Falling Walls Falling Walls Science Summit 2022

Breaking the Wall to the New Future of Work

Vishal Punwani

Future Learning

The nominating institution Sophya on the breakthrough:

The ENTIRE world is dearly missing the organic, face-to-face, synchronous interaction that was life before coronavirus. Today, schools, companies, teams, startups, and even families feel socially disconnected, isolated, lonely, and unproductive. Sophya solves these problems by combining breakthrough ‘social’ technology with the right toolsets for schools, companies, and teams to bring back productivity, connection, and a buzzing social life. Sophya uses spatial video / audio technology, so that to interact, people simply walk up to one another with personalized characters in authentic custom spaces (their REAL class, office, town, etc.) – and they can teach, learn, work, or just hang out together, all in the browser. No more Zoom links, downloads, or confusion. Let’s bring back connection.

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Covid-19, Cultural Memory, Digitalisation, Education, Future /green cities, New Work, Resilience, Social Cohesion, Learn smart, Ed Tech, VR, Learner centered

Vishal Punwani

Sophya

Vishal is the CEO of Sophya, a medical doctor, and a leader in tech for learning. He has worked for the World Health Organization and International Telecommunications Union, and became one of the highest-rated Teaching Fellows at Khan Academy, creating health & medicine content that has garnered over 10 million views. Vishal has been an invited speaker at The Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, MIT, and Harvard Medical School. Vishal is an EiR with Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs, a peer mentor at the Harvard iLab, a Mentor at the Oxford University Foundry, and an Advisor at MassChallenge Boston.