Innovator's Toolkit Workshop: Inclusive Innovation and Product Incubation with Gabriella Capone (JD/MBA ‘19)

This workshop will cover methods and mindsets for building products rooted in social impact. Using product incubation at CVS Health as a case study, we’ll dig into the following:

· Design thinking, with a focus on problem definition and root cause analysis as pivotal steps

· Inclusive innovation: designing around a subpopulation’s needs and extrapolating insights to broader populations for outsized impact

· Product incubation: key steps in the product development process to go from idea to implementation, with a focus on building socially-minded business cases

This session will be especially interesting if you are excited about: how profit-seeking ventures can be a force for social good, building new products, or elevating the needs of new or underrepresented groups in your industry.

Speaker Bio

Gabriella Capone leads Social Drivers of Health Incubation and Strategy through the CVS Pharmacy Design & Innovation Lab, a group that leverages behavior change innovation to support 70+ million people. Capone received a JD/MBA in 2019 from Yale and a BA from Swarthmore College.

Capone’s experiences include advancing innovation methodologies and multi-sector coalitions to drive change. Capone has designed global open innovation programs for cities to leverage technology and crowdsourcing, and she has written on open data and public participation to elevate public institutions. Her background spans fintech, including building data science tools for economic development at Locus Analytics and driving COVID-19 research efforts at Bridgewater Associates, as well as consulting for technology start-ups, non-profits, and philanthropy, like Schmidt Futures.