47 million people live with dementia worldwide – 750,000 in Canada alone – with global numbers expected to reach 75 million by 2030. Much effort goes towards the search for a cure that may be decades away, but millions today face overwhelming, heartbreaking challenges daily. The point of DementiaHack is to create products that improve lives today.
DementiaHack Toronto 2015 is presented by Facebook; supported by the UK government, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care; hosted at George Brown College's Waterfront Campus; and produced by HackerNest.
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EPIC SPONSORS
Platinum Challenge Set Champions
Airbnb & AIMIA
Gold Industry Champions
Telus, Gluskin Sheff, Scout Logistics, Goodmans, Effort Trust, Canadian Centre for Aging & Brain Health Innovation, RBC, Sid Lee, Ontario Brain Institute, & Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
Media Partners
National Post & St Joseph Communications
Special Thanks
Alzheimer Society of Canada, Alzheimer Society of Ontario, Alzheimer Society of Toronto, Alzheimer's Society UK, Baycrest, Heart & Stroke Foundation, University of Waterloo Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program, Mount Sinai Hospital, OMERS Ventures, University of Toronto Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, UK Science & Innovation Network, Purple Elephant, & Mavencare
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FINALS JUDGES
John Biggs - TechCrunch East Coast Editor
Jordan Banks - Facebook Canada Managing Director
Aaron Zifkin - Airbnb Country Manager - Canada
Dr. Zahra Moussavi - University of Manitoba Director, Biomedical Engineering
John Ruffolo - OMERS Ventures Chief Executive Officer
Bianca Stern - Baycrest Executive Director, Innovation, Arts, & Design
Phyllis Fehr - Ontario Dementia Advisory Group Board Member
Robin Toop - HackerNest Chief Technical Officer
Eligibility
This is an in-person hackathon. All members of a team must be physically present at the hackathon venue in order to be considered for prizing. If you are not at least the age of legal majority, you must have written consent from your parent/guardian for claiming any travel-related prizes. There will be media and press crews at the event; participation requires consent to reasonable use for DementiaHack/HackerNest promotional materials.
Requirements
You'll need to submit everything you developed and any other supplemental info you feel is important in a zipfile. Images of things really help (especially hardware!).
Prizes
$177,600 in prizes
Grand Prize
- UK business trip to demo at UKHealthTech conference (Nov 28-Dec 4, 2015)
- Ontario Brain Institute pitch opportunities
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Meals with:
- TechCrunch Editor John Biggs
- OMERS Ventures CEO John Ruffolo
- UK Science & Innovation Officer John Preece
*Note: the Grand Prize is an additional award bestowed upon one of the Challenge Set winning teams
Facebook Prize
- trip to Silicon Valley for a guided tour of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Oculus HQs
- 5 hr consulting (Facebook Creative Shop)
- $10,000 of Facebook advertising credits
- lunch with Facebook Canada Managing Director Jordan Banks
Challenge Set Winner
(4)
- $5000 cash
- 40 hr social media strategy (Sid Lee)
- 10 hr legal services (Goodmans)
- 2 hr consulting (Facebook Creative Shop)
- OMERS Ventures workshops
- automatic admission into the MaRS Health Venture Services Program
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Meetings with:
- Baycrest procurement leads
- industry partners
- Daniel Klass of VC firm Klass Capital
Challenge Set Runner-Up
(4)
- $2500 cash
- 40 hr social media strategy (Sid Lee)
- 2 hr legal services (Goodmans)
- meetings with industry partners
- automatic interview for the MaRS Health Venture Services Program
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
Info and registration: hackernest.com/dementiahack
Judges
Dr. Ahmad Zbib
Heart and Stroke Foundation
Aiden Xiao
Facebook
Amanda Wilson
Public Health Agency of Canada
Dr. Arlene Astell
Ontario Shores
Audra Rusinas
Alzheimer Society of Ontario
Bea Kraavenhof
ODAG
Brenda van Ginkel
The Narrative Build
Caitlin Johnson
The Purple Elephant
Carolyn Poplak
Alzheimer Society of Canada
Dr. Carmela Tartaglia
University of Toronto
Chris Wedeles
University of Toronto
Christopher Wynn
Curran Lake Films
Debby Kaplan
Circle of Care
Delia Sinclair Frigault
Alzheimer Society of Ontario
Elise Kayfetz
Canadian Association of Retired Persons
Fanny Sie
MaRS Innovation
George Fermanis
Bayshore Healthcare
Gloria Lattanzio
Cedarhurst
Hayman Buwan
CareUmbrella
James Agnew
University Health Network
James Cohen
Mavencare
Jeff Wieland
Facebook
Dr. Joel Sadavoy
Mount Sinai Hospital
Lisa Loiselle
University of Waterloo
Natasha von Kaeppler
Facebook
Nukul Bhasin
Mavencare
Pradeep Raamana
Baycrest
Rebekah Churchyard
Alzheimer Society
Ricky Chan
Ontario Brain Institute
Rodney Ghali
Public Health Agency of Canada
Romina Oliverio
Alzheimer Society of Toronto
Ron Beleno
RB33
Sagar Savla
Facebook
Sylvia Davidson
Baycrest
Dr. Virginia Wesson
Mount Sinai Hospital
Zainab Fatima
Baycrest
Zaven Nahapetyan
Facebook
Judging Criteria
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Impact
How will this improve the life of the beneficiary? -
Practicality
Think 'usability' - does this fit into people's lives, is it adoptable? -
Feasibility
Can the team realistically pull off a deployment to the public/hospitals/etc? -
Creativity and Technical Innovation
Coolfactor -
Polish
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