MaRS Impact Health addresses the most important issues facing the health innovation community

Meet and greet with fellow attendees visiting the MaRS Impact Health expo.

What to look forward to on day two of MaRS Impact Health.

Checking the pulse of innovation in the digital health sector.

The July 2020 CIFAR Task Force Report proposed several initiatives to support AI in healthcare in Canada. Initiatives include enabling responsible access to data allowing for privacy and security, accelerating the development of AI in healthcare and an initiative to promote adoption and procurement, encouraging all jurisdictions of government to align their strategy with relevant stakeholders. Learn more about what needs to happen to promote venture growth in this area.

A surprising intervention, music is increasingly being applied as treatment to help with a variety of conditions. This session will delve into how music can be a source of health and healing.

In today’s challenging economic climate, startups are eyeing other industries for new growth and expansion opportunities. These unexpected alliances and cross sector pivots are occurring across a range of industries with ventures branching out to fill gaps in unexpected places. For example, hear from Ibraheem Khan of Smarter Alloys on how his company applies its shape memory alloys to medical, automotive, and mining industries. When does it make sense for entrepreneurs to be industry agnostic and what tactics help when seeking opportunities in new fields? This session, moderated by Charles Nyabeze of Canada’s Mining Innovation Commercialization Accelerator, will feature several entrepreneurs who are collaborating across healthcare and mining, exploring how cross sector pivots and alliances happen and tactics for bridging innovation gaps across industries.

Checking the pulse of innovation in the medical device sector.

Cognitive disorders and anxiety are often treated using pharmaceuticals and therapy techniques, but several devices are ready to help. Hear from ventures using technologies like wearables and infrared light to boost cognition and memory and regulate mood.

Healthcare is often characterized by multimodal data sets like text, visual, audio and genomics, but are we actually close to using AI to provide a comprehensive view into personalized medicine? We take a closer look at what still needs to be done, and the opportunities and gaps that need to be filled.

Neural networks are enabling dramatic advances in disease diagnosis. But how do we balance product performance with patient safety and access?

For decades, women have been vastly underrepresented in medical research and trials. That’s starting to change, but many of the protocols for diagnosing and treating patients are based on what works for men. And issues facing women specifically receive far less attention than those affecting only men — five times more money goes to erectile dysfunction research than studies on premenstrual syndrome. This conversation looks at ongoing gaps and the opportunities to improve areas of women’s health that have long been ignored.

Hear from several FemTech innovators on the impact of their digital health and software solutions targeting women’s health and related areas.

Join us for a closing reception as we wrap up the final day of MaRS Impact Health. Focused on celebrating and showcasing innovators working in women’s health, this reception also provides the chance to connect and mingle with fellow attendees and speakers from the event.