Hospiton. Cancel Cancer

22 - 24 NOVEMBER, 2024

BIGGEST HEALTH HACKATHON

Tech Park, Building No. 3

Antakalnio g. 17, Vilnius

22 - 24 NOVEMBER, 2024

BIGGEST HEALTH HACKATHON

Tech Zity Park, Building No. 3
Antakalnio g. 17, Vilnius

Winning Prizes

Team Work

Business Canvas

Boosted Confidence

Good Time & Vibes

Free Food

Mentorship

Workshops

Networking

CV Boost

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HACKATHON TOPIC

Hack Cancer & Cancel It

At the core of "Cancel Cancer" lies a dedication to research curiosity, choice hacking, and pioneering data and technology solutions in cancer prevention. While Lithuania's health policy grapples with fragmented strategies, our hackathon seeks to revolutionize the landscape.

In "Cancel Cancer" we ignite innovation in cancer prevention! From self-testing policies to primary prevention strategies, our commitment to progress is unwavering. Through seamless integration of communication channels and the strategic utilization of existing programs, we amplify our impact and pave the way for a future where prevention stands as the cornerstone of healthcare.

Get essential insights to inspire innovative, impactful solutions in cancer prevention!

PRE-EVENTS

Let it be the most productive weekend of the year!

JOIN IN

HACKER

No matter what your background is – whether you are a student, engineer, healthcare provider, designer, pharmacist, entrepreneur, patient, etc. – we welcome you to join us!

PARTNER

Maybe your organization is looking for solutions to your digital health challenges or you want to promote your brand to innovators, we have a service for you. Hospiton can be your partner in open innovations.

MENTOR

We are looking for superheroes – managers, experts, and speakers who could provide real-time feedback to our teams and help them grow ideas into solutions!

STARTUP

Are you a startup looking for market access, pilot partner or seed funding? Join Hospiton to pitch your solution, get feedback and benefit from our mentors or meet potential partners or co-founders.

Learn from the Best!

Event Speakers & facilitators

5 years' experience

With five years of crafting dynamic health hackathons, we mastered the art of sparking innovation, driving collaboration, and delivering breakthrough healthcare solutions.

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Each challenge presents a unique opportunity for you to develop groundbreaking solutions

CHALLENGES

CHALLENGE #1:
Prevent What’s Preventable – Data-Driven Cancer Prevention

Develop a solution that leverages health data and scientific research to identify and target preventable cancers, while addressing hesitancy toward vaccines and other preventive measures. How can we create a collaborative network of healthcare stakeholders to deliver comprehensive preventive interventions, such as vaccination programs and early diagnostics, while overcoming public resistance and building trust? The goal is to reduce the incidence of preventable cancers at a systemic level, engaging communities, improving access, and tackling hesitancy head-on.

OVERVIEW

The goal is to cancel cancer by addressing its root causes before it starts. Prevention must go beyond individual behavior change and instead be grounded in data-driven, scientifically-backed interventions. One of the key barriers to effective prevention is hesitancy, particularly around vaccinations like the HPV vaccine, which has a low uptake rate of 46.70% in Lithuania. This hesitancy, along with gaps in access to preventive services, increases vulnerability to preventable cancers like cervical cancer. The focus should be on integrating innovative preventive measures within communities and health systems to achieve widespread cancer prevention, overcoming public resistance and ensuring participation.

CHALLENGE #3:
Transforming Public Health Campaigns – Making Prevention Actionable

Help to design a public health campain that leverages real-world health data and engages a broad range of societal stakeholders to drive behavioral change. How can we ensure these efforts are collaborative, tailored to communities, and focused on boosting participation in screening and preventive measures for high-risk groups?

OVERVIEW

Public health efforts should extend beyond healthcare providers to include the wider community—leaders, educators, media, and businesses—to foster real behavioral change. Participation in screening programs remains low among high-risk groups, and these campaigns need to be collaborative, targeted, and data-driven to increase early detection and prevention.

