2023 Big Ideas Grand Prize Pitch Day and Awards Celebration

B100 Blum Hall,Berkeley CA 94709

03 May, 2023

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EVENT OVERVIEWGet inspired by the most game-changing social ventures being developed by student teams across the University of California, Berkeley. The Big Ideas Grand Prize Pitch Day and Awards Celebration brings together the entire Big Ideas community to recognize the most outstanding innovations of 2022-2023. This annual highlight of the Big Ideas Contest is an exciting event that will provide attendees with opportunities to learn about the biggest Big Ideas being developed by UC Berkeley students. Join us to mingle with student innovators in a poster session explaining their 2023 Big Ideas (list of projects), then tune in as the top 5 Big Ideas teams vie for the $10,000 Grand Prize at the Big Ideas Grand Prize Pitch competition. All of this year's finalists, mentors, judges and sponsors will be recognized in a festive Awards Celebration and Reception. Please join us! PITCH DAY TEAMSBirth By Us (UC Berkeley) The Birth By Us app empowers women of color to shape their birthing experience with routine wellness check-ins through pregnancy and postpartum, yielding recommended culturally-specific resources – while giving providers insights to support them and reduce preventable maternal deaths and complications. Cellyse (UC Berkeley) Protein therapies commonly treat life-threatening diseases, but their production is expensive. Protein extraction amounts to 50–80% of total production costs due to expensive machinery and detergents. Cellyse offers CLZ (“slice”), a product that lyses bacteria with just water to extract recombinant proteins and nutrients—a cheaper, faster, and more sustainable solution. HexaHive (UC Berkeley) Bees are in critical danger, a species which pollinates crops like the $21 billion dollar almond industry. HexaHive helps beekeepers combat parasitic varroa mites and climate change, which decimate bee populations. By utilizing technology like sensors and machine learning, HexaHive aims to improve survival rates from 40 to 90% High Tide (UC Berkeley) High Tide aims to solve the plastic crisis lurking in our paper products. Most paper takeout containers are coated in plastic to protect against water and grease, rendering them neither compostable nor recyclable. High Tide's innovation is a compostable, nontoxic paper coating made from existing agricultural waste streams. NHealth.Ai (Uni. of Sussex) NHealth.Ai is a wireless patient monitoring system that records heart rate (HR), blood pressure (BP), respiratory rate (RR), temperature (temp), oxygen saturation(O2 Sat) and conscious level (CL). It calculates a score of a patient’s well-being, reducing workload on nursing staff, prioritising care for sick patients, preventing unmonitored patient deterioration and saving lives.