Leaders & Founders - ZOE | Building a COVID Tracking App in a Global Pandemic

Virtual Leaders & Founders - Thursday 23rd April 2020 - Zoom Event!

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Hey everyone!

Thanks for all of those who got back to me, the response for some high-level Leadership and Strategic events was overwhelming, so we will aim to be bringing you as many virtual Leaders & Founders events over the coming weeks as possible. Keep posted for more details!

Without further ado, we are very excited to be delivering the very first virtual Leaders & Founders event on Thursday 23rd April 2020 (next week) at 4.30pm, in collaboration with Julien Lavigne du Cadet, VP Engineering at ZOE.

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ABOUT ZOE

ZOE is a nutritional science company based between Boston and London. They are on a mission to help people eat with confidence and work closely with world-leading researchers and machine learning experts, leading the world’s largest ongoing scientific nutritional research project to understand our unique responses to food.

As a business, they have raised tens of millions from investors and entrepreneurs who have built multi-billion dollar technology companies.

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COVID SYMPTOM TRACKER APP | https://covid.joinzoe.com

As the Coronavirus and COVID-19 started to develop in the UK, Julien and his team quickly looked to build an app that would help the British population track their symptoms, thus hoping to help 'flatten the curve'.

The COVID Symptom Tracker that was built was created by doctors and scientists at King's College London, Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals working in partnership with ZOE. It is helping scientists and authorities to study the symptoms of COVID-19 and track the spread of this virus and was endorsed by NHS Scotland and other leading bodies who have promoted its' use.

The app went very quickly from initial concept and idea, to 1M users in less that a week and is now used by >2.5M people. Some very impressive numbers indeed.

We asked Julien Lavigne du Cadet, VP of Engineering at Zoe, to spend some moments sharing about the whirlwind month he spent building and scaling the COVID Symptom Tracker with his team.

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FORMAT

Start time: We are aiming for a 4.30-4.45pm start

• We understand that everyone has completely different availability and commitments with working from home, so will try to be as flexible as possible. Please keep us updated with times and availability so that we can tweak if needs be.

Duration: ~1 hour with Q&A towards the end

Format: Slightly different to usual events, this will be more conversational with Julien leading the chat rather than using slides. Given the strange working environments, Julien and G&F want to ensure there is still healthy debate and networking available for London and Europe's technical and business leaders.

Please e-mail me at: adam@gatheredandfound.co.uk if you have any questions.

We will be putting on more great events as well as this one in the coming weeks, but thank Julien for helping to get a great conversation started with their amazing recent story.

Link to the event will go out on the day of the event, so keep your eyes peeled!

Adam Kinder
Leaders & Founders | Gathered & Found