The Innovation Accelerator provides funding to assist Penn Nursing students and faculty with the creation and testing of early stage solutions to improve health and health care outcomes with a priority on populations of greatest need.

Finalists will pitch their innovation to a panel of judges.

Keynote speaker: Dr. Bonnie Clipper, Chief Clinical Officer at Wambi. Dr. Clipper is an expert in the nursing innovation space and was the first Vice President of Innovation for the American Nurses Association.

Judges:

• Seth Ginns, Member, Penn Nursing Board of Overseers; Active Angel Investor

• John Prendergass, Ben Franklin Tech Partners

• Brett Topche, Red & Blue Ventures

• Dr. Margalit Haber, Osage University Partners

• Rui Jing Jian, Avis and Wharton Alumni

• Dr. Margo Brooks Carthon, Penn Nursing Faculty

Real-time visual storytelling of the pitches by Rachael Acker, Healthero Inc.

The pitch day event is open to the Philadelphia innovation and entrepreneurship community. Please come out and support our nurse innovators!