Andrew Awad is a 17 year old senior from St. John’s School in Houston, TX and the founder and team captain of HyperLift, one of just 30 teams, and the only high school team, in the world advancing to the Hyperloop Pod Competition finals in January 2017....

Arcady Sosinov is the CEO and co-founder of FreeWire Technologies, makers of portable charging and power stations made with second-life batteries for charging electric vehicles. He is a graduate of the Haas School of Business, where he explored his passions around the automotive and clean energy sectors. Prior to FreeWire, Arcady had years of experience in quantitative analysis in the hedge fund industry, most recently focusing on emerging markets equities.

A year ago at this time the Industrial Design Society of America held their annual international conference in Seattle, brilliantly organized by my friend and former colleague, Surya Vanka. His unique energy led to several innovative conference experiences, one of which he called Design Swarms. A Swarm employs a timed competition to bring out the best in collaborative design thinking, and it provides the potential for creating meaningful solutions....