Social Health Startup Bootcamp @SXSW 2015

For more information, please visit: https://spark2018.health .

This year (2018), the Social Health Startup Bootcamp is teaming up with MIT Hacking Medicine, Abelson Taylor, HCB Health and JUICE Pharma to bring you HealthSpark 2018 -- a 1.5 day health tech innovation event, including the biggest Barracuda Bowl pitch contest that we have run to date and some amazing prizes for the winners. 

EVENT: HealthSpark 2018

DATE: March 11th--12th, 2018

LOCATION: MAX’s Underground (part of MAX’s Wine Dive)

REGISTER: On Eventbrite

URL: https://healthspark2018.com 

Our four themes for HealthSpark 2018 are:

Biosensors and Digital Therapeutics

AI and the Future of Healthcare

Hacking Healthcare

Scaling Health Tech Startups

If you are a health tech startup and would like to participate in our Barracuda Bowl (Health Tech Startup Pitch Contest), please submit an entry here.

Here’s the (almost) final agenda for HealthSpark 2018:

Day 1: 

Biosensors and Digital Therapeutics

Scarlet Shore (Verily) - Empowering People to Own Their Health Data

Dr. Tom Luby (JLABS, Texas) - TBD

Jenny Barnett (Cambridge Cognition) - Alexa, how is my brain today?

Barracuda Bowl #1 - Top 2 teams move on to finals on Day 2

AI and the Future of Healthcare

TBC: Amazon - Future of Machine Learning

Ed Leibowitz (BD Digital Health) - Is a SmartBot Your New Doctor?

Alexandra Philp Reeves & Dr. John Reeves (emojiHEALTH / Conversation Health) - Are Chatbots the Future of Healthcare?

Barracuda Bowl #2 - Top 2 teams move on to finals on Day 2

Hacking Healthcare

Eugene Borukhovich (Bayer G4A) - Hacking Corporate CultureBayer

Brian Rosnov (Philips HealthWorks) - Don’t do it alone – the importance of an eco-system

Dr. Michelle Longmire (Medable) - Is Blockchain the Elixir For Clinical Innovation?

Barracuda Bowl #3 - Top 2 teams move on to finals on Day 2

Day 2: 

Scaling Health Tech Startups

Mark Liber (StartUp Health) - State of Digital Health Funding 2018

Erik Halvorsen, Ph.D (TMC Innovation) - Digital Health Myths versus Realities

Panel: TBD - Tales from the (Health Tech Startup) Trenches

Emily Tower & Noah Lowenthal (Abelson Taylor) - The Pitch: Selling Your Disruptive Health Startup

After 5 hugely succesful, consecutive years of holding the Social Health Startup Bootcamp, we have decided to take a break from the usual half-day program as part of Startup Village. Instead, we’ve teamed up with the folks at MIT Hacking Medicine and will be running a 3-day (March 12-14) MIT #HackMed Health House at the JW Marriott, where the Health and MedTech program sessions and expo will be held.

Watch this space (soon) for all the program details for the MIT #HackMed Health House, but here is a brief summary to begin with:

Day 1:

DAY 1 (AM) / 4hrs: MIT HackMed: Don’t Let The Tail Wag The Dog in Healthcare: Interactive discussion on "latent need identification"  

DAY 1 (PM) / 2hrs: MIT HackMed: Patient Co-Creation Workshop: Need identification workshop with online patient influencers talking about needs

DAY 1 (PM) / 1hr (Panel): MIT HackMed: State of Digital Health Funding Keynote

Day 2:

DAY 2 (AM) / 2hrs: MIT HackMed: Design Thinking For Health: Interactive workshop on "design thinking"

DAY 2 (PM) / 4hrs: MIT HackMed: 4-hr Mini Hackathon

DAY 2 (PM) / 1hr: From idea to reality -- Hackathon Success Stories discussion

Day 3:

