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Sports Data Labs Recognized on Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas List for 2024
From a solution to repurpose cold plasma to treat seeds to a marketplace for monetizing your personal data, the eighth annual awards honor new and inspiring solutions to the most daunting challenges of today.
Detroit, MI / May 14, 2024 / The winners of Fast Company’s 2024 World Changing Ideas Awards were announced today, highlighting fresh sustainability initiatives, cutting-edge AI developments, ambitious pursuits of social equity, and other creative projects that are helping mold the world.
Sports Data Labs, Inc. (SD Labs), a venture-backed, award-winning leader in collection, analysis and distribution of real-time human data from sensors and sensing systems, has been included on this year’s list as an honoree in the personal finance category for its patent-pending Consent-Based Exchange to Buy, Sell, and Trade Your Health Data.
This year’s World Changing Ideas Awards showcase 50 winners, 127 finalists, and 172 honorable mentions—with health, education, energy, and AI among the most popular categories. A panel of Fast Company editors and reporters selected winners from a pool of more than 1,300 entries across climate, social justice, wellness, politics, technology, corporate social responsibility, and more. Several new categories were added this year, including beauty and fashion, health products, health services, materials, and science and technology. The 2024 awards feature entries from across the globe, including the Republic of Korea, Brazil, and Madagascar.
Fast Company’s Spring 2024 issue (on newsstands May 21, 2024) will unveil some of the world’s most creative minds and pioneering organizations that are seeking to disrupt the status quo. The solutions cover everything from renewable energy storage and waste in the fashion industry to a building made entirely from recycled concrete and a fridge that’s solar-powered and designed to run off the grid.
“It is an incredible honor for Sports Data Labs to be recognized as one of the most innovative technology startups in the world by Fast Company,” said Mark Gorski, CEO of SD Labs. “As a pioneer in the personal data monetization space, we provide patented and patent-pending technologies that empower individuals with the tools to collect, control, and ultimately monetize their own personal data. We would like to thank Fast Company for recognizing our continued efforts in developing this ecosystem from the ground up.”
“I was struck this year by the global sweep of the honorees,” says Fast Company editor-in-chief Brendan Vaughan. “It’s endlessly inspiring to see how the world is coming together to devise inventive solutions to our most challenging problems. We need ideas from everywhere, and this year’s World Changing Ideas Awards are an extraordinary encapsulation of the innovation and creativity that is so abundant around the globe.”
About Sports Data Labs, Inc.
Sports Data Labs, Inc. (SD Labs) is a venture-backed, award-winning leader in collection, analysis and distribution of real-time human data from on-body sensors and sensing systems, as well as other data sources. SD Labs provides patented and other proprietary technologies that empower individuals to collect, control, and distribute their personal data, while using artificial intelligence to transform collected data into metrics, insights and predictions for various real-time and on-demand use cases. SD Labs also provides data acquisition and monetization solutions for buyers and sellers of personal data through its proprietary Human Data Marketplace. For more information, please visit www.sportsdatalabs.com
ABOUT THE WORLD CHANGING IDEAS AWARDS: World Changing Ideas is one of Fast Company’s major annual awards programs and is focused on social good, seeking to elevate finished products and bold concepts that make the world better. Judges choose winners, finalists, and honorable mentions based on feasibility and the potential for impact. With the goals of awarding ingenuity and fostering innovation, Fast Company draws attention to ideas with great potential and helps them expand their reach to inspire more people to work on solving the problems that affect us all.
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