HealthCampRDU

We really value the contributions of our sponsors in making HealthCamp possible. Their support is invaluable in keeping the event accessible to Patient Advocates, students and other innovators that may not have the depth of resources that many established Health Care companies have.  These sponsors also tend to be organizations that are doing innovative things in Health Care, or are connected with organizations and people that are innovating. The 4x4s are designed to give our sponsors an opportunity to explain about the fascinating developments they are involved in using a short, fast-paced format.

The 4x4s are Fours Slides in Four Minutes.

Slide 1: What is the problem you are addressing?
Slide 2: What have you done to improve this situation?
Slide 3: What are your roadblocks/what don’t you know/Where would you like help?
Slide 4: Who are you and what drew you to tackle this challenge?

We will group a number of 4x4s together and a moderator will keep the presentations to the 4 minute time slot. We will have a number of rooms running 4x4s in parallel. This means that the HealthCamp participants will have to choose the 4×4 theme that they want to attend. We are allocating an hour for the 4×4 sessions. So we intend that the moderators in each room will coordinate Question and Answer sessions or open discussion that builds on the content of the 4x4s. Effectively the presenters will form a panel and enter in to active discussions with the participants in the room.

We expect the 4x4s to stimulate plenty of discussion, but with only 30-40 minutes for discussion we are also expecting participants to want to continue to explore some of the topics. That is where the collaborative agenda setting comes in.

After the 4×4 session all the participants will gather in the main room and we will then construct the agenda for the rest of the day. Any participant is free to propose an Agenda topic. We will have three 55 minute sessions during the rest of day with four rooms available. That means we can host 12 discussions, although nothing is preventing participants from breaking off in to smaller groups and finding space for a smaller discussion group.

We will ask people to write up a title for their proposed discussion topic, together with their name (or twitter handle). People will then queue up and announce their topic (with brevity!) to the other participants and go and place the their topic in a room and time slot on the agenda wall. There then will be a brief period where people with similar interests will get together. This is where we see the participants merge topics or create a stream for the day, where discussions flow through a series of sessions.

Then at around 11:30 we will break out in to the first of the sessions for the day.