Where respiration meets innovation

September 20-21, 2015, 09:00 - 19:00, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering in collaboration with Bronica Entrepreneurship Center, Technion and Global Breathe Initiative:
www.breathe-initiative.org

This event is chaired by internet visionary and investor Yossi Vardi.

Location: Biomedical Engineering Building, Technion. Parking is available on premises.

This September a global event will take place simultaneously across three continents:

- MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Imperial College Advanced Hackspace (ICAH) in London, UK
- Technion: Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel

Dubbed the BREATHE Respiratory Hackathons, these events will bring together programmers, designers, technicians, engineers, patients, doctors, entrepreneurs, and innovators to develop transformative tools and devices to enhance respiratory wellness and treatment.

Teams will be given free rein to explore solutions to many of the problems respiratory sufferers face daily. That may include integrating new technology, making existing equipment more user friendly, connecting medical devices to other IoT devices and to cloud for big data analysis, or completely rethinking the status quo and challenge the respiratory industry to innovate around patient-centred wellness.

Prizes up to $3,000 will be awarded to the top innovations!

These Hackathons are presented by Novartis Pharma in association with the COPD Foundation, following the highly successful COPD Crowdshaped event these two organizations ran in June 2015: https://youtu.be/zSf0B16ekGk

Our sponsors have kindly provided prizes and equipment which will be available to hack and innovate. You can see the growing list of sponsors here:
http://www.breathe-initiative.org/#sponsors

Results from all three Hackathons will be shared with the media and 22,000+ attendees at the European Respiratory Society Conference in Amsterdam on September 27, 2015.

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2. The organisers of this event, Technion, and any of their employees, volunteers, members and representatives are not responsible for any injury, loss or damage of any kind sustained by any person while participating in this event.