2023 Esri UC Startup Zone Focused Agenda

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STARTUP ZONE - 2023 Esri UC Focused Agenda for the Startup Zone (Expo, Hall A):

Download the Startup Zone Focused Agenda and learn about the many ways companies are partnering with Esri, and you can partner with us via Esri’s Startup Program and Partner Network (EPN). Interact with Esri experts for 1:1 questions, resources, and attend demos in the Startup Zone Spotlight Theater.

Connect with a diverse array of global Esri Startup Partners Exhibitors at the forefront of geospatial technology, addressing a broad spectrum of industries. These companies drive innovation across an array of themes, including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), real-time analytics, big data, IoT, and more. Discover all exhibitors and reference the expo floorplan.

EXPO & STARTUP ZONE HOURS:

• Tues, July 11, 9:00 AM–6:00 PM
• Wed, July 12, 9:00 AM–6:00 PM
• Thurs, July 13, 9:00 AM–4:00 PM

Booth	Startup Exhibitor	Description
Z1	inCitu	inCitu brings future cities to life via augmented reality (AR) to foster collaboration around the process of urban change. We turn real-estate and planning data into tangible, real-scale AR experiences, accessible through simply a smartphone, on-site or remote. Our core technology builds a central database of the world's future built environment, ready-to-AR, allowing us to populate three business verticals: AEC professionals; city governments; and other tech companies through an API.
Z2	Satellite Vu	With the launch of HotSat-1 in June, Satellite Vu is launching the world’s first constellation of high-resolution thermal satellites. The constellation will be capable of monitoring building-level thermal change, providing unique insights for climate and activity intelligence applications. This unique technology opens new perspectives and enables us to understand activity within the built and physical environment that traditional optical satellite images cannot detect.
Z3	Reveal Technology	Reveal are Australasia's subsurface experts. We're leveraging years of experience in underground utility detection to build a new suite of technology and tools to help engineers and contractors stay safe during construction and enable better decision making in the design and planning phase of major infrastructure projects.
Z4	Rendered.ai	Rendered.ai is a Platform as a Service that enables data scientists, data engineers, and developers to create and deploy unlimited, customized synthetic data generation for computer vision-related machine learning and artificial intelligence workflows, reducing expense, closing gaps, and overcoming bias, security, and privacy issues when compared with the use or acquisition of real data. Rendered.ai's collaborative platform allows unlimited data generation in a term subscription model.
Z5	Pollen Systems	Pollen Systems delivers PrecisionView, an Advanced Agricultural Analytics platform that helps farmers improve crop quality and yield. Based on the latest versions of Esri ArcGIS technologies, PrecisionView provides a comprehensive Software-as-a-Service supporting mobile workers and farm managers globally.
Z6	Urban Sky	Urban Sky offers high-resolution (~10cm), low-cost, broad-area aerial imagery via stratospheric Microballoon. Urban Sky has developed the first ever fully reusable, mobile launch, controllable stratospheric balloon, along with custom, high-resolution imaging payloads that enable the company to deliver the lowest cost, high-resolution, broad-area aerial imagery available in the world. Urban Sky is fully operational and available for new imagery orders.
Z7	ENER-i	ENER-i.AI, Inc. provides cutting-edge software solutions for the electric power industry with an emphasis on solving problems introduced by the energy transition. ENER-i's Energy Intelligence Platform combines the latest advancements in GIS, data, and engineering analytics into one holistic platform for modern-day grid planning centered around electrification and DER. InSights is ENER-i's line of data offerings tailor-made for industry stakeholders like transmission and EV dashboards.
Z8	the Right Direction	Portal Genius, developed by the Right Direction, is your tool to manage your ArcGIS Portal. Deep insights help you to leverage your ArcGIS Portal more efficient.
Z9	Noteworthy AI	Noteworthy AI helps electric utilities evaluate their distribution grid at scale with vehicle-mounted cameras and AI software. Our solution, Noteworthy Inspect, leverages utilities’ fleet vehicles to autonomously geolocate, photograph, and evaluate the condition of distribution grid assets during routine operations with no impact on the crew. Noteworthy can substantially increase utilities’ situational awareness of the distribution grid while reducing operations and maintenance costs.
Z10	ChronoCards	ChronoCards empowers teams to manage GIS better by providing activity logs, workflow documentation, and reporting tools for ArcGIS Pro. Need help quantifying your team's impact? Wasting time trying to remember old workflows? In the dark about work already completed? Not anymore.
