Responding to COVID: Creative Solutions through Edtech, Healthtech and Innovations in the Future of Work

Teams of eager students will join our expert facilitators for a design sprint on ways that innovative startups can respond to the new environment we find ourselves in due to the pandemic. They will review ideas submitted by alumni and partners as jumping off points to design around for the Social Entrepreneurship Track of the UVA Entrepreneurship Cup and Fall Social Entrepreneurship courses. We will discuss the upcoming E-Cup competition, the current environment, the role of design thinking, share some ideas from alumni and partners, and then break out into groups to ideate around EdTech, HealthTech and the Future of Work.

• EdTech: Keaton Wadzinski, Founder, ReInvented Labs

• HealthTech: Ashwin Karthikeyan, Founder, InMedBio

• Future of Work: Carolyn Zelikow, formerly of Aspen Institute, Tom Tom Founders Festival

Register to join us: https://virginia.zoom.us/meeting/register

Submit your idea: Throughout the month of August, we will run a social media campaign for alumni and supporters to post their innovative startup concepts with hashtag #UVASolutions