Innovation Pitch Competitions Learn from the Winners

Innovation Pitch CompetitionsLearn from the Winners

Learning Objectives

• Differentiate between audience perspectives, goals and impact of innovation competition events

• Examine recent case studies and learn from the winners of the Medical Capital Innovation Competition

• Sketch out a successful formula for deploying value to your proposed idea for innovation competition events

Agenda

• Meet the Creators & Winners of Pitch Competitions

• Learn the about resources which are available for startups, entrepreneurs, and innovators.

• Select the best competition to meet your goals

• Prepare to Win

Matthew Holt: Founder The Health Care Blog and Health 2.0

Matthew Miller: Vice President, BioEnterprise

Virginia Flavin Pribanic: President and CEO, Medrespond

Dalton Shaull: Founder & President, HealthTech Solutions, Inc.

Panelists

Founder The Health Care Blog

and Health 2.0.

Matthew Holt

Vice President, BioEnterprise

Matthew Miller

President and CEO, Medrespond

Virginia Flavin Pribanic

Founder & President, HealthTech

Solutions, Inc.

Dalton Shaull

Director,

HIMSS Innovation Center

Leslie Evans

Differentiate Between Types of Competitions

• Code-a-thons & Hackathons

• Challenges

• Pilot Programs

• Innovation & Startup Pitch Competitions

FACILITATING INNOVATION TO MOVE NEW TECHNOLOGY FROM CONCEPT

TO COMMERCIALIZATION.

Since 2010, we have harnessed competition and awarded over $8,500,000 in

funding. Through our network of over 8,000 designers, developers, entrepreneurs

and healthcare professionals we’ve been able to support the innovation initiatives of

private, non-profit and government entities. Catalyst @ Health 2.0 connects

healthcare stakeholders and innovators to build the future of health. We provide the

platform to move new technologies from concept to commercialization.

Code-a-thons & Hackathons• Code-a-thons & Hackathons bring students, designers, developers,

entrepreneurs and healthcare professionals to collaborate and develop new approaches to problems in health generally over the course of a weekend.

• Awards include cash prizes, mentorship, education & access to stakeholders

• Pathway to engage young audiences and build awareness of needs in Health IT

Challenges• Challenges allow organizations to crowdsource new concepts and

technologies to address the problems that are most important to them and bring attention to these issues.

• Public, private, non-profit, and government organizations run challenges to commercialize new technologies and provide innovation consulting.

• Submissions are evaluated by a panel of expert judges and awarded non-dilutive funding, recognition, support, and partnership opportunities with the sponsoring organization.

Copyright © 2016 Health 2.0.

Challenges

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Pilot Programs

• Pilot programs bring together health care organizations and innovative companies through funding awards and facilitated matchmaking to conduct pilot studies. Pilot programs help move startups from concept to commercialization & enable innovators to establish proof of concept and healthcare organizations to mitigate risk when testing new technologies.

Copyright © 2016 Health 2.0

Innovation & Startup Pitch Competitions

• Collegiate & Early Stage Companies with innovative solutions apply

• Applications are reviewed by a selection committee and participants are selected based upon stated criteria

• Benefits include cash prizes, startup capital, access to industry stakeholders, mentorship, exposure to potential investors & market exposure

RWJF OPIOID CHALLENGE

Substance misuse affects millions of people from all walks of life. The impact of

drug misuse is significant not only on patients, but also on their families, friends

and the healthcare system at large. Can you create technology enabled tools to

help support and connect individuals affected by opioid addiction?

• “Disruptive Technologies:

• The Next Generation of Healthcare”

• April 23-24, 2018

• HIMSS Innovation Center at the

• Global Center for Health Innovation

Presented by:

To apply, visit TheMedicalCapital.com.

Prepare to Win

• Clearly articulate the problem you’re trying to solve

• Build a strong, credible Team

• Understand how big the market is for the solution you’re creating

• Focus on the customer

• Know your Audience – learn as much as you can about the judges, mentors & tailor your pitch to your audience

• Practice Your Pitch & accept feedback

• Make it Engaging