Shannon Yee
Engineer and researcher at Georgia Tech who led development of the Single User Reinvented Toilet (SURT) under Gates Foundation funding and guided its technical development and commercialization discussions.
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Apr 14, 2026 • 30min
The Challenges of Scaling a Technology for Social Good
Dr. Shannon Yee, an engineer from Georgia Tech who led development of the Single User Reinvented Toilet (SURT). Maria Roche, a Harvard Business School professor who studies innovation and scaling. They discuss SURT’s technical readiness, tradeoffs from funder constraints, pricing and public-health spillovers, market entry options like military or licensing, partner alignment, and behavioral and municipal barriers to scaling.
