Innovation Week 2024

Join Dr. Steve Fening for instructions and Q&A for those registered for the Two Minute Poster Pitch Contest on Friday, November 1st.
Donuts will be served.

This is a CWRU FACULTY ONLY event.
Speakers: Susann Brady-Kalnay & Umut Gurkan; Moderated by Bill Harte
Topic: My journey from an idea to founding a start-up company

Bridging Gaps in Youth Trauma Screening through Community Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR): Insights from the VETSY scale. Dr. Ivette Noriega (MSASS)

Take a quick tour of the Sears think[box] and learn about the options for innovation and creation on the CWRU campus!

The Sears think[box] is the largest open access innovation center and makerspace in the United States.

Tour will start on Floor 2 near the kitchen.
Those in attendance at 75% of the tour locations during Innovation Week 2024 will be entered into a drawing to raffle off a variety of great prizes (gift cards, t-shirts, CWRU swag, mentoring sessions). We will track attendance at tours with registration and check in’s.
Tour locations include:
11000 Cedar Avenue (Incubator)
Sears Think[box]
Human Fusions Institute (also at 11000 Cedar Avenue, 3rd floor)
Interactive Commons
Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials
Virtual tour of the ISEB
Fowler Center as an Agent of World Benefit
Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship

Join us for the Faculty Distinguished Researcher Awards, followed by a keynote address by James Kenyon, Center Director for NASA Glenn Research Center.
Free meal and networking time included.

Join a tour of the Fowler Center. The Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit exists to create a world in which business can prosper, human beings can flourish and nature can thrive.
Tour attendees will learn about the history of the center, programming, curricular activities, and research.

Those in attendance at 75% of the tour locations during Innovation Week 2024 will be entered into a drawing to raffle off a variety of great prizes (gift cards, t-shirts, CWRU swag, mentoring sessions). We will track attendance at tours with registration and check in’s.
Tour locations include:
11000 Cedar Avenue (Incubator)
Sears Think[box]
Human Fusions Institute (also at 11000 Cedar Avenue, 3rd floor)
Interactive Commons
Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials
Virtual tour of the ISEB
Fowler Center
Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship

Meet at 11000 Cedar Avenue (Incubator). Tours will start outside the elevators on the 3rd floor. Tour attendees will learn about the HFI Academy Hub and experience three demonstrations of Visual Demo (VR twin), Haptic Demo (haptic sensor with data display), and Robotics Demo (human-robotic interaction).

Join Interactive Commons (IC) Executive Director Erin Henninger and Faculty Director Mark Griswold along with staff from the IC to learn about CWRUXR (pronounced “Cruiser”) — a new platform that allows users to rapidly prototype in 3-D.

Iterative prototyping is an essential part of design—whether you’re developing a new medical device or a slot machine. CWRUXR offers a suite of digital tools to make 3-D prototyping simple.

The CWRUXR platform takes a new approach to extended reality (XR) development, making it fast and easy for individuals with no coding or limited coding experience to create and experience 3-D content. Additionally, CWRUXR offers added advantages like the ability to create and iterate in real-time, to create shared group experiences together or remotely, and to partner with AI.

During this 1-hr lecture and Q&A, attendees will get an overview of the CWRUXR platform and an introduction to its tools, such as CWRUXR Deck–a no-code content authoring tool for those familiar with PowerPoint, SDKs for coding languages (Python, R, .Net, and MATLAB), a simple model viewer tool, and various plugins for artistic software. Attendees will also learn about CWRUXR’s ability to support shareable holographic experiences for multiple simultaneous hardware endpoints (e.g., the Microsoft HoloLens, Magic Leap, Meta Quest, Apple Vision Pro, as well as iOS and Android mobile platforms in the same experience.) Finally, attendees will also hear about some of the many applications already running on the CWRUXR platform and being used in teaching and research at CWRU.

The Interactive Commons (IC) at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) was established in 2013 as an innovation lab, where interdisciplinary teams come together to solve complex, non-linear problems to create unique and transformative solutions. The language and tools we use to foster this type of collaboration are often based in advanced visualization technology, such as extended reality, or XR.

This is a CWRU FACULTY ONLY event.
Speaker: Tracey Bonfield; Moderated by Bill Harte
Topic: Evaluating your idea for commercialization potential

This faculty panel will share current approaches using genAI to inform the alignment of various curricular components with internal and external standards. The prompting strategies used in the creation of the chatGPTs are broadly applicable. Session will include interactive components.

