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Electro Scan Inc. Selected as a Finalist Presenter at 2nd Annual Statewide Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge

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Chico, California (PRWEB) June 24, 2013

Electro Scan Inc., a global innovator of leak detection instrumentation, Smartphone, and Cloud-based applications, has been selected to compete among 50 finalist companies from throughout California vying for a GLOBIE award as the 2013 Most Innovative New Product in non-metro California.

Presented by Innovate North State, the Innovation Challenge is scheduled from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on June 27 at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company’s prestigious “Big Room” auditorium in Chico CA.

A GLOBE Award will be presented in each of five industry categories, including Food and Ag, Web and Information Technology, Cleantech, Manufacturing, and Healthcare.

The Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge is the only statewide Most Innovative Product Competition focused principally on California businesses located outside of San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and San Diego. Each finalist is charged with demonstrating in a 6-minute presentation format how their new product will change the world, an industry, people’s lives or the environment in a positive, meaningful way.

In March 2013, Electro Scan Inc. was awarded the prestigious Joseph L. Abbott, Jr. Award for Product Innovation by the National Association of Trenchless Technologies (NASTT) at the organization’s No-Dig event.

Over 70 industry experts from throughout California will be on-site serving as judges including CEOs, media representatives, angel investors, venture capitalists, university and government officials and corporate executives.

According to Innovate North State Managing Director Jon Gregory, who serves as the Executive Producer of the event, “the Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge represents a once-a-year hotbed of the best innovation occurring in emerging markets of California.” He continued, “We were impressed with Electro Scan’s game-changing innovation and are honored to have the company compete as one of the finalists.”

“We are delighted to have our Company recognized for its ground-breaking solutions,” stated Chuck Hansen, Electro Scan’s Chairman and CEO. “Electro Scan’s ability to evaluate existing, newly repaired, and relined sewer for defects, leap-frogs legacy visual inspection techniques that has been around for almost fifty years.”

About Electro Scan

Electro Scan Inc. is a leading global provider of leak detection instrumentation and cloud computing applications that meet the technological needs of water utilities, commercial businesses, residential customers, and engineering organizations worldwide. Electro Scan offers the next generation in condition assessment evaluation technologies that allow customers to manage, protect, operate and certify their infrastructure. “Like” us on Facebook.

About Innovate North State

Innovate North State – a public/private partnership driven by CEOs of leading California North State businesses – was established in early 2012. Innovate North State’s goal is to assist the region’s most innovative companies who have the largest growth potential garner a larger share of their national and global markets resulting in a more vibrant regional economy. It focuses on 5 key industry sectors: Sustainable Agriculture and Food; Manufacturing and Consumer Products; Cleantech and Environmental; Web, Mobile, and IT; and Healthcare and Medical Technology. With the mantra of “connecting to compete” Innovate North State’s strategy involves helping innovative companies connect with each other and also to vital resources located outside the region, making the North State the most economically competitive non-metropolitan region in the U.S. by 2017.







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GetGoals Selected as a Finalist Presenter at 2nd Annual Statewide Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge on June 27

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Chico, CA (PRWEB) June 25, 2013

The Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge is the only statewide Most Innovative Product Competition focused principally on California businesses located outside of San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and San Diego. Each finalist is charged with demonstrating in a 6-minute presentation format how their new product will change the world, an industry, people’s lives or the environment in a positive, meaningful way. Over 70 industry experts from throughout California will be on-site serving as judges including CEOs, media representatives, angel investors, venture capitalists, university and government officials and corporate executives.

According to Innovate North State Managing Director Jon Gregory, who serves as the Executive Producer of the event, “the Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge represents a once-a-year hotbed of the best innovation occurring in emerging markets of California.” He continued, “We were impressed with GetGoals’ game-changing innovation and are honored to have the company compete as one of the finalists based on their solution to people’s need to effectively achieve goals and ultimate productivity to choose, create and live their best lives.”

