Firefly Speakers

Firefly Innovations is pleased to host, sponsor, and facilitate speaking engagements from our global community of entrepreneurs, academics, innovators and investors who are working to develop, fund and scale practical and impactful solutions to the most pressing public health challenges.

  • Under the leadership of our founder Dr. Terry Huang, Firefly Innovations created two unique action- and innovation-oriented courses, offered through the Department of Health Policy and Management, at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.

    One of the courses includes an Entrepreneurship Speaker Series, which is open to the public.

    Join us on Zoom every Thursday evening to hear from incredible entrepreneurs who have successfully launched and scaled public health ventures and experts who advise the world’s top innovators. You’ll also have the opportunity to engage with speakers and ask questions.

    The Public Health Entrepreneurship Speaker Series is open to the public and hosted on Zoom by the Center for Advanced Technology & Communication in Health, the Center for Systems & Community Design, the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center, and Firefly Innovations at the Graduate School for Public Health & Health Policy at the City University of New York.

    SPRING 2023 Speakers:

    March 2 - Mark Herschberg, CTPO, V.Mail

    March 9 - Jie Feng, Co-Founder & CEO, KELLS

    March 16 - Rich Mokuolu, Co-founder & CEO, Partsimony

    March 23 - Shannon Chang, Co-Founder of Matter in Motion

    March 30 - Neil Kane, CEO, Advanced Materials Company

    April 20 - Gregor Hoffman, Head of Strategic Initiatives, Firsthand

    April 27 - Alessandro Ciari, Director of Startup Programs, coLab

    May 4 - Fred C. Klein, Co-Founder, Gotham City Networking & Counsel