To celebrate the Chicago Innovation Awards, Intellectual Property Shareholder Angelo Bufalino and attorneys Julie Langdon, Sudip Mitra and Joshua Grant joined the award winners to ring the Nasdaq opening bell in New York last week. Following the Nasdaq opening bell, the winners attended a networking brunch at Vedder Price’s New York office, where they shared their products and ideas with attorneys in our New York office. Chicago is the only city to have its top innovators come together for this annual event, this helps bring attention to the regularly occurring innovation happening in the Chicago region and shines a spotlight on the organizations that make up its vibrant economy.

The winners of the Chicago Innovation Awards cut across all industries–high-tech and no-tech, for-profit and not-for-profit. Each organization won by addressing an unmet need in the marketplace through a unique solution that provided value to end-users and delivered impact in the marketplace, exceeding market expectations, achieving financial success, and improving people’s lives. They emerge from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Vedder Price is a proud sponsor of the Chicago Innovation Awards.