Slalom Element

Explore the future

Slalom Element was designed and built to help our customers create innovative solutions to the world’s biggest challenges. From augmented reality and digital humans to 5G and robotics, we can empower you to experience the future today—and shape what’s next.

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insights

Slalom Element is here to help you push the boundaries of what’s possible and explore the next frontier of technology and customer experiences.

Specially curated for organizations across all industries—from utilities to entertainment to healthcare and financial services—we provide hands-on discovery, inspiration, and innovation for our clients that are looking for that special experience. This is a place to see and experience the future and unleash your creativity.

We built Slalom Element to inspire ourselves and our clients to not just talk about innovation but rather to experience it hands-on and build that creative energy into the DNA of their businesses.

John Tomik
Founder & Managing Director, Slalom Element Labs

Themes & technologies

At Slalom Element, we’re exploring the intersection of humanity and technology in the future of how people work, play, travel, learn, and stay healthy. Here are a few examples.

Human-machine relationships

How can hardware and software intertwine with humanity to create something better, stronger, faster, and smarter?

Total automation

How can businesses integrate sensors, robotics, and workflows to improve operations?

Digital twins

How can businesses visualize and interact with a physical
environment in a digital way?

Experience the future today

Meet us in lab212 in NYC

Want to test-drive the latest tech in a high-powered 5G environment? Slalom Element lab212 is located in the One World Trade Center of New York City and is open for tours for potential clients.

285 Fulton St, 61st Floor, Suite M
New York, NY 10007
212-947-1700

Get in touch

We built Slalom Element to inspire ourselves and our clients to not just talk about innovation but rather to experience it hands-on and build that creative energy into the DNA of their businesses.

John Tomik

Managing Director

John is the creator of Element Laboratories and a managing director in Slalom’s global strategy group. He created Slalom Element Laboratories to provide an inspirational and innovative physical space to fulfill Slalom’s purpose of helping people and organizations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all.

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I’m excited to partner with our customers in rapidly advancing areas of innovation such as robotics powered by AI; AR and spatial compute; and emerging platforms to support AI.

Chris Thomas

Senior Director

Chris believes in innovation via technology and has led many projects throughout his career transforming businesses to scale and exploiting new technologies. As the Head of Technology for the Slalom Element Lab, Chris is focused on next gen disruptive technologies from AI and robotics to augmented reality.

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I’m inspired by bringing people together to redefine what's possible—and getting it done.

Megan Acheson

Director

Megan has a decade of experience supporting the growth of Slalom’s business and teams. She’s a people-person focused on strategy, operations, marketing, sales, and talent.

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I’m an advocate for the ideals of an open, free, and privacy-respecting internet, and I support organizations who fight for these principles.

Justin Tormey

Director

With almost three decades as a digital native, I’ve witnessed and contributed to the evolution of the internet. After all this time, you’d think I’d know what I want to be when I grow up. But I don’t.

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The future of factories

Hitachi America, Ericsson, and Slalom collaborated on a proof of concept to develop an automated quality inspection solution at Hitachi Rail’s Maryland facility leveraging SPOT, a robotic dog from Boston Dynamics. Using the latest robot technologies to inspect train car production, this proof of concept demonstrates the power of smart factories to increase efficiency, consistency, worker safety, and traceability—while capturing large amounts of data to further improve the flow of operations on the factory floor.

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”Robotic inspections of train cars are not just initiatives to automate and save money,” says Slalom Element managing director John Tomik. “They’re really out there to help make people safer.” Image courtesy of Hitachi America.

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