“We are honored to share GetGoals with the prestigious Sierra Nevada Innovate Challenge audience and compete for the 2013 Most Innovative New Product. GetGoals’ vision is to empower every internet-connected individual on the planet to live their best lives via achieving goals and building desired habits” says Founder and CEO Katie Elizabeth.

ABOUT GetGoals

GetGoals’ mission is to empower people to create positive change in their lives via achieving goals and actualizing desired habits. The mobile and web platform supports the structure and motivation that allows users to most effectively pursue their best selves and ultimate productivity. The proprietary technology combines behavioral science, gamification and social connectivity to ignite and sustain motivation within a framework that is customized to each individual’s success style.

ABOUT INNOVATE NORTH STATE

Innovate North State (http://www.innovate-northstate.com) – a public/private partnership driven by CEOs of leading California North State businesses – was established in early 2012. Innovate North State’s goal is to assist the region’s most innovative companies who have the largest growth potential garner a larger share of their national and global markets resulting in a more vibrant regional economy. It focuses on 5 key industry sectors: Sustainable Agriculture and Food; Manufacturing and Consumer Products; Cleantech and Environmental; Web, Mobile, and IT; and Healthcare and Medical Technology. With the mantra of “connecting to compete” Innovate North State’s strategy involves helping innovative companies connect with each other and also to vital resources located outside the region, making the North State the most economically competitive non-metropolitan region in the U.S. by 2017.

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SyTrue Has Been Selected as a Finalist Presenter at the 2nd Annual Statewide Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge on June 27

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Chico, CA (PRWEB) June 25, 2013

SyTrue™ has been selected to compete among 50 finalist companies from throughout California vying for a GLOBIE award as the 2013 Most Innovative New Product in non-metro California. A GLOBE Award will be presented in each of five industry categories, including Food and Ag, Web and Information Technology, Cleantech, Manufacturing, and Healthcare. Presented by Innovate North State, the Innovation Challenge is scheduled from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on June 27 at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company’s prestigious “Big Room” auditorium in Chico CA.

The Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge is the only state-wide Most Innovative Product Competition focused principally on California businesses located outside of San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and San Diego. Each finalist is charged with demonstrating in a 6-minute presentation format how their new product will change the world, an industry, people’s lives or the environment in a positive, meaningful way. Over 70 industry experts from throughout California will be on-site serving as judges including CEOs, media representatives, angel investors, venture capitalists, university and government officials and corporate executives.

According to Innovate North State Managing Director Jon Gregory, who serves as the Executive Producer of the event, “the Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge represents a once-a-year hotbed of the best innovation occurring in emerging markets of California.” He continued, “We were impressed with Sytrue’s game-changing innovation and are honored to have the company compete as one of the finalists. We strongly feel that SyTrue™ is an important solution that addresses the most pressing challenges in Healthcare.”

“SyTrue is a breakthrough in physician workflow by capturing complete and accurate clinical documentation while identifying and correlating other critical data points that provide insight into care. Achieving a world where information is presented rather than sought will have a profound impact on a healthcare organization’s quality of care, reputation, and profitability.” said Kyle Silvestro, Founder and CEO of SyTrue.

SyTrue’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) utilizes intelligent search technologies to identify specific patient types in unstructured or structured data, which require physician follow up or needed care. SyTrue’s business and clinical intelligence platform has created a pathway for physicians to be proactive in providing needed care while improving outcomes and patient satisfaction.

SyTrue’s solution seamlessly integrates and structures disparate information, producing a truly longitudinal and comprehensive view of the patient population from transcribed reports. The platform allows providers to gain unparalleled insights into patient populations while improving care. SyTrue represents a major leap forward in medical search and clinical analytics technology, while improving reimbursement for physicians.

SyTrue, Inc.

