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Ever wondered what it takes to be an entrepreneur?

The professional and personal challenges, the high and lows, the failures and the success?

Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011.

The non-profit organization is headquartered in Seattle, Washington but Startup Weekend organizers and facilitators can be found in over 200 cities around the world. From Mongolia to South Africa to London to Brazil, people around the globe are coming together for weekend long workshops to pitch ideas, form teams, and start companies.

All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) and then it’s a 54 hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekends culminate with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.

Whether entrepreneurs found companies, find a cofounder, meet someone new, or learn a skill far outside their usual 9-to-5, everyone is guaranteed to leave the event better prepared to navigate the chaotic but fun world of startups. If you want to put yourself in the shoes of an entrepreneur, register now for the best weekend of your life!

Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event that immerses you in the experience of launching a startup. How far can you go from idea to solution and executable business in a single weekend?

The event centers on building a web or mobile application that could be the basis for a credible business. After 500+ Startup Weekends world-wide, this will be the first dedicated solely to healthcare’s unique problems.

The weekend will bring together people with different skillsets – clinicians, software developers, graphics designers and business people – some to passionately pitch their ideas and find a team, others looking to join a team to build a compelling solution. Seasoned entrepreneurs, developers and designers, people who’ve been there before, work with you as coaches and mentors throughout the weekend. The event culminates with back-to-back presentations from each team and a jury determining which teams go home with the prizes and the glory!

Whether an actual product and business emerge on the other end or not, Startup Weekend is a unparalleled experience in terms of the learning achieved and the relationships built over the weekend. Still, some teams have gone on beyond the weekend to found new companies, continue the work and drive the product to market.

You know there is a better way for our healthcare system to function. Join us for an unforgettable weekend turning that conviction into action!

Schedule

Friday

Feb 15

6:20pm Registration + Dinner + Networking
7:20pm Welcome & Speakers
7:40pm Pitches Start
9:00pm Attendees vote for the top ideas
9:15pm Teams start forming and discussing ideas
10:00pm Start to formalize teams and take an inventory of skills. Be honest, and direct about what resources and skills are needed for the weekend. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow
11:00pm Doors close

Saturday

Feb 16

8:30am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
9:00am Teams formed and setting up workspace for the weekend
11:30am Coaches arrive
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm Call for needs & skills
3:00pm Check-in, status reports, call for help
6:30pm Dinner
11:00pm Finished for the day. Doors close

Sunday

Feb 17

8:30am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
9:00pm Coaches arrive… ASK QUESTIONS
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm Gut check. Start prepping for presentations
3:00pm Tech check - Dry run through demos
4:30pm Dinner
5:00pm FINAL PRESENTATIONS
7:30pm Judging & awards
8:30pm Wrapup
9:00pm Go home!

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Speakers

Roy Rosin

Chief Innovation Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System

Roy leads efforts to develop new methods of delivering health care at a lower cost, improve patient outcomes and generate non-traditional business opportunities.

Prior to joining Penn Medicine, Roy served as the first Vice President of Innovation for Intuit, a leading software company best known for Quicken, QuickBooks and TurboTax. He oversaw changes in how Intuit manages new business creation, allowing small teams pursuing new opportunities to get to market and experiment rapidly. He also served as General Manager for Intuit's consumer division, responsible for a portfolio of businesses including Quicken software.

Roy was part of the management team that rapidly built Intuit's consumer web businesses. He received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and graduated with honors from Harvard College.

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Judges

Gary Kurtzman, MD

Managing Director, Safeguard Scientifics

As Managing Director at Safeguard Scientifics, Dr. Kurtzman partners with emerging companies in healthcare IT, diagnostics, devices, regenerative medicine, and specialty pharmaceuticals. He has more than 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, board member, financier and operator. Dr. Kurtzman has realized value for companies through a series of successful IPOs, M&A and turnaround transactions—most recently Shire’s acquisition of Safeguard’s partner company Advanced BioHealing for $750 million, in cash. Presently, Dr. Kurtzman is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches entrepreneurship in healthcare. In addition, he is also a board member at Safeguard’s partner companies Alverix, Good Start Genetics, Medivo, NuPathe, and PixelOptics.

