DementiaHack LONDON by the British Govt & HackerNest
Date and time
Location
Fish Island Labs
60 Dace Road Hackney Wick London E3 2NQ United KingdomDescription
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DementiaHack is an international hackathon produced by the British Consulate-General Toronto and HackerNest that brings together the brightest minds in dementia management, patient care, and healthcare technology to tackle the most pressing challenges faced by caregivers and people with dementia.
Not content to just "raise awareness", the British government is committed to developing the hardware and software prototypes that emerge into tangible, lasting solutions that dementia patients/caregivers will actually benefit from. In addition to cool take-home prizes, winners will go on a UK/Canada roadshow to demo their hacks to major organizations and healthcare conferences.
Dementia affects almost a million people in the UK alone and over 35.6 million people worldwide. This hackathon gives developers, designers, and health professionals a chance to work on needed solutions to a ballooning global concern – improving care around dementia, a major cause of disability and dependency.
Platforms/devices: This hackathon is all about building things that actually help people with dementia and their caregivers. You can bring/build any demo-able platform/device that fits the theme. Read/research a ton, be independent. You are responsible for knowing and setting up your IDEs, SDKs, APIs, and every other acronym. Assume there will be no help from anyone. Be prepared!
Teams: Max 5 people. We'll do team matching on Saturday, but sign up at hckrn.st/dhteams to form teams (everyone will need to be on there for judging anyway). Get familiar!
Judging: Criteria:
- Impact: How much impact will this have on the person it's developed for? How much will their daily life improve?
- Practicality: Does the project fit into peoples lives? If not, is it reasonably easy for people to adapt to the product? Think "usability".
- Feasibility: Can this project be realistically implemented/deployed to the public?
- Creativity & Technical Innovation: How neat is this thing?!
Will be livestreamed! You can watch the demos and judging, and see the innovation in dementia management that can be produced in 24 hours, on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/hackernest on Sunday at 4:30pm BST!
*Note: Film/photos may end up on press and promo materials. If you're not okay with that, you may wear a mask.
WINNERS
Grand Prize: CareUmbrella
Runner Up #1: All The Pi
Runner Up #2: Clarity
Most Market Ready: Brain Friendly Games
Best Design: LifeBook
Most Impact: CareBook
PRIZES
Grand Prize (1x)
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4 years of free Linode service
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Demo at the HackerNest Toronto September Tech Social
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Demo at Hacking Health Cafe
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Demo at Mobile Med App Showcase
Runner-Up (2x)
2 years of free Linode service
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Demo at Hacking Health Cafe
Other prizes:
- Best Design: consulting session with Pivot Design Group
- Most Market Ready: consulting sessions with Normative, software design studio
- Most Impact: 4 hours of consulting with Functional Imperative, software design studio
- 5x Raspberry Pi
- 5x Ubi
Officially, there's only one grand prize. But consider this.
What if EIGHT amazing teams emerge with cracking, impactful, commercially-viable prototypes? Sure, only one team will get their flights paid for. But does that mean the government will totally ignore the other seven? Not bloody likely. That'd be daft and against their mandate, since the whole point of this is to get more products out there helping people.
So forget about the "THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE WINNER" rubbish. That's arbitrary. Show up. Don't just build for a prize; build for the person whose life you're going to help make better. Build something that takes the biscuit; something so brill that it'd be barmy NOT to support you, grand prize or otherwise.
SPONSORS
Our sponsors are awesome: they actually care about helping people and making the world a better place. Thank you! Please email sponsorship@hackernest.com for sponsorship info.
Platinum Sponsor and Official Platform Host
Linode: SSD Cloud Hosting for everyone!
Gold Sponsors
Ontario Brain Institute: Nonprofit Neuroscience Research Centre!
GitHub: Social Code Collaboration, Review, and Management!
Silver Sponsor
PARTNERS
VENUE
ORGANIZERS
DementiaHack is produced by the UK Science and Innovation Network (a division of the British Government) in collaboration with HackerNest (a grassroots nonprofit that builds local tech communities around the world).
In terms of credibility:
- HackerNest runs Canada's largest tech meetups/hackathons.
- The British government runs Britain.
Interested in volunteering? We could really use the help!
SCHEDULE (London)
Friday, September 12th (Toronto time, -5 EST. So a 10.30am Toronto event starts at 3.30pm London time. No event in London, but Toronto speakers are here: https://www.youtube.com/user/hackernest)
- 10:30am - 01:00pm - Morning panel: What do people living with dementia need in order to self-manage their condition and live independently?
- Bea Kraayenhoff, Person living with dementia
- Dr. Scott Mckay, Physician
- Janice Cox, Caregiver
- Brenda Hounam, Person living with dementia
- Dr. John Preece, Science & Innovation Officer, British Consulate-General Toronto (moderator)
- 03:00pm - 04:15pm - Afternoon panel: What are some of the opportunities and challenges involved in the field of dementia self-management?