SPECIAL TRACK:
Disrupting Cancer Screening – Boosting Engagement and Participation

This special track seeks disruptive, technology-driven solutions that transform the way cancer screening is promoted and accessed. How can we rethink public outreach, build trust, and remove barriers that prevent people from participating in these screening programs? Participants are encouraged to go beyond typical campaign methods and design radical, scalable interventions that directly engage and motivate high-risk groups to take advantage of screening services.

Special Track Powered by ROCHE

OVERVIEW

Lithuania's four fully funded cancer screening programs for breast, cervical, colorectal, and prostate cancers present a unique opportunity to prevent cancer deaths through early detection. Yet, participation remains strikingly low, particularly among high-risk and underserved populations. Roche challenges you to disrupt this status quo.

CHALLENGE #2:
The Patient Journey – Streamlining Cancer Prevention and Care

Create a solution that guides patients through every phase, from screening to long-term follow-up, ensuring personalized care based on the type and aggressiveness of cancer. The solution should integrate various healthcare professionals to provide comprehensive care and optimize each patient's journey, from early detection to tertiary prevention.

OVERVIEW

To truly cancel cancer, we must ensure that patients move seamlessly from early detection through diagnosis, treatment, and post-treatment care. Current systems often experience fragmentation in care, particularly when addressing aggressive cancers. Secondary prevention, such as screening, must be supported by real-time monitoring and coordinated care pathways to ensure timely and appropriate treatment for each patient.

CHALLENGE #4:
Screening and Life After Diagnosis – Preventing Recurrence

Develop a solution that increases screening rates while providing comprehensive post-diagnosis care, integrating healthcare professionals to prevent recurrence and support long-term health. How can we ensure a coordinated approach to screening, treatment, and post-treatment care, leveraging minimally invasive technologies and ongoing follow-ups to reduce cancer recurrence and improve patient outcomes?

OVERVIEW

Screening is vital for early detection, but once diagnosed, patients require long-term, coordinated care to prevent recurrence and manage secondary issues. Increasing screening participation and ensuring that cancer survivors receive ongoing monitoring is essential to improving outcomes. Continuous care through minimally invasive diagnostics and collaboration among healthcare stakeholders can ensure that survivors maintain a high quality of life while reducing the risk of cancer recurrence.

SPECIAL TRACK:
Innovating Diet and Lifestyle Solutions through Disruptive Digital Tools

Participants are invited to design disruptive digital solutions that encourage healthier dietary and lifestyle choices to prevent colorectal cancer. How can we leverage innovative technologies to engage communities, monitor dietary habits, and promote lifestyle modifications? This challenge emphasizes the development of disruptive solutions that create tangible value for individuals and public health systems. Solutions should be scalable, user-friendly, and capable of being integrated into public healthcare systems, ultimately contributing to the ONCOSCREEN initiative and its goal of enhancing CRC prevention through a collaborative, open innovation process.

Special Track Powered by ONCOSCREEN

OVERVIEW

This challenge is part of the ONCOSCREEN initiative, a pan-European project focused on developing innovative solutions for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening and prevention. The ONCOSCREEN project operates through an open innovation ecosystem, applying the Living Lab concept—an interdisciplinary, co-creation framework that brings together researchers, patients, healthcare providers, and policymakers to develop impactful solutions.
The Oncological Virtual Living Lab is designed to foster collaboration and innovation across Europe, with a focus on creating practical, disruptive digital tools for CRC screening and prevention. Through this Living Lab approach, a series of virtual hackathons will be organized, engaging 38 partners from various EU countries in the development of scalable solutions.

LET'S HACK

We will be inviting up to 100 hackers (including teams and individuals) that will work on the challenges directly. We will meet together with practitioners, business and other healthcare and technology experts who will be your mentors during the 48 hours hackathon.
Sounds intriguing, right? Join us now!

HACKING DAY #1November 22, 2024
HACKING DAY #2November 23, 2024
HACKING DAY #3November 24, 2024

Registration is open!

Walk-in, welcome packs and snacks.

WELCOME!
The Reason Why We are All Here

Quick hello & intro, technical details, health & safety information, schedules. Welcome speeches & Thank You Sponsors!

