About Health Hackathon

Pitch ideas, form teams, get advice from experts, and build a useable solution to address the users' problems over the course of a weekend. Sunday afternoon demo your solution in front of a panel of judges for a chance of winning some fantastic prizes!

Hacking Health fosters collaborative innovation by engaging key groups of stakeholders, such as healthcare professionals, developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and patients, to create human-centric solutions to improve the health of our communities. Our weekend hackathons are fun, intense, hands-on events where small teams tackle tough problems in a supportive community of peers and mentors.

Watch Previous Hackathon Video

Schedule Detail

  • registration

    5.00 PM

    Registration & Pitch Clinic

  • reception

    6.00 PM

    Networking Reception, light food & refreshments provided

  • programstart

    7:00 PM

    Program Begins

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  • pitch

    7:30 PM

    Pitches

  • buildteam

    8 - 10 PM

    Team Formation

  • breakfast

    8 -9 AM

    Breakfast

  • workshop

    9.00 AM

    Workshop

  • hack1

    9:30 - 12.00 PM

    HACK

  • lunch1

    12 - 1 PM

    Lunch

  • team2

    1 - 4 PM

    HACK

  • 9.00 -11PM

    HACK

  • presentation

    13-15 PM

    Presenting Work
    Demo

  • award

    15:30 PM

    Award

  • thanks

    16.00 PM

    Thanks

Judges and Mentors

Judges use criteria to gauge projects and select impressive participating teams.
Mentor will assist teams with using Mentor's knowldge, experience and new technologies, helping them learn what Mentor already excel at. A mentor can inspire someone to continue to build and learn after a hackathon.

(Including previous Health Hackathon)

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Dr. Ted Scott

Healthcare Leadership

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Paul Brown

General Manager

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Elizabeth Thorsen

Marketing Manager

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Gordon Alexander

Chief Innovation Officer

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Dr. Dennis DiValentino

Clinical Professor

VENUE

McMaster Innovation Park

175 Longwood Rd S #105, Hamilton, ON L8P 0A1

McMaster Innovation Park (MIP) is an award winning, premier research and innovation park located approximately 2 kilometers from the internationally recognized McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

Ticket plans

$ 50 /all days

Regular

  • Basic Event Ticket
  • Access to all sessions
  • Start on Oct.4
Register Now
$ 15 /select session

Pitches &
Demo Sessions

  • Selected session Ticket
  • Access to Pitches and Demo sessions
Register Now

FAQ

Health Hackathon Hamilton is a fun, hands-on, intense, 3-day hackathon that breaks down barriers to healthcare innovation in Hamilton. Hacking Health fosters collaborative innovation by engaging key groups of stakeholders, such as healthcare professionals, developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and patients, to create human-centric solutions to improve the health of our communities. Our weekend hackathons are fun, intense, hands-on events where small teams tackle tough problems in a supportive community of peers and mentors.
Don't worry! We will walk you through how to generate great ideas at Health Hackathon. And you also could find and join a team.
As soon as you get you register for the hackathon, go to Hacking Health Hamilton 2019 Sparkboard where you can either pitch your project ideas, describing them briefly and their skill requirements (designer, developer, medical expert, etc), or find a pitch/project idea that interests you or that matches your skills. You can build a team or join in a team.
Yes, of course. We also has a succeful story about a high school student in our previous health hackathon.
The deadline was Sunday, Nov 11th. There is a early bird tickts.

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