Tech Health Conference for Communities of Color,

About the event

Everyone Deserves Better Health and Wellness.

Digital Health is the way of tomorrow, why can't it benefit us all equally?

There's an app for everything, and wearables are connecting us to endless possibilities in monitoring our health, but why do African Americans and People of Color lag behind in Heart Health, Diabetes and Asthma? 

Join us at the Conference that wants to make a difference - sponsored by the Kapor Center for Social Impact, in partnership with the American Heart Association of the Greater Bay Area, the African American Wellness Project and our many partners - where we can learn how to utilize technology for:

1. Improving healthy lifestyles, 

2. Prevention of disease, 

3. Early detection, 

4. Disease management and 

5. Communications between health providers and patients.

Join us for enlightening speeches and discussion, a Networking session, a chance to Pitch your Health Startup idea in front of eminent judges, and of course a vibrant community to engage and collaborate with!

Keynote Speaker

Ms. Mina Wilson of Kaiser Permanente

Panelists

Mr. Phil Dillard, Lean Startup Co.

Cynthia Jaggi, Lean Startup Co.

Milan Drake, #YESWECODE

Schedule

9am start: Keynote 

9.30-11- 1st Panel - "Problems in Community Health"

11.15-12: Lunch and Networking Main Area

12-1pm: 2nd Panel: “Tech Solutions for Health”

1-2.15: Startup Pitch Contest

2.30-2.45pm: Awards for Contest and AAWP Tech Award

2.45-3pm: Closing Remarks and Acknowledgements

Pitch Contest (with Prizes! Stay tuned...)

Are you a company trying to improve public health?

We'd love to invite you to participate in our Pitch Contest and give a 5 minute pitch to our Judges. 

The winner receives the AAWP Health Technology Award 2016.

To be eligible, you can be any early-stage startup working in the space of :

1. Apps for staying healthy, for monitoring important health numbers like weight and BP, PSA, blood sugar, and cholesterol.

2. Organizing encounters with health providers and hospitals. 

3. Telemedicine.

Why should you sponsor?

Exposure 

As our Sponsor, you will receive a live audience of 300 in-person with many more through live and video-on-demand feeds.

We will send out multiple press releases and invite key sponsors to our radio programming that reaches hundreds of thousands of listeners each week.

You will be prominently featured on all our digital properties in the weeks before, day of and even weeks after the event. 

There will be banners created with your logos on it* 

(*depending on category of sponsor)

Brand impact and Positive Association

By sponsoring our conference, you will further support us in increasing awareness within the targeted communities of the role available technology for smart phones, tablets, and computers in:

1: Improving healthy lifestyles

2: Prevention of disease

3: Early detection

4: Disease management

5: The role technology plays in communications between health providers and patients

6: Apps for staying healthy, for monitoring important health numbers such as weight, blood pressure, PSA, blood sugar, and cholesterol

7: Organizing encoutersn with health providers and hospitals

8: Telemedicine

Arjun Buxi

Founded in 2002, AAWP’s mission is to improve the health outcomes of African Americans and underserved communities in heart disease, asthma and diabetes, where this population suffers from acutely higher disease and death rates compared to other groups. We empower consumers through calculated messaging and strong education campaigns to take charge of their own health and help them navigate the complex health care system. Through our various programs in our “About Health” initiative including radio shows and digital media, we reach over 400,000 people and over 100,000 African Americans each week. AAWP is launching a cross-media digital presence to be the premier media communications organization in the health space for African Americans.

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