Innovate@UCLA 2021 Virtual Series #1

During this event, the 2020 Fall Quarter Tech Bootcamp winning student team (Ctrl-Z) and their team coach will be presenting their AI-based text recognition application, Updata. Updata helps government social workers and case managers to automate data entry. The team members below will present their research and demo the product.

The Young Tech Professionals (YTP) program develops the next generation technology workforce by educating undergraduate and graduate students on business and technical skills that are necessary to succeed in the real world. Students engage in a 6-week hands-on bootcamp augmenting their academic curriculum with digital using the Google Design Thinking framework and core, professional skills, such as diversity and inclusion, project management, and communications. Students learn how to collaborate and work in diverse teams led by industry coaches who guide them through the process of ideating, validating and refining their solutions, to a final Minimal Viable Product (MVP), and finally present their solutions to industry judges during a pitch competition.