ASME to Present Three Innovation Showcases This Year

ASME to Present Three Innovation Showcases This Year ASME to Present Three Innovation Showcases This Year The ASME Innovation Showcase (IShow) - traditionally an annual competition offered at Society conferences located in the United States - is expanding in both number of competitions and grenzberschreitend reach this year. Applications are now being accepted through March 15 for three IShow events that will be held this spring in India and Kenya as well as the United States.Since its launch in 2007, the IShow has offered teams of entrepreneurs the opportunity to compete for seed money to further develop their novel product concepts and bring them to the marketplace. This year, innovators from around the world will have three separate opportunities to win a share of $500,000 in prizes and receive an extensive design and engineering review of their hardware-led social innovations by a panel of experts.ASME will offer the first of this years three IShows on April 20 at the Hyatt Reg ency in Pune, India, in conjunction with the Additive Manufacturing + 3D Printing India (AM3D India) conference. Two additional IShows are scheduled to be held in the Washington, D.C., on May 14, and Nairobi, Kenya, on June 24, respectively. The competitions are open to any individuals or organizations who are developing a hardware-led social innovation they want to take to market. Applicants must have a prototype and have conducted some initial user outreach and testing.IShow organizers are accepting applications through March 15, 2015. As an incentive, teams submitting video applications by Feb. 5 will have the opportunity to win an Ultimaker Original+ 3D printer.To learn more about the Innovation Showcase program, or to submit a video application, visit www.asme.org/events/competitions/asme-ishow. Follow the ASME IShow on twitter asmeishow and tweet about hardware-led social innovation using thisishardware.