Completed DIF Projects

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

DIF Consultant

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

Every day, healthcare solutions leader Cencora (a Fortune 10 company) ships pharmaceutical products and treatments to customers such as pharmacies and hospitals. Each shipment leaves from one of the company’s state-of-the-art distribution centers in totes. The totes are durable and designed to be reused — but there was currently no process in place to track what happened to the empty totes after initial use.

DIF Role

Create an enhanced tracking methodology to track totes, considering cost, reliability, usability, and integration with existing systems. Additionally, the solution should account for change management and its impact on team member processes.

Cencora Representatives

DIF Consultant

DIF Awards

Russell Abernethy, Recipient of the Fall 2022 Digital Innovation Foundry Scholarship

Impact

“The work was relevant and useful. We are often heads down into our day-to-day operations, and so greatly benefited from a new perspective that our partnership with the Digital Innovation Foundry brought” Tanmay Bandyopadhyay

 Jeremy Shafer and Yan Wang managed this project for DIF