


Q: Will this make your work self-supporting?Ī: Yes. The cycle was we started with these collaborations, that progressed into some level of product or prototyping engagement, which then fed a library of IP, which is now being progressed into one or more products, and we are packaging combinations of our services and products together for commercial offering. Q: Where has your work led the Collaboratory?Ī: A library of (intellectual property) has resulted from those engagements, outputs from the engagements themselves where the member companies are deriving internal benefits from using them, a core set of services that the company itself now has and an emerging set of products that are now under development that have directly resulted from those collaboration efforts. … That has led to numerous project engagements with our members as well as product-development efforts. Our focus is primarily advanced analytics and cybersecurity, and we’ve done that. The beginning, we really wanted to establish multiple collaborations where the various practitioners from the companies could get together, share ideas and best practices around topics of interest in strategic areas of IT. He talked with Columbus CEO about the Collaboratory’s progress and future opportunities.Ī: What you’re seeing now is we’re starting to enter the next phase, where we’re competing the cycle.

… I think the bigger news is we’re expanding commercially as well,” Wald said. “We have the same seven (founders) but we are in the process of expanding the company. Phase one of the Columbus Collaboratory was to help seven non-competing major employers in central Ohio address common data and tech issues, but where the unique company goes from here is wide open, CEO Matt Wald says.
