Intro Video

President's Innovation Challenge finalists describe what redefining what's possible means to them and their ventures.

Welcome Remarks

Alexandra Stephens
Director, Communications + Marketing, Harvard Innovation Labs

Meagan Hall
Senior Director, Administration, Harvard Innovation Labs

Becca Xiong
Managing Director, Harvard Innovation Labs

Alan M. Garber
Harvard University President

The Student Health Care + Life Sciences Track recognizes student-led ventures improving the efficacy of healthcare services, including therapeutics, devices, and digital health.

Intro Video

Shikha Anand
Chief Medical Officer, Casana
Judge, President's Innovation Challenge

Finalist Pitches

Hear one-minute pitches from five finalists followed by the announcement of the $25K and $75K award winners.

1. Keles Keyless Expander
2. Laptis
3. PeriPeach
4. Radiate Biosciences
5. terraFlow

The Alumni + Affiliates Healthcare + Life Sciences Track recognizes ventures in Launch Lab X, the Blavatnik Harvard Life Lab Longwood, or the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab that are improving the efficacy of healthcare services, including therapeutics, devices, and digital health.

Intro Video

Courtney Metz
Site Head, Harvard Life Labs

Finalist Pitches

Hear one-minute pitches from five finalists followed by the announcement of the $25K and $75K award winners.

1. Core Biomedicine
2. Limax Biosciences
3. Modulate Bio
4. NuCyRNA Therapeutics
5. Regatta Bio

The Ingenuity Awards celebrate early-stage ventures in the Student i-lab membership and recognize committed founders with innovative solutions to real-world problems that carry high potential for future impact.

Ingenuity Award Winners

1. Airqua
2. Pythia Diagnostics
3. SAMI+
4. SpiroSniff
5. Wyndergy

The Student Open Track recognizes student-led commercial ventures that are selling to consumers, businesses, or organizations, spanning industries like edtech, fintech, IT, climate tech, e-commerce, and more.

Intro Video

Daniel Acheampong, MPA’20
Co-Founder + General Partner, Visible Hands
Judge, President's Innovation Challenge

Finalist Pitches + Awards

Hear one-minute pitches from five finalists followed by the announcement of the $25K and $75K award winners.

1. Gurus Inc.
2. HydroHaul
3. IntuitiveMotion.AI
4. Maka Media
5. SylloTips

The Alumni + Affiliates Open Track recognizes commercial ventures in Launch Lab X, the Blavatnik Harvard Life Lab Longwood, or the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab that are selling to consumers, businesses, or organizations, spanning industries like edtech, fintech, IT, climate tech, e-commerce, and more.

Intro Video

Rym Baouendi, MPA’22
Director of Alumni Engagement, Harvard Innovation Labs 

Finalist Pitches + Awards

Hear one-minute pitches from five finalists followed by the announcement of the $25K and $75K award winners.

1. Adaptive Reader
2. Halo Braid
3. Kura
4. Slam Out Loud
5. Vocadian

The Social Impact Student Track recognizes ventures whose success is judged on societal impact and path to scale across sectors such as education, social and economic inequities, public and global health, climate change and sustainability, arts and culture, and more.

Intro Video

Eileen Rudden, MBA’76
Educator + Tech Investor
Judge, President's Innovation Challenge

Finalist Pitches + Awards

Hear one-minute pitches from five finalists followed by the announcement of the $25K and $75K award winners.

1. Blossom Academy
2. Brain Exercise Initiative
3. Dombelfarms LTD
4. Lexi
5. The Paal

Thank You

We'd like to express our gratitude for the following individuals and teams who helped make this year's President's Innovation Challenge so special:

The Bertarelli Foundation for your generous contributions. The President's Innovation Challenge would not be possible without your continued support.

President Garber, Provost Manning, Dean Datar, the Deans and Dean Designates serving on our Advisory Board, and all of the faculty and staff across the University who enable and elevate our efforts.

The hundreds of judges who provided meaningful feedback and helped select the winners for this year’s President’s Innovation Challenge.

Our mentors, experts, advisors, and the entire Harvard Innovation Labs team for their steadfast guidance of our teams, past and present.

All of the ventures that participated in this year’s PIC.

Past PIC participants who have gone on to have a major impact on our world.

All of YOU for joining, watching, and enthusiastically supporting innovation at Harvard!

Additional Credits

Event production: AVFX

Design lead: Dan Pinnolis

Videography: Cobrandit Video

Web design: Upstatement

Meet and mingle with finalists and attendees over food and drinks at Schwartz Pavilion, just outside Klarman Hall.

Finalists will be stationed at color-coded tables according to their track:

• Blue: Social Impact Track
• Green: Health Care + Life Sciences Tracks
• Orange: Open Tracks

In the case of rain, the after party will be held at the Harvard Innovation Labs in Batten Hall at 125 Western Avenue.

Closed captions will be provided for the duration of the show. They will be on the lower right corner of the Klarman Hall screen. For optimum visibility, please sit on the left side of the auditorium.

If you have additional questions related to accessibility, please email i-lab@harvard.edu.