Announcing the Technology Innovation Challenge RESULTS

The Results

Join us in congratulating our four selected winners and learn more about the top-scoring solutions for the Technology Innovation Challenge.

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Centralized Customer Portal

Customer - Driven Mobile Digital Services

Geo Mapping Hub & Resources

Operational Reporting of Performance Outcomes

Selected

Centralized Customer Portal

One-LA-Connection: A centralized customer portal to connect people and service-providers

One Degree

One-LA-Connection is a web-based and mobile-accessible hub for Angelenos to be screened for, apply for, and manage services needed to stabilize and thrive.

Selected

Customer - Driven Mobile Digital Services

Connect: Democratizing access to public-services data to redefine homeless response

Akido Labs

Akido Labs is partnering with HOPICS to enable a client-driven approach to South LA’s homeless response efforts by democratizing access to public-services data.

Selected

Geo Mapping Hub & Resources

LA HelpLink: Data enrichment for transparent decision making

Huemen Design

LA Helplink is a solution focused on fundamentally understanding audiences who will consume data in order to create a platform that delivers accurate outcomes for everyone.

Selected

Operational Reporting of Performance Outcomes

LA HelpLink: Designing data for transparency, scalability and clarity

Huemen Design

LA Helplink is a human-centered, intuitive platform that brings centralized data to individuals who will make data-based decisions to help homeless individuals in LA.

Centralized Customer Portal

LA HelpLink: An actionable solution for a sustained transition

Huemen Design

LA HelpLink is a solution that supports a journey from shelter to stability through collective intelligence, power of ownership and real-time collaboration.

Centralized Customer Portal

Connect: Westside Cities COG subregional data-driven approach to ending homelessness

Westside Cities Council of Governments

Westside Cities COG is partnering with Akido Labs to streamline regional homeless response with real-time access to a centralized data portal - Connect.

Customer - Driven Mobile Digital Services

Chalmers Suite: Real-time data to tackle homelessness in LA County

Ample Labs

The Chalmers Suite is a three-pronged solution: the Chalmers Chatbothelps individuals facing homelessness, Premiumsupports front-line staff, and Enterpriseprovides powerful data tools for decision-makers.

Customer - Driven Mobile Digital Services

Show the Way: No wrong door should include people living on the streets

Simtech Solutions, Inc.

The Show the Way mobile app is designed and tested by people with lived experience to help those who are still living on the streets.

Geo Mapping Hub & Resources

GeoInsights for Homelessness: Location intelligence to address LA County

Deloitte Consulting

Deloitte offers a geospatial solution to collaboratively exchange, display, and analyze available housing and homelessness services to understand need, evaluate performance, and improve resource allocation.

Geo Mapping Hub & Resources

SALUS – The Crisis Hub®: Using data to help homelessness

HSAC@SPP (Homeland Security Advisory Council at Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy)

SALUS enables LA County to track homeless encampments, make data-informed decisions, deploy resources, share information, and measure the impact the County is having on homelessness.

Operational Reporting of Performance Outcomes

Performance outcomes tracked through the individual’s journey to secure housing

IBM Watson Health

This solution will report on the individual’s unique journey, link service providers, unique interactions and care plan to determine successful interventions and resource effectiveness.

Operational Reporting of Performance Outcomes

Measure What Matters

Tyler Technologies Data & Insights

This solution addresses homelessness by matching operational visibility and performance metrics with upstream interventions in order to build a sustainable solution for LA County’s communities.

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