Z11	Aquanuity	Pioneering ArcGIS Pro-centric AquaTwin, the next-generation AI-powered digital twin software for safe, reliable, sustainable, and resilient water infrastructure. Hydraulic and water quality water, sewer, stormwater analysis, and linear Asset Management Optimization tool coupled with automatic defects recognition from sewer and stormwater pipes and manholes.
Z12	IRIS R&D	Let Infratech innovation drive insights you need to automate road and associated asset maintenance, comply with critical standards, and protect communities—all with the power of computer vision. Through one pass from a fleet vehicle equipped with specialized cameras, IRIS captures and visualizes the data into a map for easy identification and promptly notifies the team of urgent discrepancies.
Z13	PaverOps by Maranta	Maranta creates GIS-centric solutions focusing on the practical needs of municipalities, counties, utilities, paving authorities, and all underground infrastructure operators. With our flagship product, PaverOps, we are increasing project coordination and data sharing among infrastructure managers, reducing project costs, time, and incidents, while decreasing impacts on ratepayers, residents, and all who use the roads in our communities.
Z14	FloodMapp	FloodMapp is a rapidly growing tech company specializing in dynamic, real-time flood intelligence for emergency management. We work with government agencies, critical infrastructure companies and other industries before, during and after flood events to improve safety, prevent damage and aid in rapid response and recovery. Our talented and multidisciplinary team of flood engineers, hydrologists, data scientists and software developers are committed to saving lives and building a safer future.
Z15	Mach9	Mach9 is a technology startup based in Pittsburgh, serving the rapidly growing geospatial industry with the fastest geospatial production and analysis solutions from mobile LiDAR and imagery. The Mach9 platform uses computer vision and artificial intelligence to produce 2D and 3D GIS engineering deliverables orders of magnitude faster than current processes. Mach9 is built upon decades of research in autonomous vehicles from Carnegie Mellon University.
Z16	Delphire	Our Sentinel system provides an under-the-forest-canopy, on-the-edge AI monitoring to protect electric utilities and communities by reducing wildfire impacts. Our real-time system detects and reports fires in the incipient phase using visual images for rapid (under 2 minutes from ignition) human confirmation. It is functional in areas with no cellular communications with low false alarm rates through edge-based AI to analyze sensor data and detect smoke or flames in seconds.
Z17	Fire Neural Network	Fire Neural Network™ (FNN) accurately detects High-Risk-Lightning™ strikes within 40 seconds using artificial intelligence, lightning science, and astrophysics. By eliminating uncontrolled wildfires, FNN saves lives, protects property, and fights against climate change.
Z18	DeepWalk ADA Solutions	DeepWalk streamlines the required Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Transition Planning process with its automated sidewalk inspection software. Simply scan sidewalk and curb ramps using a LiDAR-enabled iPhone, then DeepWalk's AI-backed software automatically inspects for ADA compliance.
Z19	Cyvl.ai	Cyvl is a technology company that provides innovative LiDAR and AI-powered solutions to civil engineering firms and municipalities for pavement and sign management and 3D mapping. Their LiDAR sensors and AI algorithms are highly accurate, efficient, and scalable, making them ideal for governments and companies to save time and money while ensuring the safety and functionality of infrastructure.
Z20	Unknot.id	Unknot.id is a SaaS Contextual AI platform enabling off-the-shelf mobile or wearable devices to revolutionize the tracking and visualization of personnel and assets Indoors and beyond. A software solution built for Android and iOS platforms, the technology eliminates the need for any indoor positioning systems like beacons and simplifies pretraining or surveying of the environment.
Z21	GEO SEARCH Inc.	GEO SEARCH, Inc. A world leading GPR services company with technology capable of finding and preventing dangerous sinkholes and potholes in roadways before they collapse, with an equipment set which moves at traffic speeds. Also, world leaders in creating 3D Underground Utilities Maps which precisely locate underground utilities within 4 inches margin of error, to a depth of approximately 6 feet.
Z22	SeerAI	SeerAI is a Data Fusion company primarily focused on Spatiotemporal Analytics, Deep Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. SeerAI's cloud-native analytics platform Geodesic, is unmatched in its ability to access and bring together disparate geospatial data to answer questions that require computation at planetary scale. Through the combination of a decentralized data model, knowledge graph, and a modern cloud computing infrastructure, SeerAI answers questions you didn’t know you could ask.

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