Registrations open for Hack Aotearoa 2020: AI in Healthcare Conference + Datathon

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In partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technology Critical Data, ACC and Philips, we are excited to announce that registrations for Hack Aotearoa: New Zealand’s Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Conference and Datathon, are now open.

Hosted by the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at The University of Auckland, the conference and datathon will be held Friday 17 January to Sunday 19 January 2020 at the Owen G Glenn Building, Auckland University. 

Event attendees will learn from MIT Critical Data Faculty and local and international experts about the opportunities of Data Science and AI for healthcare.

During the Datathon, participants will then form teams of health professionals, data scientists and anyone else passionate about healthcare, data analytics and cross-disciplinary collaboration to answer clinical questions and health system challenges using health datasets.

We are excited to have world-renowned experts speaking on AI in Healthcare, including:

• Leo Celi (MD, MSc, MPH), clinical research director and principal research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computational Physiology (LCP), and an attending physician at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)
• Saxon Connor (FRACS), internationally esteemed hepatobiliary surgeon; digital health transformation expert and e-health lead at Canterbury District Health Board
• Tom Pollard (PhD), research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Laboratory for Computational Physiology.
• Joy Wu (MBChB, MPH), doctorpreneur, Harvard alum, NZ doctor, and Postdoctoral Researcher at IBM Almaden Research Center.

This is likely to be a sell-out event, and so we encourage you to register now to avoid missing out. Please take a look at the Hack Aotearoa Conference and Datathon website, where you can find the programme and registration fees to attend the event. Please feel free to forward this invitation throughout your department/organisation.

If you have any queries regarding Hack Aotearoa please do not hesitate to contact us.

Source: Hack Aotearoa media release, 19 October 2019

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