CIX Top 20 Winners

 

CIX is proud to announce CognoVision as Canada's Innovation Leader.

CognoVision was commercially launched in 2008 to help companies measure the effectiveness of in-store media and shopper behavior in retail environments. This is achieved with the use of CognoVision’s proprietary retail audience measurement software solutions. Using small camera sensors and computers, the Company’s anonymous face detection and people tracking software gathers data on how people watch ads and how they navigate within retail venues. This information is easily communicated to clients with the use of CognoVision’s proprietary reporting system. This system allows end-clients to make data driven decisions to: dramatically improve the effectiveness of media campaigns, increase product sales and advertising revenue, optimize retail execution and to reduce operational costs.

Winners of Individual Heats Include:

Information Communication Technology (ICT)
Aeryon Labs designs and manufactures small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems for unmanned aerial intelligence gathering. The product is targeted for the backpack of every soldier and the trunk of every police car.

Clean Tech
Skymeter is a 'Financial Grade GPS' metering technology that provides data needed to migrate roads and parking from taxpayer-subsidized to pay-per-use – cutting city-wide emissions by 15%, traffic by 30% and enabling better mobility.

Digital Media
CognoVision was commercially launched in 2008 to help companies measure the effectiveness of in-store media and shopper behavior in retail environments.

About the CIX Top 20

Throughout CIX, each of the Top 20 nominees presented their ideas and innovations during 3 category specific heats:

Following their presentation,  each company received live feedback from a panel of Canadian and US high-end executives and investors and at the close of each heat, delegates were invited to vote for their choice via SMS.  At the end of the day, after the winners of each heat were announced, the delegates and industry peers were invited to vote for one of the three finalists as their choice for Canada's Innovation Leader.

Thank you to all nominees and participants, and we look forward to seeing you next year.