Episode 20: Civic Innovation

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Written By Alex Norman

In today’s episode of The Real State, we explore the intersection of  Real Estate and Urban Innovation. Our guest, Simon Sylvester-Chaudhuri, is the Founder and Executive Director of CIV:LAB, a nonprofit based in New York, Detroit, and London. In partnership with the New York City Economic Development Corporation, he co-founded and is the Director of 'The Grid', an NYC urban tech collaborative of 130 organizations that work together to innovate cities. He teaches about Global Entrepreneurship at the NYU Center for Global Affairs and on the Future of Cities at Imperial College Business School in London. Simon is also a co-founder of Smart Cities New York and of the NYC Urban Data Meetup.

Alex Norman

Alex Norman is the founder and CEO of Access Built, a leading agency helping organizations reimagine environments to be more inclusive. As the author of Boundless: Real Stories and Practical Strategies for Inclusive Living, Alex blends powerful life stories with actionable design strategies. A former global advertising and innovation leader, Alex now helps organizations uncover and remove the “friction points” in the built world. His work, rooted in personal experience and collaboration with design leaders, challenges audiences to see accessibility not as compliance but as a catalyst for innovation, inclusion, and human potential.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexnorman1/
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