Manoj J. Chacko

Movision Pro wins 2023 Digital Innovation Award

The Digital Innovation Foundry is pleased to announce that Movision Pro is the recipient of the 2023 Digital Innovation Award!

Movision Pro is an advanced digital platform for rehab clinicians, such as physical therapists, occupational therapists, and chiropractors. Founded by Cole Hagen, a PhD student in Neuromotor Science at Temple University, and Dr. Shiv Hiremath, Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, the platform enables clinicians to create personalized home exercise programs for patients.

Movision Pro was selected to receive $1,000 and support from DIF to further develop and commercialize its platform.

The Digital Innovation Award is open to all Temple University students, alumni, faculty, and staff. The award is presented by DIF in partnership with Temple University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute (IEI) Innovative Idea Competition. Awards are based on the following criteria:

Digital – does the idea apply technology in an interesting and/or novel manner?
Problem – does the idea solve a real business or societal problem?
Practical – is the idea practically doable given current technology, context, and resources?

Agora World – Investigating the entrepreneurial potential of immersive applications

Agora World Inc. (Agora) provides no-code development tools and an environment for building immersive experiences and events. Ethan Berg aims to help people create new worlds—professional-quality immersive, 3D spaces and experiences—without any coding skills. Berg (FOX ’20) is the CEO and co-founder of Agora World Inc., which offers a drag-and-drop no-code design space for creating metaverse spaces.

DIF Role

Build three prototype use cases using Agora and its partners’ technology. The goal of these use cases is to leverage Agora and its partners’ technology to showcase interesting and innovative immersive experiences across different domains of application.

Project Founders

Ethan Berg
(FOX ’2020)

DIF Consultant

Druvakumar Valugubelly
Management Information Systems

Mitchel Zilbershteyn
Management Information Systems

DIF Awards

Agora World, Recipient of the 2021 Digital Innovation Award
Mitchel Zilbershteyn, Recipient of the Spring 2023 Stewart Family Endowed Scholarship

Research

Solon Moreira worked with Munir Mandviwalla on a manuscript titled “Exploring Entrepreneurship in the Metaverse: Design Requirements and Resources”. This manuscript has been accepted for presentation at the 18th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST 2023).

Impact

“What used to take a team, investment, and months to create now can be created quickly with no code” Ethan Berg

“It was exciting for the Temple team to be part of something that will dramatically change and shape the world of business” Solon Moreira

“This project helped me better understand how software iteration and testing work” Druvakumar Valugubelly

“DIF provides a valuable connection to industry experts, and the opportunity to engage with professors on research.” Mitchel Zilbershteyn

Solon Moreira managed this project for DIF

HouseCall VR wins 2023 Digital Innovation Award

The Digital Innovation Foundry is pleased to announce that HouseCall VR is the recipient of the 2023 Digital Innovation Award in partnership with Temple University’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute’s (IEI) Be Your Own Boss Bowl Competition.

HouseCall VR will receive $2,500 and mentorship to develop their idea. The Digital Innovation Award is open to all Temple University students, alumni, faculty and staff.

Entries were selected by the DIF team based on the following criteria:

Digital – does the idea apply technology in an interesting and/or novel manner?
Problem – does the idea solve a real business or societal problem?
Practical – is the idea practically doable given current technology, context, and resources?

IBIT Scholarships 2023

The Institute for Business and Information Technology announces the 2023 scholarship recipients.

IBIT AmerisourceBergen Scholarship
Aashmun Doshi

IBIT Kyndryl Scholarship
Abdalaziz Sawwan

IBIT Kyndryl Scholarship
Zhengkun Ye

IBIT Meta Scholarship
Ethan Chheda

IBIT Pfizer Scholarship
David Levit

IBIT Scholastic Scholarship
Rachel Koffel

Stewart Family Endowed Scholarship

DIF Scholarship
Mitchel Zilbershteyn

Digital Innovation Foundry Scholarship

DIF Scholarship
Russell Abernethy

KARTHIK K. SRIDHARAN

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI

Karthik Sridharan is Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at OceanFirst Bank, which he joined in 2019. Previously, Karthik was the Chief Technology Officer at Citigroup and held leadership roles in global technology management with JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He was also Industry Manager at Microsoft before entering the financial services industry.

In the above roles, he has enabled strategy of “Build the Digital Bank” from the dotcom era to contemporary roles with realized transformation of direct-to-customer web, social media, mobile first, and multi-channel solutions for banking business lines. He has also modernized application time to market through new development and architecture evolutions of Technology Blueprints and patterns. He has improved from years to months to days, wealth management, retail banking, commercial banking, trading, and money movement business solution delivery by realizing strategies for private, public, and hybrid “cloud-first, mobile-first” applications for customer communications and engagement. Karthik has also worked on merger, acquisition, and divestiture technology integration and separation for community and global banking customers seeking to grow or divest retail and commercial footprints.

Karthik volunteers with community and industry organizations such as the Go Africa Network Inc. and Wall Street Technology Association. Karthik has a bachelor’s degree in business administration and information systems management from Temple University Fox School of Business.