HealthTech Cohort Summit 2021

The annual HealthTech Cohort Summit is back!

Returning with the new batch of digital health ventures from the Galen Growth 2021 HealthTech Cohort, this year’s event is packed with exciting sessions! Get ready to join nine brilliant conversations surrounding the world of digital health, from solutions empowering patients and clinicians, new health management systems, solving the mental health crisis, and much more. Featuring global speakers from 22 of the world’s most promising digital health startups, they are eager to share their insights, strategies and solutions to the healthcare system’s pain points.

Join us for this unique three-day virtual event, with our daily two-hour sessions, to find new technologies, world-changing insights and powerful connections to discover the healthcare innovations of tomorrow.

31 Aug to 2 Sep

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900

Innovators attended last year

22

Digital health ventures speaking

9

Exciting conversations about digital health

Why you should join us:

  1. You are from corporate innovation looking for a digital health startup to solve your organisation’s pain point or an investor hoping to expand your investment portfolio in the fast-growing digital health landscape.
    Join our various sessions and hear how our startups are tackling specific issues. You may find your next partnership and investment opportunity!
  2. You are from a digital health startup looking to understand your company’s positioning in the digital health ecosystem.
    Learn how your peers are approaching business or entrepreneurial challenges in a hyper-dynamic industry. Better develop business strategies or find potential like-minded collaborators to solve the pertinent problems in healthcare.

Agenda

Timings listed are in Singapore Time

DAY 1 - 31 Aug

3:00 pm: Remote Monitoring: Shaping Tomorrow’s Delivery of Care

Collating data remotely using wearables, biosensors, watches, and patches today is technically straightforward. With the recent news on the Health App in iOS 15, we have arrived at a point where patients are more engaged in managing their health data. This increased use of patient-facing interfaces such as smartphone apps heralds a future where the engagement between healthcare providers and their patients grow more personalised. Learn how our remote monitoring ventures are shaping healthcare delivery through better and more proactive patient management with the promise of better health outcomes.

Speakers:

Hayley Saddington
CEO & Founder, Peak Medical

Lincoln Dacy
Co-Founder, XCLR8 Technologies

Shaun Rossiter
CEO & Co-Founder, RunKicker

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3:55 pm: Tools in the Hands of Patients and Clinicians

Navigating health systems, getting quality healthcare and feeling in control are just a few examples of making the digital healthcare journey a success. In this panel, we meet three digital health ventures operating in vastly different markets with varying levels of access and affordability of healthcare. Together, we explore the factors that can further foster and empower the patients and clinicians in their journey to quality health management.

Speakers:

Beth Ann Lopez
CEO & Co-Founder, Docosan

Stephan Gath
CEO & Co-Founder, DoryHealth

Dr Aakash Ganju
CEO & Co-Founder, Saathealth

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4:40 pm: When a Small Sample Helps to Discover Breakthroughs

Efficient and effective non-invasive diagnostic tools and procedures are the ultimate goals in healthcare innovation. Not only do such solutions support the diagnosis and treatment of patients, but they also allow healthcare providers to perform early diagnoses and prevent diseases. Join us as we discover how these innovations can result in more convenient, effective, and less expensive treatments, as well as helping to empower healthcare consumers.

Speakers:

Peter Macquart-Moulin
CEO & Co-Founder, Yesmom

Sajung Yun
CEO, Predictiv

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DAY 2 - 1 Sep

3:00 pm: Health Management Solutions

Beyond electronic health records (EHR) sit a wealth of processes with varying technologies. Digital health startups need to navigate them to generate the most suitable solutions to fulfil the long-term business aspirations of their healthcare clients. This panel addresses the future of health management solutions and how startups must continuously adapt their products to meet their clients’ ever-changing needs.

Speakers:

Ching-Tse Tseng
CEO & Founder, Vault Dragon

Yutaro Yokokawa
Bangladesh Local miup CEO & COO, miup

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3:45 pm: Digital Health in Insurance: Delivering Consistent Customer Experience and Reducing Inefficiencies

There are still obvious gaps to bridge between insurance companies and the customers. Insurers face the challenge of speeding up processes while providing new services that can meet customers’ evolving healthcare needs. Technology is the way forward to bridging the gap to optimise customer relations. This panel will explore how digital health ventures are transforming the insurance industry, shifting the focus from the products to the customers.

Speakers:

Neil Liang
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, The CareVoice

Max Thum
VP of Revenue, HealthMetrics

Vincent Lau
CEO & Co-Founder, Maria Health

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4:30 pm: Healthcare With Impact

Many regions around the world remain undigitised. Limited access to healthcare providers, quality care and information plague them. In today’s global health battle, these underserved countries are in dire need of new technologies and enablers to build a positive impact on critical issues. This panel will explore what it takes for these ventures to scale their digital health solutions to eliminate health inequalities in regions in need.

Speakers:

Shamala Hinrichsen
CEO & Founder, Hanai

Murielle Tiambo
Co-Founder, KimboCare

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DAY 3 - 2 Sep

3:00 pm: A World in Crisis: Solving Mental Health

The World Health Organization said on July 22, 2021, that the mental health impact of the pandemic would be “long-term and far-reaching” and “everyone is affected in one way or another”. The good news is that Galen Growth’s latest mental research shows that the global Digital Health in Mental Health ecosystem is thriving, expanding by volume whilst annual funding has grown more than 25% YoY. Let’s explore how these ventures are offering powerful solutions in this much-needed time.

Speakers:

Antoinette Patterson
CEO & Founder, Safe Space

Joan Low
CEO & Founder, Thoughtfull

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3:40 pm: HealthTech Alpha for Startups Demo

3:55 pm: Clinical Trials in Southeast Asia: The Challenges and Promises

Digital clinical research is opening doors to a wealth of innovation. Leveraging technology to improve access and engagement of participants and to the ability to easily facilitate studies enhance the insights and learnings at lower costs. Nevertheless, implementing new concepts into the traditional clinical research practice presents researchers with new challenges. Join our digital clinical research ventures to learn their strategies to overcome these challenges and capitalise on the opportunities in digital clinical research.

Speakers:

Dr Huren Sivaraj
CEO & Co-Founder, Oncoshot

Martin Lim
CEO & Founder, ONWARD Health Research

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4:30 pm: Discovering the Tech Side of Digital Health Innovations

Healthcare is transforming right before our eyes with advances in technologies, including artificial medical intelligence (AMI), federated learning, virtual reality, and vital screening, challenging the status quo. Let’s explore some of the technologies our digital health ventures have built and how they are presenting real digital transformation opportunities for the healthcare industry.

Speakers:

Stine Mølgaard Sørensen
COO & Co-Founder, Radiobotics

Rob Royea
CEO & Chairman, Cyrcadia

Kevin Taegeun Choi
CEO & Co-Founder, Medi Whale

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Participating Startups

Speakers

Hayley Saddington CEO & Founder, Peak Medical
Lincoln Dacy Co-Founder, XCLR8 Technologies
Shaun Rossiter CEO & Co-Founder, RunKicker
Beth Ann Lopez CEO & Co-Founder, Docosan
Stephan Gath CEO & Co-Founder, DoryHealth
Dr Aakash Ganju CEO & Co-Founder, Saathealth
Peter Macquart-Moulin CEO & Co-Founder, Yesmom
Sajung Yun CEO, Predictiv
Ching-Tse Tseng CEO & Founder, Vault Dragon
Yutaro Yokokawa Bangladesh Local miup CEO & COO, miup
Neil Liang Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, The CareVoice
Max Thum VP of Revenue, HealthMetrics
Vincent Lau CEO & Co-Founder, Maria Health
Shamala Hinrichsen CEO & Founder, Hanai
Murielle Tiambo Co-Founder, KimboCare
Antoinette Patterson CEO & Founder, Safe Space
Joan Low CEO & Founder, Thoughtfull
Dr Huren Sivaraj CEO & Co-Founder, Oncoshot
Martin Lim CEO & Founder, ONWARD Health Research
Stine Mølgaard Sørensen COO & Co-Founder, Radiobotics
Rob Royea CEO & Chairman, Cyrcadia
Kevin Taegeun Choi CEO & Co-Founder, Medi Whale

About the HealthTech Cohort

Galen Growth’s 2021 HealthTech Cohort is the only collaborative acceleration programme built to scale digital health startups to be the next generation powering healthcare innovation across the globe. Comprised of 25 of the most innovative digital health startups across APAC, United States, Europe and the Middle East, they tackle various healthcare pain points, including mental health, disease management, clinical trials and access to healthcare in developing nations.

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