David Doe

Designer - Redshoe

R. Harrison

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Splash Blocks kicks off on April 21st, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be epic!

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Thursday
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June
 
11
 at 
9:00am
 

Ken_ya Innovate?

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The winning solutions are:

Alpharider, The Notebook Project, REALM

It is with great pleasure that we announce the winners of the Kenya Innovate Social Innovation Challenge.


There was a tie for the top prize and both Alpha Rider (humanlevel.io) & The Notebook Project will be sending one participant on a two week adventure through Nairobi!

The Realm team won the $500 software prize and gets to work further on their prototype.

Thank you to everyone who participated! You made this a great experience - we look forward to getting this working group started!

None of this would have been possible without all the hard work of so many people and the reward will be the results of the trip.

 



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ABOUT

Since May 6th, we have been gathering people that care about literacy. Ken_Ya Innovate provides an opportunity to learn about how to design an empathetic, innovative and socially sustainable solution to improving how kids learn. We believe that wanting to make the world a better place starts with a simple idea; the idea that we have just as much to gain as we have to give. That is a powerful message.


Ken_Ya Innovate vous offre l'occasion de vivre un processus de design menant à l'éclosion de solutions novatrices et durables dans le domaine de l'alphabétisation et de la pédagogie. Nous croyons qu'une simple idée peut contribuer à améliorer le monde- l'idée qu'on peut recevoir tout en donnant.


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HOW CAN YOU TAKE PART IN KEN_YA INNOVATE?

 Come join in for the panels, activities and discussion on how to improve literacy but also to make an action plan for the future of social innovation.


The winning team will receive two tickets to Nairobi for a two week immersive experience testing their technical and social prototype in the field with the students, schools and tech community of Nairobi. There is a second $500 cash prize available to the team that comes up with the best software solution that is compatible with the CSLP’s Learning Toolkit software. 

 

If you're interested in participating on June 11th, it's still open to do that! See the schedule for participants below. 

 



FOR PARTICIPANTS

10:30am - 12pm

Hacking

Refine your concept with coaches and structure your solution around empathy, sustainability and feasability.

1pm-3pm

First iteration of solutions

Start putting together your pitch and presentation, validate your solution with outher partipants and coaches.

4:15pm

Final iteration of solutions

Presentations and Judging

pROGRAM FOR THE DAY

(FOR PARTICIPANTS, SEE BELOW)

9:00 am

Breakfast and Networking. Get prepared for the day.

10:00 am

Opening Remarks:

Andrew Woodall, Dean of Students, Concordia University

10:30 am

Ken_Ya Innovate Challenge Description and Setting

11:00 am

Panel 1: What is Innovation?
Mazen Elwab, Founder and Ceo - Heddoko
Shaun Gamboa, Innovation Manager - District 3
Deborah Dysart Gale, Associate Professor & Chair Provost Fellow in Innovation - Concordia University

12:00 pm

Keynote: "Enterprises and Entrepreneurs: Driving Innovative Growth in the Digital Age"

Tamara Zimmerman, Innovation Lead - Accenture Canada

 

1:00 pm

Panel 2: Knowledge Mobilization and Technology

Philip Abrami, Concordia Research Chair in Education - Concordia University
Graham Carr, VP Research and Graduate Studies -Concordia University 
Matt Harsh, Assistant Professor, Center for Engineering in Society - Concordia University

2:00 pm

Innovation Workshop: The Fine Art of Observation

2:30 pm

Panel 3: Design For Society
Carmella Cucuzella, Assistant Professor, Design and Computation Arts - Concordia University
Govind Gopakumar, Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Centre for Engineering in Society
Daniel Blumer, Founder of Revol 

3:30 pm

Keynote: "Innovation Through Design" 

Ruturaj Mody, Lead UX at SAP Labs

4:00 pm

Ken_ya Innovate Challenge Finals 

 

KEYNOTES

RUTURAJ MODY - SAP Labs

RUTURAJ IS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY EXPERIENCE DESIGNER WITH STRONG BACKGROUND IN DESIGN MANAGEMENT AND ARCHITECTURE. 

AT SAP LABS MONTREAL, RUTURAJ HAS A MISSION TO CREATE WORLD-CLASS PRODUCTS AND A CONNECTED, NEXT-GENERATION ENTERPRISE EXPERIENCE. PRIOR TO SAP, RUTURAJ WAS AT NOKIA, RESPONSIBLE FOR MAPS ON IOS AND ANDROID MOBILE PHONES AND ON TABLET DEVICES. HIS TEAM DELIVERED MAPPING SOLUTIONS TO YAHOO, FACEBOOK, AMAZON, SAMSUNG AND BING. 


