On-the-fly adjustment of the company’s adjustable prosthetic pylon on a customer.

Siemens Stiftung: More than half a year ago, you were a winner of the empowering people. Award 2019. What has/have been the major change(s) for your company and team since then? For you as an entrepreneur?

Erin: We have met with other prosthetic manufacturers, which confirmed many of our findings about the market space, and are working on maintaining relationships with them. With some of the prize money we have prototyped pieces of our second product and have started to look towards investment to make that happen. In the last month, we have pivoted to helping our community through the covid crisis.

A behind-the-scenes look at Nonspec’s PPE production process.

Siemens Stiftung: With your membership, in what way(s) do you hope to benefit from epN? And if applicable, how have you already gained from your connection to the ecosystem?

Erin: We hope to be able to continue the peer discussions with other members especially if we get into challenges that our peers may have gotten through in the past; and we hope to be helpful to others in situations we have gone through. I am excited (once things settle down a bit) to participate in other in-person workshops because beyond the formal discussions, the dinner conversations were always really fun – learning about one another and our experiences really helps remind us that we are not alone in our quests to make the world a nicer place for our respective customer populations.