- Dr. Arlene Astell, Research Chair, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health
- Jen Boger, Research Manager, Toronto Rehab
- Dr. Elaine C. Wiersma, Associate Professor, Lakehead University
- Scott Zoltok, Science & Innovation Assistant, British Consulate-General Toronto (moderator)
Saturday, September 13th (London)
- 01:30pm - registration, lunch
- 02:30pm - welcome note, instructions
- 03:30pm - team matching chaos
- 04:15pm - take your seats, important judging announcements
- 04:30pm - hackathon start
- 06:00pm - dinner
- 12:00am - midnight snack
Sunday, September 14th (London)
- 07:00am - breakfast
- 12:00pm - lunch
- 04:30pm - hackathon stop, pre-demos with mentors begin
- 05:30pm - demos; London teams go first
- 06:??pm - dinner served after last London team presents so they can eat while watching Toronto's demos
- 07:00pm - prizing, close
JUDGES
University of Toronto Research Chair, Community Management of Dementia Robin Toop HackerNest Director of Technology; Biomedical Engineer Dr. Zayna Khayat MaRS Senior Adviser, Health Systems Innovation Dr. Francis Jeanson Ontario Brain Institute Program Lead, Informatics & Analytics Sunil Sharma Extreme Venture Partners Managing Partner Janice Cox Caregiver
SPEAKERS AND MENTORS
University of Toronto Research Chair, Community Management of Dementia Dr. Zayna Khayat MaRs Senior Adviser, Health Systems Innovation Helen Kontozopolous University of Toronto Lecturer & Special Projects, Entrepreneurship Gail Elliott Dementiability CEO & Founder Dr. Lisa Loiselle University of Waterloo Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program Associate Director of Research Dr. Elaine Wiersma Lakehead University Associate Professor Phil Caffery Alzheimer's Society of Ontario Public Policy & Programs Analyst Jen Boger Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Research Manager Joanna Holley Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Behavior Therapist Dr. Ron Baecker TAGlab, University of Toronto Director Sylvia Davidson Baycrest
Occupational Therapy Practice Chief
...more coming soon!
RULES
Simple: be considerate, use common sense, and don't be an idiot. Specific to this hackathon:
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teams of up to 5 hackers
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fresh code only
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demos must be functional demos, not slideshows/mockups
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participants must have excellent personal hygiene
Refunds: No, that would imply we're charging for the London event. (we're not)
ABOUT US
The UK Science & Innovation Network (SIN), funded by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, engages with local science and innovation communities in support of UK policy overseas, creating strategic relationships to harness the value of science and innovation discoveries, leading to mutual UK and host-country benefits.
HackerNest is a nonprofit that builds local tech communities around the world and empowers them with more relevant/accessible tech education - our holistic approach to poverty alleviation. We run Tech Socials, hackathons, and a marketplace for tech education. We ran Canada's largest hackathon (at the time) in 2012 and the country's largest hardware hackathon in 2014. Down-to-earth and notoriously unpretentious, HackerNest splinter cells (a cooler way of saying 'chapters') run events in 16 cities, 9 countries, 4 continents.
Please email sponsorship@hackernest.com if you're interested in supporting us.
Interested in volunteering? We could really use the help!
SUPPLEMENTARY INFO
- VID: Brenda Hounam - living with dementia
- WEB: Living with dementia
- PDF: Abstracts on dementia research (pdf)
- PDF: Wighton, person with dementia - story 1
- PDF: Wighton, person with dementia - story 2
- PDF: Wighton, person with dementia - story 3
Narratives written by people living with dementia. Offers insight into the context and experience of living with dementia from an insider’s perspective.
- PDF: My name is not Dementia - quality of life indicators
List of quality of life indicators as determined by people living with dementia who participated in a research study. Particular focus on people with severe dementia and people with dementia from visible minorities.
- PDF: Mapping the dementia journey
Report by the Alzheimer’s Society of Ontario gathering the first hand experiences of people living with dementia who must navigate changing relationships and community; healthcare systems; changes and adaptations; and self-care. Contains extensive qualitative data (quotes) from people with dementia on these subjects.
- XLS: Dementia Assessment and Referral data collection, May 2014 (xls) | UK NHS
Contains data on the number of cases identified as dementia cases, the number of cases given a full diagnostic assessment, and the number of cases referred for further treatment - XLS: Dementia prevalance and diagnosis Data (xls) | Health/Social Care Info Centre
Contains data on the number of cases of dementia diagnosed by clinics (called practices) in relation to the total number of patients served. Contains the percentage of the population living with dementia, including changes in this number over time
- PDF: Estimating the future number of cases for dementia (pdf) | MHO Brief
Contains a summary and analysis of the projected rates of increase in dementia, while the excel document (below) contains the raw numbers used to draw the analysis in the PDF.
- XLS: Estimating the Future Numbers of Dementia - Additional Tables (xls) | MHO
- XLS: NAD Case note data 2012 England (xls) | National Audit, UK