WE@Yale Women Innovators Series: Spandana Palaypu

The WE@Yale Women Innovators speaker series is designed to foster community discussion, idea sharing, and best practices in support of Yale women and non-binary femme entrepreneurs and innovators. Community members of all genders are welcome to attend these talks, which are free and open to the public.

Spandana founded ZoEasy, a platform which educates and matches migrant workers to the right employment opportunities using ethical and transparent hiring processes. ZoEasy focuses on sustainable job creation at fair wages and reduces inequalities by combining technology and modern hiring practices with Government Collaborations, Skill Development and Training.

She graduated with a First Class Honours in Business and Management from Aberystwyth University (UK) and is an Alumna of Stanford University’s EPGY Program. She has been featured on World Economic Forum and Financial Times for the work she is doing and has received several awards, including Forbes 30 Under 30, 2019’s Most Influential by Ahlan, Forbes 50 Startups, Duke of Edinburgh and World Challenge. As a World Challenger, she visited Tanzania and assisted in building schools and teaching. She has been awarded the Enterprise for Peace Scholarship by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to attend the One Young World Summit; where she was a Delegate Speaker for the Education Plenary Session and became a part of Akon’s inaugural team of social entrepreneurs.

She has also spoken about Industry 4.0 and Workforce Development at the World Forum for Foreign Direct Investment in Australia and was chosen to contribute to the International Labour Organisation’s Global Youth Employment Agenda. She is now a Global Shaper and Vice Curator (Dubai Hub) at the World Economic Forum and is contributing towards education projects / skilling initiatives. Spandana also recently won Lead 2030’s United Nations SDG Challenge for Goal 4 (Quality Education), funded by Credit Suisse and is a winner of Expo 2020’s Innovation Impact Program.

This event will take place online; a Zoom link will be provided to registered attendees.

WE@Yale is a partnership between the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY) and the Yale SOM Program on Entrepreneurship.

This event will take place online; a Zoom link will be provided to registered attendees.

WE@Yale is a partnership between the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY) and the Yale SOM Program on Entrepreneurship.