On December 15th, the Society for Information Management (SIM) organization hosted their December meeting in Skokie, IL. The board invited four of the Chicago Innovation Award winners to participate and speak to the audience about innovation and how their company’s product is forging the way in innovation specifically in the IT space.
Participants included:
- Alex Bratton – CEO, Lextech Labs and Lextech Global Services for their innovation with the iRa C3 intuitive video command center.
- Rhon Daguro – Co-Founder and CEO, Touch Taste Technologies, People’s Choice Award winner for their innovation with TouchLife Interactive Tables.
- Mike Samson – Co-Founder, crowdSpring for their innovation with an online crowd-sourcing marketplace.
- John Vasilj – Chief Technology Officer, Chicago Transit Authority for their innovation with CTA’s Bus Tracker.
Discussions for the evening were centered around innovation, what characteristics a leader needs to have to direct and inspire innovation in their organization, how to recruit and retain talented IT staff in the Chicago region and what benefits companies see who win the Chicago Innovation Award. When asked how innovation helps or affects an organization, John Vasilji, from CTA, said innovation can assist in motivating personnel in a depressed economy. ”When employees are looking at furlough days, innovation can be a rallying factor.” Alex Bratton said that a leader needs to be a catalyst for innovation in an organization when asked what characteristics a leader needs to have. ”Sometimes, you need to be the catalyst and then just get out of the way. We also need to be OK with failure so that we can learn from our mistakes.”
An audience member then asked the panel to speak to the talent pool in the Chicago area for IT personnel and managers. Alex Bratton offered that Lextech Labs and the sister company Lextech Global Services were looking at ways to recruit talent to Chicago by using creative telecommuting methods. Crowdspring, Co-Founder, Mike Samson, pointed out that through technology you can connect talent to a direct need from around the world.
In the last question of the night, the panel was asked to talk about how winning the Chicago Innovation Awards has helped their company grow. Lextech Labs CEO, Alex Bratton, said that the company has received interest from multiple government agencies by being able to show the Sun Times Article on the Innovation Award. Rhon Daguro then shared his story how the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas sought Touch Taste Technologies out after seeing the announcement on their award win. And the product and service is now being installed in the Hard Rock Hotel.
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Lextech Labs CEO, Alex Bratton, will participate in a roundtable discussion with Rahm Emanuel, former White House Chief of Staff and Chicago mayoral candidate on Monday, December 20th. As a leader and visionary in the Chicago technology community, Alex will be discussing how Lextech Labs is driving mobile video and technology and how it can assist in building the economy in Chicago and the region.
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Alex Bratton, CEO of Lextech Labs continues to be an evangelist for mobilizing video. In this article in the December Issue of SDM Magazine, he uses his expertise to educate on the keys to real time mobile video.
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Alex Bratton and Lextech Labs are featured in the Medill Reports Chicago. Lextech Labs founder and CEO Alex Bratton discovered his love of computers early in life, after his parents bought one of the first Apple computers.
“When Alex was probably 10 or so, we bought an Apple II computer..and he was writing little games on it,” said Ray Bratton, Alex’s father. “[He] made these little stick men that would fall off a cliff” with his little brother
That was just the beginning. By age 14, Alex had formed his first software development company to write programs for his high school. Eight more companies and a computer engineering degree later, Bratton’s passion is his Lisle, Ill.-based Lextech Labs, which makes the iRa C3 mobile video surveillance app.
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Lextech Labs was awarded an Entrepreneur Center Grant from the Illinois Homeland Security Innovation and Entrepreneur Center (HSIEC) in June 2010. This grant is established through the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
The company’s product C3™ distributes realtime video to the people that need it the most, like first responders, law enforcement and government agencies. It is the preferred mobility viewing and control solution for security and crisis response teams throughout the world. C3 provides realtime situational awareness to facilitate communication and time-sensitive decision making. Recent upgrades include the ability to view recorded view and live video in a split screen format.
“Since 2001, the United States government, businesses and citizens have spent millions of dollars on video equipment to combat crime and terrorism. Our mobile viewing platform, C3, unlocks the video from a monitor and places directly in front of the people that need it the most. Receiving this grant allows to continue on our mission to provide critical video, anytime, anywhere.” said Alex Bratton, CEO and Founder of Lextech Labs.
“Putting tools in the hands of responders and security professionals who have boots on the ground can save lives and prevent destruction,” said Bret Johnson, director of HSIEC. “LexTech supports HSIEC’s mission to protect our nation, its people, and its critical infrastructure.”
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Lextech Labs was honored to be a presenter at the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Launch Event in St. Louis at thee Kemp Auto Museum on November 30 and December 1, 2010. The event featured a live simulcast of Verizon Wireless, Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, Tony Melone, announcing the official launch of the 4G LTE network on December 5, 2010.
Lextech Labs presented our flagship product, C3, to a government vertical customer group, demonstrating how live incident management and mobile investigations are made easier by allowing the user to be closer to the scene. And with the launch of the 4G LTE network showing speeds of 10 MBps Up and 5 MBps Down, the delivery of video will become even easier and faster.
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Alex Bratton, CEO and Jeff Gibson, President of Lextech Labs will be participating in the Mobile Visionary Roundtable event on December 15, 2010. Alex will be the moderator and Jeff will be a panel participant. Both have extensive experience and knowledge on the mobile application market and how to be successful in it.
For more information on the event, click here.
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Tom Kuczmarski, Co-Founder, Chicago Innovation Awards will moderate a paneled discussion with four of this year’s Chicago Innovation Award winners. They are true innovators from organizations that uniquely fill unmet needs, spark a competitive response in the marketplace, exceed market expectations, achieve financial success, and improve people’s lives. For more information on the event, click here.
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| Rhon Daguro – Co-Founder and CEO, Touch Taste Technologies, People’s Choice Award winner for their innovation with TouchLife Interactive Tables. |
Mike Samson – Co-Founder, crowdSpring for their innovation with an online crowd-sourcing marketplace. |
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| John Vasilj – Chief Technology Officer, Chicago Transit Authority for their innovation with CTA’s Bus Tracker. |
Alex Bratton – CEO, Lextech Labs and Lextech Global Services for their innovation with the iRa C3 intuitive video command center. |
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