Crossroads Innovation Group, LLC. (XIG) brings unique experience and a robust network to best position organizations, companies and collaborative partnerships with best-of-breed technology companies, secondary and post-secondary educational institutions and public sector entities. Based in Virginia, XIG supports organizations pursing emerging technology deployment to accelerate innovation, commercialization, and adoption of innovative emerging technologies in enhancing regional economic development and regional workforce training and professionalization. To realize the benefits of emerging technologies, organizations, communities and cities will need to build relationships with technology providers, identify value-added applications and best-practices while responding to emerging regulations, security requirements and standards – and importantly, build a workforce that is capable of understanding and managing in a rapidly changing technology environment. Leveraging its experience and network, XIG helps its clients develop solution architectures, identify technology requirements, connects clients with potential providers and companies that provide the needed professional services to support technology deployment in a responsible and secure fashion.