When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many American colleges and universities were forced to close their campuses. The road to reopening relied on the ability to track symptoms and test results for thousands of students and staff - all in real time. So technologists worked around the clock to create a solution that could scale. In this episode, host Tori Weldon dives into the problem of safely reopening campus and how a progressive web application helped bring back in person learning.

You’ll hear from Dr. Donna Souder Hodge, Vice President of Operations and Advancement at Colorado State University Pueblo, about how she and her colleagues worked to safely reopening the campus, and Anita Barkin, co-chair of the American College Health Association COVID-19 task force, who helped create the guidelines used by hundreds of colleges to manage COVID. You’ll also hear from the technologists at KPMG, Ellen Pelletier and Werner Vanzyl, who had just six weeks to develop a progressive web application to track thousands of students and staff.

Speed to Modern Technology is an original podcast from KPMG. For more details on this episode, including transcripts, links and speaker bios, go to https://listen.kpmg.us/TechPodcastSchool.