Building What’s Next: Rally Living Lab Showcase
On November 4, 2025, ideas from around the world will converge online for the Rally Living Lab Showcase. After sixteen weeks of building, testing, and collaborating, our Summer 2025 Fellows are ready to share how their ventures are creating lasting impact both across the globe and right here in Central Florida.
The Showcase is a virtual gathering where local collaboration meets global innovation. It’s where bold ideas find partners, and pilot-ready ventures connect with the people and systems that can help them grow. Whether you’re a funder, civic leader, entrepreneur, or community advocate, this event offers a glimpse into what’s possible when entrepreneurship becomes a shared effort.
Meet the Fellows
Our Summer 2025 Fellows represent a global community of changemakers spanning Orlando to India, Canada to California, all united by the belief that business can be a force for good. Their ventures tackle challenges in education, housing, health, sustainability, and equity, showing how innovation can cross borders while staying deeply rooted in community.
Kelly Shea | Innovation Station Kits | Orlando, FL
Hands-on invention kits helping K–6 students learn creativity and problem-solving in every classroom.
Daisy Parks | Wellside Health | Greater Orlando, FL
Virtual clinics expanding access to quality healthcare in multifamily homes and co-working spaces.
Anna Ashie | Second Story Property Group | Orlando, FL
Trauma-informed property management creating dignity and stability for lower-income residents.
Courtney Newell | Life Startup Essentials | Phoenix, AZ
Curated home starter kits supporting families and individuals transitioning out of homelessness.
Anushka Jain | Share At Door Step | Delhi, India
A sustainability platform enabling doorstep donations and brand take-back programs for circular impact.
Sierra Boone | Fruit Snack Streams | Detroit, MI
Calm-first children’s media uplifting young learners and educators through joyful storytelling.
Tracie Ponder | Learn Collaborate | Studio City, CA
Connecting students to real-world, project-based micro-internships through an AI-powered platform.
Richard Gilliam | STEM PLUG | Chapel Hill, NC
Gamified STEM learning that inspires confidence and curiosity in underrepresented youth.
Dietrich Ruehlmann | GaiaXus | Germantown, MD
Water-monitoring technology giving communities better data to protect local ecosystems.
Amandipp Singh | Enabled Talent | Brampton, Canada
An inclusive employment platform connecting people with disabilities to meaningful, accessible work.
Together, these ventures show how social innovation crosses borders and how Central Florida’s Living Lab helps connect, test, and amplify that work.
The Living Lab Showcase is more than a milestone. It’s a global window into Orlando’s growing social innovation ecosystem. Through partnerships with organizations like the Central Florida Foundation, 4Roots Farm Campus, and Credo Conduit, Rally helps founders strengthen their ventures in real-world settings, bridging ideas from across the world into action that benefits local communities.
For funders and civic partners, it’s a chance to meet ventures ready for pilot and partnership. For entrepreneurs, it’s a front-row seat to how systems-level innovation happens in collaboration. And for the community, it’s proof that Central Florida can be both a launchpad and a meeting ground for ideas that make a global difference.
