The Winning Pitches From SXSW's Civic Tech Event
The Civic I/O pitch event at SXSW gave tech entrepreneurs a stage to present their solutions to mayors and industry experts in the hope of catching the right ear and of winning $10,000 in prizes.
Route Fifty followed up on the event by presenting a list of the event's winners and sharing videos of each of the winning presentations.
The first place winner of the competition was Biobot Analytics' Opioid Consumption Monitoring (OCM) Program, which measures drug metabolites in wastewater to estimate consumption in cities.
Other winning pitches offered tools for empowerment of public sector employees, a metric of public trust, and the transition to paperless operations.
Mayors Javier Gonzalez, Betsy Price, and Michael Tubbs, of Santa Fe, Fort Worth, and Stockton, respectively, acted as judges in the competition.
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- Plans for an 'Urban Town' in the Silicon Valley
- Friday Funny: Pity the Fool Who Doesn't Yield to a Law-Abiding Pedestrian
- Research Casts Doubt on the Economic Development Clout of Streetcar Investments
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- Form at the Forefront of Zoning Code Rewrite in Covington, Kentucky
- Checking in With St. Paul's First-Ever Pedestrian Plan
- Speeding Up Trips on the Canal Street Streetcar in New Orleans
- Environmental Assessment for I-5 Improvement Project in Portland Promises Air, Traffic, Safety Benefits
- How to Treat Nature Deficit Disorder in L.A. Without Getting on a Freeway
- Development, Population Growth Reshaping Downtown Minneapolis
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- Another Approach to Affordable Housing
