June Innovation Nights Followup

It may have been a Thursday night, but it was still Mass Innovation Nights in Waltham at the IBM Innovation Center.  Once again ably hosted by our friends at IBM, we gathered to check out what’s new in Massachusetts innovation and blogged, tweeted, videoed and networked! We also welcomed the Boston-area finalists from SmartCamp and heard from the  winner.  (Helpful hint:  you can still enter SmartCamp in other locations!)  It was also part of New England Innovation Month — go #NEInno.

Huge thanks to the SmartCamp finalists for jumping in like the pros they are to man the tables and explain their products after a full, exhausting day at SmartCamp! Thanks, SkyMeter, Sendsor, ProxPro, Sproxil and GISCloud.

Our goal, as always, is to help local companies make some noise, get some visibility, and make connections.  Over the past 15 months, we’ve hosted more than 150 companies, generated thousands of tweets, LinkedIn status posts, Facebook posts, blog posts, video, pictures and links.  Here are a few from this month:

Joe Cronin from Rewatchable gave us a nice roundup of the presenters.  Our friends from BostInnovation also did a roundup of the presenters and visited a few of the tables too!  Our friend Janet brought her new friends from Neuron Robotics (congrats on the new job, Janet!) and did a nice blog post on the presenters, tables, experts and gave out kudos for the networking opportunities.  We also got a nice post from MIN first-timer, Janet Egan,  “a darn good tech writer for hire” who gives Experts Corner participant Bill Scher props for helping her with her tech writing pitch.

Here are some quick snapshots from the evening — check out JumperSearch’s slides.  What to hear what Tony_Artuso was talking about with Proxpro?  Or find out how VC Ready really gets new clients?  Or find out how far away we had people coming from for the event?  Or some of the silly questions that got asked?

Don’t forget to let us know if you blog about the event, or one of the companies.  We’d love to link to you.  Also looking for video from the evening, @bobbiec was too busy getting pitched by MassChallenge companies — we’re an “endorser” — to get out the Sony HandyCam HD.  (The MIN-ion is thankful, a well-earned break from video-editing.  You can still check out our previous videos, or post your own on YouTube.  The most recent video is from our most recent Innovation Breakfast presentation by Bill Warner.  Note that we’ve transitioned Innovation Breakfast to a Friday morning drop-in, 8:30 to 10:00 am at the Cafe on the Common, Main Street, Waltham.  See you there.