Panelists:
Colleen Croninger, PhD - Nutrition department
Andrew Hunt, MD, MHA - Psychiatry department
Maureen McEnery, PhD, MAT - Neurology department
Amy Wilson-Delfosse, PhD, Pharmacology department

Take a quick tour of the Sears think[box] and learn about the options for innovation and creation on the CWRU campus!

The Sears think[box] is the largest open access innovation center and makerspace in the United States.

Tour will start on Floor 2 near the kitchen.Those in attendance at 75% of the tour locations during Innovation Week 2024 will be entered into a drawing to raffle off a variety of great prizes (gift cards, t-shirts, CWRU swag, mentoring sessions). We will track attendance at tours with registration and check in’s.
Tour locations include:
11000 Cedar Avenue (Incubator)
Sears Think[box]
Human Fusions Institute (also at 11000 Cedar Avenue, 3rd floor)
Interactive Commons
Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials
Virtual tour of the ISEB
Fowler Center
Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship

Free meal and networking time included.

Join the CWRU Center for Imaging Research for a panel discussion titled "The Future of Imaging Research: Resilience and Determination".

Are you passionate about the future of imaging research? Do you want to learn from leading experts about emerging technologies, the evolving role of AI, and how they persist to achieve groundbreaking results? Then this panel discussion is for you!

Why Attend? 1) Be inspired by emerging technologies and innovative approaches. 2) Gain valuable insights and strategies to foster resilience and persistence as you solve the problems of the future in biomedical imaging. 3) Network with professionals and peers in the imaging research community.

Attendees should expect visuals of digital scholarship publications and assets, including publications in Scholarly Commons and digitizations from Digital Case. Digital Scholarship staff will be on hand to talk about research possibilities and capabilities in the Freedman Center, including our equipment-borrowing program, specialized software, and robust computing hardware. Attendees should report to the Collaboration Commons, on the first floor of Kelvin Smith Library. When you walk in the door, it is to the left. KSL asks you to swipe in using your CWRU ID; community members can use a state-issued ID.
Those in attendance at 75% of the tour locations during Innovation Week 2024 will be entered into a drawing to raffle off a variety of great prizes (gift cards, t-shirts, CWRU swag, mentoring sessions). We will track attendance at tours with registration and check in’s.
Tour locations include:
11000 Cedar Avenue (Incubator)
Sears Think[box]
Human Fusions Institute (also at 11000 Cedar Avenue, 3rd floor)
Interactive Commons
Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials
Virtual tour of the ISEB
Fowler Center
Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship

Join us on Tuesday, October 29th for a special Innovation Week design sprint at Sears think[box]! This hands-on workshop will guide you through a rapid ideation and prototyping process, always keeping the end user in mind. Led by facilitators Ainsley Buckner and Tiffany Cashon, you'll learn valuable design thinking techniques, collaborate with fellow innovators — and have loads of fun. Don't miss this opportunity to accelerate your project and gain new skills!

This is a CWRU FACULTY ONLY event.
Speaker: Michael Moffit; Panelists from Tarolli, Sundeim, Covell & Tummino, LLP
Topic: Developing a strong patent to protect your great idea

Attendees should expect visuals of digital scholarship publications and assets, including publications in Scholarly Commons and digitizations from Digital Case. Digital Scholarship staff will be on hand to talk about research possibilities and capabilities in the Freedman Center, including our equipment-borrowing program, specialized software, and robust computing hardware. Attendees should report to the Collaboration Commons, on the first floor of Kelvin Smith Library. When you walk in the door, it is to the left. KSL asks you to swipe in using your CWRU ID; community members can use a state-issued ID.
Those in attendance at 75% of the tour locations during Innovation Week 2024 will be entered into a drawing to raffle off a variety of great prizes (gift cards, t-shirts, CWRU swag, mentoring sessions). We will track attendance at tours with registration and check in’s.
Tour locations include:
11000 Cedar Avenue (Incubator)
Sears Think[box]
Human Fusions Institute (also at 11000 Cedar Avenue, 3rd floor)
Interactive Commons
Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials
Virtual tour of the ISEB
Fowler Center
Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship

The Interactive Commons is opening their doors to the campus community. Attendees can sign up for limited availability time slots (each tour lasts appx 1 hour), during which time they will get to visit the space, hear about the history of the center and its projects to date, as well as participate in an extended reality (XR) demonstration of CWRUXR (pronounced “Cruiser”) — the IC’s new platform that allows users to rapidly prototype in 3-D.

