VVC 2024 Founder Interviews
The content below is just a taste of what’s to come with the Visionaries & Ventures Convention.
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Meet Fellow Founders!
Yujie Wang
Yujie Wang shares the story of Vocadian, a startup providing predictive impairment management to empower a safer, healthier and more productive workforce.
David Hojah
David Hojah describes how Parrots is leveraging consumer technology and AI to help detect Alzheimer’s.
Andrew Steen
Andrew Steen explains how persistence and building connections with others has been critical to his startup Laptis, a software platform overcoming the system challenge of connecting substance abuse disorder patients with treatment centers.
Erin Dawicki
Erin Dawicki discusses her startup LymeAlert, which provides a novel method of testing for Lyme disease, and her time as an MIT Sloan Fellow MBA candidate.
Doug Williams
Doug Williams discusses some of his startup experience to provide background on why he’s facilitating the “MIT AI Jetpacks for Entrepreneurs” workshop to represent the MIT Martin Trust Center at the Convention.
Zinnie Zhang
Zinnie Zhang discusses Enttor, a startup she founded to provide enterprise social media managers with cutting edge analytics software.
Muskkaan Bafnaa
Muskkaan Bafnaa discusses Evolving Thinkers, a startup she founded to provide an activity-based learning program to enhance and foster essential social and transferable skills in young learners, particularly those aged 3–8.
Manish Maheshwari
Manish Maheshwari discusses fanory.ai, a startup he has co-founded to provide a tool set for social media creators to monetize predictably using AI.
Symposium 2023: Innovations in Health
Achieving Peak Performance
- Christina Chu – Sports Nutritionist
- Kristen Holmes – VP, Performance Science, WHOOP
- Brad Snyder – 6-Time Paralympic Gold Medalist & US Navy Special Operations Veteran
Ongoing Revolutions in Healthcare
- Jo Aggarwal – Founder & CEO, Wysa
- Vince Sliwoski – Psychedelics & Cannabis Attorney, Harris Bricken
- CL Tian– CEO & Co-Founder, Phiex Technologies
Protecting Your Data
- Stephen Boyd – Assistant VP, Assistant Deputy General Counsel, Beth Israel Lahey Health
- Joe Cook – Director, Privacy for the Ex-APAC region, BeiGene
- Christine Savage – Health Care Co-Chair, Choate