Urban Innovation Fellows

The Urban Tech Hub, in partnership with the City of New York, has launched the Urban Innovation Fellows program to help spur tech innovation in City agencies and to establish a new model for collaboration across government, academia, and startups. This new program stems from the Hub’s recent Pilot:NYC report, produced in collaboration with the New York City Economic Development Corporation.

The seven Urban Innovation Fellows will be working directly within NYC government agencies, spanning the areas of housing, transportation, water, building decarbonization, sanitation, economic development, and procurement. They will help agencies implement urban technology solutions that advance City goals, remove policy roadblocks that prevent scaling successful pilots; and guide promising tech startups through agency processes.

Ashwini Chhabra is the inaugural Director of the program.

Please reach out to ashwini@cornell.edu or urban.innovation@cornell.edu with any questions or to learn more about our work.