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Description
This meetup will take a three-part format:
Pitch Potluck
35 minutes
You bring a unique idea or problem, spoon it out to the audience, and get feedback. Each pitch gets a maximum of two minutes to present, and up to five minutes to receive audience reactions, bask in praise, or defend against challenges. It's all the fun of defending a Ph.D. dissertation, but condensed into seven minutes and stripped of the hundreds of footnotes.
Pitches don't have to be new technologies, but they do need to be innovative solutions or an exciting new way of trying to solve a health problem. This means your pitch could be a new process for healthcare administration, an idea for a drug, a website or mobile app, medical device... whatever, just as long as it's new and creative. No slides, videos, or demos are allowed--your tools are strictly limited to words and enthusiasm.
There will be up to five pitches in the potluck--three reserved ahead of time, and two "walk-ins" that we will encourage to jump on stage after the first three pitches. The pitches scheduled for this meetup are:
Yaroslav Faybishenko - "From diaper to database" (sniff, sniff.. what's that smell?).
Charmaine Tangonan - "PhysEd hacks" (the technological kind, not that washed-up-athelete-gym-coach kind).
Jerry Kestenbaum - "Reinventing grandma's medicine cabinet" (the actual one, not the one full of bootleg gin).
Demo-lition Derby
30 minutes
Bring your working demos of health hacks and listen to the audience gasp at how they can crush persistent problems and traditional paradigms beneath their monster truck tires.
Demos are basically pitches that been built out with a diesel engine and decorated with flame decals on the sides--demo-ers are expected to bring a working beta they can show off or a live/recorded demonstration of the hack in action. Powerpoint slides are allowed, but only if they are absolutely certain to blow everybody away with their elegant visual representations of difficult abstractions (Warning: Slide decks full of stock photography and bullet point lists are fair game for audience eye-rolling and Twittersphere ridicule).
Each demo gets five minutes to show off its chrome rims and pneumatic shocks and another ten for the demoers to try to bulldoze over any obstacles that the audience may throw in front of it.
Our two demoers are:
Alex Fair/Medstartr - A hack on funding healthcare innovation and the first healthcare-specific crowdfunding portal.
Mike Gerstenfeld/cloud2health - Think of cloud2health like a nebulous health app data jukebox--2 bits of data go in, sweet music (in the form of medical recommendations) comes out.
"Social(-ism/-izing) Time"
Thirty minutes to talk, unite, and conspire to overthrow the established order.
All of our pitchers and demo-ers will be arranged around the room under signs bearing the name/summary of their hack. Seek them out if you want to continue a discussion, introduce yourself, or plot a revolution.
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