Senior Business Development Principal, Communities in Schools (CIS) leads responsibilities associated with transforming public education experience for vulnerable students in new geographies across the United States.
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Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles every two years, greatly accelerating the capacity of computing power in less and less space. This has transformed the technology world. Could the medical laboratory space for diagnostic testing follow a similar path? Possibly. Although these labs will not shrink by half each year, they are trending toward smaller, faster, and more accurate testing for the customer. Fast turnaround times are critical for infectious diseases like COVID-19 where time matters. For example, a person with undetectable COVID-19 virus at 10:00 AM could be 100 times more infectious by…
CEO of Pure Edge, Inc. She is a 2018 Pahara Aspen Education Fellow, serves on the Board of Directors of CASEL, Coalition for Career Development Center, and is the board chair of Great Minds nonprofit board. She has served as a school superintendent, principal, teacher and leadership coach as well as a program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Dr. Wyllie is credited with pushing forward on the use of saliva as a superior sample for creating high quality low cost testing. Her paper on the subject attracted support by the NBA that led to the development of technology that has enabled others to make possible frequent testing keeping kids in school and enabling professional sports to continue competition safely.
Max is a retired Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with over 30 years of experience in building physics. He has a Ph.D. in physics from Berkeley and is an international expert in air leakage, HVAC, indoor air quality, infiltration, moisture, energy efficiency, and related topics.
Michael Moe is the founder and CEO of GSV, a growth focused investment platform based in Silicon Valley. GSV has invested in companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Snap, Lyft and Spotify. GSV has several funds focused on the emerging education technology sector and has invested in Coursera, Chegg, Pluralsight, 2U and CourseHero. GSV stands for “Global Silicon Valley”, the Megatrend of innovation and entrepreneurship that has made Silicon Valley such a remarkable place, is spreading throughout the World.
Sanjay Malkani is the Global President of Lab Solutions for LumiraDx, overseeing a team that is disrupting the Molecular Lab Testing industry with rapid lab reagent solutions. He is also a founder and Director of GenePace Laboratories in Indianapolis, and a Director of Omega Laboratories, with sites in the US and Canada. He brings over two decades of experience in leading and growing Global diagnostic businesses.
Philanthropic think tank Altru Virus Project has commissioned a team at Yale University to assist in creating a comprehensive resource for organizations focused on the needs of schools K-12 schools. The Invest in Schools Summit August 3rd and 4th will be hosted in Washington, DC and produced in the form of an online White Paper which will be provided as an online resource. Updates will be provided in the monthly newsletter called K-12 Rebuild which will be distributed to school districts throughout the US / nationally. “There is a wide range of organizations seeking to support schools that deserve visibility said Brett Johnson, CEO of Altru Institute, which commissioned the research. “Collaboration and…