Accelerating hardware-led social innovation
Accelerating hardware-led social innovation
ISHOW is open to individuals and organizations taking physical products to market that will have a positive social and environmental impact. Whether you are selling your product directly to customers or employing a service model to drive accessibility, we want to hear about your idea. Applicants should have an existing prototype and be interested in receiving financing, technical support and access to industry networks to assist in taking their product to market.
ISHOW participants will receive feedback on their idea, interact with multidisciplinary experts familiar with frontier markets, and gain access to industry best practices. Finalists receive product exposure, advice, technical insights through ISHOW’s rigorous review methodology, and have a chance to earn seed grants, in-kind support, design services, travel stipends, and marketing & business development assets. Nine innovators will be invited to the annual ISHOW Bootcamp to receive an extensive design and engineering review by a panel of experts and a chance to earn a second round of seed grants and consultations. Winners become part of the ISHOW alumni network, an international community of hardware innovators and stakeholders with exclusive access to experts and resources.
ISHOW defines hardware-led social innovation as taking a physical product to market to solve a social or environmental problem by utilizing a sustainable business model. Since 2015, ISHOW finalists and winners have focused on many problems defined by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and provided technology solutions to address urgent challenges.
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