Views, News & Wins from Milieu’s 2016

2016 was a big year for Milieu — come celebrate our successes, and connect and collaborate with us in 2017 on shared city-building and citizen engagement projects.

Views:

Where did you see us in the past year?

• We hosted Citizen City with Citizens Academy in May 2016.
• Luisa Ji, President of Milieu, was a presenter at Civic Tech TO’s Hacknight #58 in September 2016.
• Milieu had a booth & presented at CASCON 2016 (Cognitive Computing and Cyber Physical System) in late October to early November.

News:

Where did we appear in the news?

• Novae Res Urbis wrote about the Cities of Tomorrow competition that Milieu won (in the “Planning for Job Creation” category) in February 2016.
• Techopia Ottawa wrote a feature on Milieu in August 2016.

Wins:

Which competitions did we win?

• Milieu was awarded funding from Innovation Guelph Fuel Injection Seed Funding program in January 2016
• Milieu won for the category of “Planning for Job Creation” in the Cities of Tomorrow competition in February 2016
• Milieu won the American Planning Association’s #apps4planning competition (Tech Division) in April 2016
• Milieu was selected to be a part of Guelph’s new Civic Accelerator Program in August 2016

Other:

• Milieu completed a report for Ottawa City Councillor Jeff Leiper in October 2016 for 190 Richmond Rd, and a second report for Armstrong Street
• Our team acquired our first office in January 2016 — come visit us at 145 Spruce Street!
• Our team is growing quickly so stay tuned for our move to a bigger and brighter office in the same building!