Challenge finalists may secure up to $15,000 and the chance to pilot a prototype for the City of West Lafayette- Innovation Partners Institute (IPI) at the Purdue Research Foundation together with the City of West Lafayette, the Indiana 5G Zone, and US Ignite announced the West Lafayette (WL) Smart City Challenge. This competition expects to tap into innovative solutions that improve public safety at Discovery Park.

US Ignite, in partnership with Facebook Reality Labs, announces the awarding of $20,000 to three communities that will host Augmented Reality (AR) Developer Challenge Competitions from February to August 2021.

US Ignite, in partnership with Facebook Reality Labs, today announces a new Augmented Reality Developer Challenge

US Ignite and Sensis are seeking proposals from public safety event partners to provide a location, networking services, and physical simulation of scenarios. The objective of this Request for Proposal (RFP) is to support contestants participating in the CHARIoT Challenge issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Challenge competitors are developing Augmented Reality devices …

US Ignite is pleased to announce the finalists for its Pitch Competition for teams from the US Ignite/AWS Startup Accelerator 2019 cohort.  The final pitch competition features eight teams selected from the twenty invited to participate in this year's training, which consisted of curriculum from the Kauffman Foundation's FastTrac training for entrepreneurs, mentorship from technical professiona…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – July 9, 2019 – US Ignite is pleased to announce the cohort for the Spring/Summer 2019 US Ignite/AWS Startup Accelerator program.  As part of US Ignite's mission to accelerate the smart city movement, we have partnered with Amazon Web Services to help these companies launch into their next phase of development.  Leaders from each of these organizations will participate in…