RELEASE 01-24-2020: NASA iTech's Ignite the Night TAMPA Announces Presenters

NASA iTech's Ignite the Night TAMPA Announces Presenters

What: Ignite the Night TAMPA, a NASA iTech Event
When: February 11 from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Where: Synapse Summit | Amalie Arena | 401 Channelside Drive

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

Innovators presenting (in alphabetic order):

Aeronyde Corporation – Melbourne, Florida Search and Assessment for Emergency Response (SAFER) Network

Amalgamated Vision LLC – Brentwood, Tennessee Laser MEMS Head Mounted Display

Articulate Labs – Dallas, Texas LimbStim

CBio – Lakewood Ranch, Florida cellPhoresis®

ez enRoute Ltd. – Edmonton, Canada IoT/AI Platform Making Lives Safer and Secure

GTD GmbH – Markdorf, Germany AR Multimeter

Immertec – Tampa, Florida Medoptic by Immertec

Miles Space Inc. – Tampa, Florida ConstantQ – Water-based Plasma Thruster

Nanograss Photonics – Flourtown, Pennsylvania Optoplasmonic Photodetector

SOIL – Suwanee, Georgia Griot

Tevosol – Edmonton, Canada EVOSS

The top innovator from Ignite the Night TAMPA 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.


NASA iTech is an initiative by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate and is managed by the (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