Health Tech Hackathon - Goldsmiths & Blue Garage

​Health Tech Hackathon - Goldsmiths & Blue Garage

​Thursday 04 June 2026, 9:00 to 18:00

​Location: Blue Garage, Lewisham

​Welcome to an innovative hackathon where you will get to build solutions to some key challenges in health tech, delivered in partnership by Goldsmiths, Blue Garage and Hacksmiths.

​With other students you will build solutions to a number of issues that were identified by senior NHS staff, health tech entrepreneurs & academics in a brainstorming session in May this year.

​Why take part?

• ​Real world solution development experience to put on your CVs

• ​Make a real difference by contributing ideas to help solve issues in health tech

• ​Network with health tech entrepreneurs who will be at the event

• ​Design something that can be further developed through incubation and mentoring at Blue Garage and has the potential to become a real solution/product

• ​Eat free pizza

​Things we're looking for:

• ​Insightful ideas. Solutions that directly tackle the issues identified in our previous brainstorm session (videos will be shared)

• ​Human-centred ideas. Solutions targeted specifially at the core users, (NHS staff and patients)

• ​Ideas that have commercial potential - an understanding of what the route to market might look like

​Prizes:

• ​£200 worth of vouchers to share between the winning team

• ​Two funded places at Blue Garage from September (incubation and mentoring) for six months - all participants will be asked if they want to express an interest in this

​Judges: Michael Korn, Co-founder of KwickScreen and Founder of Blue Garage; Professor Marco Gillies, Goldsmiths; Ana De Pellegrin, COO Blue Garage; Anthony Crowther, Research & Knowledge Exchange, Goldsmiths

​How will it work:

• ​participants will receive videos outlining the challenges in advance of the hackathon

• ​recommended size of teams is 3 to 5 participants. We can help facilitate team formation on the day

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​Note:

• ​this is an in-person only event and space is limited, so sign up now!

• ​Intellectual property created at the hackathon is owned by the creator