Innovation for Good or Profit?

Can we truly innovate and make a profit at the same time? Hear from industry leaders on how they envision saving the planet and making money.

Can we achieve meaningful social innovations and turn a profit at the same time? We all love puppies and rainbows and we all want to save the planet but how to do it is the big challenge. If improving the planet is in our hands, can we make a meaningful impact while achieving economic growth objectives? Hear from industry leaders on how they envision saving the planet and making money. This event aims to uncover real-world examples that showcase we can do good and do well at the same time.

Join us and share your insights on how together can collectively innovate with impact.

Panel:

Moderators: Jim Myrick – Partner SeriousFun – Patrick Consorti – EiR SchooLab

Renee Yao
Global Healthcare AI Startups Business Development Lead at NVIDA.

Renee leads global healthcare AI startups at NVIDIA, managing more than 1800 healthcare startups in the digital health, medical instrument, medical imaging, genomics, and drug discovery segments. Before this role, she was a senior product manager and product marketing manager for AI systems, building bundle solutions and reference architectures for the self-driving car, telecom, and big data analytics industries. She also started six of her own startups in healthcare insurance, analysts rating, fashion, AI toys, competition software, and climate tech. Yao graduated from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley with a focus on economics and IT. She enjoys competitive ballroom dancing, reading, and traveling in her free time.

Eric Quon-Lee
Operations Leader, Strategic Industries Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Eric Quon-Lee is an operations leader based in San Francisco, California. He was a seasoned cross-border management consultant at several consulting firms where he focused on strategy, operations and finance.
In his spare time, Eric is involved in the startup ecosystem in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the globe. Eric is a passionate “super-connector” where he connects like-minded individuals to ensure they are able to achieve the next step of their startup journey.
Eric is also a published blogger and author. He wrote, Ideate Your Career, a self-published book on career advancement that is available on Amazon.
In addition to his MBA from the Rotman School of Management – University of Toronto and his political science degree from the University of Toronto, Eric has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the Toronto Metropolitan University.

Jonathon Feit
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Beyond Lucid Technologies

Jonathon Feit is also Managing Consultant of the BrainTrust of Fire & EMS Technologists. He has forged market-facing collaborations with Dell, AthenaHealth, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Telamon, Xerox / Conduent, and other corporations, and helped to found the Congress of Mobile Medical Professionals. His firm became the first EMS-facing member of the CommonWell Health Alliance. BLT won the 2019 Frost & Sullivan Technology Leadership Award for “EMS Data Communications Platform.”

Fee: $10.00 advance $15:00 at the door
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