Switzerland
Hack for Ageing Well is a special two-day event bringing cross-disciplinary ideas to the table to address urgent topics in a creative, interdisciplinary environment with a focus on teamwork, design thinking and prototyping. Challenge yourself and your team, get coached and reviewed by a panel of international experts and potential users of your future product, learn new skills – and bring the best ideas forward!
Limited free places are available — click to sign up
Life expectancy is steadily increasing in Europe[1], and with it the demographic of retirees[2]. TheAmbient/Active Assisted Living Programme supporting this hackathon is dedicated to addressing problems in advanced age through science, technology and business support for innovative ideas that improve the lives of older people.
CC BY 2.0 by Mitch Huang
Ageing Well means staying healthy, independent and active at work or in our community during our whole life. It is also a strategy in public policy around disease prevention and early detection, with better use of technology and better training towards a more supportive and accessible environment. We will set out to Hack: to rethink, sketch, prototype or build on existing technologies that – through more usable and considerate design – better support our later years.
If you wish to work on a start-up idea, study or visualise vital questions with data, or even just to learn more about these topics in a hands-on way: join us in St.Gallen, Switzerland on September 25 and 26, 2016. The projects you deploy will be widely recognized and showcased at the international AAL Forum, which starts right after the hackathon, and continues until September 28.
Brought to you by AAL Association in partnership with Opendata.ch. Please get in touch if you are interested to join as an event partner.
Register here: https://2016.aalhackathon.eu/.