Schedule (Timings are approximate)
- 6:00 Welcome and Introductions
- 6:15 Rent Right
- 6:23 KarmaTrade
- 6:31 SkillBridge
- 6:39 Lotus Locals
- 6:47 Akdy
- 6:55 Break
- 7:00 Polar Privacy
- 7:08 Lynx
- 7:16 Moovu
- 7:24 Simorgh
- 7:32 Sublettr
- 7:40 Judge Deliberation/Audience Q&A
- 8:00 Winner Announcement and Wrap Up
Event format
The 2023 Tufts Ideas Competition will be hosted in-person at the Joyce Cummings Center. Refreshments will be served at 5:30pm prior to the event. We will also provide a Zoom option. The Zoom link will be provided once you register on the Markit Social platform. We invite the audience to vote for your favorite team after all teams have pitched.
Interactive Audience Q&A
After the pitches and judges’ Q&A session has concluded, we invite our audience to an interactive Q&A with our teams. In-person and virtual attendees may ask any team a question through an online platform called Slido. Upvote/downvote existing questions, or ask a new question in this format: “[TEAM NAME] Question”.
2023 Finalists
2023 Judges
Samuel M. Gebru
Black Lion Strategies, Tufts University
Managing Director, Black Lion Strategies; Professor of the Practice and Senior Fellow, Tufts University
Sam Kessel
Associate, Locust Walk
Max Makeev
Owl Labs
Chief Development Officer, Cofounder of Owl Labs
Marilyn Salzman
Salzman Consulting
President at Salzman Consulting, LLC
Hillary Sieber
Chief of Staff, General Catalyst
Abe Stein
MIT MBA
Growth and Operations Leader
2023 Screeners
Rob Greenberg
Neural Magic
Product
Helia Mojahed-Yazdi
Northeastern University
Doctor of Pharmacy Student at Northeastern University
Ashira Pelt
The Fletcher School at Tufts University
Masters in Law and Diplomacy Candidate, The Fletcher School at Tufts University
Mohit Saini
Tufts University
Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy Graduate, The Fletcher School at Tufts University
Albert Tseng
Expedia Group
Product Manager ||, Expedia Group
Jay Yi
Penske Transportation Solutions
Associate Product Manager at Penske Transportation Solutions