Simplify, Simplify, Simplify: A Fireside Chat with Daniel Burka
Join us for a Fireside Chat with Daniel Burka, Director of Product and Design at Resolve to Save Lives (of simple.org fame), hosted by Akshay Verma, Founding Partner at Prophecy.
This session will specifically focus on topics that will be of interest to designers and product people in senior and leadership positions.
This event is co-hosted by Loop Health, a company building a modern healthcare system in India. Daniel is an investor and board member at Loop Health, and Prophecy has done product innovation work with Loop for the last 2 years.
Daniel and Akshay will explore:
The evolution of Daniel’s design practice with simplicity as its guiding principle
The current state of design, lessons from the past, and where we might be headed
What goes into building an environment where creativity thrives while being in challenging organisational circumstances
About Daniel
Daniel is the Director of Product and Design at the not-for-profit Resolve to Save Lives, where he spends the majority of his time on the open source project, Simple. Simple is used by thousands of hospitals in India, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia to manage almost 5 million patients with hypertension and diabetes.
In 2021, he started the open source Health icons project to provide free icons to healthcare projects around the world.
Previously, Daniel was a design partner at Google Ventures and a start-up founder in Silicon Valley.
About Akshay
Akshay is a founding partner at Prophecy, a product innovation and design consultancy focusing on new product discovery. Previously, he led the design team at Obvious, where he worked across fintech, edtech and healthcare, including on Simple. Akshay’s expertise in early-stage innovation extends to mentoring startups at the VC firm, Antler, and teaching product design to emerging professionals. He is an alumnus of the National Institute of Design (NID) and the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID).
About Loop Health
Loop Health is on a mission to increase the lifespan and healthspan of every Indian by 20 years. Loop is a health insurance broker and primary care provider to 750,000+ members across India. Loop Health wants to be the first fully integrated insurer + health provider for 5 million Indians to dramatically increase their health outcomes.