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Innovative startup, lemonGRAFT, addresses food insecurity and sustainability
LemonGRAFT is a digital marketplace for buying local, fresh, food from neighbors. As How I Built this Host Guy Raz describes it: "...something like Air B&B or Uber," but instead of a place to stay or a ride being the commodity, homegrown food is what is bought and...
What will it take for Tampa to compete in the age of the Metaverse?
Renown technologists, Rony Abovitz and Guy Gilliland will lead this crucial conversation at Soaring City’s blackboXXcelerator TAMPA - As the integration of virtual and physical spaces accelerates, individuals, companies and whole economies that do not adapt are at...
What will it take for Tampa to compete in the age of the Metaverse?
Renown technologists, Rony Abovitz and Guy Gilliland will lead this crucial conversation at Soaring City’s blackboXXcelerator TAMPA - As the integration of virtual and physical spaces accelerates, individuals, companies and whole economies that do not adapt are at...
Soaring City !p & Florida Blue: Growing A Resilient Community
Seven years ago - A small band of determined people took on the task of building the Tampa Innovation Alliance. Our early supporters understood that the University Area is more than just an “area” and far better and brighter than the ugly descriptive: “suitcase city”....
Building A Soaring City at Uptown
Part I: Mirror World and the Emerging Metaverse: On a cold, snowy night in March of 2019, while riding on the A-Line train from the Denver Airport to Union Station - I glimpsed the future. An experiment which I began three years earlier, involving remote work...
USF team wins the Jack A. Kolosky Healthcare Innovator Award
Interdepartmental team's 3D nasal swab for COVID-19 testing saved lives In the midst of a worldwide shortage of testing swabs a team led by Summer Decker, Ph.D., Director of 3D Applications in the USF Department of Radiology, pulled together and worked around the...
!P BLOCKCHAIN, CRYPTO, METAVERSE AND IMMERSIVE ARTS & TECH PARTY 7:30PM, OCTOBER 28 AT LOOK CINEMAS IN TAMPA’S UPTOWN TAMPA, FL, October 25 — Tampa’s Innovation Partnership !p and urban community-focused, blockchain and metaverse developer, blockXblock DAO, have...
Healthcare Innovator Award finalists exemplify medical research and innovation excellence in Tampa’s Uptown Community
The Tampa Innovation Partnership (!p) will present the first Jack A. Kolosky Healthcare Innovator Award at the organization's Innovation Gathering on October 28th. Named for retired Moffitt Hospital President and long-time Tampa !p Executive Board member, Jack...
Florida Blue will invest $1.7 million to address poverty in Uptown
Florida Blue announced Friday that it will invest $1.7 million to address the poverty in two of Tampa Bay’s poorest zip codes. “We thought we could make a difference here,” said Florida Blue’s CEO of two of the region’s poorest ZIP codes. The investment, made in...
State of Uptown Highlights Rithm At Uptown’s Innovation Partners Latest Breakthroughs
TAMPA - The transformation of the 100-acre, University Mall site into Rithm At Uptown shifted into high gear during the past year with the opening of the USF Institute of Applied Engineering and Diamond View Studio’s Vū extended reality production facility. Both will...