COACHING SESSION.
Key Points in Team Success & Teambuilding

Getting to know team members, "the way we work", team dynamics, ethics and roles.
Final touches on team formation.

LET THE HACKING BEGIN!

Now is the time to unleash your innovation and work collaboratively to solve the challenges ahead.

Check point on team progress

Quick "around the room" standup; each team shares a quick summary of what they are doing + Q&A and needs for organizers.

Creative work!

Continue working!

Hack Over Night

The Venue open for the night hackers.

Doors Open and Breakfast Is Served

Snack & Chat!

Quick Hello & Team Progress Report

Intro to day 2. Hackathon briefing and Team progress.

Morning activites!

10:00-10:30 SPEAKER CORNER
An interdisciplinary discussion on life sciences innovation.
MODERATOR:
Dominykas Milašius, DeepTech entrepreneur and investor
SPEAKERS:
Jekaterina Kalinienė, Head of BioTech Lab @ Innovation agency
Matas Ramanauskas, Investment Manager @ Coinvest Capital
Justinas Šlikas PhD, Life Sciences Consultant @ ex Thermo Fisher Scientific & ex Metaplanet

10:30-11:00 INSPIRATIONAL TALK
How to never give up when you hear "No"?
SPEAKER:
Neringa Šeperienė, CEO @ BrachyDOSE

11:00-12:00 TECH TALK
Practical session about business model innovation.
SPEAKER:
Kristupas Šaikus, Digital Transformation & Business Excellence Leader @ Entrepreneur & ex-Novartis

12:00-14:00 DATA TALK & DATA StandUp
Empowering "Cancel Cancer"decisions with the country health data
MODERATOR:
Jolanta Zaikauskienė, Head of Medical Affairs Commitee @ IFPA, Medical Director Baltic countries and Ukraine @ AbbVie
SPEAKERS:
Tatjana Golubajeva, Deputy Director @ National Health Insurance Fund under the Ministry of Health
assoc. prof. Valdas Pečeliūnas, Director @ National Institute of Cancer
Tomas Lasys, PhD Candidate @ Utrecht university
Raminta Vilkevičienė, Medical doctor, Board member @ the "Kraujas" (Blood)
Julius Juodakis, Health Data Lead @ State Data Agency
DATA StandUp PERFORMER:
Jonas Bačelis, Senior Developer @ State Data Agency

Validation corner

Experts help around. During this mentoring session, our mentors are eagerly prepared to share their wealth of experience and knowledge to help you optimize your idea and take it to the next level.

Networking Lunch

Delicious food and meaningful conversations for success!

Audience Feedback Sessions

Time to test your prototypes or ideas with patients.
Powered by: POLA

15:00 - 18:00

Main hall

Validation corner

Experts help around. During this mentoring session, our mentors are eagerly prepared to share their wealth of experience and knowledge to help you optimize your idea and take it to the next level.

18:00 - 19:00

Venue Hall

Dinner and relax

Quick bite and getting your thoughts together!

19:00 - 19:20

Main hall

Pitch training

Learn how to deliver a compelling pitch and master tips and tricks to create a memorable, winning presentation.

Powered by EIT Health

19:20 - 21:00

Main hall

Pitch Mentoring and Coaching

Learn how to deliver a compelling pitch and master tips and tricks to create a memorable, winning presentation.

21:00 - 21:30

Main hall

Check Point on Team Progress

Quick "around the room" standup; each team shares a quick summary of what they are doing.

21:30

Main hall

End of the day 2

The Venue closes for the night.

08:00 - 09:00

Venue hall

Doors Open and Breakfast is Served

Snack and chat!

09:00 - 10:00

Main hall

Quick Hello & Team Progress Report

Intro to Day 3. Hackathon briefing and Team progress.

10:00 - 12:00

Main hall

Pitch Rehearsals & Hacking Goes O

12:00 - 13:00

Venue hall

Lunch

Delicious food and meaningful conversations for success!

13:00 - 13:45

Main hall

The Final Touches

Time flew by so quickly, didn't it? The work was finished on time! Put your best foot forward when pitching your idea.

