Epic starts now. S2 and MIT xPRO: A groundbreaking collaboration ushering in a new era of AI-driven healthcare innovation and implementation. Learn more about our MIT xPRO and S2 Innovation collaboration here.

Gain exclusive access to our in-person Biodesign Implementation Workshops offered as standalone or in conjunction with MIT xPRO's professional certificate courses.

Biodesign Workshops: S2 offers experiential workshops that train professionals to tackle strategic challenges. These workshops could help companies innovate around tariff-related hurdles, such as reshoring production or developing alternative supply chain strategies.

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Empowering Innovators:

Our data-driven innovation model works effectively across many industries, including, but not limited to, healthcare. While this website highlights our deep healthcare and AI and healthcare technology expertise as a prime example of our approach, we collaborate with organizations in diverse sectors worldwide to transform visionary ideas into impactful solutions.

Your Vision, Our Expertise, Your Solution.

Client during design thinking and biodesign workshop as they work to address their organization's largest unmet need: Integrating AI into their healthcare technology

Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to be recognized as the most exciting emerging technology by healthcare leaders. S2 supports AI leaders with AI implementation.

AI is being implemented to improve healthcare, including: clinical care, operations, and research. The Center for Connected Medicine found that 85% of executives believe AI has the potential to significantly improve healthcare administration, operations, and clinical care. The potential to harness AI for improved patient outcomes is immense, yet a gap in comprehensive training hinders innovation and implementation.

The pressing question is:

“How can healthcare leaders effectively implement AI into patient care to enhance outcomes and workflows?”

The answer lies with S2 training professionals in the biodesign process. By strategically implementing AI, healthcare leaders can significantly enhance clinical, operational, and educational outcomes, ultimately leading to better patient care and more efficient healthcare systems.

S2 empowers leaders with a deep understanding of AI and the biodesign approach, where professionals will become future innovators in AI and healthcare, fostering a culture where AI innovation and implementation accelerates new product development and results in better patient outcomes.

The founders, Dr. Gevedon and Dr. Swanson at various workshops and bootcamps

Welcome to the S2 Innovation Workshop for Biodesign.

The MIT xPRO portion of this collaboration is a blended learning platform offering best-in-class professional development courses created by world-renowned MIT faculty. Upon completion of an MIT xPRO course, participants receive a professional certificate from MIT xPRO. The S2 experiential implementation Workshop is designed by S2 founders to build upon the foundational learning from MIT xPRO’s professional certificate course(s), equipping professionals to apply what they learned in the MIT course to tackle their organizations' strategic challenges using AI and the biodesign process. S2 also does workshops without the MIT xPRO course. While this workshop complements MIT xPRO courses, S2 also offers standalone workshops independent of MIT xPRO.

Collaboration during bootcamp as participants follow the biodesign process for stakeholder analysis

The S2 Experiential Workshop

AI in Healthcare: A Biodesign Application is an experiential workshop followed by strategic consulting to support healthcare leaders. The participant’s organization will pose a “how might we” question, which is a critical unmet need that the organization wants to solve in AI and healthcare. Participants will be placed into small, interdisciplinary teams, and will immediately apply knowledge after each of our workshop's interactive lectures to shape their innovative solutions. They will define their needs, explore, prototype, and refine creative solutions to the "how might we" question. By the end of the workshop, each team will have a unique solution that addresses their organization’s “how might we?” question, aligns with its goals and unmet needs, and can move forward into implementation with S2 support.

Clients working together during a digital health and AI bootcamp

Target Audience and Participant Experience

This program is designed for healthcare innovators and leaders looking to solve critical challenges at their organizations. Participants will engage in:

Team Collaboration: Working in interdisciplinary teams.

Expert Guidance: Receiving mentorship from industry experts.

Interactive Sessions: Applying theories in practical settings.

Leadership Development: Enhancing skills to drive innovation.

Teamwork during biodesign workshop

Learning Objectives

  • Integrate AI tools in problem-solving

  • Define and validate your unmet need

  • Engage in prototype development

  • Explore stakeholder engagement

  • Refine pitch and communication skills

  • Model data-driven decision making

  • Experience innovation leadership

  • Identify commercialization opportunities

  • Explore data analytics for ROI

  • Dr. Sherry L. Gevedon, PhD, MBA, MS, RN

    Dr. Gevedon is a wicked problem solver and innovation leader in health care, academia and industry. With a PhD in Transformational Leadership from Miami University, Dr. Gevedon is a researcher, keynote speaker and workshop leader in developing innovation leaders to solve wicked problems. She is an entrepreneur, and founder of PES, Inc., a 20 year seminar company focusing on leaders and teams to accelerate innovation across their organizations. Dr. Gevedon is experienced as a consultant for private equity and venture capital firms in technology innovation and has coached and mentored individuals and start-ups. Her academic experience includes faculty in business and nursing and an academic dean for entrepreneurship in health sciences. She is a former AFWERX innovation leader where she worked on projects to create a culture of innovation.

  • Dr. Shawn Swanson, PhD, MS

    Dr. Swanson is a seasoned innovator with over a decade of experience driving technological and organizational advancements in healthcare, government, and academia. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington, specializing in innovation development and the application of artificial intelligence to complex challenges in healthcare and defense sectors. As a faculty member at the University of Washington, Dr. Swanson leads the Engineering Innovation in Health course, where he guides interdisciplinary teams through biodesign methodologies to develop cutting-edge healthcare solutions from unmet needs to viable products. His leadership fosters innovation at the intersection of engineering and health. Previously, as an Innovation Leader at AFWERX, Dr. Swanson co-founded SparkLab, delivering design thinking and biodesign training to Airmen globally. He has mentored over 100 startups and led numerous innovation workshops, empowering professionals to tackle critical challenges in healthcare with innovative approaches.

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