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Pitch the City
Brief
Startup style format for pitching your idea to 5 judges during the NY Tech Alliance monthly meetup at NYU's Skirball Auditorium. Each team got introduced, first they played our 3-minute submission video, followed by a 2-minute pitch, then a 4-minute Q&A with the judges and lastly a 2 minute Q&A with the audience all to convince the judges your solution of how to integrate driverless vehicles into NYC is right for the city.
Approach
I developed a clickable prototype of the app that showed the journey, features, and I walked through it on stage as the team told the story of New Yorkers and how the app could help them have a better and more enjoyable experience across both public and private transportation while integrating autonomous vehicles into NYC all within one app.
Recognition
Awarded a one-year membership at New Lab, an innovation space located at the Brooklyn Navy Yards, to further our research and development of the sAVe App.
Because of our proactive approach to the driverless car issue, we were invited to speak about our solution, research and show how this can work in other areas and help address their transit problems.
- Guest lecturing at Pratt Institute
- Panelist at WTS Annual Conference in San Diego, May 2018
- TRB Six Minute Pitch
- D4SD Competition & Presenter
- AIANY Antcipating the Driverless City Symposium Participants
- Featured in IBI Mobility +
Role: Creative Direction, Concept Development & Refinement,
App Design (UI/UX), Illustration, Branding, Motion Graphics,
and Presenter
“Your proposal was very well researched and the personal nature of your pitch told the story of real New Yorkers well. Discussing and tackling the topic of accessibility is a big one and you dealt with this topic perhaps the most effectively of all the competition entries.”
– Anna Creatura, Organizer, NYC Driverless Future competition
Presentation Snippets
Here are four animations from the clickable prototype that was developed for our presentation at the Pitch the City Event.
sAVe App – Path 1
This walkthrough is for requesting a ride for your immediate transportation needs from start to finish across both public and private transportation providers.
sAVe App – Path 2
This walkthrough is for scheduling a repeatable ride to work for your transportation needs from start to finish across both public and private transportation providers.
sAVe App – Path 3
This walkthrough is for joining a neighborhood group where you can share a ride to the destination of the activity that this group is interested in.
sAVe App – Path 4
This walkthrough is for setting up your profile with accessibility requirements so that your transportation journey would include those provisions across both public and private transportation providers.
Come see how the sAVe App progressed and how it worked for San Diego when they created the D4SD Competition.
CONTACT
If you like what you see, please get in touch. You can drop me note below or check out my LinkedIn page to see more of my experience, my resume, and you can message me too.
ABOUT
I've always loved to design things, but my tinkering showed me how things work, which helped me discover that creative problem solving is designing.