Area Leaders Met with DR and Xerox at Innovation Jam Session

On June 18th, leaders from many of the Greater Rochester area’s leading innovation organizations came together for a unique and powerful collaboration event, the first of its kind, the Digital Rochester Innovation Jam Session.

Large enterprise, research universities, funding partners, serial entrepreneurs and community supporting organizations were represented at this event. Some of the attendees included: Carestream Health, Rochester Institute of Technology, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, Medtech, University of Rochester,  RTEmd and New Scale Technologies . 

The group met for an afternoon to discuss some of the systemic challenges that inhibit rapid growth of technology innovation and commercialization in our region. The leaders worked in small groups to explore solutions and begin building a framework that will be developed and leveraged over the coming months and years. 

“The Digital Rochester Innovation Jam Session brought together many of our region’s most influential leaders to identify solutions to the largest barriers to building a vibrant innovation economy in the greater Rochester area,” said Josh Bouk, President of Digital Rochester and Senior Vice President of Veramark Technologies. “We are thrilled that Xerox has partnered with us to create the first ever Digital Rochester Innovation Jam Session.  Xerox has been, and continues to be, a global leader in technology innovation and a strong supporter of the Upstate New York region.”

 “Xerox and Digital Rochester share a mutual commitment to advancing innovation and business development in the local community.  That’s why we are partnering with Digital Rochester to bring forward-thinking business leaders together at the Innovation Jam Session,” said Edward A. Gala, vice president, Global Experiential Marketing, Xerox Corp.  “We have a long history of invention and community involvement and we look forward to sharing insights with others who share our commitment.”