Healthy Futures Forum

For Immediate Release:

Bounce Health Innovation partners up with Navigate on January 27 to host the Healthy Futures Forum – a digital event focused on identifying opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship in health in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Corner Brook, NL, January 11, 2021 –-Covid-19 has precipitated a new era of healthcare, moving innovation forward at unprecedented speed with 10-year advances in technology happening in mere months. This agility to break down the barriers of health innovation through multidisciplinary collaboration is creating new and unexpected opportunities for entrepreneurs in a field once reserved for medical experts.

The Healthy Futures Forum is an interactive, joint Bounce-Navigate event that aims to bring together health sector professionals, innovators and entrepreneurs to explore the problems and novel solutions that will shape the future of health in our province. This online event is open to anyone with an entrepreneurial mindset and an interest in health innovation.

About the Event:

The Healthy Futures Forum is a half-day, collaborative event for health sector professionals, entrepreneurs and trailblazers to discover, discuss, and explore the possibilities for health innovation in our province.

This interactive, online event is designed to provide participants with opportunities to:

Hear about the successes and innovations of pioneers who are making waves in the health and wellness sector in Western NL
Network, brainstorm and delve into the potential for health innovation in NL with local health experts and panelists
Engage in meaningful discussions, generate ideas and contribute insights to help accelerate the growth of health innovation in our province
Learn about the many resources and supports that are available to early stage entrepreneurs and innovators who want to start or grow a business in the health sector

This digital event will take place in the afternoon on January 27 and will feature a diverse group of entrepreneurs and innovators including health and wellness practitioners and entrepreneurs, health tech researchers, indigenous health experts and more.

Come flex your entrepreneurial mindset and tell us what potential you see for health innovation in the region!

About Bounce:

Bounce Health Innovation (Bounce) is a mini cluster in medical technology that was launched in St. John’s as a result of increasing interest in health innovation spurred from the local Hacking Health initiative – a series of open innovation networking events that connect frontline healthcare workers with developers, designers, patients, and entrepreneurs. We are operated by TechNL and other industry partners with a mission to accelerate the growth of the health innovation sector in NL. Bounce’s vision is to help the province become the testbed for medical technology innovation in North America. We engage with and support health innovators and entrepreneurs by leveraging resources within a unique health innovation ecosystem.

About Navigate:

Navigate is a program that provides budding entrepreneurs with the motivation, support, training, skills, resources and key connections they need to create new businesses and jumpstart existing ones. Navigate champions a culture of entrepreneurship in Western NL by helping aspiring entrepreneurs from the pre-startup or idea phase through to the development of fully-fledged business models and plans. A joint initiative between Grenfell Campus and CNA Corner Brook Campus, Navigate has locations on both campuses including two Entrepreneurship Centres, a Business Incubator and a Makerspace. By providing access to end-to-end services from tools, training, counselling, mentorship, and resources to programming, events, and networking opportunities, Navigate helps turn startup ideas into startup realities. Navigate is funded by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the Provincial Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Learn More:

Bounce Health Innovation

Website: https://bounceinnovation.ca/

Facebook: Bounce Health Innovation

Twitter: @BounceHI

Navigate

Website: https://navigatesmallbusiness.ca/

Facebook: Navigate Small Business

Twitter: @NavSmallBiz

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/191852912632265

HopIn Registration: https://hopin.to/events/healthy-futures-forum

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