Today: Toronto launches UPPlift, Canada's First Urban Pilot Program

Virtual technology accelerator aims to bring innovation to the built environment

TORONTO, Jan. 17, 2018 /CNW/ - This morning, Toronto takes another step in cementing its position as a global tech leader with the launch of UPPlift: Toronto, an urban pilot program (UPP) seeking technological innovations aimed at resolving challenges in urban areas and their existing infrastructure.

With support from major corporations, including Microsoft and QuadReal Property Group, and participation from the City of Toronto, UPPlift: Toronto will operate as a virtual technology accelerator with a goal to help resolve city challenges and increase the city's livability with the assistance of Internet of Things technologies and other smart innovations.

The initiative officially kicks-off at 10:00 a.m. today, January 17, 2018, at Commerce Court West, 199 Bay Street.

Who:	Her Honour the Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell
	Dennis Lopez, CEO, QuadReal Property Group
	Remco Daal, President, Canadian Real Estate, QuadReal Property Group
	Rodney Clark, Vice President, IoT, Microsoft
	Kevin Peesker, CEO, Microsoft Canada
	Michael Kolm, Chief Transformation Officer, City of Toronto
When:	Today, Wednesday, January 17, 2018
	10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Where:	Commerce Court West Atrium, 199 Bay Street, Toronto
What:	Launch of UPPlift: Toronto, Canada's first Urban Pilot Program

About UPPlift

UPPlift is an urban pilot program (UPP) designed and delivered by Urban Living Futures Inc. The program endeavors to identify innovations and facilitate live demonstrations of technologies aimed at resolving challenges in the built environment, ensuring asset owners and managers achieve cost savings, improved operations and enhanced experiences for their users. The process creates a living lab in the host city, attracting and retaining an innovator ecosystem, and facilitating deployment of "smart" and resource-efficiency technology into the city's infrastructure & built assets.

About Urban Living Futures Inc.

Urban Living Futures Inc designs and delivers innovation programs creating convergence between urban innovators (supply) and built asset owners/managers (demand) to create efficiencies and enhanced user experience with smart technologies. We bring together private sector companies, city authorities and global technology leaders and harness their support to help innovators pilot and ultimately commercialize emergent technology.

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