Team Presentations

Product Club is excited to showcase the teams' presentations. Click on the teams to see their amazing presentations!

• • Team 1 - AI Chief of Staff (Best Innovative Idea)

    • Team members: Sudip Guha, Henry Sheng, Karley Delrome, Harshit Shah, Manit Maker

    • Coach: Yan Jin
      

  • Team 2 - Online Learning Platform

    • Team members: Anna Cheng, Richard Li, Shikha Mohta, Rahul Bhatia, Jeffrey Lee

    • Coach: Luke Congdon
      

  • Team 3 - Interactive Retractable Partition

    • Team members: Suchita Kaundin, Joko Riley, Michael Inacio, Kareem Qaraman, Smita Das

    • Coach: Deb Bose
      

  • Team 4 - SPARK, a Noise Filtering App

    • Team members: Aaron Reales, Lubna Naqvi, Agrima Saran, Hithesh Sekhar Bathala, Prashant Honavar

    • Coach: Vimal Suba
      

  • Team 5 - Breakout Zone

    • Team members: Sarvesh Asthana, Avinash Patel, Anjul Srivastava, Mai Phuong Nguyen, Shubi Dubey

    • Coach: Vishnu Ramani
      

  • Team 6 - Civic Center

    • Team members: Vandita Vijaykumar, Shivi Shrivastava, Jack Cheng, Takashi Spector, Fransisca Poniman

    • Coach: Jian Cao
      

  • Team 7 - MuchTogether EDU (Best Marketable Product)

    • Team members: Grantis Peranda, Nag Batta, Raghava Gopal, Mohammed Alshaded, Melody Nouri

    • Coach: Eryn Olson

Event Recap

On February 21, 2021, SCU's Product Club hosted its first-ever Product Challenge event, focused on Product Innovation. The 4-hour event was designed to inspire students for a future career in product. Seven teams of 5 students/alumni were provided an image prompt and asked to develop their own problem statement from looking at the image prompt, identify their customer persona via a customer interview session, develop a storyboard, and prototype their solution. The event culminated in each team giving a 4-minute elevator pitch on their unique solution to the identified problem.

Teams' Unique Solutions

The image prompt provided to the students was a busy working mom trying to work while taking care of her two young children at home during COVID. While all teams received the same prompt, it was exhilarating to see that all seven teams through customer interviews identified a unique problem and a unique solution. They ranged from a physical product to software designed for the mom, platforms designed for the kids, and even an AI-enabled personal assistant!

Awards

While all teams did a fantastic job given the allocated time, the coaches selected two teams for the awards "Best Innovative Idea" and "Best Marketable Product"! See above for all team presentations.

The Amazing People

SCU's Product Club received tremendous support from Professor Kumar Sarangee, and Shashank Saggar, who selflessly assisted the club in designing this event. The club also received invaluable input from its Advisory Board members Professor Fiona Ji, and Charlotte Swenson. All seven teams were also paired with an industry professional serving as a coach for their teams. These coaches graciously shared their personal experiences and helped guide the teams throughout the event (companies and positions were current as of the event):

• Yan Jin, Thermo Fisher Scientific - Global Business and Product Manager

• Luke Congdon, Nutanix - Director of Product Management

• Deb Bose, Guidewire Software - Integration Leader

• Vimal Suba, IronNet Cybersecurity - Director of Product Management

• Vishnu Ramani, BD - Global Marketing Manager

• Jian Cao, Cepheid - Program Manager

• Eryn Olson, SCU - Associate Director of Marketing

This event was designed and hosted by Product Club's leadership team: Ollie Zhou (event lead), Rachel Chang, and Karan Gupta.

Our Press Release!

To learn more about our event and the great feedback we received from our coaches and participants, please check out SCU Leavey School of Business' press release on our event here!