The Learning 2016 Barracuda Bowl!
Learning Ventures & Innovators With 5 Minute Pitches of Wow!
We live in the exciting time of cool and disruptive inventions, apps and technologies being created in “garages” and “incubators”! Put together a few bright, excited and inventive colleagues and they can create new products, services or apps that will shake the learning world.
Our Barracuda Bowl will be a perfect way to bring together the world of workplace learning and the multitude of startups in the K-12 and Higher Education Space. Let’s blow up the silos between each of the segments of learning and look to stretch technologies that could be adapted for workplace performance and improvement. During Learning 2016 (October 23-26 in Orlando, FL. bringing together several thousand learning professionals to focus on the changing nature of workplace education and development) the Barracuda Bowl will bring many of these learning start-ups to a room with you and your colleagues to learn, challenge and react in a “Shark Tank” model of feedback.
The MASIE Center teamed up with USC's Rossier School of Education, a top tier school of education with a long track record of ground-breaking innovation, and StartED, a new initiative that works with entrepreneurs, investors, and universities to catalyze education innovation by creating the Learning Barracuda Bowl!
We will invite many early stage Learning start-ups or ventures, largely incubated at universities, to give a 5 - 6 minute video pitch to groups of Learning 2016 participants for a Thumbs Up (or Thumbs Down). We will be direct, harsh and bring the edge of learning-focused barracudas to the emerging world of learning technology! The goal of the Learning Barracuda Bowl is to bring new and agile technology innovations into the world of corporate and workplace learning!
We are now accepting submissions from companies which meet this criteria:
- Company must be less than 3 years old
- Company must not have in excess of $1M in revenue since its inception
- Company has not yet completed Series A round of funding
In order to apply, you will need to create two (2) one-minute videos (hosted on Vimeo, YouTube or some other accessbile location):
- Demonstrating your product
- Introducing your Leadership Team
To submit your company for the Learning 2016 Barracuda Bowl, click here: https://learning2016.com/BarracudaBowlEntry
For Barracuda Bowl information contact Doug Lynch, PhD, USC Rossier Faculty at