Science & Tech Demos

Interested in developing a team learning experience for your organization? Join us in exploring Nonprofit Management Essentials (NME), a flexible and free online learning opportunity powered by the Kellogg School Center for Nonprofit Management, fully funded by The Allstate Foundation. NME video content was designed by Northwestern University faculty and practitioners for emerging leaders in the nonprofit sector. In this interactive session, you will learn to customize and implement a learning experience for your organization to increase awareness of essential leadership and management topics. Presented by Kellogg Center for Nonprofit Management

Supported by Accenture and Independent Sector, the second Innovate for Good Challenge will be awarded at Upswell Chicago during the Innovation Main Stage & Award. This challenge recognizes organizations leveraging new technology to solve some of society’s toughest challenges. This year’s finalists are applying artificial intelligence, blockchain, and extended reality in novel ways. We welcome you to join them and take a peek at these inspirational ideas for yourself! Presented by Independent Sector, Hosted by Accenture

Traditional food pantries are working hard to fill the needs of nearly 1 in 8 people who struggle with hunger in Chicago. But for many, the long wait times and limited hours are at odds with their hectic lives. Lakeview Pantry and the Thierer Family Foundation jointly responded by leveraging technology to create the Online Market, enabling families to order no-cost groceries online and pick them up at a convenient time. Presented by Lakeview Pantry

Resilience Collaboration User Environment (ResCUE) View is a co-operative effort between Accenture and other partners in the “full-scope resilience” ecosystem. The objective is to use the world’s best technologies to save lives by increasing the resilience of communities and organizations against natural and man-made disasters, including cyber-attacks. To accomplish this, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm is employed to sort through massive amounts of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) coupled with fully-optimized human response orchestration through an Augmented Reality (AR) interface. ResCUE View allows operators in a traditional Emergency Management Center (EOC) or Security Operations Center (SOC) to rapidly respond to more diverse and actionable data than previously possible, resulting in a Resilience Operations Center (ROC). The ROC goes beyond traditional operations centers by allowing a ROC team to “virtually co-locate” and perform their jobs, even if their physical operations center space is inaccessible or unsafe. The breadth of the data sources informing a ROC team’s activity is far broader than traditional emergency or cybersecurity data due to the patented “full-scope resilience” AI algorithm. The algorithm gathers OSINT on potential risks to the stability of an organization, even including financial, supply chain, public relations, human capital and other key operations. Hosted by Accenture