It was a privilege to showcase our products at the Echelon Asia Summit and be named one of the top award recipients of this year's biennial Safe Steps Disaster Tech Awards in Singapore! Our deepest gratitude to our mentors Veerappan Swaminathan and Jonathan Levine, PhD and host organizers at the Prudence Foundation (Marc Fancy) and e27 (Optimatic) (Joel Jan Pelo, Selma A, Mulan Ranagradis, Mayeda Tanha) as well as the judges (Juja Kim, Ashley Tan, Moshe (Chiko) Ben david, Fong Jek GAN 颜锋杰, Saurabh Singhavi, and Adriel Yong 👋🏻) for an invaluable few weeks of disaster relief programming, feedback and support towards expanding our work in the South Asian off-grid sector.
Grand Prize Winner at ASME ISHOW 2022
Excited to announce that we were a top prize winner at this year’s American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Innovation Showcase! Our deepest thanks to James Creel, Maha Haji, Kalan Guiley, Ben Wald, Boniface Orang'i, Robert Hauck, Robert Turner, Wayne Lifshitz, Arun Venkatesan, and all of ASME’s subject matter experts who assisted us and provided their time and feedback over the course of this past week of hardware, manufacturing and design-oriented programming and to that end, look forward to taking part in the next phase of ASME’s hardware incubation program this fall!
Grand Prize Winner at Eric Schmidt's Impact Ventures Challenge
Excited to be announced as a grand prize winner of the first Impact Ventures Competition, a pilot program supported and run by Schmidt Futures! We couldn't have done it without the support of our mentors at the The Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation at UChicago’s Booth School of Business. Our deepest thanks to Megan Patel, Olivia Randall, and the team at Impact Ventures for organizing and facilitating such a memorable several weeks of programming, personalized coaching, and expert review.
Winner at MIT Water Innovation Prize Challenge
Had a blast virtually presenting our work and being recognized as one of the winners at this year’s MIT Water Innovation Prize finals celebration! Our sincerest gratitude to our family of mentors within the MIT Water network (Dr Christobel Ferguson, Emiliano Cecchini, Tani Chen, Jonathan Levine, Julie Bliss Mullen, and Bill Harvey) for their continuous generosity and support.
Honored to Be Named a Tarsson Social Impact Fellow!
A massive congratulations to our brilliant Chief Operating Officer Gabriela Saade for being named a Tarsson Fellow at the University of Chicago! Our gratitude to the Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation at the Booth School of Business for their continuous generosity and support towards our work.
Pleasure to Share our Work with Future Entrepreneurs!
It was a pleasure to speak to the eighth grade science class of Villago Middle School on global physical and economic water scarcity and how LivingWaters Systems is designed to reduce the lack, in addition to tips for cultivating a habit of practicing innovation at a young age. Many thanks to Jessica Love for inviting us in to share our work with her students!
Honored to Participate in the World Food Programme's Innovation Accelerator
LivingWaters Systems was privileged to participate in the initial bootcamp phase of this year’s UN-World Food Programme’s Innovation Accelerator! Our deepest thanks to the program’s organizers and our mentors Sofia Grivet Brancot, Stefano Guagliardo, and Regina Schmidt for their painstaking work in organizing such a memorable week of programming and expert mentorship in support of our upcoming pilot plans.
Grand Prize Winner of University of Chicago's Social New Venture Challenge!
We are beyond thrilled to be named the grand prize winner of the 2020 John Edwardson Social New Venture Challenge! Our deepest gratitude to our wall of advisors and mentors at the Harris and Booth Schools at the University of Chicago (https://www.livingwaterssystems.org/partners) for facilitating such a memorable virtual incubation experience these last months and their unceasing support of our work!
Excited to be Featured on The Weather Channel!
It was an immense joy and privilege to have our initiative featured on the Twin Cities Weather Channel. A huge thank you to Dr. Laura Dunham of the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship who facilitated the interview and Justin Isbecque and the Pattrn media team for creating such a wonderful video.
Proud to be a Cheddar University Trailblazer!
It was an unexpected joy and honor to be profiled by Cheddar University’s Trailblazers series. Many thanks to Jacob Munoz and the whole team at the NYC office for inviting us and filming this slick promo for our venture.