ignite the Night ORLANDO (in alphabetic order):
Alertgy – Melbourne, Florida
Wearable Non-Invasive Continuous Glucose Monitor
Capacitech Energy – Orlando, Florida
Cable-Based Capacitors
Everix Inc. – Orlando, Florida
Everix Optical Filters
Kanteron Systems – Paterna-Valencia, Spain
Molecular Mutation Burden Analysis
LightSpace Technologies – Marupe, Latvia
Multi-Focal 3D AR VR Image Displays
Modularity Space – Daytona Beach, Florida
HOST
PolyMaterials App LLC – Tampa, Florida
Supercapacitor
Rake Technologies – Winter Garden, Florida
An Unpowered Passive Exoskeletal Actuator System for Muscle Strength Augmentation
SpaceWave LLC – Melbourne, Florida
The Magnetoshell
SurgePower Materials Inc. – San Marcos, Texas
SurgePower Materials
The top Innovator from Ignite the Night ORLANDO earns a position as one of the 25 Semifinalists for the current cycle where their technology will be evaluated and has a chance to be selected as one of the Top 10 Finalists to present at the 2019 NASA iTech Cycle II Forum in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Oct. 7-8.
NASA iTech is an initiative by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, is managed by the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) in Hampton, Virginia, and presented in collaboration with the Central Florida Tech Alliance and Space Florida.
For information about the NASA iTech initiative, visit:
www.nasaitech.com
For information about NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, visit:
www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/home
Harla Sherwood
National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, Va.
757-636-6300
sherwood@nianet.org