From Idea to Reality, the Invention Process

From Idea to Reality, the Invention Process
December 8, time TBD
Fireside chat hosted by Louis Foreman, Enventys Partners, and member of the IPO and IPO Education Foundation Boards of Directors. Louis will talk with Inventor, Entrepreneur, and CEO Danya Sherman. She will discuss the process of coming up with an idea, funding it, going through the patent process, and the lessons learned along the way.

Speakers: 

Danya Sherman, Founder, CEO, and Inventor of KnoNap
Danya Sherman is an entrepreneur passionate about combining human rights and technology innovation to create lasting, sustainable, social change. She is the founder, Chief Executive Officer and inventor of KnoNap, a company that creates discreet, gender-inclusive detection devices for rape drug presence. Through KnoNap, Sherman works to empower college and dating aged individuals to always be in the know of what they are consuming. Sherman has participated in distinguished entrepreneurial fellowship programs, including Halcyon, Future Founders, 76Fwd, CVSHealth, and Target. She has been featured among Washington Life’s Technology Hall of Fame, Toyota’s Mother of Invention, and Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur.

 

Louis Foreman, CEO of Enventys, Member of the IPO and IPO Education Foundation Boards
Louis Foreman is founder and Chief Executive of Enventys, an integrated product design and engineering firm. He is also the founder of Edison Nation. Louis graduated from The University of Illinois with a degree in Economics. His interest in starting businesses and developing innovative products began while a sophomore with his first company founded in his fraternity room. Over the past 34 years Louis has created 10 successful start-ups and has been directly responsible for the creation of over 20 others. A prolific inventor, he is the inventor of 10 registered US Patents, and his firm is responsible for the development and filing of well over 700 more.

 

 

For information about sponsoring this session, please contact Fundraising and Program Manager, Kristen Lurye, klurye@ipo.org.