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Our Mission
Our mission is to drive healthcare innovation by connecting innovators, professionals, and users. We bring together multidisciplinary teams to tackle real-world healthcare challenges, accelerating the creation of practical solutions through fast-paced makeathons.
How Innovation4Health works
I4H is a 6 week endeavour where innovators research, design, and develop their idea before bringing it to life over the course of a weekend.
I4H is broken down into 4 main events.
How I4H works
I4H is a 6 week endeavour where innovators research, design, and develop their idea before bringing it to life over the course of a weekend.
I4H is broken down into 4 main events.
Innovator Icebreaker / Tech Tent
A pre-hackathon networking opportunity, giving the innovators the chance to meet their potential future teammates while exploring currently existing technology.
Date: TBD
Time: TBD
Location: TBD
Innovator Icebreaker
+ Tech Tent
A pre-hackathon networking opportunity, giving the innovators the chance to meet their potential future teammates while exploring currently existing technology.
Date: TBD
Time: TBD
Location: TBD
Pitch Day
The first of 3 key events where participants get to network with other innovators, learn about real-world challenges and form a team.
Date: Feb 24
Time: TBD
Location: TBD
Health Hack Weekend
An intense 72-hour period of developing and testing a functional prototype. The first steps towards addressing a real-world challenge in healthcare.
Date: Apr 04-06
Time: TBD
Location: TBD
Demo Day
The final event of the program where teams present their functional prototypes to other innovators, judges, and to the community at large for a chance to win various awards.
Date: Apr 07
Time: TBD
Location: TBD
$xx,xxx
raised so far!
Fundraising
Goals
Organizing a 6 week hackathon is no easy feat! It requires securing venues, prize money, innovator resources, the list goes on. I4H is simply not possible without the generous donations from local businesses, tech companies, and healthcare organizations.
If you want to help keep this competition running, please consider donating and helping us reach our goal of $100,000! To donate, please contact us at i4h@ucalgary.ca
