How to Turn Your Science Project into a Product: A Creative Thinking Workshop by The Solution Lab

Speakers

Organizers

Stefanie Mazlish, MBA

Founder and CEO, The Solution Lab

The Solution Lab is a nonprofit which provides value-added services to emerging and established leaders in the scientific and business communities. They conduct market research and develop creative solutions for healthcare, medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotech companies facing strategic and operational challenges. The Solution Lab leverages the expertise and analytical capacity of advanced degree candidates and recent graduates (PhD/MD/JD/MPH/MBA), providing interdisciplinary teams of volunteer problem-solvers for their clients. The Solution Lab also serves the community through educational initiatives and networking events.

Thomas Magaldi, PhD

The New York Academy of Sciences

Keynote Speaker

Kristina Drury

TYTHE-Design

Kristina Drury (@TYTHEdesign) founder of TYTHEdesign, is a social entrepreneur, designer and educator. Under Kristina’s leadership TYTHE has worked with over 50 clients, taught over 400 students, and curated and produced several stopTHINKshops, a series of social good pop up shops. Prior to starting TYTHE, Kristina led a New York-based nonprofit and worked in consulting using design thinking strategies to advise organizations and companies on corporate social responsibility, design, and development. As an educator she has designed curriculums for a variety of workshops and programs from high school level to professional. Recently, she presented at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and taught a workshop for the New Museum’s Ideas City. She has also been a featured speaker at Drexel University, Pratt Institute and The Center for Leadership Innovation (TCLI). Kristina has a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from McGill University and a Master’s degree in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute.

Speakers

Dan Aisen

IEX

Dan Aisen (@IEXTrading) is a co-founder and quantitative developer at IEX. He is responsible for building and evolving core functionality for the IEX trading venue, namely its matching engine and smart order router. Previously, he spent his entire career at RBC starting with a summer internship in cash equity trading before moving into algorithmic trading, where he was part of the product team developing THOR, RBC's flagship trading product. Dan graduated with honors from Stanford University in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in Mathematical and Computational Science.

Dan Seewald

Pfizer

Dan Seewald is a Leader within Pfizer’s World Wide Innovation Team, which is responsible for building culture, capabilities and visionary experimentation across the 77,000 person organization. Dan’s professional background is a pastoral of traditional experiences, leading high performing marketing and market research teams, as well as non-traditional experiences, such as coaching high school wrestling and radio broadcasting.

Dan has spent the past 18 years in healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry. He has been trained as a moderator, as well as an ideation facilitator, and has led dozens of innovation and experimentation workshops across numerous categories, markets and therapeutic areas. Dan did his graduate studies (MBA) at New York University in Political Economy and Marketing and has a BS in Accounting from The College of New Jersey. Dan is also a certified creative problem solving (CPS) facilitator and a certified public accountant (CPA).

Benjamin Small, PhD

IEX

Ben has over 7 years of experience in the financial services industry and five years of experience with quantitative analysis and research in an academic setting. He has held research, trading, and leadership positions at some of the largest high-frequency trading firms, equities market makers, wholesale trading desks, and execution services groups on the street. Prior to his career in trading, Ben was a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University, where he also earned his PhD with distinction. He holds two patents in the field of fiberoptics and has published over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals.