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Hacking Health Queensland Cafe – Health Innovation with Creative Thinkers & Entrepreneurs

March 28, 2018 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Health Innovation with Creative Thinkers & Entrepreneurs

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Creatives, creativity & an entrepreneurial mindset can inform & improve all stages of health innovation
You can, for example, add enormous value by including creatives or creativity in:
  • ideation (e.g., generating ideas)
  • understanding & empathising with your customer & their journey
  • exploring, designing & prototyping different solutions, value propositions & business models
  • utilising new tools, thinking & processes to unlock value
  • creating, communicating & delivering value
So with this Hacking Health Queensland event, we’re bringing a big dose of creative talent & thinking into our event – to facilitate new connections, thinking & ideas for health innovation.
We are inviting some great creative thinking and entrepreneurship talent, including experts in design and innovative creative (tech) enabled health innovators/startups.
There’ll be an opportunity to network, hear from our creative experts/innovators/entrepreneurs and have rotating storming sessions with each of our guest speakers.

Event Overview

5:30pm Networking
6:00pm Welcome
6:05pm Creative Experts/Innovators/Entrepreneurs introduce themselves
6:20pm World café (rotating storming sessions)
7:20pm POP up presentations and thank guests
8:00pm Close

Who Should Attend

Creative thinkers, innovators and entrepreneurs are our special guests!
You’re invited to come along – to join forces with our growing Hacking Health Queensland community (comprising a diversity of actors and organisations with a passion to identify opportunities and problems to solve to improve health through innovation and ecosystemm building).
  • startups in or impacting health
  • health consumers
  • patient groups
  • health professionals & allied health professionals
  • entrepreneurs, including social entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs (corporate entprereneurs) and founders
  • innovators
  • researchers (and higher degree research students)
  • technologists
  • students interested in health and innovation (a diversity of disciplines are welcome – from health, business, science, tech, engineering, design, law, & more!)
  • health organisations
  • hospitals
  • experts knowledgable about trends impacting health
  • technology transfer professionals
  • health industry organisations
  • professionals and businesses serving the health sector
  • local, regional, state and federal government
  • health policy professionals
  • universities
  • co-working spaces, incubators & accelerators with an interest in health

About Hacking Health Queensland

Hacking Health Queensland is part of a global network, advancing knowledge and acting local, to connect people, organisations and enable innovation to improve healthcare and health.
Follow us on: Twitter @HHQueensland; and Facebook @HackingHealthQueensland

Sponsors

This event is organised with support from QUT foundry, an innovation and entrepreneurship hub at QUT with catering by Liquid State.

QUT foundry is here to help inspire, connect, and enable QUT connected students, staff, researchers, graduates and alumni to solve problems, shape opportunities, leverage technologies, and realise ideas and dreams to start, build and scale businesses and social enterprises, for economic and positive impact.

We also connect with our community! Connect with us on social media at @QUTfoundry on Facebook,Instagram and Twitter and feel free to sign up to our newsletter here.

Venue

Gardens Point Campus (2 George Street) Z Block Level 10 Room 1064 Brisbane, Queensland 4000
QUT Gardens Point Campus 2 George St - Z Block, Lvl 10 Rm 1064
Brisbane, QLD 4000 Australia
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