Design Thinking Workshop

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This will be an exciting session for anyone who has thought about bringing an idea to life as a project, pitch, or business. We will talk about examples currently in the news of entrepreneurial successes from which you can learn. Then we will practice techniques in a workshop format to flex your prototyping muscles. No industry or technical experience required.

This will be the first workshop in the Rice Launch Challenge Workshop Series. The workshops are sequenced throughout the year to guide you step by step though the entrepreneurial process. If you wish, you can apply what you learn in the final step -- by pitching in the Rice Launch Challenge Business Competition in the spring

Facilitator: Rupa Parekh, Founder of Umani
For the past 15 years, Rupa has been using tech, design thinking and innovation to help people live and work better. Now she's focused on helping kids play better! She founded, Umani, a toy and media company focused on making cultural learning irresistible through more global play for global kids. Previousy, she co-founded an innovation team at Salesforce, Ignite Incubator, which partnered with the Fortune 50 to co-create disruptive products and services that could be powered by the Salesforce platform. She has been an EIR for the Kanfer Family, creators of Purell Hand Sanitizer. Rupa got her foundational training as a consultant for Deloitte Human Capital and a transformative internship with IDEO as a business designer.

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