Join Social Entrepreneurship at UVA, Patagonia, UVA Environmental Institute and UVA Innovates for an exciting design challenge to imagine Pro-Nature and Environmentally-Positive Social Enterprises!
Win up to $1000 in prizes and network with senior leadership from Patagonia, The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, the Environmental Institute, Foundry, UVA Innovates, 434 Accelerator, nature-first social enterprises, and other top national conservation organizations!
RSVP here to join us for a Design Sprint from 3-5 pm in the Great Hall of Garrett Hall on April 6th. Social Entrepreneurship at UVA, Patagonia leadership, the Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, the Environmental Institute and design thinking professionals and pro-nature social entrepreneurs will be in the room, working to ideate and hone your great ideas!
Event Agenda
Great Hall of Garrett Hall (235 McCormick Rd., Charlottesville, VA 22903) - Lunch 2nd Floor & Design Sprint 1st Floor
1-2pm: Lunch and Fireside Chat (facilitated by Christine Mahoney)
Pro-nature students, outdoor club members, environmental studies students and social entrepreneurship students and Hilary Dessouky (SVP Patagonia) discuss pro-nature social enterprise (second floor of Garrett Hall)
3-5pm: Pro-Nature Social Enterprise Design Sprint
Design thinking sprint where pro-nature professional experts ideate with teams and provide feedback during a fast-paced process to formulate ideas into social enterprise concepts
You can come with an idea or come ready to ideate! We’ll walk you through a Design Thinking workshop to ideate and hone pro-nature social enterprise ideas. The sky is the limit - clean energy, decarbonization, outdoor recreation, outdoor gear, pro-nature CPG, recycling, anti-pollution, carbon sequestration, regenerative agriculture, sustainable fashion, urban farming, EVs, sustainable construction, etc. etc. For more examples of pro-nature social enterprises visit our Pro-Nature Social Enterprise Design Challenge website: https://www.resilientappalachia.org/design-challenge
Following the event, students are encouraged to feed their ideas into the UVA Entrepreneurship cup, the i.lab incubator, and the Solutions Lab.
-Participating experts and design facilitators in the room:
- Hilary Dessouky, Patagonia
- Bill Kittrell, The Nature Conservancy
- Bronson Griscom, Conservation International
- David Touve, 434 Accelerator
- Will Lentz, Foundry
- Brian Breslin, UVA Innovates
- Jonah Fogel, UVA Environmental Institute
- Christine Mahoney, Batten School
- Mark White, McIntire School
- Katie Begando, Bluubird