Brian Milch

McKinsey & Company

Brian is the practice manager for the healthcare technology practice of McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm. He works with consulting teams across the firm to advise healthcare clients on IT issues, and high tech clients on healthcare product strategy. He also leads McKinsey's internal research on healthcare IT topics such as big data, payment innovation, and telehealth. Before taking this role, he was a consultant to McKinsey's healthcare clients including pharmaceuticals, health insurance, hospitals, and solutions vendors.

Mike Vennera

Vice President, Strategy and Innovation, Independence Blue Cross

A graduate of Penn State University with a MS in Information Science and a BA in English, Mike joined Independence Blue Cross in 1998, and has held various positions of increasing accountability in Operations, Information Systems, Informatics, and Strategy.

In his current role as Vice President of Strategy and Innovation, Mike has accountability for market and competitive research, strategy development, and corporate innovation efforts. His team focuses on forming and cultivating critical partnerships throughout the company with a concentration on developing and driving corporate strategy and promoting innovation at IBC and in the community.

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Coaches

Chris Baglieri

KonciergeMD | Twitter Facebook

Chris feels awkward writing about himself in the 3rd person so he is not going to do that. I'm an architect, engineer, and hacker. I build things. I'm driven to help others build things. I'm a full stack developer. I like programming languages and use lots of 'em. I participated in and organized multiple startup weekends

Ravi Bala

Health Signals

Ravi brings more than 25 years broad-based experience in technology design, strategy development and consulting. He was a Co-Founder of KnowledgeFlow, Inc – a marketing innovation company focused on customer loyalty. Formerly, Ravi was president of InteliSoft, Inc., a finance industry marketing executive for IBM-India and a nuclear engineer at Ebasco Services Inc.. Ravi started his career as a research and development nuclear physicist for Combustion Engineering.

Ravi is responsible for strategy and product development of HealthSignals Solutions, focusing on Remote Monitoring and mHealth solutions for the Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRC's). Ravi is a member of the American Telemedicine Association, International Society of Gerontechnology and an active member of entrepreneurial and mobile technology organizations in Philadelphia.

Chris Cera

Arcweb

Chris is a web entrepreneur and developer. He is currently the CTO of Arcweb, a digital design and development firm focused on enterprise software. Chris previously co-founded Vuzit, a document management software company that serves millions of documents each year. He also co-founded Philly Startup Leaders, one of the largest and most active startup communities in the Philadelphia region. Chris has also held product development positions at Traffic.com, Drakontas, and SmithKline Beecham. He has submitted 6 patent applications, published over 15 peer-reviewed scientific publications, and holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Drexel University.

Ravi Chawla

Independence Blue Cross

Ravi Chawla is Director of Advanced Analytics in the Informatics department at Independence Blue Cross. Ravi’s experience in the healthcare industry includes eleven years at IBC, where his primary focus has been on medical cost, outcomes research, predictive models, risk stratification and program evaluations.

Prior to IBC, Ravi also worked at Health Alliance Plan in Detroit, Michigan for three years where his area of responsibility included provider performance reporting and physician incentive programs. Ravi holds an MBA degree from Wayne State University and a MS degree from the University of Vermont.

Kim Eberbach

Independence Blue Cross

Kim Eberbach is Vice President Wellness & Community Health at Independence Blue Cross. In this role Kim is responsible for the development and execution of Wellness related strategies and programs for employees, members and the surrounding community. Kim was previously Vice President of Human Resources for Independence Blue Cross. Prior to joining Independence Blue Cross Kim spent ten years consulting in the arenas of strategic planning, change management, leadership and process improvement.