Take a tour of Case School of Engineering’s Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials (CSE-SCSAM) lab facilities. Attendees will see SCSAM’s instrumentation and learn about various research applications and have an opportunity to discuss how to access the center and leverage the SCSAM shared core facility to advance their research.

101 Glennan Building Those in attendance at 75% of the tour locations during Innovation Week 2024 will be entered into a drawing to raffle off a variety of great prizes (gift cards, t-shirts, CWRU swag, mentoring sessions). We will track attendance at tours with registration and check in’s.
Tour locations include:
11000 Cedar Avenue (Incubator)
Sears Think[box]
Human Fusions Institute (also at 11000 Cedar Avenue, 3rd floor)
Interactive Commons
Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials
Virtual tour of the ISEB
Fowler Center
Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship

Take a quick tour of the Sears think[box] and learn about the options for innovation and creation on the CWRU campus!

The Sears think[box] is the largest open access innovation center and makerspace in the United States.

Tour will start on Floor 2 near the kitchen.Those in attendance at 75% of the tour locations during Innovation Week 2024 will be entered into a drawing to raffle off a variety of great prizes (gift cards, t-shirts, CWRU swag, mentoring sessions). We will track attendance at tours with registration and check in’s.
Tour locations include:
11000 Cedar Avenue (Incubator)
Sears Think[box]
Human Fusions Institute (also at 11000 Cedar Avenue, 3rd floor)
Interactive Commons
Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials
Virtual tour of the ISEB
Fowler Center
Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship

The Interactive Commons is opening their doors to the campus community. Attendees can sign up for limited availability time slots (each tour lasts appx 1 hour), during which time they will get to visit the space, hear about the history of the center and its projects to date, as well as participate in an extended reality (XR) demonstration of CWRUXR (pronounced “Cruiser”) — the IC’s new platform that allows users to rapidly prototype in 3-D.

Meet at 11000 Cedar Avenue (Incubator). Tours will start outside the elevators on the 3rd floor. Tour attendees will learn about the HFI Academy Hub and experience three demonstrations of Visual Demo (VR twin), Haptic Demo (haptic sensor with data display), and Robotics Demo (human-robotic interaction).

Come and watch as faculty compete for the best 'failed experiement'. Physics Emeritus Phil Taylor will speak on the history of Michelson Morley experiment, and audience vote will determine the winner of the SEEK (Serendipitous Epiphany through Efforts to gain Knowledge) Award.
Lunch will be provided. Prizes offered! Finalists will win $500 and the top award wins $1000!

A tour of the 11000 Cedar Startup Incubator will showcase a University facility that supports healthcare and technology startups through efficient use of space and resources. Visitors can expect to see amenities for the companies, including 30,000 square feet of wet lab space, dry labs, and shared resources like a common equipment room. The tour will also offer insights into membership opportunities, including access to specialized labs and core services designed to foster innovation and growth for startups.
Tour will start at entrance near security desk.
Those in attendance at 75% of the tour locations during Innovation Week 2024 will be entered into a drawing to raffle off a variety of great prizes (gift cards, t-shirts, CWRU swag, mentoring sessions). We will track attendance at tours with registration and check in’s.
Tour locations include:
11000 Cedar Avenue (Incubator)
Sears Think[box]
Human Fusions Institute (also at 11000 Cedar Avenue, 3rd floor)
Interactive Commons
Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials
Virtual tour of the ISEB
Fowler Center
Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship

Join us for Trivia Night at The Jolly Scholar. There will be a special beer created just for Innovation Week and prizes!

Each registrant 21 years and older will receive up to two drink tickets and dinner buffet (chicken, pizza, and salad). Be sure to register!

This is a CWRU FACULTY ONLY event.
Speakers: Stacy Fening and Dan Pendergast; Moderated by Mindy Baierl and Michael Goldberg
Topic: Founding NewCo, your startup company

Join a tour of the Fowler Center. The Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit exists to create a world in which business can prosper, human beings can flourish and nature can thrive.
Tour attendees will learn about the history of the center, programming, curriculuar activities, and research.

