Visionary Ventures: A Workshop on Planning Your Journey

Partnership for inclusive innovation

This interactive workshop is designed to empower graduate students and recent graduate degree alumni to engage in meaningful career exploration and planning. Inspired by the Partnership for Inclusive Innovation's (PIN) at Georgia Tech’s SCALE Summit, this session will engage participants in developing ideas and goals for their short-term and long-term career and life planning, harnessing their own expertise and the expertise of peers. 

 

Target Audience

Graduate students and recent degree holders from diverse academic backgrounds who are passionate about innovation, making a difference through social impact careers, and students interested in non-academic “industry” roles.

Learning Outcomes

Through facilitated breakout groups, participants will learn to blend the principles of design thinking with career development, and building social capital:

  • Ideate Creative Solutions: Generate innovative ideas for through brainstorming and collaborative exercises.
  • Leverage Mentorship: Connect with experienced professionals to gain guidance and support.
  • Give Back Through Mentorship: Share their knowledge and expertise with others.
  • Build Strong Relationships: Foster meaningful connections with peers and industry leaders.

Key Concepts from Design Your Life

  • Radical Curiosity: Embrace a mindset of curiosity and openness to new ideas.
  • Mindful Design: Intentionally shape your life and career path.
  • Experimentation: Test out different approaches and learn from your experiences.
  • Radical Collaboration: Work with others to achieve shared goals.
  • Radical Self-Trust: Believe in your ability to create the life you want.

Learn More

PIN Website: https://pingeorgia.org/ 

Enterprise Innovation Institute Website: https://innovate.gatech.edu 

CREATE-X

Georgia Tech Create-X logoCREATE-X gives students every advantage it can to help support them in launching their products. Three startups will present in this Ted Talk-formatted session.

 

Featured Startups

  • Rapid Deployment Medical Training, Co-Founder: Joseph Ashley
  • RDMT provides variable and realistic wound packing and tourniquet application training aids for the military and first responders. 

 

  • kineVision, Founder: Norh Asmare
  • Enhancing athlete training sessions with deep analytics collected via computer vision. 

 

  • In Good Company, Founder: Sarah Naumann
  • IGC is a B2B service helping the service industry resolve labor challenges by training managers to obtain and retain talent from the disabled community.