The CogX Festival 2021 was as thought-provoking and dynamic as ever. But with dozens of sessions every day, and hundreds of speakers, how do you stay on top of technology and innovation in sectors as diverse as healthcare, mobility, smart cities, and construction?
Patients need more effective treatment, and they need it now. In cancer treatment, faster, more effective therapy can translate into another shot at life. AI can now deliver this, but standing in between the tech and the patient is the massive roadblock of today’s sclerotic health delivery systems. Last week at CogX, we heard from experts who …
Want to know what the face of disruptive tech looks like? Take a look at Stefan Roever. Libertarian, rule-breaker, and currently on a mission to use AI to give cancer patients a better shot at living. If you have 20 minutes to spare, drop into the recording of his interview with Dr Jack Kreindler here. If not, get Upstart’s …
Illness. Money. Business models. Incentives and experiences. Just a few barriers to health tech innovation thrown up when Upstart’s Dominic Pride joined a recent Giant Health panel show on Disrupt Live Tv. Watch the full episode here or read the highlights below. Giant Health is an international community improving healthcare by supporting innovation and promoting entrepreneurship. Founder Barry Shrier hosted the second episode of …
In this last of four posts from D:Health The Annual Strategic Forum In Health Technology Dominic Pride outlines the Upstart view of how strategy should look in the future. So far in previous posts we’ve seen how health is being disrupted by players large and small. We’ve also seen how how denial, defence and deception …
Why do corporates, with their immense resources and talent, still struggle to create effective strategies when faced with disruption? Corporations aren’t evil, it’s just they way they’re made. Incumbent players were founded on industrial thinking and economies of scale. The digital economy has different dynamics and drivers. They are lumbered with linear – rather than …
In the first of four posts from the D:Health Strategic Forum Dominic Pride looks at how disruptive forces from players large and small are forcing change at unprecedented speed. Today anyone in the business of delivering health – from pharma to devices to hospitals – is stuck between a digital rock and a hard place. …
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This is the second of four posts adapted from Dominic Pride’s talk at The Annual Strategic Forum In Health Technology on strategies for responding to digital health. We look at some of the common – but fundamentally flawed – ways companies have responded to disruption. In our first post we outlined how health is being disrupted …
We couldn’t talk about Giant Health Event without sharing the SensoryXD Fashion Catwalk Show. The event highlighted the importance of desirability in the success of wearable and healthtech products – something that so often loses out to functionality particularly in tech. The show, coordinated by Stephanie Pau, also showcased some genuinely useful technology that could soon have a real …
