As part of our recent Innovation Strategy for Nonprofits event, Arthur Daemmrich of the Smithsonian Institution and Panos Panay of Berklee College of Music discussed how their organizations have been pivoting to offer educational experiences online. Daemmrich shared how his team has been adapting an in-person STEM laboratory designed for the National Museum of American History to the web — as well as the challenges of attracting an audience and keeping donors committed to the mission. Panay said that while Berklee has long offered online learning and degrees, some professors had never taught online, and some subjects — like dance — had not been offered that way. Participants from Harvard Business Publishing, Emory University, and the US Department of State also contributed to the conversation.
Alvin Cho is Vice President of Product & Engineering for Digital Innovation and Transformation at Fiserv, and he oversees the company’s Developer Studio, a set of APIs and tools that make it easy to integrate Fiserv’s offerings into all sorts of new and existing products. We spoke with Cho about the objectives...