SyTrue™ uses intelligent natural language processing to create vastly more usable data (from unstructured and structured sources) in seconds. Currently focused on medical record data from transcribed physician reports using or not using an electronic medical record system, SyTrue™ allows health systems, physician groups, clinical researchers and pharmaceutical companies to mine their multi-sourced clinical data. Until now, only billing or EMR-keyed data was usable this way. SyTrue™ in short, creates a longitudinal record for patient populations (from multiple systems) and makes it usable in seconds. http://www.sytrue.com.

Innovate North State

Innovate North State (http://www.innovate-northstate.com) – a public/private partnership driven by CEOs of leading California North State businesses – was established in early 2012. Innovate North State’s goal is to assist the region’s most innovative companies who have the largest growth potential garner a larger share of their national and global markets resulting in a more vibrant regional economy. It focuses on 5 key industry sectors: Sustainable Agriculture and Food; Manufacturing and Consumer Products; Cleantech and Environmental; Web, Mobile, and IT; and Healthcare and Medical Technology. With the mantra of “connecting to compete” Innovate North State’s strategy involves helping innovative companies connect with each other and also to vital resources located outside the region, making the North State the most economically competitive non-metropolitan region in the U.S. by 2017.







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LifeCounts Selected as A Finalist Presenter at 2nd Annual Statewide Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge

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Chico, CA (PRWEB) June 27, 2013

LifeCounts has been selected to compete among 50 finalist companies from throughout California vying for a GLOBIE award as the 2013 Most Innovative New Product in non-metro California. A GLOBIE Award will be presented in each of five industry categories, including Food and Ag, Web and Information Technology, Cleantech, Manufacturing, and Healthcare. Presented by Innovate North State, the Innovation Challenge is scheduled from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on June 27 at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company’s prestigious “Big Room” auditorium in Chico CA.

The Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge is the only statewide Most Innovative Product Competition focused principally on California businesses located outside of San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and San Diego. Each finalist is charged with demonstrating in a 6-minute presentation format on how their new product will change the world, an industry, people’s lives or the environment in a positive, meaningful way. Over 70 industry experts from throughout California will be on-site serving as judges including CEOs, media representatives, angel investors, venture capitalists, university and government officials and corporate executives.

According to Innovate North State Managing Director Jon Gregory, who serves as the Executive Producer of the event, “the Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge represents a once-a-year hotbed of the best innovation occurring in emerging markets of California.” He continued, “We were impressed with LifeCounts’ game-changing innovation and are honored to have the company compete as one of the finalists based on their solution to help consumers optimize their financial lives for better spending and savings management.”

“The Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge is an exciting opportunity to showcase the most innovative technologies and companies being cultivated in Northern California, and we are pleased to be selected alongside a talented field of entrepreneurs,” said Nicholas Howell, CEO and founder of HowellCorp, the organization which provides LifeCounts.

ABOUT LIFECOUNTS

LifeCounts, provided by HowellCorp, is a subscription-based online personal finance service enabling users to optimize their financial lives. Users can securely link their financial accounts from varying institutions to the LifeCounts platform and receive spending insights, customizable alerting and notifications and goal management tools. It leverages thoughtful information organization, predictive content generation and a strong analytical engine to provide users with meaningful insights about their financial lives. LifeCounts employs bank-level security and is dedicated to responsible data management. LifeCounts does not distribute any data to marketers or third parties and does not have any advertisements. For more information about LifeCounts, visit http://www.lifecounts.com.

ABOUT INNOVATE NORTH STATE

Innovate North State (http://www.innovate-northstate.com) – a public/private partnership driven by CEOs of leading California North State businesses – was established in early 2012. Innovate North State’s goal is to assist the region’s most innovative companies who have the largest growth potential garner a larger share of their national and global markets resulting in a more vibrant regional economy. It focuses on 5 key industry sectors: Sustainable Agriculture and Food; Manufacturing and Consumer Products; Cleantech and Environmental; Web, Mobile, and IT; and Healthcare and Medical Technology. With the mantra of “connecting to compete,” Innovate North State’s strategy involves helping innovative companies connect with each other and also to vital resources located outside the region, making the North State the most economically competitive non-metropolitan region in the U.S. by 2017.