AI Innovators

Lisa Avery talks about the power of P.E.R.M.A: Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationship, Meaning, Accomplishment and how these can help with your job application and interview

Saud Siddiqui is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sketchy, a leading online education company that helps students master complex concepts through fun and informative sketches that enhance visual memory.

Siddiqui founded Sketchy in 2013 with three other med students created sketched stories to study for their board exams, and began sharing with others. Under Siddiqui's vision and leadership, Sketchy has raised a $30 million investment from TCG, with plans to expand their content offering and develop an in-house studio for live content creation.

Siddiqui is a first generation immigrant from Pakistan. Before founding Sketchy, he had been driven by his fascination with entrepreneurship and online education, tinkering with web design and development, video and content creation, and marketing.

Siddiqui has an undergraduate degree from USC, a doctorate from UCI Medical School, and completed his residency at George Washington University in emergency medicine. In 2019, he was listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 for Education.

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Claude Turcotte is the CEO of MaestroVision. He was a broadcast engineer specialist working for a broadcast product manufacturer. He saw an opportunity to develop an application that was going to revolutionize the way high quality video signals are recorded, shared and managed in the broadcast industry, thus- the company was born.

An interview with Eugene Capon, Social Media Futurist - Content Creator open to speaking on VR and social media. A social media futurist, Eugene's forward thinking attitude towards how we connect using technology has been at the forefront of his mission to connect the world. In 2014 he graduated with a BA in Liberal Arts with an emphasis on "YouTube Studies" from Evergreen State. Upon graduation he went to work at the YouTube consulting Agency, Press Play.

In 2016 he quit his job as an art director to pursue XR social media. Eugene's first project was producing the film "Journey VR". This film became an official selection at SIFF, a staff pick by Adobe and VEER, then would become the number one 360 video download on Steam for 30 days at the time of its release.

A year later he would produce and host GLITCHED, the first in VR talk show to be ordered as if it were a TV show. The show revolved around interviewing large name tech and social media influencers like Barnacules Nerdgasm, iJustine, Jake Roper of Vsauce3 and Gearlive. The show ran for a total of 3 seasons.

Since then he has been an avid YouTube creator making 360 animated shorts which have gained millions of views on YouTube as well as making appearances to educate the masses on the evolution of the social media experience.

Visit his website: http://hightechinfluencer.com/ @CaponDesign

David Gumbrell is an educational consultant, working in schools to support teachers with their resilience and also with teacher training providers and student teachers. He delivers INSET days, 1-2-1 coaching sessions, and speaks at headteacher conferences. Drawing on over 20 years of teaching experience, including 7 years as a headteacher, and research conducted at Kingston University, he is well placed to nurture the development of those new to the profession (as well as those who have been teaching for a little longer). He understands how precious time is for teachers and wanted to create a resource that made the best use of this. Find out more about David and his work at https://theresilience-project.co.uk/

Riipen are a 6-year-old education technology company on a mission to eliminate graduate underemployment by reducing the skills gap for those about to enter or re-enter the workforce. Riipen is headquartered in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Riipen is the leading technology platform for higher education institutions providing work-integrated micro-experiential learning to their students. Over the past two years, we have supported 60,000 students on 225+ campuses to work with over 10,000 employers.

Riipen has partnered with Emerge Education as part of the recently announced HE sector-wide programme, Learning and Teaching Reimagined, with Jisc, Universities UK, and Advance HE (press release here). The partnership will focus on how universities and employers can collaborate at scale with technology, informed by an action group of senior leaders from HE and the corporate world led by Nick Petford, V-C University of Northampton.

Company Highlights:

Experiential Learning Partnership with Royal Bank of Canada announced in October 2019 and moving into Phase II in September 2020

$2.6 Million dollar Experiential Learning Partnership with the Business-Higher Education Roundtable (BHER) announced in June 2020

Raised over $7.5MM in funding and over $1.2MM in Government Funding

Over 60,000 student experiences generated in the past two years

Active on over 225 post-secondary campuses across North America, The UK, and Australia

10,000+ employers in the Riipen community

300% annual recurring revenue growth

Rapidly expanding user base globally

About Shawn:

Shawn is the Director of Operations (formerly Director of Operations & Customer Success) and is a member of Riipen's executive team. Previously, Co-founder and Managing Director at Future Project (an international student recruitment consultancy, sold in 2016). Law degrees from the University of Toronto and the University of Sussex.

About Thomas

Thomas is a member of the US and UK Academic Sales teams at Riipen. A graduate from the University of Sussex and King's College London, Thomas was previously a UK secondary school teacher and online learning instructor.

An interview with Blessing Maregere, who has presented a TedX Talk -Let Your Passion Be Your Alarm Clock http://bit.ly/1guh9Mz. He started a successful business at 16, qualified as a teacher and is now taking a PHD in the field of edtech and assessment. He has lectured in entrepreneurship.

Since lockdown, it's all been about virtual events. But how can you create one? We'll hear from Graham Coath about an event that we put on together, entitled Edtech Thought Leaders