Health Ecosystem Conference (HECCO) is an internationally organized event bringing all stakeholders together in the focus of health entrepreneurship. At HECCO, organized within the scope of our “Access of Health Entrepreneurs to the Global Market” project supported by Istanbul Development Agency, the agenda discussed this year was “Big Data in Health Entrepreneurship”. Important names in the global health ecosystem came together at the event and the health industry focused on the issues that are on the agenda and trending every year.

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Since 2018, our entrepreneur Albert health has been developing a voice based health assistant in our incubation center. Albert Health, who was entitled to participate in our Step Up UK program, was accepted to the Health Hub 2020 program in London, jointly organized by Novartis UK and Wayra UK, as a result of negotiations with Wayra UK, who was visited in this program. In this context, Albert, who received an investment of $ 85,000, will also develop solutions for the problems of NHS (National Health Service) in the post-Covid period together with Novartis.

We were at IPI Techinnovation’19 fair with our entrepreneurs who selected to go to Singapore in the Step Up competition within the scope of the global accelerator program organized by the Acıbadem University incubation center. At the fair, our entrepreneurs had the opportunity to introduce their projects in the global market and meet with many institutions and organizations. Eren Cengiz, our entrepreneur who was entitled to participate in our Step Up Singapore program, sold the SpinaTrak Spinal Decompression Device to the New York Medical Group (NYMG), a group of hospitals operating in Hong Kong, where he met with this program.

In physicians meetings of Acibadem Bakirkoy, Altunizade and Maslak Hospitals, we talked about our Incubation Center’s successful projects and activities, as well as the opportunities provided by our center to increase the in-house awareness.

Our trainings, that are organized as a part of Accelerator Program for Health Entrepreneurships’ Access to Global Market, have started. Upon completing the training program, all the entrepreneurs, who participate in accelerator program, will have the opportunity to introduce their projects in Singapore, England and Netherlands, based on their success in the competition they contend.

As Acibadem University Incubation Center, we participated in EXPOMED Eurasia Fair, which hosts hundreds of local and foreign medical firms and brings the profession together under the same roof every year, by being the indispensable business platform of medical industry.

Many entrepreneurs, panelists and speakers attended ‘Sectoral Experiences’ activity that was organized at our Incubation Center. They advocated the didactic nature of mistakes in response to success stories that were told with ‘Keep No Record of Wrongs’ motto. In the event, Esra Talu, Murat Izmirlioglu, Barbaros Unlu, Assc. Prof. Levent Altınbas and Ilem Ozcan delivered speeches to the participants about the experiences they have gained by their mistakes on the road to entrepreneurship.

All entrepreneurs, who have applied with their innovative ideas, have qualified to attend our assessment presentations upon passing the first stage and presented their projects.

Ortus Informatics, which happens to be the 2^nd start-up company supported by Oracle in Turkey, earned itself a spot in Oracle Open World Dubai Program and enjoyed the opportunity of introducing their project.

Osman Cingitas and Ebru Ibar are two of our entrepreneurs who received KADEM AWARD at ‘4^th Innovation and Entrepreneurship’ contest by being selected within the first 5 contestants for their “Prevention of Complications for Semi and Fully-Dependent Inpatients” project.