Global Trends in Digital Health. Keynote by Unity Stoakes, StartUp Health

Join us for an evening with New York based Unity Stoakes, Co-Founder and President of StartUp Health. Unity will kick off the evening with a keynote on exploring the rapid globalization of digital health and the emerging opportunities this expansion creates for entrepreneurs around the world.

Unity will later join Alexandra Brown from AprilAge (http://www.startuphealth.com/c/17678/AprilAge) and Daniel Penn from Shift Health (http://www.startuphealth.com/c/16861/Shift-Health-Paradigms) to discuss their experiences in the StartUp Health Academy along with global opportunities for Canadian entrepreneurs. The discussion will be moderated by Ali Mir who is a Managing Principal at TELUS Health (http://www.telushealth.co/).

IF YOU ARE DEVELOPING DIGITAL HEALTH PRODUCTS AND WANT INSIGHTS INTO EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD, WHILE YOU NETWORK WITH FELLOW HEALTH TECH ENTREPRENEURS, THEN THIS IS A CAN’T MISS EVENT.

Our last Health2.0 Toronto event sold out! Spots are limited. First come, first served.

Agenda:
6pm – Networking & Refreshments
6:30pm – Welcome & Speaker Introductions
6:45pm – Unity Stoakes Keynote Presentation

7:15pm – Introductions to Alexandra Brown & Daniel Penn & Ali Mir
7:30pm – Q & A
8:00pm – Wrap up & Networking

MEET OUR SPEAKERS:

Unity Stoakes

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Unity Stoakes is on a mission to transform healthcare by leveraging the power of innovation, technology, data, design, and community. He believes that the best way to improve care is to provide health and wellness innovators with inspiration, education, and access to customers, capital, and other critical resources so that Healthcare Transformers can innovate more quickly. Unity is the President and co-founder of StartUp Health, a long-term global growth platform for entrepreneurs transforming healthcare. The StartUp Health Academy, it's flagship coaching program and trusted peer network, includes 165 entrepreneurs from 84 companies in 7 countries and 45 cities. Unity, and his business partner of 16 years, Steven Krein, previously co-founded OrganizedWisdom.com, an expert-driven platform for health and wellness and built Webstakes.com and Promotions.com, which went public on Nasdaq in 1999. Unity is a founding member of the Society of Participatory Medicine and a mentor at Blueprint Health, an accelerator for health and wellness startups. Unity is on the AARP Innovation @50+ Advisory Board, the SXSW Accelerator Advisory Board and the Care Innovations Advisory Board. He received his bachelor’s degrees in Communications and Political Science from Boston University. Unity resides in New York City.

Ali Mir

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Ali M. Mir is a Managing Principal at TELUS Health, Canada’s largest healthcare technology company. Ali joined TELUS in 2014 and manages large pharmacy and physician office clients. His mandate includes working with disparate stakeholders in the healthcare continuum to improve the patient experience through collaboration tools that connect their clinicians. Prior to TELUS, Ali spent three and a half years as Vice President at eHealth Ontario overseeing a range of consumer and clinician facing applications as well as implementation and adoption. Ali joined eHealth from McKinsey & Co., a global management consulting firm where he was a leader in the Canadian Public Sector Practice. While at McKinsey Ali served public and private sector clients in Canada, the US and Middle East. Ali started his career as a diplomat in the Canadian Foreign Service and served both in Ottawa and in Canadian embassies in Latin America and the Middle East. Ali graduated summa cum laude with an (Hons.) BA in Economics from McMaster University and holds an M. Phil from the University of Cambridge where he was a Chevening Scholar. He currently serves on the board of the Canadian Mental Health Association – Halton, and is Vice Chair of the board of the Canadian Cancer Society’s Ontario chapter.

Alexandra Brown

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Alexandra (Alex) is the owner, president and CEO of Aprilage Inc., the creator, developer and distributor of the APRIL® face and body visualization software. As a consumer tech and media executive, Alex has also been an early employee in launching and building the market for disruptive technology companies in e-commerce, broadcasting, social media and online publishing. Alex was selected as one of Canada’s TechWomen 2013, and is a member of the Leadership Advisory Council of the Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics; the Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the OMDC (Ontario Media Development Corporation), Chair of the Communications Committee and past-Chair of its Governance Committee, and Co-Chair of its annual Digital Dialogue conference, the Board of Directors (Ontario) of ITAC (Information Technology Association of Canada); a past judge for The Next 36: Canada’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative; and a winner of the Canadian Women in Communications’ Mentor of the Year award.

Daniel Penn

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Daniel is the Chief Operating Officer of Shift Health Paradigms, a healthcare startup that has developed TickiT. A number of events and opportunities led Daniel to this position. As a teenager, he was a competitive athlete, ski racing for Canada. A series of injuries, operations and then a significant concussion led him to understand the sometimes challenging interface between health care providers and patients. As a combined Arts and Science at McMaster led Daniel to understand that bridging gaps between expert scientists and lay people is a key first step to effective Knowledge Translation and effective communication. He used those skills at University to create community through founding the development and management of a social media website Happening Hamilton. The development of TickiT brought together his interests in improving health care through improving patient/provider communication and data collection with innovative technology. Since working with Shift Health, Daniel has presented at Apps for Health, eMental Health, won Best Patient Education App at Hacking Health, and is co-author on a paper in press at Journal of Medical Internet Research.