INNOVATION DISTRICT PARTNERSHIP
Your Assets. Proven Solutions. No Guesswork.
Central Florida's institutions are executing ambitious plans. Green Works. Vision Zero. Vision 2050. OUC's Strategy 2035. The commitments are real, and the region is delivering on them.
What no institution has on its own is a disciplined way to explore what's next — to source new solutions, test them in real operating conditions, and generate the evidence needed to act. Building that capacity internally is expensive. Skipping it means standing still, or committing capital and reputation to something untested.
The Innovation District Partnership is that capacity, shared. Rally functions as your external R&D department.
WHAT WE SOURCE
Nine pillars. One filter.
Rally doesn't source broadly and sort later. Every solution that enters the framework addresses one of nine pillars of regional resilience — the interconnected systems that determine whether Central Florida and its people thrive.
Within those nine, every solution clears three more tests before it reaches your assets.
Regionally Focused
A solution that works in Copenhagen or Phoenix may not work in a 12-county region with our aquifer, our regulatory environment, our climate, and our economy. Rally filters through a local lens before anything reaches a pilot.
Frontier, Not Incremental
Rally sources at the leading edge of social and environmental innovation, drawing from a database of 2,000+ vetted ventures and a national and global pipeline. If it's already standard practice, you don't need us to validate it.
Social And Environmental Only
Rally is not a general technology scout. We work exclusively on the challenges that determine long-term regional viability — and, increasingly, your organization's.
Most sourcing operations can run one of these filters. The value is in running all four.
TWO PATHWAYS IN
Most partners assume Rally only brings outside ventures. That's half of it.
Whether the idea originates with Rally or with your own team, it clears the same bar before it reaches a procurement decision.
HOW A PILOLT WORKS
Four stages. Your team's footprint stays light.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Different mandates. Same infrastructure.
Municipalities
Build the evidence base before the budget cycle.
Public trust is hard to earn and easy to lose. Before committing budget and credibility to an unproven initiative, the Innovation District Partnership gives you a structured way to test, learn, and build a local evidence base — producing an evidence-based roadmap for community goals and validated results you can point to when the question comes.
Corporations & Businesses
Adopt what works, with evidence instead of assumptions.
Your organization faces real operational and community challenges, and vendors promising solutions are everywhere. Rally validates social and environmental innovations in your actual operating conditions, so you can adopt what strengthens operations and meets responsibility targets.
PROVEN IN THE FIELD
Pilots that moved into real operations.
Stellar Lighting Systems
Recycled lighting technology cut energy use by up to 65% across city-owned parking garages, validating a retrofit model the City could scale.
Block n' Lock
Recycled lighting technology cut energy use by up to 65% across city-owned parking garages, validating a retrofit model the City could scale.
Wriggle Brew
Recycled lighting technology cut energy use by up to 65% across city-owned parking garages, validating a retrofit model the City could scale.
WHY RALLY
Built to be here in fifty years.
BECOME AN INNOVATION DISTRICT PARTNER
Activate your campus, facility, or district with tested solutions.
Build a track record of validated impact — and give the region evidence it can act on.
Start the conversation.
