NASA iTech's Ignite the Night AUSTIN Announces Presenters
What: Ignite the Night AUSTIN, a NASA iTech Event
When: March 15 from 6 – 9 p.m.
Where: Capital Factory | 701 Brazos Street | 8th Floor, Captain America
Ignite the Night AUSTIN 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 AUSTIN focus areas include Power Generation/Energy, Integrated Photonics, Advanced Engineered Materials, Miniaturized Systems, and X-Factor Innovations.
Innovators presenting (in alphabetic order):
ATP-MD LLC – Salisbury, Maryland Combined Remediation Biomass and Bio-Product Production (CRBBP) Process
AutonomIQ – San Jose, California AutonomIQ Autonomous Automation
Firehawk Aerospace – Washington, D.C. Firehawk Aerospace 3D Ultra Hybrid Engine
LVX System – Kennedy Space Center, Florida Visible Light Communication
Maclec Technical Project Laboratory Pvt Ltd – New Delhi, India SHK Turbines
Nanoprecise Sci Corporation – Edmonton, Canada RotationLF
Neural Nutrition Inc. – Spruce Grove, Canada Bone and Joint Formula, L-Arginine Formula, NASA Performance Drink
Ommo Technologies Inc. – Dallas, Texas Orbit, Permanent Magnet-based Precision 6DOF Tracking
Spira – San Pedro, California Genetically Engineering Spirulina Algae
The top innovator from Ignite the Night AUSTIN 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 II Forum in Tinton Falls, New Jersey.
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
Harla Sherwood
National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, Va.
757-636-6300
sherwood@nianet.org