Join us at SparkED’s annual conference – Saturday 24 July!

    The student-led initiative SparkED is holding its annual conference on Saturday 24 July and we’re taking part.

    At 10:30 am CDT, we’ll be talking about what we do and how we support students and educators with free education and careers resources.

    SparkED’s virtual conference will host experts in business, STEM and entrepreneurship, and offers advice on tech-literacy, back-to-school kits, and scholarships.

    SparkED is an organisation that equips youth with resources to educate, empowers and enable them to make informed decisions about their careers and lives.

      Futurum will be joined by some very inspirational speakers. Here’s an itinerary.

      The first generation experience: 9:30 am CDT

      The conference kicks off with a session discussing the first generation experience. Speakers include:

      Dr Eve Hudson, founder and chief strategist at Evingerlean Worldwide

      Avo Guedekelian, medical student, dancer and photographer

      Kevin Zhen, co-founder of HomeCooked, a social dining app

      Nataly Morales Sandoval, author on Platform

      Futurum Careers: 10:30 am CDT

      Co-founder Karen Lindsay will be talking about the resources we offer and how we are helping researchers to inspire, teachers to motivate and students to aspire.

      Computational biology and bioinformatics: 11 am CDT

      Speakers include:

      Kyle Alford, computational biology intern at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

      Zubair Lakhia, bioinformatics intern at SciLifeLab

      Dr Sayane Shome, graduate student and researcher in computational models, high throughput data analysis and computational biophysics

      Stephen Hwang, biomolecular engineering and bioinformatics intern at Tenaya Therapeutics

      Careers in business: 12 pm CDT

      Speakers include:

      Amy Shah, psychiatrist and founder of Problem Solving Consulting

      Irena Todd, co-founder of Fresh Monster

      To join the conference, visit https://tinyurl.com/sparkedsummer2021. Attendees could win a $25 Amazon gift card!