Anthony Gold

Healthy Humans | Twitter

Anthony is the Chairman and former CEO of Healthy Humans, a physician-directed continuity care SaaS platform helping connect patients and caregivers around an ecosystem of health. He is also the President of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), chairs the Healthcare Working Group for the Open Source for America coalition and serves on the Executive Committee for the Chester County Healthcare Partnership organization.

Prior to Healthy Humans, Anthony was the VP/GM of the very successful Open Source startup business within the $6 billion Unisys Corporation. Anthony was named as one of the “top business leaders who matter the most” by LinuxWorld magazine and holds eight patents around enterprise hardware and software design. Anthony is an Electrical Engineering graduate of Drexel University.

Philip Heifetz

EyeIC

Philip Heifetz is the President and Chief Executive Officer of EyeIC, Inc., a venture-backed, health information technology company with web-based solutions for medical image analysis and patient engagement. Before coming to EyeIC, Mr. Heifetz was Vice President, Finance and Business Development for Othera Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on clinical drug development in Ophthalmology that exited through two separate asset sales. Prior to Othera, Mr. Heifetz was a licensing officer at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Technology Transfer, and was co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of a venture-backed biotech startup spin out from Penn.

In addition to his current position with EyeIC, Mr. Heifetz is co-founder of the Philadelphia Health Circle, a professional networking and education group comprising senior managers across the spectrum of health care innovation (eg, payers, providers, academics, entrepreneurs and investors). He also currently serves on the board of directors of the Wharton Healthcare Management Alumni Association. Mr. Heifetz earned a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry from Georgetown University, and a MBA from Wharton with a dual concentration in Health Care Management and Entrepreneurial Management.

Woojin Kim, MD

Montage Healthcare

Woojin is currently the Interim Chief of Division of Musculoskeletal Imaging, Chief of Radiography Modality, Interim Fellowship Director of Division of Musculoskeletal Imaging, Director of Center for Translational Imaging Informatics, Chairman of the Efficiency Committee, Associate Director of Imaging Informatics, and Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he was one of the principal architects who developed Yottalook™, the premier radiology-centric search engine. He is also a co-founder of Montage Healthcare Solutions, Inc, where he is the principal architect of Montage software.

Kevin Jackson

Artisan | Twitter

I'm a designer who lives, works, and plays in the Philadelphia area. I like to create experiences for web and mobile apps. I occasionally dabble in print. You can follow my exploits and chat it up with me on Twitter at @chuise. I have a beard.

Lee Jones

GSI Health

Lee is the founder and CEO of GSI Health, a healthtech consultancy and solution provider that is a nationally-recognized leader in information exchange, system integration, and interoperability.

He is well-known for his service on the founding team of the Office of the National Coordinator Healthcare IT and has often worked at the interface of government and industry in healthcare including as program manager for the national Healthcare IT Standards Panel (HITSP). He has advised numerous states in the development of their health IT infrastructure.

Earlier in his career, Lee was CTO at CareScience where he pioneered one of the earliest health information exchanges in the US. He holds an MS in Engineering in the Management of Technology jointly from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and Engineering School and a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Andrew Khouri

Quaker Partners

Andrew Khouri is an Associate at Quaker Partners, an East Coast-focused healthcare investment firm, where he helps lead investments in healthcare companies at all stages of development with a special focus on healthcare services and HCIT. Andrew is also an Observer on the board of the New York Digital Health Accelerator and a mentor in Blueprint Health. Prior to Quaker Partners, he was a healthcare consultant with Leerink Swann Strategic Advisors. Andrew holds a B.A. in Biology from Harvard University.

