Innovation and the Pandemic Response
When COVID-19 hit, one of the nation’s largest utilities had to act immediately in order to keep employees and customers safe.
LAUNCH is a global initiative to identify and support the innovative work poised to contribute to a sustainable future and accelerate solutions to meet urgent challenges facing our society. Founded in 2010 as a strategic collaboration between NASA, NIKE, the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), LAUNCH identifies and supports visionaries whose ideas, technologies or programs have the potential to create a better world.
Goals
Bring awareness to sustainability
Design a collaborative gaming platform
Execute a participant-driven live experience
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Innovation is most powerful when it’s activated by collaboration between unlikely partners, coupled with investment dollars, marketing know-how and determination.
Workshop for a unified vision
12 weeks prior to the event, we made a trip to the Tiger Woods Conference Center in Beaverton, OR, for an introduction and complete immersion in the LAUNCH initiative to ensure success for the weeks to follow.
Real-time collaborative gameplay environment
Dynamic math models based on expert feedback and other teams’ performance made for a realistic set of criteria to play against.
Multi-device support
Cloud hosted backend to provide content distribution, team aggregated decision tracking and calculations for determining outcomes.
Scalable design system
Established flexible UI to work across a suite of 6 different applications, focused on ease of use and navigability.
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Learn more about LAUNCH Summit
The summit also unveiled the LAUNCH 2013 Challenge Statement, an open call for innovation to transform the system of producing fabrics.
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