# IBI launches Smart City Sandbox

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2018-05-11

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This morning I was at [55 St. Clair Avenue West](http://www.slateam.com/real-estate/55-st-clair-ave-w) for [IBI Group’s](https://www.ibigroup.com/) annual general meeting. And at this meeting their CEO, Scott Stewart, officially launched a new accelerator called the _Smart City Sandbox_. 

Here is a description of what that is taken from a [press release](https://www.ibigroup.com/2018/05/10/ibi-group-launches-smart-city-sandbox-with-partners-ellisdon-the-weather-network-and-slate/) that was also published this morning:

> _The Sandbox is a smart city-themed accelerator, focused on bringing innovative new products and systems to urban environments that improve the quality of life for residents. A technology hub that supports small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as entrepreneurs and start-ups, the Smart City Sandbox will operate out of a designated space at IBI Group’s Toronto headquarters, be open to global applications, and officially open doors with its first smart city-themed cohort in September 2018._  

And here is a photo from this morning:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/1723b3d78380c3b1793f0d95663637d5.png)

[Slate Asset Management](http://www.slateam.com/) is proud to be a founding partner of the Smart City Sandbox and we’re thrilled that it will live at Yonge + St. Clair in midtown Toronto. 

Our role is to provide our domain expertise as asset managers and developers, and to offer participants in the program access to real-world building systems and data from our holdings in the area.

For more info, [go here](https://www.ibigroup.com/2018/05/10/ibi-group-launches-smart-city-sandbox-with-partners-ellisdon-the-weather-network-and-slate/).

And if you were at (or listening to) the meeting this morning, I’m sure you noticed something that we talk a lot about on this blog. To thrive today, virtually every company now has to think and act like a technology company. IBI Group is doing precisely that.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/ibi-launches-smart-city-sandbox)*