Hacking Health TO: Pre-Hackathon Networking Café

What is the Pre-Hackathon Networking Café? Health Innovation Week 2019 is kicking off with an exciting 3-day hackathon March 29th - 31st at MaRS Discovery District. Before this hackathon, Hacking Health TO is hosting a Networking Café for participants to learn about the issues in community health, understand tips for participating in the hackathon, and network with other participants. This café will also be a great opportunity to meet potential team members and learn from community leaders. Featured speakers include individuals from SE Health, specialists in Intellectual Property Law, and Design Thinking methodologies. What is Hacking Health TO? Hacking Health is an international movement designed to improve healthcare by inviting technology creators and healthcare professionals to collaborate on realistic, human-centric solutions to front-line problems. Learn more about Hacking Health here.  What is a Hackathon? Hacakthons are amazing innovation competitions which bring together people from multiple disciplines to solve problems. At Hacking Health events these disciplines can include tech, business, health, and most importantly, patients! Participants meet, ideate, and form teams to solve today's biggest healthcare challenges by pulling together all their skills and knowledge with support from mentors from all sectors. The design thinking framework is used as the backbone of the hacking process, to ensure that solutions address the end users' problems. It also helps teams focus their creative energy to build out a prototype to show at the demo presentation on the final day. Tentative Schedule:  6:00 - 6:30: Networking & Registration  6:30 - 6:45: Welcome & Introductions  6:45 - 7:30: Presentations 7:30 - 8:15: Team Building Activities 8:15 - 9:00: Networking & Concluding Remarks Food & refreshments will be served.