2324T2 Silicon Valley/Participant Information/Lauren Koek

About Lauren Koek SMU email: laurenkoek.2021@scis.smu.edu.sg Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenkoek/ Academic Year: Year 3 (2022) Degree: BSc Computing & Law and Innovation & Psychology (Second Major)

Image.jpg Why Virtual TSM? What motivates you to join TSM? I have always

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Starting a business What types of business interest you? I am very interested in both the edtech and legaltech industry.

What plans do you have in starting a business? I actually currently have 2 different startups. (1) Future Lawyers and (2) Futuready (1) I founded Future Lawyers in 2019. It is a not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to educating and demystifying youth about the realities of the legal industry. Since starting in 2019 in Toronto, it has expanded internationally, including California, Atlantic Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick) and Singapore. We have had an outreach of over 317k youths worldwide across 5 continents, worked in partnership with the Ontario Council of Technology Education to offer over 690 Highschools across Ontario with our online curriculum to learn more about the legal industry, and continue to partner with law schools such as the Toronto Metropolitan University and SMU YPHSL to provide students with the much-needed opportunities and knowledge. You can learn more about Future Lawyers at here.

(2) I also recently co-founded Futuready, the for-profit branch of Future Lawyers. It is an edtech platform dedicated to

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