UrbanInnovationinaLegacyCity

LevGonick,CEO

LegacyCities

LegacyCitiesandVacantProperty

MapofLegacyCities

IntentionalInnovationinaLegacyCity

• Infrastructure– FromElectrificationtoBroadband

• Innovation– FreshWaterLakeErie• Plac-BasedActivation- Health

Cycle of Exclusion

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Nation’s First Dedicated High Speed Network Serving the Underserved

Connect the Unconnected

• 16

● Focusedon:○ access○ devices○ digitalliteracy

● CampusDistrict/CentralPilotw/CMHA

Connect the Unconnected Pilot Partners•Partners:

– DigitalC (fiber and Internet)– Siklu (antennas)– Agile (integration)– Actelis (connectivity)– RET3 (devices and WiFi)– Ashbury Senior Computer Community Center/CYC (training)

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ReStart

ReStart Pilot Program

With a foundation of infrastructure and training in place, DigitalC and partners can provide on ramps to the digital economy for these at-risk populations– Youth timing out of foster system

– Veterans returning from service in the military

– Single head’s of households receiving public assistance

– Men and women in the re-entry community

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ReStart DeliveryPartners

Re-Start Pilot Program

• 30

• Digitalskillstraininginterventionprogram

• Grantandself-funded

• 5courseoptions:-Intro-IC3-NetworkingFundamentals-ComputationalThinking-A+

AcceleratingWater-RelatedTechnologyandInnovationforEconomicGrowthinNortheastOhio

andtheLakeErieBasin

WaterinnovationtechnologyclusterbasedinNortheastOhiowithmorethan200waterclusterfirms

Strengths:- Sensors- Sorbents- Infrastructurecorrosion

protection- Instrumentation,

Controls,Automation

Regional Innovation Cluster

Current Innovation Ecosystem Network and Economic Development Model

Infrastructure

NEORSDPortofCleveland/Cuyahoga

Cleveland WaterAvonLakeRegionalWater

SanduskyWaterClevelandMetroparks

Academic& Research

NASAGlennCaseWesternReserve

UniversityKentStateUniversity

U.AkronOhioSeaGrant

GreatLakesScienceCenter

Industry

EATONArcelorMittal

TangentFairmountSantrol

LineStreamInterlakeSteamship

ABS

EcosystemCollaborators

DigitalCGLBiomimicryTeamNEOOhioEPAODNR

JumpStartEPA

Dept.ofCommerce

Erie Hack: A new collaborative innovation model

www.eriehack.io

Intelligentwatersystemsonthehorizonattheintersectionofsensors,dataandsmartsystems:InternetofWaterReport,©BlueTechResearch

Opportunitiesforintelligentwatersystemsacrossthewatercycle

River

Reservoir

WaterTreatmentPlant/desalination

SupplyNetworkandDistribution

Residentialandmunicipalwater

reuse

WastewaterandStormwaterCollection

Wastewatertreatmentplants

River/Surfacebody

Sea

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2

3

4

5

6

Smartwaterquantity/qualitymonitoringand

control.

Smartchemicaldosing,adaptive

membranesystemsandsoftware.

Smartwaterlevelandqualitymonitoring.

Stormandcombinedsewermanagementsoftwaresolutions.

Demandandlossmanagement

throughsoftwaresolutions.

Real-timeintelligentmonitoring,control

andanalytics.

IntelligentWaterSystem$50,000ReversePitchCompetition

A$1.3billioncommunitywellnessvision

SmartandConnectedCommunityHealth