Dan Kruse

Impart Creative

Dan has spent the last several years working as both a front-end and back-end developer building web-based software for companies such as Motorola, MillerCoors, Comcast, amongst others. He is fluent in many programming languages, frameworks, and CMSs. Dan teaches Usability and Responsive Design at UArts

Melissa Ivone Morris

Curalate | Twitter Facebook

Melissa is a designer, a maker, and an all around nice girl who is newly obsessed with the startup world. LIKES: long walks on the beach, retractable erasers, Apple products, desk toys, blogging, great branding, magazine subscriptions, peanut butter, indie rock, plaid, white space, hand lettering, Instagram, karaoke, margaritas, and a worn in pair of chucks.

DISLIKES: bad kerning, snark, papyrus and comic sans (of course), wind, PowerPoint, vegetables, Uggs, unloading the dishwasher, making logos bigger, most sports (exceptions: bowling and badminton), PMS 349, and writing bios.

Brad Oyler

W3Portals | Twitter LinkedIn

Lover of all things startup. Bringer of awesomeness to Philadelphia. Founder of W3Portals & FundingWorks

Gerald W. Peden, MD, MA

Independence Blue Cross

Jerry is a Vice President in Service Operations at Independence Blue Cross (IBC). He has had numerous leadership experiences at IBC, from leading the development of clinical policies to managing operational areas. In all he does, Jerry combines his background as a surgeon with an insatiable curiosity and drive to bring realism and transparency to healthcare insurance and its customers. Because of his varied clinical, business, and operational career experiences, he brings a rare but valuable perspective to innovation in health care.

Jerry considers himself a lifelong learner who can learn from anyone. He is always eager to share his unique view of healthcare as a teacher who can make complex things relevant to people. He is a visionary, able to connect the dots and see the bigger picture in how things fit together. He is definitely a technology “geek,” believing technology exists to make life better for all of us. He loves to continually challenge himself and those around him to scale new heights and he never, ever gives up. He is passionate about many things, including simplifying health care, helping and developing people, running marathons, and enjoying his multi-talented children.

Richard J Pettine

Siemens Healthcare

Rick is a seasoned IT professional with over 25 years of experience in the healthcare information technology market. A computer and network engineer by background, Rick has held various technical, management and leadership positions at Shared Medical Systems and Siemens Healthcare. Currently, Rick is responsible for leading Strategic Business & Alliance Development with Siemens Healthcare-Health Services.

Throughout his career, Rick has successfully established a wide range of IT-related alliance and investment agreements varying in complexity and strategic application. He has also led significant asset / merger acquisition and divestiture transactions for Siemens, and directs a strategic alliance and channel partner program within Health Services.

Rick earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, his MBA from Pennsylvania State University, and is a Certified Alliance Management Professional. Rick has a patent in Health IT, and enjoys photography and classic automobiles.

Atul Shah

Within3 | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google+

Atul is passionate about reforming the healthcare system and is a problem-solver interested in creative solutions to overcoming the many barriers (business, regulation, technology, human habits). His day job is as SVP of Strategic Client Development at Within3, a Healthcare startup inventing digital collaboration solutions that enhance engagement between Industry and healthcare professionals. Atul’s responsibilities include client development and product strategy, with a focus on the business needs of Within3’s Pharmaceutical, Medical Association, and Hospital clients.

Complementing his day job, Atul is also co-founder of the Philadelphia Health IT Circle, a collaborative organized by a group of local health IT entrepreneurs. We share a common belief that the greater Philadelphia region possesses a unique abundance of talent and resources, and thus holds the potential to be a leading health IT innovation hub – with Startup Weekend being Exhibit A.

Atul’s background includes 20+ years of corporate experience including senior strategy and operations roles, most recently at SunGard and SAP. Prior to SAP, he was a management consultant with McKinsey

David St. Clair

Sanosil International | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google+

David the executive chairman of Sanosil Internation, an active angel investor both indepdendently and in connection with Robin Hood Ventures, and sits on the boards of multiple healthcare and non-healthcare companies.

David founded and led MEDecision as CEO for 22 years including taking the health IT company public and then private again, selling it to Health Care Service Corporation.

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