Illumen’s CEO, David Charney, was asked to speak on what Google’s upcoming high speed Internet connection could do for business innovation at Evanston’s Google Day press conference. Google recently asked cities around the United States to compete for their initial roll-out of their gigabit fiber connection, which would bring high speed Internet to homes, schools, hospitals, and businesses. Evanston, where Illumen is headquartered, jumped on the opportunity to respond to the challenge. Evanston has grown to be a city focused on creativity and innovation and would be a perfect location for Google high speed Internet. The Google Day in Evanston press conference, lead by Mayor Tisdahl, had representatives from NorthShore Hospital, Northwestern University, Evanston Township High School,  the Evanston Chamber of Commerce, and Illumen Group. Each discussed the benefits of having a connection 100 times faster than the current standard in the United States.

Charney discussed how having high speed Internet can allow Illumen, and other businesses to start pushing their technologies and services even further. With Google’s fiber connection, even more high quality video, 3D, animation, interactivity, and other content based services could be accessed without the current Internet limitations often seen today. The high speed connection also acts as a great motivator for many other individuals and businesses with ideas, innovations, and technologies to come to Evanston to develop their products and services and drive collaboration in Evanston and the Chicago area. These innovations and technologies are used in products and services worldwide.