TAMARA ZIMMERMAN - ACCENTURE CANADA

TAMARA ZIMMERMAN IS THE INNOVATION LEAD FOR ACCENTURE CANADA, BASED IN MONTREAL.

TAMARA SPECIALIZES IN INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, BREAKTHROUGH THINKING FACILITATION AND HELPING ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS INDUSTRIES DEVELOP THEIR INNOVATION STRATEGIES AND PROGRAMS.

 


speakers

gRAHAM CARR

VP, Research and Graduate Studies, Concordia University

Graham Carr provides overall leadership and oversees strategic planning initiatives, as well as policy and strategy development, for research and research-creation, graduate studies and international activities.

pHIL Abrami

Concordia University Research Chair + Director of CLSP

His current work focuses on research integrations and primary investigations in support of applications of educational technology in distance and higher education, in early literacy, and in the development of higher order thinking skills.

Deborah Dysart Gale

Associate Professor & Chair CES; Provost Fellow in Innovation

cONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

Deborah Dysart-Gale’s research brings together her interests in intercultural communication, health communication and community development. She works primarily to improve health and social work communication in developing communities.

Matt hARSH

Assistant Professor  ces, concordia University

 Matt Harsh is interested in how new and emerging technologies can improve livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. He works mainly in Kenya and South Africa and has focused on new biotechnologies for agriculture (genetically-modified crops), nanotechnology, and computer science and information technologies.

Govind 

Gopakumar

Associate Professor Ces, Concordia uNIVERSITY

Dr. Gopakumar is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research interests are quite varied but broadly he is interested in how technological change becomes acceptable to society. In analyzing this puzzle he thinks that a combination of social, policy and technical dynamics play a defining role.

carmela cucuzzella

Assistant Professor, Design and Computation Arts

cONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

Carmela Cucuzzella's research interests lie predominantly in responsible design practices. She addresses the limits of current sustainability assessment tools as a means to gain a complex understanding of social, cultural and environmental repercussions of design practice.

 

Mazen Elbawab

Founder Heddoko

Mazen Elbawab is a versatile computer and software engineer with a propensity for entrepreneurship. He has worked over 8 years in the gaming and entertainment industry, medical imaging and biomedical industry with notable companies such as Ubisoft, Sega, Electronic Arts and Siemens.

Andrew Woodall 

DEAN OF Students

Concordia university 

Andrew Woodall has extensive work experience in the education milieu, having served as director  for the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation. Prior to that, he was program officer for the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, mentoring young social entrepreneurs and advising on the strategic direction of the foundation.

Daniel blumer

Founder REVOL tECHNOLGIES

Daniel is a Queens MBA graduate who prior to starting his own technology company in 2014,was an investment advisor at CIBC Wood Gundy. Daniel has always had a passion for start-ups and entrepreneurship.

 

Shaun gamboa

innovation manager

District 3 concordia

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Interested in prototyping a solution to improve literacy?

ABOUT

SOCIAL INNOVATION CHALLENGES

Designing with empathy and emotional intelligence is something that cannot be taught but can only be experienced. Social Innovation Challenges seek to bring this experience to individuals from all backgrounds that want to make a difference in a real, integrated and meaningful way. By creating this design challenge, we are bringing together some of the most engaged influencers in the fields of innovation, design and social impact on June 11th for a day of learning and innovation. It's hands-on, it's open to all and it's a learning experience unlike any other.

 

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Pour concevoir une solution avec empathie et intelligence émotionnelle, il faut un apprentissage qui passe par l'expérience et l'expérimentation. Les défis d'innovation sociale visent à rassembler des individus de tous les milieux, unis par un désir d'implication. En créant ce défi-conception, nous aurons parmi nous des leaders engagés en innovation, en design et en impact social le 11 juin pour une journée d'apprentissage et d'innovation. C'est pratique, c'est ouvert à tous, et ça promet d'être une expérience unique.


An innovative solution comes from anywhere - all you need is a willingness to fail and reiterate.

If having social impact is something you want to explore further and learn about, Ken_Ya Innovate on June 11th is where you should be.


Let's get this amazing opportunity shared everywhere!

MTL, QC.

 


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