Shreyas Prakash is a Product Manager with a background in User Experience Design. Shreyas specialises in designing better products and services for vulnerable populations.
He was previously the Co-founder of dVerse Labs, a healthcare startup focused on tackling hospital-acquired infections. The startup is a recipient of the MIT COVID India Grant and is supported by IIT Madras as well as the Embassy of the US to India (Nexus).
Shreyas had also set up an educational non-profit (dHive Labs) helping children from marginalized communities to invent for social good. Through his non-profit work, he has impacted 1200+ rural children to become social changemakers across India and Nepal.
Shreyas is especially involved with the design for social impact community and has extensively designed products for vulnerable populations which include deaf-blind runners, Alzheimer’s patients and marginalized children. He holds an M.Sc in Integrated Product Design from Delft University of Technology (Netherlands). He has also been on the Advisory Board of hundrED Visual Arts Education (2020) and has been a recipient of several awards which include iF Design Talent Award 2020, the 3M Young Innovators Award, UNICEF Ideas for Change etc.
Besides this, he also hosts a podcast (Shake Up The World) where he interviews designers and thinkers in imagining a positive utopian future through dialogues. He is also a big believer in the power of side-projects and is currently on a mission to build and launch one side project every month.
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