Announcing the 2023 Fourth Revolution Award Winners
(CHICAGO March 27, 2023) —mHUB announced the winners of the Fourth Revolution Awards last Thursday, March 23 during the mHUB HardTech Summit and Fourth Revolution Awards Evening Reception, a two-part event to commemorate innovation in hardtech and manufacturing.
Congratulations to the 2023 Fourth Revolution Awards Winners:
Recognizes a product design that is unique, improves user experience, and has an impact on productivity and the greater good.
IcarusRT is developing Quartet, a low-cost, novel thermal storage technology that is co-located with commercial and industrial scale PV arrays to improve daytime power output 18% and store thermal energy for use after sunset.
Mark Anderson, IcarusRT Founder & CEO (left) and Alex Lambert, mHUB Venture Capital Manager (right)
Recognizes a corporation or business that has made an impact on manufacturing through community focused efforts and significant financial investment throughout the region.
Founded in 1955, ITAMCO is entering the era of employing the 4th generation and currently employees 124 employees. ITAMCO manufacturers gears that are supplied to the oil and gas industry and is starting to support the EV industry as well.
Matthew Davis, ITAMCO Manager of Training and Organizational Development (left) and Kim Blomquist, mHUB Director of Marketing (right)
Recognizes a program or an initiative that promotes diversity and inclusion in manufacturing.
Chicago:Blend’s Chicago Venture Fellows is a first-of-its-kind program that offers a holistic approach to helping underrepresented, aspiring VCs break into the industry. CVF offers a full suite of support, education, mentorship and actual sourcing/diligence experience.
Shannon McGhee, mHUB Director of Community Impact & Engagement (left) and Salvador Dueñas, Chicago:Blend Program Manager (right)
Recognizes a technology or process that can advance multiple technologies and significantly improve the manufacturing ecosystem.
LanzaJet’s leading, patented alcohol-to-jet technology is a proven solution for commercial production of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel drop-in fuels which are compatible with all existing airline infrastructure, engines, and equipment.
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Recognizes a pre-series B round startup company, before its seventh year in operation, for its innovation, creativity, and position as the next great company to emerge in the region.
Enabling a new generation of regenerative therapeutics, the Dimension Inx biomaterials platform engineers three-dimensional microenvironments that direct cell behavior and allow the body to restore tissue and organ function more effectively.
Kevin Willer, Chicago Ventures Partner (left), Caralynn Nowinski Collens, Dimension Inx CEO (center), and Haven Allen, mHUB CEO (right)
Congratulations again to the award winners, and to all the award finalists and nominees. Together, we will ensure that the region’s manufacturing sector is driven, infused with world-class talent, and continues its reign as a global leader into the future.
2023 Fourth Revolution Awards Honorary Industry Award Recipients
The Manufacturer of the Year award recognizes an individual or manufacturing company that has demonstrated its excellence in business practices, innovative production processes, and productivity enhancements, and has made a significant financial investment to manufacturing capacity in the region.
S&C Electric Company has been headquartered in Chicago for more than 110 years and is the city’s second largest manufacturer, employing more than 3,500 team members globally. S&C has been a long-term supporter of workforce development, consistently ranking as a Top Workplace year over year. The team is dedicated to advancing a modern, intelligent grid that meets the energy needs of today and tomorrow. S&C will be pivotal in supporting the transition to clean energy by advancing energy infrastructure to provide reliable and resilient power.
The Corporate Champion of the Year award recognizes a corporation that has made an impact on manufacturing through community-focused efforts, and significant financial investment through the region.
Kirkland & Ellis is one of the world’s leading law firms, with over 3,000 lawyers practicing from 18 offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Kirkland has extensive experience helping founders and emerging and high-growth companies navigate key capital inflection points and guide transformative transactions. The firm also supports the venture capital and private equity sponsors that invest in them. Through the support of mHUB, Kirkland has impacted Chicago’s manufacturing ecosystem by providing insights to its cross-sectional competencies and forward-thinking perspective that understands the priorities and pressure points of a diverse set of constituencies.
The Fourth Revolution Champion award recognizes a prominent industry figure whose contributions to the hardtech and manufacturing ecosystem have further established the region as a leader in the fourth industrial revolution.
Throughout her career, Chandra Brown has been dedicated to building the US manufacturing economy. Brown retired from the national digital manufacturing and cybersecurity institute MxD in 2022. During her tenure, MxD grew from 35 to 54 employees, won more than $56 million from the Department of Defense, gained more than 320 members, uncovered private grant opportunities, and expanded to establish the National Center for Cybersecurity in Manufacturing and MxD Learn, the institute’s workforce development initiative. Prior to her contributions at MxD, Chandra led multiple manufacturing companies, served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the International Trade Administration from 2013 to 2016.
mHUB congratulates S&C Electric Company, Kirkland & Ellis, and Chandra Brown on their unwavering excellence that has impacted the Midwest regional economy through national and global efforts to support innovation, energy, and US manufacturing.
