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Agilious is an SBA Certified 8(a) Small Business founded in 2013 by Manjit Singh. It helps organizations build digital solutions by simplifying software delivery and eliminating waste, using its AI-Enabled Value Guardian framework. Services span organization transformation, product strategy, experience design, modern software development, data analytics, and agile governance, serving federal agencies and private institutions.

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Almenta International is a consulting firm that helps small and scaling organizations build customer-centered cultures, strengthen leadership at every level, and navigate change. Its approach, called The Human Element™, aligns leadership, people, culture, strategy, and customer value. Founder and President Dr. Mary Ritz holds a PhD in Business with a specialization in Customer Centricity and authored the book Customer Centricity Strategy.

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Amplifier Experience Design is a Minnesota-registered LLC with a social benefit mission, founded and led by Steve Boyd-Smith. It provides interpretive planning, exhibit design, and community storytelling services, co-creating indoor, outdoor, and online experiences for museums, cultural centers, historic sites, parks, and communities. Based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, it has worked on projects in 16 states, Nepal, and Canada.

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Arrowstreet is an award-winning, Boston-based architecture and design firm comprised of architects, interior designers, planners, and experience designers. Founded in the 1960s, the firm works across sectors including urban mixed-use, multi-family housing, hospitality, retail, and schools, focusing on sustainability, resiliency, and climate change. Arrowstreet is ranked among the top 50 architecture firms in the U.S. by Architect magazine.

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ATELIER BRÜCKNER konzipiert und gestaltet narrative Architektur und zukunftsweisende Ausstellungen. Mit einem interdisziplinären Team von 140 Mitarbeitenden wurden in den vergangenen drei Jahrzehnten mehr als 250 internationale Projekte realisiert, die mit über 400 Preisen ausgezeichnet wurden.

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Blocs is an SBA WOSB company providing enterprise IT and consulting services to government agencies and commercial organizations, including digital transformation, application modernization, data analytics, eDiscovery, and enterprise support services.

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Bluewater is a full-service experiential agency and AV integration firm that creates events, activations, and modern AV solutions. It operates four business units supporting sensory storytelling through digital and physical canvases, and describes itself as the only woman-owned business of its kind. Services span live event production, AV integration, trade show environments, brand activations, and immersive experiences nationwide.

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Isabella Bruno is an experience designer with over a decade of experience, mostly in museums. She creates exhibits and previously made dances. Current projects include Radical Futures for Museums and a Facilitation Community of Practice.

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BuzzEngine Marketing & Events is a one-stop-shop for marketing communications, creative and events, specializing in the Arts & Culture, Education, Entertainment, Advocacy, Entrepreneurship and Wellness industries. The team brings more than 80 years combined experience working in events, 90+ combined years in creative and design, and 60+ combined years in small businesses.

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Champaign-Urbana Adventures in Time and Space /sites/default/files/styles/homepage_banner/public/2019-05/default_bg.jpg?itok=utR9q AwG GO ON AN ESCAPE ROOM ADVENTURE CU Adventures offers theatrical immersive experiences unlike anything else in central Illinois! Assemble your team and book your tickets now! Welcome /sites/default/files/styles/desaturate/public/2023-01/IMG_2425.JPG?itok=d Oo Px7jj Featured Room Rise of the Icarus An alien spaceship has just been discovered deep beneath an Antarctic glacier. Government officials are calling the site "Project Icarus." Can your team discover the secrets of the Icarus before it's too late? 4-8 Players NOTE: Experience may include theatrical lighting and fog effects Book Now More Info YOU HAVE ONE HOUR TO SAVE THE WORLD Located in downtown Urbana, Illinois, our escape rooms make for a great night out, a unique birthday or bachelor/bachelorette.

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Charlene Atlas is a creative technologist and consultant with a 15-year career envisioning, designing and building novel experiences and technologies. She works with scientists to translate science into experience through her interactive science communication studio, Proper Motion. She is an inventor across XR, interaction, graphics, and display systems with 25+ patents issued.

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ConferenceDirect is a full-service meeting and event management company founded in 1998, now a global leader in the meetings industry. It partners with organizations to strategically plan and execute meetings and events that support enterprise goals, enhance performance, and maximize ROI, integrating into customers' organizations and culture.

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Cortina Productions is a full-service media design and production company specializing in location-based experiences, including museums, cultural institutions, presidential libraries, science centers, aquariums, and halls of fame. Their films and interactive experiences engage, educate, and inspire audiences.

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Dauntless Consulting Group helps federal government agencies, commercial customers, and growth-focused organizations modernize technology, deploy responsible AI, strengthen operations, and execute with confidence. The company brings expertise in application modernization, AI, cloud, data, automation, and digital operations, from strategy and design to implementation and support. It was founded by President Thanh Tran.

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DeSantis Breindel is a B2B brand strategy and experience design firm based in New York City. For more than 20 years, it has partnered with B2B leaders, founders, and investors through mergers, acquisitions, spinoffs, IPOs, and business evolution, building brands that create enduring value. It is a member of Gravity Global.

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Design Research Collective (DRC) is a human-centered design research agency dedicated to helping companies connect with customers through empathy-driven innovation. It works at the intersection of market research and design thinking, discovering deeper meanings and unmet needs behind human behavior to inform innovative solutions. DRC also trains teams at top retail, medical device, and industrial companies on human-centered design principles and tools.

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Digital Blue is a certified LGBTQ+ and veteran owned creative event agency founded in 2004. It designs and produces events worldwide, providing experience design, strategy, precision planning, event production, media production, graphic design, and on-site execution.

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Duft Watterson is a full-service creative agency built to be 180 degrees from Madison Avenue, without the layers and barriers found at mega-sized advertising agencies. The agency offers advertising, design, digital, paid media, and brand strategy services nationwide and is an AdAge Agency of the Year award winner.

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Experience Design International is a consulting firm that helps insurance carriers and financial services organizations transform through deep research, C-suite expertise, and intentional experience design.

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Enludio is a design-led technology company building interactive experiences for complex systems and evolving worlds. At the intersection of creativity and engineering, it combines experience design, simulation, game development, and real-time technology to transform complexity into intuitive, immersive, and human experiences. Its work spans digital twins, immersive training, and real-time 3D applications built for real-world interaction.

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Ensemble is an event production and experience design company based in Dallas, Texas, with a focus on the nonprofit and community sector. They work with clients on experience design, event production, content development, surprise and delight, and activation curation, approaching events as opportunities to bring missions to life.

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Ethos is a full-service diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) transformation firm that advocates for underrepresented and underserved groups in organizations. It collaborates with organizations to develop vision, strategy, processes, and practices around DEIB, and empowers individuals and organizations to foster cultures of belonging through consulting, training and programs, and speaking.

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Evolve is a collaborative design agency based in Portland, Oregon. It creates better customer, product, and brand experiences through the power of play, working with clients from startups to the world's biggest brands. The agency offers customer experience, product experience, and brand experience services, and maintains an information security management system designed to comply with ISO 27001.

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Fabric is a customer, employee, and patient experience consulting firm. It helps organizations understand where experiences break down, what needs to improve, and how to build practical solutions, combining strategy, design, data, AI, and technology to help teams navigate change and accelerate transformation.

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