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Fletcher D-Prize: Pitch to Match Session
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´âÿ If you have an idea, pitch it! Tell us what you are thinking about, what kind of resources, including team members and their skills you are looking for, and make an ask.
´âÿ You will have up to 2 minutes to pitch your idea.
´âÿ You will get live feedback from Marilyn Davison, Entrepreneurship Coach in Residence, Will Snider, Judge in the D-Prize as well as from your peers in the room.
´âÿ If you don't have an idea but want to join a team, come prepared to talk about how you could contribute to a team.
´âÿ Tables will be marked with the D-Prize Challenge areas: Agriculture, Clean Water, Energy, Education, Health Access, Livelihoods and Public Service.
´âÿ Elaine Chen, Executive Director of the Derby Entrepreneurship Center will be on hand for support. The Tufts Ideas Competition which runs through Oct 24th is also a terrific way to test out your ideas. For more information, visit: https://go.tufts.edu/ideas2021.
´âÿ Enjoy some cool snacks and sit with people who are interested in the same topics. If you are not sure about participating, please come anyway and share your curiosity.
Speakers
Will Snider
Program Manager
D-Prize
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wisnider/
Will is the Operations Lead at D-Prize, where he leads global competitions and was a founding member of the judge team. D-Prize uses a competition format to locate and launch new "distribution entrepreneurs" - social entrepreneurs who start new ventures that distribute proven life-enhancing technologies to millions of people living in extreme poverty. Prior to joining D-Prize, Will was an early employee of One Acre Fund in Kenya and Ethiopia, where he worked to distribute agricultural inputs to the last mile.
Marilyn Davison
Fletcher Entrepreneurship Coach in Residence
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marilyndavison/
Marilyn is a double Jumbo with a BS and MA from Tufts University. Her Fine Arts degrees led to an award-winning position as a Boston Globe Art Critic. She held Sales and Consultant Management positions in high tech and management consulting both in the US and in France – where she worked for large global and small academic consultancies for twenty years before returning to Boston in 2013.
As a management consultant, Marilyn managed strategy and IT based projects, and was a speaker at seminars through Europe and in Beijing. Marilyn co-designed and managed a Venture Academy in Sophia Antipolis, France, where she coached French startup firms. As an adjunct professor, she taught at three French-based global MBA programs – Institut de Préparation à l’Administration Générale (IPAG), specifically the Leadership and Business Plan Development program for this MBA Entrepreneurial program in the South of France; the School of Knowledge Economy and Management (SKEMA); and Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord (EDHEC). Her entrepreneurial learning experiences include founding a pet supply company and an Internet shopping mall.
In addition to her work supporting the Fletcher D-Prize, currently Marilyn is a mentor in the MIT Sandbox program and with the MIT partnership Explorer mentoring program, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco. She is a mentor with ChangeLabs Scale UP accelerator in Egypt, having worked with this program in Jordan and on site for two years in Lebanon. This includes mentoring a special program for the Beirut Red Cross EMT organization. She judged Innovation Week in Nairobi, as well as coached and judged Hult Prize competitions as an expert in Team Dynamics and Mediation for 7 years.
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