Health / Startups

MKW - Reaching Health Equity

Learn how a number of Melbourne-based startups are shaking up healthcare as we know it.

Ambitious and visionary, small yet agile, startups hold the keys to superior patient care, faster, more accurate diagnoses and more equitable healthcare for all.

Meet the Melbourne-based medical companies daring to challenge the healthcare status quo and discover new ways to tackle the biggest challenges we face in this fascinating panel conversation.

The topics covered will include:

Post-pandemic reflections: Where are the cracks (and opportunities) in our healthcare system?
What makes Australian medtechs globally relevant and competitive?
Exploring new models of care: How does technology present new opportunities for patient care?
What’s the lowdown on medtech regulation? Why is it so prescriptive and how does this impact innovation?
You’ve heard of the great resignation – what about the great migration: why are medical clinicians and scientists gravitating to careers within medtech companies?
Human and/or Machine: Finding the balancing between humanised patient care and scalable tech solutions.

Event Speakers

Josh Reich

Josh Reich is the Chief Technology Officer at Seer – a medical technology company reimagining how and where people undergo long-term brain, heart, and respiratory monitoring for faster paths to diagnoses and better patient outcomes. At Seer, Josh leads a team of software engineers, machine learning specialists, data scientists, designers, and researchers. He is passionate about improving diagnostics in the healthcare landscape but, more importantly, he is eager to improve patient outcomes by operating at the intersection of data and design.

Zoë Milgrom

Zoe is co-founder and chief clinical officer at Eugene. Eugene’s vision is to empower people, the healthcare industry & accelerate research. To date Eugene has supported over 8,000 people to make proactive healthcare choices. She is passionate about developing a new client-centred model of healthcare that empowers individuals to make proactive and informed healthcare choices. Zoe believes that the potential to make genetics a frontline test is only limited by workforce limitations and sees the potential for creative implementation of technology to eliminate this bottleneck.

Emily Casey

After studying at Australia’s leading Medical School, Emily found her true passion: building community. Specifically, to help bridge the gaps in health helping healthtech companies to grow, collaborate, and communicate. In 2021 Emily founded What the Health – a modern media company and community for Aussie Health Innovation. She is passionate about driving transformative change in the health sector and works with health organisations and healthtech startups to do so.