The Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Program (AMMP) Accelerator is a 3-month course focused on companies that are pre-revenue and have (ideally) early-stage operations. The Accelerator is a summer program based in Houghton, MI.
As a forward-thinking company deeply committed to fostering innovation and developing talent, we at Orange Sparkle Ball take immense pride in our longstanding partnership with the Georgia Tech Industrial Design program.
Members of the Orange Sparkle Ball team will be presenting “Precision Public Health: Empowering Communities with Hyperlocal Data for Targeted Interventions and Improved Outcomes,” a workshop focused building an actionable framework for collection and governance of community-owned data.
Orange Sparkle Ball will walk through their recent collaboration with Macon Black Tech, a non-profit focused on building inclusive resources for tech entrepreneurship and innovation. In this workshop hosted at the Middle Georgia Regional Library, OSB team members will walk through the process of performing a network analysis and demonstrate how they worked with local change-makers to map the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in Macon.
Members of the Orange Sparkle Ball team will be presenting “A Cross-Sectoral Approach to Innovation in Public Health,” a workshop focused on the use of Immersive Innovation Labs as a guided approach to innovation focused on multidisciplinary collaboration and the creation of actionable solutions.
Orange Sparkle Ball is proud to be supporting the PIN Leaders Program through our project–centered Innovation Coaching.
Commercial drone delivery in the news tends to be focused around companies delivering lunches and groceries but the benefits this technology offers is far more reaching than what many think. This session, featuring OSB’s Ashley Touchton, will break down how and why the aging in place population, people in rural/remote areas, suburban communities, and people in crisis, will gain the most from wide scale commercial drone adoption.
The GAME Change Summit will bring together experts, industry and community stakeholders in circular economy design, and technologies focused on building an innovation hub for sustainable manufacturing and resource recovery in Kentucky and Tennessee.
Tune in as OSB Founder Meaghan Kennedy discusses innovation, public health, and social entrepreneurship with Omari Richins, MPH, on the Public Health Careers podcast.
The Georgia Tech School of Industrial Design Career Fair presents an opportunity for students to showcase their creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving skills to top professionals and organizations in the design industry.
Census Open Innovation Summit 2024 will showcase 30+ new products built by hundreds of participants in The Opportunity Project (TOP) Sprints in 2023.
The OSB team is excited to be returning to APHA on very familiar turf - Atlanta. We will be in the expo talking about social network mapping (SNA) and precision intervention design.
We are excited to be planning our 2023 team retreat in Manistee, Michigan
From changing needs in the classroom to rapid vaccine manufacturing capabilities against novel outbreaks or ethical considerations with the advancement of AI and genetic engineering, the issue of preparing for the uncertain future while managing the present affects us all.
As technology tools changed, creatives had been shielded by the importance of the designer’s strategic vision. However, AI is bringing new challenges. In this talk, Ashley Touchton will discuss this shifting landscape, our true value as designers, and what the future could look like for the industry.
It’s essential for community resilience to design adaptive equity-centered data governance models that are better able to respond to and meet the diverse needs of a wider network of members. Data governance models can be designed to distribute power horizontally and vertically to allow for more networked innovation, equity, and sustainability.
Tech-Enabled Community Resilience is a model for harnessing the power of networks in a community ecosystem to influence and change social and health outcomes. This model highlights how co-design principles serve as core equity drivers for technology-enabled community data initiatives. Blending data science with the right technology tools gives communities a platform to pilot rapid innovations, simulate conditions and forecast outcomes, and build strategies to tackle entrenched problems.
Join us for a provocative conversation about the power of community.
Join Teri Garstka and Meaghan Kennedy as they discuss how communities are redefining resilience, repairing social fabric, and driving equity through the use of technology. Technology and innovation at the local level have the power to change community health and well-being outcomes. In this talk, they will demonstrate how social care networks measure the dynamic nature and power of resilient communities.
At the core of the greatest issues facing our society are issues of narratives - conflicting narratives, false narratives, and outdated narratives. Without effective communication and storytelling, even the best interventions and solutions will struggle.
Join us at the Public Health+ spring workshop Public Health+ Communication: Strategic Storytelling for Better Public Health Outcomes.
The Opportunity Project (TOP) Summit 2023 is a multi-day virtual conference presented by Census Open Innovation Labs (COIL) to showcase the work accomplished through TOP’s 2022 sprints.
PARTNER SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP OPPORTUNITY:
Congratulations to our friends at the Protagoniste Network for launching applications for the second cohort of Salto!
We are excited to be attending APHA in Boston, November 6-9. Please visit us in booth G38 to learn about how we tackle innovation in public health.
To IRIS, a leading community referral platform, a data champion is someone who lends their knowledge and experience to advance community discussions and decision-making. Often the life cycle of data collection, analysis, and dissemination is extractive, unaccessible, and not communicated for stakeholders and residents of the community.
How can we use entrepreneurial and innovative methods for global development and social issues? Ndunge Kiiti, PhD '02, adjunct associate professor in Global Development at Cornell University, has spend over 30 years exploring that topic. Join us (virtually) on April 12th at 12:00 as Dr. Kiiti is in conversation with Isabelle Swiderski, entrepreneurial ecosystem builder and founder of Seven25.
Public health and clinical medicine are often thought of as similar. However, they have different objectives where public health is driven by population level thinking and clinical medicine is concerned with individual well-being. What happens when those two objectives are at cross purposes? Join Michael Mina, MD, PhD, for a discussion with Meaghan Kennedy, MPH, as they explore the intersection between public health and clinical medicine. In particular, reflecting on the case study of Dr. Mina's pandemic-long quest to frame rapid tests as a public health tool aimed at stopping transmission, rather than a diagnostic tool for individual medical care.
Join us on February 1st for Public Health+ Advocacy, a webinar brought to you in partnership with Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
Join us January 13th for our live Evolve podcast, Exploring Food Innovation, with Mindy Armstrong from Inspire Brands and Meaghan Kennedy from Orange Sparkle Ball.
The Opportunity Project Summit is a multiday virtual conference to showcase the work accomplished through TOP’s 2021 sprints, feature other innovative technology and data products, host conversations with leading experts and grassroots community members, provide hands-on learning opportunities for attendees, and announce the winners of the Open Data for Good Grand Challenge.
Join us December 9th for our live Evolve podcast, Sustaining Innovation Through Transformational Shifts, with Farrell Calabrese from Eastman and Meaghan Kennedy from Orange Sparkle Ball.
Join us December 7th for the next installment of Public Health+ in partnership with Rollins School of Public Health. Sam Tsemberis and Sophie Becker will be in conversation about housing and health.
Join us November 16th for the next installment of Public Health+ in partnership with Rollins School of Public Health. Srishti Jain and Liris Berra will be in conversation about how food systems impact health.
PARTNER EVENT: PROTAGONISTE NETWORK
The biggest mistake many (most?) entrepreneurs make is to avoid talking with their stakeholders. We are all tempted to fall in love with our ideas and make risky assumptions about the problem we are solving and for whom we are solving it.
Season 2 of Public Health+ is back! We’re kicking off with two of the program's planners, Meaghan Kennedy and Sophie Becker, in a discussion about public health and design. They will be reflecting on how the last year has reinforced the need to look at public health through a design thinking lens.
Tuesday October 19th, 12-1:30 EST
Evolve Innovation is back for another season! Join us to kick off this season of live podcasts with a conversation on 'Navigating the Unknown' with Ben Garrett from The Hatchery, Emory Center for Innovation facilitated by return guest Tiffany Murray from Verizon.
Thursday October 14th, 12-1:30 EST
