Real challenges. Real solutions.
Government and industry at the same table, building answers neither side reaches alone.
Not another conference.
No panels. No vendor hall. A working room that ends with something on paper.
We measure success the morning after.
White papers, toolkits, and process maps an agency can pick up and use. All published free.
Rethinking How Government Solves Big Problems
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Meaningful Interactions
Immersive design thinking events where teams tackle real world agency challenges. These are meaningful, small table interactions that result in real communication.
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Actual Results
We work with forward thinking federal agencies, nonprofits, and companies to source challenges, co-host events, and shape policy recommendations. Our model is inclusive, participatory, and agency aligned.
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Implementable Without a Contract
Diverse viewpoints produce ideas an agency can act on immediately. Nothing we produce needs a procurement to put into practice.
The Way Government and Industry Communicate Is Broken
The people who own public sector problems and the people who could solve them rarely get a room where they can talk plainly. Conferences put them on opposite sides of a stage. Procurement puts a wall between them.
Collabolutions brings both sides together for a no pitch, high impact working session. Our first events took on procurement, where the gap is widest, with challenges like:
- ✓Confusing evaluation criteria
- ✓Slow and siloed acquisition workflows
- ✓Unclear ownership in proposal review
How it Works
Every Collabolutions event runs the same proven cycle: a real agency challenge, a room of cross-sector problem-solvers, and a day that ends with something an agency can act on.
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Bring the Challenge
Federal partners submit real, solvable problems, not abstract wishlists or theoretical goals.
Challenges are scoped with agency sponsors before the event, so teams start from real constraints, real data, and a clear owner on the government side.
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Co-Create the Solution
Cross-sector teams use design thinking and systems insight to prototype tools, resources, and strategies.
Small tables mix government staff, industry experts, and civic innovators. Facilitators guide rapid ideation and prototyping in immersive, no-pitch working sessions.
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Present, Publish, Repeat
Teams present their work to government leaders, and the strongest ideas advance into published intelligence or pilots.
Each event ends with teams walking government leaders through what they built. Nothing presented carries a price tag, and nothing requires a contract to act on. The strongest work is written up for agency leadership.
Winning ideas don’t end at the event. Past Collabolutions have informed agency acquisition strategies, inspired pilots, and seeded communities of practice. Explore our events »
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events hosted
13
government agencies represented
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agency challenges addressed
What Participants are Saying
Real words from the people who build solutions with us.
I attended the inaugural Collabolutions event. I had a BLAST. Those close to me know my attention span is basically zero, and if I am not engaged then I am gone. I had to get to class, otherwise I would have stayed until the very end! The Pulse of GovCon offered time to work with Shark Tank winners on their procurement solution white papers for ideas crafted throughout the day. What a fun, well-thought out event. Aaron Pujanandez and Nick Schutt did a great job!
Everything we make, free to read and free to reuse
Every Collabolutions event produces a library of shareable resources, from market intelligence and toolkits to policy recommendations. None of it sits behind a paywall.
Market Intelligence
Research, analysis and agency ready recommendations across four procurement topics.
Our Sponsors
The organizations backing collaboration between government and industry.