DAY 3 (AM) / 1hr: MIT HackMed: Barracuda Bowl - Startup Pitchfest: Shark Tank type pitches from hackathon participants to panel of patients

DAY 3 (AM) / 1hr: MIT HackMed: Barracuda Bowl - Startup Pitchfest: Shark Tank type pitches from hackathon participants to panel of VC's and Investors

DAY 3 (PM) / 1hr: MIT HackMed: Barracuda Bowl - Startup Pitchfest: Shark Tank type pitches from hackathon participants to panel of VC's and industry experts

Friday, March 13th, 2015 | Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon A - http://schedule.sxsw.com/2015/events/event_IAP42958

Following on the success of the last three Social Health Startup Bootcamps at SXSW, 2015 will mark the 4th consecutive year of the event that provides education, inspiration, and funding advice for (social) health tech startups.

Speakers:

Shwen Gwee (Founder, Social Health Startup Bootcamp & PharmFresh.TV)

Polina Hanin (Academy Director, Startup Health)

Brendan Gallagher (EVP, Experience Strategy & Innovation at Digitas Health LifeBrands)

Topics to be covered include:

Why NOW is the perfect time to think about the healthcare sector as a viable opportunity to launch a tech startup

What are investors interested in seeing with new digital health startups

Where the future of digital health and health tech is going

Exclusive data on investment trends and insights, including: The most active areas of investment in digital health in 2014, Who’s investing, What trends are emerging, and What it all means for digital health startups.

Background: Investments in digital health startups have grown from almost US$1B with 139 deals in 2010 to over almost US$3B with 578 deals in 2013. As more investors begin to view health tech as a viable opportunity for funding and investment – especially as digital health becomes more mainstream through wearables and organic mobile platforms like Apple's Health Kit, Google Fit and Samsung's Digital Health Initiative -- it should come as no surprise that 2014 turned out to be another record-breaking year, with investments totaling over $4.1B, which is more than 2011-2013 combined.

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Friday, March 13th, 2015  |  Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon A - http://schedule.sxsw.com/2015/events/event_IAP42977

Welcome To The Barracuda Bowl! 

Following the success of 2013's Founder's Stories, the format of this session has evolved into more of a "shark tank" style pitchfest for social health startups.

Startup Founders:

1EQ - Juan Pablo Segura

Curatio - Lynda Brown

NuPlanit - Alaina Hanlon

Judges:

Lynne Chou - Partner, KPCB (Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers)

Nina Kjellson - General Partner, InterWest Partners 

Casper de Clercq - Partner, Norwest Venture Partners

Ambar Bhattacharyya - VP, Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP)

Format:

The "Barracuda Bowl" puts the spotlight on the founders of three social health startups, who will each have five minutes to pitch their startup to an esteemed panel of "barracudas" – veteran investors, entrepreneurs, and judges.

After providing an overview of their business, the startup founders will be immersed into the Barracuda Bowl where the panel of judges will interrogate them and poke holes in their business plans.

After all three founders have had their fifteen minutes in the bowl, they will together assemble on stage and the audience will have an opportunity to be the barracudas and unleash their questions on them.

At the end of the session, the barracuda panel will decide which founder won the battle of the barracuda bowl and which ones got chewed to pieces.

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Friday, March 13th, 2015 | Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon A - http://schedule.sxsw.com/2015/events/event_IAP42978

Speakers:

Robin Thurston - SVP, Digital, Under Armour and co-founder MapMyFitness

Bill Besselman - VP, Strategy, Under Armour 

Alanna Cotton - VP, Product Marketing, Tablets & Wearables, Samsung

Nirav "Rav" Sheth - Director of Medical Market Development,, MC10

Every startup dreams of a monster IPO or being acquired by a big company. However, those are not the only ways startups can have successful exits.

This fireside chat brings together startups (and/or their corporate partners) that have been acquired, merged or partnered with big companies like Samsung and Under Armor, leading to their businesses scaling to new levels and resulting in “happy endings” all around.

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