SCALE San Diego

This awesome video was created by the winning team City Canvas to showcase what users of their application may be able to find: https://youtu.be/RX9rRuYnVmk

We are really excited about announcing the winner of the 2nd Urban Innovation Program - the team City Canvas, who developed a solution for city art and culture, primarily focusing on local art. The second finalist is the team 2-Way from UCSD, who developed a workflow solution for small and mid-size cities:

Join us on Tuesday, June 2 for the Final Pitch Presentations for IGNITE | SCALE | SAN DIEGO's Urban Innovation Challenge! Our two San Diego-based finalists are City Canvas and the 2-Way Team. Hear their final pitches and find out who will be named the winner of the Urban Innovation Challenge during this FREE, virtual event. Register here: https://bit.ly/2ZDNQmR

Check out UCSD Covid-19 Contact Tracing Challenge: https://innovation.ucsd.edu//changemaker-challenge-contac/

How would you optimize transportation for low and moderate income neighborhoods? How should citizens interact with the get-it-done app? How do we create a repository of cultural assets and events in our city and rank them? The urban innovation sprint is starting tomorrow: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovation-sprint-weekend-begi

Please welcome Erin Gavin, who has just joined SCALE SD as the Community and Program Lead! Erin brings a wealth of experience as a co-founder of Gavin Group International and recently as Director of Government Affairs at Qualcomm. While at Qualcomm, Erin led international and U.S.-based corporate social responsibility initiatives, including the Thinkabit Lab and Women Enhancing Technology (WeTech) STEM education programs. With each of these she has leveraged public private partnerships and technology in innovative ways. Erin is passionate about traveling, participating in mentorship activities, empowering women entrepreneurs and interacting with people from all cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. Welcome on board, Erin!

After being with us for over a year, Sandra Ainslie (aka Luna Montiel) is moving on to become the CEO of Girls Inc. San Diego, an organization that provides STEM programs to underserved girls in our region. While we're sad to see her go, this is an exceptional opportunity for Sandra. Sandra joined SCALE when we were just developing the IGNITE | SCALE | SAN DIEGO urban innovation program and played a key role in defining the strategy, methodology and the implementation of the innovation program. Sandra - SCALE would not be where it is without you! Thank you and knock 'em dead in your new role!

https://timesofsandiego.com//how-crowdsourced-innovation-/

It's starting tonight:

I’m really excited about the challenges we’re going to be tackling this year as part of the IGNITE | SCALE | SAN DIEGO program. It’s a unique opportunity to add...ress some of the very ambiguous problems and make an impact on our city. One of the challenges I wanted to share with you today is the one presented to us by the Commission for the Arts and Culture. Not everyday do we get a chance to invent something that would impact the way the city interacts with the local art. It’s about creating an intuitive map of cultural assets and venues in our city! How do you create something like that? How do you build a ranking engine that would prioritize cultural assets based on a following or attention they’ve been getting? How do you make it intuitive and sticky? This is definitely a task that goes beyond pure engineering and UX skills! Learn more about this and other challenges at the kick-off info session on Friday: See more

Innovation Week speakers announced! INNOVATION CHALLENGE INFO SESSION FEBRUARY 28TH with CLAUDE JONES INNOVATION WEEK MIXER MARCH 4TH with DMITRY SHAPIRO... Can't join on the 28th or 4th? Not to worry the Innovation sprint weekend runs March 6th-8th Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovation-sprint-weekend-begi