Innovation for Health Competition is an event in which people with diverse perspectives such as clinicians, engineers, designers, software developers, business people, and patients come together in an intense, fun-filled, three-day weekend to develop and build solutions that could address challenges facing healthcare today. Participants will form teams, collaborate within a limited time frame, and focus on a specific problem or idea in healthcare to come up with innovative ideas and solutions. The organizing committee of the three-day event, “Innovation for Health”, intends to promote the innovative ideas of young people in the field of biomedical Technology. Specifically, the participants will be divided into groups and will be undertaken by a clinical need which they will be able to solve from the first day of the conference, Friday 12/11 at 9:00 am. until Sunday 14/11 at 12:00 p.m. Meanwhile, they will work with teachers, counselors, and mentors to find an innovative solution and create a business plan around it. The groups in general and each member individually will receive guidance and advice throughout the conference. At the end of the competition, the teams will present their solutions in 15 minutes, in English, to the competent committee. The teams will be evaluated based on the evaluation criteria that the judges have set and also the topics of the competitions are up to them. Not only the evaluation criteria but also the topics will be released the first day of the competition Friday 12/11. The teams that will be announced 1st and 2nd in the competition will win a cash prize to support their creative idea. The two winning teams (first and second) will win a cash prize in order to support them and their creative idea. At the same time, the two best teams will be chosen with their presentations recorded and will be sent to regional level to global evaluators, industry experts and IEEE Region 8 volunteers. Among all these team presentations, many amazing teams will be chosen by IEEE Region 8 for the next part of the competition, the guidance phase, where the teams will be guided to the search for funds and successful purchase. The guidance phase will be held at the beginning of the new year and the finals will be carried out in a high-level international IEEE event, such as the IEEE Region 8 Student and Young Professionals congress or the Rising Stars congress and possibly apart from IEEE the Web Summit or Wolves Summit. Finally, we intend to emphasize the most important chance that IEEE is giving to start-ups: to be a global network of technology experts now complemented by the perception of available business experts.