Those in attendance at 75% of the tour locations during Innovation Week 2024 will be entered into a drawing to raffle off a variety of great prizes (gift cards, t-shirts, CWRU swag, mentoring sessions). We will track attendance at tours with registration and check in’s.
Tour locations include:
11000 Cedar Avenue (Incubator)
Sears Think[box]
Human Fusions Institute (also at 11000 Cedar Avenue, 3rd floor)
Interactive Commons
Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials
Virtual tour of the ISEB
Fowler Center
Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship

A tour of the 11000 Cedar Startup Incubator will showcase a University facility that supports healthcare and technology startups through efficient use of space and resources. Visitors can expect to see amenities for the companies, including 30,000 square feet of wet lab space, dry labs, and shared resources like a common equipment room. The tour will also offer insights into membership opportunities, including access to specialized labs and core services designed to foster innovation and growth for startups.Tour will start at entrance near security desk.

Those in attendance at 75% of the tour locations during Innovation Week 2024 will be entered into a drawing to raffle off a variety of great prizes (gift cards, t-shirts, CWRU swag, mentoring sessions). We will track attendance at tours with registration and check in’s.
Tour locations include:
11000 Cedar Avenue (Incubator)
Sears Think[box]
Human Fusions Institute (also at 11000 Cedar Avenue, 3rd floor)
Interactive Commons
Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials
Virtual tour of the ISEB
Fowler Center
Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship

Take of tour of Case School of Engineering’s Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials (CSE-SCSAM) lab facilities. Attendees will see SCSAM’s instrumentation and learn about various research applications and have an opportunity to discuss how to access the center and leverage the SCSAM shared core facility to advance their research.

101 Glennan Building Those in attendance at 75% of the tour locations during Innovation Week 2024 will be entered into a drawing to raffle off a variety of great prizes (gift cards, t-shirts, CWRU swag, mentoring sessions). We will track attendance at tours with registration and check in’s.
Tour locations include:
11000 Cedar Avenue (Incubator)
Sears Think[box]
Human Fusions Institute (also at 11000 Cedar Avenue, 3rd floor)
Interactive Commons
Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials
Virtual tour of the ISEB
Fowler Center
Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship

Take a quick tour of the Sears think[box] and learn about the options for innovation and creation on the CWRU campus!

The Sears think[box] is the largest open access innovation center and makerspace in the United States.

Tour will start on Floor 2 near the kitchen.Those in attendance at 75% of the tour locations during Innovation Week 2024 will be entered into a drawing to raffle off a variety of great prizes (gift cards, t-shirts, CWRU swag, mentoring sessions). We will track attendance at tours with registration and check in’s.
Tour locations include:
11000 Cedar Avenue (Incubator)
Sears Think[box]
Human Fusions Institute (also at 11000 Cedar Avenue, 3rd floor)
Interactive Commons
Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials
Virtual tour of the ISEB
Fowler Center
Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship

Join us for an exciting industry panel where leaders (from Nestle, Sherwin Williams, Lubrizol) will share stories of failure and success. We will open with research milestone awards for CWRU faculty.
Lunch will be provided.

Attendees should expect visuals of digital scholarship publications and assets, including publications in Scholarly Commons and digitizations from Digital Case. Digital Scholarship staff will be on hand to talk about research possibilities and capabilities in the Freedman Center, including our equipment-borrowing program, specialized software, and robust computing hardware. Attendees should report to the Collaboration Commons, on the first floor of Kelvin Smith Library. When you walk in the door, it is to the left. KSL asks you to swipe in using your CWRU ID; community members can use a state-issued ID.
Those in attendance at 75% of the tour locations during Innovation Week 2024 will be entered into a drawing to raffle off a variety of great prizes (gift cards, t-shirts, CWRU swag, mentoring sessions). We will track attendance at tours with registration and check in’s.
Tour locations include:
11000 Cedar Avenue (Incubator)
Sears Think[box]
Human Fusions Institute (also at 11000 Cedar Avenue, 3rd floor)
Interactive Commons
Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials
Virtual tour of the ISEB
Fowler Center
Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship

Discover The Produce Path app through lecture, demonstration, interactive learning.

Meet at 11000 Cedar Avenue (Incubator). Tours will start outside the elevators on the 3rd floor. Tour attendees will learn about the HFI Academy Hub and experience three demonstrations of Visual Demo (VR twin), Haptic Demo (haptic sensor with data display), and Robotics Demo (human-robotic interaction).

