Techstars Startup Week Tampa Bay 2018

Hackathons, Gaming, and Healthcare, oh my! For Health Innovators’ “Hacking Healthcare” we are taking an in-depth look at how video game and simulation technology are impacting healthcare and the exciting entrepreneurial opportunities ahead.

Our speaker is: Kunal Patel (the local prodigy of gaming and VR/AR)

Kunal is a Central Florida tech leader, community builder, and entrepreneur with >15 years of experience in roles spanning leadership, software development, sales and creative partnerships. He serves as co-founder of brandVR, a Virtual and Augmented Reality platform for driving sales, marketing, education business goals with an immersive wow factor. In 2016, brandVR developed three VR experiences for NASA Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

He is also the co-founder of Indienomicon, the largest community organization for game development studios in the SouthEast, and helped to grow local community talent from six studios in 2013 to 40+ by 2017 sparking economic development and structure around talent.

In 2015, he co-founded Indie Galactic Space Jam, a successful annual collaborative event between the Orlando gaming industry and the space industry to rapidly prototype games that drive excitement for space travel and exploration. Additionally, in 2015, he founded the Orlando Game Space, a collaborative game co-working facility to provide resources to indie game developers and robust professional services in games, digital media, VR and AR development to the marketplace.

Kunal will also be talking about putting Florida on the map for its first medical gaming event where non-profits pitch care challenges to get a solution prototyped in just 48 hours! He's an incredible speaker with a message you should not miss!

For the Health Innovation Exchange, we are calling on select members of the Bay Area’s health and technology ecosystem to do 2-minute pitches to our community on their success in 2017, and discuss needs for growth and collaboration in 2018.

Our Speakers are:

Taylor Precourt | assessURhealth 

Taylor Precourt serves as Director of Operations for assessURhealth™. As Director of Operations, Taylor oversees daily operations execution, including release management, working to continually innovate and evolve the way assessURhealth™ is delivered to healthcare professionals and improving ease of access. Taylor’s previous professional roles include serving as IT Release Manager for Power Design. With over 6 years of experience specializing in IT, Taylor was a key contributor and influencer for their Technical Growth, ensuring that the company remained on the cutting edge of Internet of Things (IoT). This includes Power Design winning gold for Innovations in Technology at the 2016 Constructech Awards under her tenure. Taylor was named one of the Top Women in Construction for 2017 as well as Emerging Leader of the Year by the Tampa Bay Business Journal. Taylor is a leader at heart, she prides herself on building agile teams and processes that are able to scale.

Tad Svendrys | Verapy

Tad is the co-founder of Verapy and brings 17 years of experience in multiple corporate roles from Sales Ops, Marketing, Product and Finance. Tad was previously a founder of a family owned transportation company. He also had a business of document management and shredding business in New York as well as a co-founder of managed technology services company. Tad holds Bachelor degree in Business Administration & Finance as well as his MBA from St. Joseph’s college in New York.

Mark Engelen | RxLive

Mark is the CEO and co-founder of RxLive, a concierge pharmacy telehealth company. He is an experienced marketing, strategy and product executive with experience across multiple healthcare verticals including; HealthIT, Managed Care, PBM’s, Public Policy, Retail and Specialty Pharmacy. Mark is a graduate of Vista Equity Partner's High Performing Leader Program, has an MBA from the Harvard Business School and degrees in Economics and Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Sarah Davidson | Resility Health

Sarah is the Founder and CEO of Resility Health, an intelligent stress management system for employers and other populations suffering from the health impacts of chronic stress. Resility uses predictive analytics and wearable sensors to deliver personalized programs that combine evidence based relaxation techniques and mindfulness in a fun and engaging way. Prior to Resility, Sarah spent over 10 years in marketing leadership roles at IBM and co-founded a Hong Kong based import/export and watch manufacturing firm. She has an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at UNC Chapel Hill.

 

This is an incredible chance to leverage the Bay Area’s lush health and technology ecosystem for potential solution matching opportunities, so make sure to bring your business cards to extend your reach beyond this event!

Brought to you by the FL Health Innovators community!

NOTE: We have a very long wait list for this session. If you have a seat and do not plan to attend, please surrender your RSVP to allow for someone else to attend in your place.

Have you ever wanted to bend the ear of some of Tampa’s most intriguing startup health and technology CEO’s? Dig down into how they built their business model, secured their commercialization partners, or what they need to grow? Then this is the event for you!

5 health and technology CEOs, carefully curated by FL Health Innovators and Techstars, will be joining us for our CEO Roundtable event. Small groups will meet with a CEO for table-side engagements where CEOs will offer up a brief pitch about their novel business; the rest of the discussion is up to you! After 20-30 minutes, groups will rotate and engage with the next CEO, and repeating the process until complete.

Make sure to bring your business cards to extend your reach beyond this event!

Please note, this is a VERY limited seating event. Ideal attendees are investors, healthcare leaders, community leaders, entrepreneurs, physicians, research faculty, and other collaborative-focused people.