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Join us for an engaging panel discussion with the Co-Directors of the University Innovation Fellows (UIF) Program at Stanford University’s d.school.
This highly selective program is designed to foster entrepreneurship and innovation by putting students at the center of driving change within higher education. Since inception, more than 2,200 students, from 250+ schools, in more than 30 countries have learned creative ways to promote an entrepreneurial mindsets on their campus.
Fellows have led some incredible work including raising millions of dollars for new maker spaces, hosted dozens of TEDx events, new orientation programs impacting 10’s of thousands of students every year, and even hosted a 500-person hackathon with Grammy-Winning artists to drive change in social issues. Their work has been featured by the Obama White House, SxSW 2019, the MIT Press, and many more.
Humera and Leticia will share change making strategies that can help you drive change across your organization. The same strategies students use to create change at their universities, can be used in organizations big and small to drive creative change. We know you will leave this with a spark of inspiration to help you drive change!
Humera Fasihuddin
Humera is an innovator, a program director and consultant with over 20 years of experience in the private and non-profit sectors. In the last decade, she helped expand innovation and venture creation offerings in academia across the globe through advanced venture training workshops, competitions and other programs. Humera has led workshops and consulting services for corporate and university clients in the US, UK, India and Dubai. She has spoken on innovation in many venues, including SXSWedu, Oxford University, Aalto University, Michigan Tech, the American Society of Engineering Education. She has also delivered the plenary addresses at the annual conferences of the American Association of Colleges and VentureWell Open.
Humera is co-founder and co-director of the University Innovation Fellows, a program at Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, or the d.school. Founded in 2012, the program empowers students to become agents of change in higher education and to create new learning opportunities that will help their peers build creative confidence and hone their entrepreneurial mindsets. Working with these systems thinkers, schools are evolving their offerings in a way that prepares students to address the complex challenges in the economy of the future. Her work is the subject of social scientist researchers Bev and Etienne Wenger-Trayner in their book, Designing for Change: Using social learning to understand organizational transformation.
Leticia Britos Cavagnaro
Leticia Britos Cavagnaro is co-founder and co-Director of the University Innovation Fellows, a program of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school), which empowers students to be co-designers of their education, in collaboration with faculty and leaders at their schools. Leticia was Deputy Director of the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter), an NSF-funded initiative that operated from 2011 to 2016 to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in engineering education nationwide. She is an adjunct professor at the d.school, where she teaches Stanford students of all disciplines how to build their creative confidence to become engines of innovation in teams and organizations. Leticia has a Ph.D. in Developmental Biology from Stanford's School of Medicine, and is a former member of the Research in Education & Design Lab (REDlab) at Stanford’s School of Education.
Leticia is fascinated with how people learn and the dynamics of creative teams. Growing up, one of the people who influenced her the most was her basketball coach, who taught her that perseverance and team play can do much more than just win championships. In design thinking she has found the ultimate team sport that pushes her onto greater challenges. She’s not sure what the next play will be and she’s comfortable with not knowing.
If she were granted a wish, she would like to bring her home country of Uruguay a tad closer to California. A teleporter to go back and forth in an instant would do too.
Ryan Phillips | Moderater
Ryan Phillips will moderate the conversation that will dive into creativity in technology, the future of education in this new virtual world and how you can build the confidence and entrepreneurial mindset needed to address global challenges and to build a better future.
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