This is a CWRU FACULTY ONLY event.
Speaker: TBA
Topic: Raising funds for NewCo

Join us for a virtual tour of the ISEB (Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Building).

Those in attendance at 75% of the tour locations during Innovation Week 2024 will be entered into a drawing to raffle off a variety of great prizes (gift cards, t-shirts, CWRU swag, mentoring sessions). We will track attendance at tours with registration and check in’s.
Tour locations include:
11000 Cedar Avenue (Incubator)
Sears Think[box]
Human Fusions Institute (also at 11000 Cedar Avenue, 3rd floor)
Interactive Commons
Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials
Virtual tour of the ISEB
Fowler Center
Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship

Take of tour of Case School of Engineering’s Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials (CSE-SCSAM) lab facilities. Attendees will see SCSAM’s instrumentation and learn about various research applications and have an opportunity to discuss how to access the center and leverage the SCSAM shared core facility to advance their research.

101 Glennan Building
Those in attendance at 75% of the tour locations during Innovation Week 2024 will be entered into a drawing to raffle off a variety of great prizes (gift cards, t-shirts, CWRU swag, mentoring sessions). We will track attendance at tours with registration and check in’s.
Tour locations include:
11000 Cedar Avenue (Incubator)
Sears Think[box]
Human Fusions Institute (also at 11000 Cedar Avenue, 3rd floor)
Interactive Commons
Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials
Virtual tour of the ISEB
Fowler Center
Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship

Take a quick tour of the Sears think[box] and learn about the options for innovation and creation on the CWRU campus!

The Sears think[box] is the largest open access innovation center and makerspace in the United States.

Tour will start on Floor 2 near the kitchen.
Those in attendance at 75% of the tour locations during Innovation Week 2024 will be entered into a drawing to raffle off a variety of great prizes (gift cards, t-shirts, CWRU swag, mentoring sessions). We will track attendance at tours with registration and check in’s.
Tour locations include:
11000 Cedar Avenue (Incubator)
Sears Think[box]
Human Fusions Institute (also at 11000 Cedar Avenue, 3rd floor)
Interactive Commons
Swagelok Center for Surface Analysis of Materials
Virtual tour of the ISEB
Fowler Center
Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship

2024 Innovation Week Poster Pitch Contest
Are you passionate about research? Do you enjoy presenting the importance of science and research? Do you want to learn how to ‘pitch’ an idea in less than 2 minutes? Enter the 2024 Innovation Week Poster Pitch Contest! This contest is open to all students and post-docs. Poster themes of all disciplines and topic areas are welcomed.

Most poster presentations are intended to share scientific results to a focused audience. This competition is different. The goal here is to engage a broad audience. Each poster will be judged several times throughout the competition by multiple judges. Each time the judges introduce themselves, the presenter will deliver a 1-2 minute “pitch” of their poster. You can use a poster that you already have on hand or you may create a new one – the focus here is what you say. Review "Innovation Week 2024 Poster Pitch Competiton Tips" for more information!
Students and postdocs who wish to present must complete this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUKBal5dNtKkNcM2EBoBAt5uJtwljUThbDiYXXOnwJYfl_nA/viewform?usp=sharing (must copy & paste that into your browser) by Monday, October 21st and register via CampusGroups to participate in the Poster Pitch Contest. Space is limited. If you wish to attend the contest only (not as a participant), you also must register online.

Importantly, the ten (10) $1,000 awards will be awarded by CWRU and regional judges based on a poster presenter’s demonstrated ability to:

Concisely share the importance of a given project to a layperson audience;
Convey what important unmet need the work may address;
Present in an enthusiastic and engaging manner.
It is highly recommended that a presenter can utilize an existing poster as the topic on which their presentation or ‘pitch’ skills will be judged.

An optional preparatory "Preparing for the Poster Pitch Contest" will take place on Monday, October 28th at 11 a.m. Register here.

Schedule
12-12:30 p.m.: Boxed lunch featuring vegetable pita, local smoked turkey and brie on croissant or southwest chicken wrap (GF available)
12:30-2:30 p.m.: Opening remarks by Provost Joy Ward, followed by the poster pitch contest
2:30-3 p.m.: Presentation of awards