With $10-thousand prize for a first-place finish, a handful of startup founders pitched a panel of mayors convened by the US Conference of Mayors and the non-profil Civic I/O, a group of self-styled civic innovators bound together by a commitment to solving intractable city problems through applied technology.

This year's pitches covered everything from redressing racism in setting car insurance rates while making city streets safer, using so-called job-killingAI to benefit job seekers, holding landlords to account for keeping the heat on, and providing networked access to psychiatrists to first responders responding to mental health emergencies.

Show Notes:

• Augmented Training Systems
• Cloud9
• Heat Seek
• ODN
• Bloc