INNOVATE JACKSONVILLE celebrates the city's innovators in a premium coffee-table book. Features are custom-designed and by nomination only, ensuring the highest quality of participants
TAMPA, FL / ACCESSWIRE / October 24, 2019 / INNOVATE JACKSONVILLE, the latest in Global Village Publishing's INNOVATE series is currently in production. In its tech-enabled 300 pages, INNOVATE JACKSONVILLE showcases the innovators and innovation enablers making the biggest impact on their city and beyond. Most pages are AR-enabled, bringing participants' photos to life as videos, and the book also includes a Thought Leader chapter, giving voice to some of Jacksonville's brightest and most ambitious leaders and thinkers. Many of these stories are already available through InnovationsoftheWorld.com.
Organizations are divided into industry-based chapters, which together offer a detailed snapshot of JAX's innovation ecosystem. Participants are invited or nominated to be in the book-not asked to "pay to play"-INNOVATE JACKSONVILLE authentically represents the companies, large and small, who are putting the city on the global innovation map.
Camille Wilson and Fernando Dutra, founders of Wilson Dutra, are the publishing partners for INNOVATE JACKSONVILLE. The companies and Thought Leaders nominated and included in the book demonstrate the depth and breadth of Jacksonville's innovation ecosystem.
"INNOVATE JACKSONVILLE reveals how strong and promising the city is in a variety of industries-not just those you'd normally associate with North Florida," says Carel "Callie" Van Graan, Global Village Publishing's COO. "We're really excited to share the book with our readers and with those who shared their stories with us."
In a digital age, the timelessness of a book solidifies participants' legacies. Featured organizations worked with Global Village's in-house editorial and design team to create their custom features, which are also published online at InnovationsoftheWorld.com.
The INNOVATE series is part of Global Village Publishing. Sven Boermeester, Global Village's founder and CEO, is an avid traveler and conceived of creating the coffee-table books as "love letters" to different cities he traveled to. Boermeester opened his first media company upon completing his business studies in Cape Town and since then has published over 183 INNOVATE and BEST OF editions across 60 countries.
Carel "Callie" Van Graan, Global Village Publishing's COO, possesses a similar wanderlust. As a serial entrepreneur with deep experience in marketing, branding, and logistics-and having traveled the world with his family-Van Graan was well-suited to bringing the INNOVATE series into being.