Hacking Health & Alsace Digitale

Hacking Health is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to transforming healthcare delivery and access through digital technology. Based in Canada, Hacking Health pairs technology experts (designers and developers) with healthcare professionals (physicians, nurses, managers) in partnership with entrepreneurs, community and international partners, corporations, and investors to rapidly develop digital and mobile health solutions. Hacking Health builds connections through Hacking Health Weekend Hackathons, Hacking Health Cafes, Hacking Health Clinics and workshops across Canada and internationally. A number of our projects have received national and international news coverage, gained market traction, and been acquired. Most projects created at Hacking Health events fall under the categories of consumer health (mobile and web-based), medical tools, and administrative software.

Alsace Digitale is a non-profit organization created in 2010 by team of developers and entrepreneurs passionate about technology. Its goal is to build an IT ecosystem in Alsace that can empower people with project and ideas to create new activity based on innovation and interdisciplinarity. Focusing on startup and IT they work on an acceleration program to transform all this projects and ideas in profitable company. Alsace Digitale joined forces with Hacking Health and uses its hackathon as a platform for these startups to emerge. Alsace Digitale organize other events like Startup Weekends, barcamps, other hackathons, Devoxx4Kids (program learning sessions for kids), EdgeFest (IT, art & culture festival). Alsace Digitale has created and manage a coworking space in Strasbourg : La Plage. Alsace Digitale represents Hacking Health locally in Alsace and supports the organizer’s team.