13:45 - 14:00

Venue hall

Hacking Ends

Presentations in folders.

14:00 - 16:00

Main hall

Final Pitch Session!

Each team will have 3 minutes to present their hacks to the judging panel and audience + 2 minutes for Q&A: 3 winning pitches.

16:00 - 16:15

Side hall

Judging Ends & Vote Counting

The judges decide the winners & organizers Next Step Pitch.

16:15 - 16:30

Main hall

Winners Announcement

Prize giving & "Thank You" speech.

16:30 - 17:00

Venue hall

Sweet celebration!

POWERED by HOSPITON 2023 Winner Rūta Turčinskienė.

SPONSORS

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Co - Hosts

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Tech Park (Building No. 3)
Antakalnio g. 17, Vilnius

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A look at the team

Running The Hackathon

Inga

KANAPECKIENĖ

Event Ninja & Buzz
Generator

Janina

SABAITĖ

External Relations
Architect

Rugilė

MARTINAITYTĖ

Social Media
Maven

Eglė

ČIUODERIENĖ

Partnership Pathfinder &
Sponsorship Dynamo

Vaida

MORKŪNAITĖ - MAČIULIENĖ

Participant Relations Wizards

Justina

KATEIVAITĖ

Participant Relations Wizards

Irina

KOLOMIIETS

"ONCOSCREEN" Hackers Master

Tomas

PROSCEVIČIUS

Teams Support & Good Mood Guru

22 - 24 NOVEMBER, 2024

BIGGEST HEALTH HACKATHON

22 - 24 NOVEMBER, 2024

BIGGEST HEALTH HACKATHON

Tech Zity Park, Building No. 3 Antakalnio g. 17, Vilnius

Winning Prizes

Team Work

Business Canvas

Boosted Confidence

Good Time & Vibes

Free Food

Mentorship

Workshops

Networking

CV Boost

JOIN AND GET INSPIRED BY

Pitch Session

LOOK AT

Hospiton Moments

HACKATHON TOPIC

Hack Cancer & Cancel It

Get essential insights to inspire innovative, impactful solutions in cancer prevention!

PRE-EVENTS

Let it be the most productive weekend of the year!

JOIN IN

HACKER

PARTNER

MENTOR

STARTUP

Learn from the Best!

Event Speakers & facilitators

Dr. Sina ZARE

Balázs HORVATH

Ákos WETTERS

Jolanta ZAIKAUSKIENĖ

Dominykas MILAŠIUS

Neringa ŠEPERIENĖ

Kristupas ŠAIKUS

5 years' experience

participants

mentors

innovative ideas

success stories

Get Experience From

mentors & facilitators

Armen

Tadas

Liudvika

Antanas

Tomas

Ugnė

Indrė

Julius

Simona

Donatas

Jolanta

Renata

Sigita

Donata

Jūratė

Irma

Ina

Rūta

Kristupas

Renata

Diana

Kristupas

Aurelija

Dovilė

Rugilė

Darius

Ramunė

Neringa

Ričardas

Each challenge presents a unique opportunity for you to develop groundbreaking solutions

CHALLENGES

CHALLENGE #1: Prevent What’s Preventable – Data-Driven Cancer Prevention

OVERVIEW

CHALLENGE #3: Transforming Public Health Campaigns – Making Prevention Actionable

OVERVIEW

Tech Zity Park, Building No. 3
Antakalnio g. 17, Vilnius

CHALLENGE #1:
Prevent What’s Preventable – Data-Driven Cancer Prevention

CHALLENGE #3:
Transforming Public Health Campaigns – Making Prevention Actionable

SPECIAL TRACK:
Disrupting Cancer Screening – Boosting Engagement and Participation

CHALLENGE #2:
The Patient Journey – Streamlining Cancer Prevention and Care

CHALLENGE #4:
Screening and Life After Diagnosis – Preventing Recurrence

SPECIAL TRACK:
Innovating Diet and Lifestyle Solutions through Disruptive Digital Tools

WELCOME!
The Reason Why We are All Here

COACHING SESSION.
Key Points in Team Success & Teambuilding