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Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining our hackathon this weekend. Um We've just sent out a couple of emails with all the documents that you'll need for the weekend and we'll have a talk now just running through. Um What our plans are? My name is Megna. I'm the uh Gasto Innovations and Technology representative uh in terms of gas. So we're a nonprofit organization working with, um looking at global health. Um We're working with a team of surgeons, anesthetists and um obstetrics and gynecologists. Um I run a working group for Innovations and Technology, which you're all welcome to join. We've always got projects ongoing. You can either drop me a message today or send me an email from the Gas. So innovations Gmail, uh which you can join. Er, this is one of our big events for the year. So thanks for signing on. Great. Thanks so much, Magna. And um yeah, congratulations on organizing such a fantastic event. It's um it's gonna be a great couple of days and hopefully we'll get some amazing innovations out of this. So I'm just gonna present my slide deck now. I hope you can all see it. Great. Ok. Well, Thanks for that introduction, Magna. So my name is Will Bolton. I'm one of the um co-founders of Gasar Community interest company. It's a social enterprise um based in the UK. But um with an international presence both in terms of its membership and the pro and the people that the projects uh serve. And it's an absolute honor to be presenting to you today about uh global virtual hackathon. And the theme for the hackathon this year is A I and Digital Tech for Global Surgery. There's a number of reasons why this theme was chosen. It's po it's hopefully not escaped many of you on the session today that uh artificial intelligence and data are extremely topical at the moment and uh incredibly important in almost every facet of life and it's uh likely to only increase um as, as the time goes on. And I actually think no more is uh there's no area that's more important for artificial intelligence than healthcare. And we have to make sure like all parts of healthcare that we don't leave it behind, those that live in low middle income countries and that may have limited access to technology and also the skills and expertise required to access healthcare. It's absolutely essential that we put um the neglected uh surgical patient right in the middle of our efforts with A I and data. And that's where this hack on uh theme has come from. And overall, the hackathon is part of the global frugal innovation Skills course, which has uh been a course that's been ongoing over the last uh few months now. And we've hosted all the sessions on Metha and the whole course is totally free. So you can access them on playback. Um uh any time that you like. And 100s of you have already gone through a, you know, a number of the modules and a number of the sessions. And indeed 100s of you are signed up to uh develop the idea during this hackathon, both during the weekend and hopefully in the weeks and months to follow the. So I just want to start off by saying a huge thank you to our funders and the funding for this course. And the hackathon and the funding for your projects after the hackathon comes from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and their Global Surgery Foundation. So this just would not be possible without them. So, thank you so much for your investment and for your support in helping trainees and healthcare professionals as well as engineers and coders actually develop innovations that make a difference to patients that live in low resource environments. And the whole project has been supported by a number of different organizations. And I just wanna very quickly shout out about each one just now and you'll be hearing from representatives from these organizations throughout the weekend. So, uh and indeed, in talks that they've given throughout other modules, um throughout the course. So first of all, life box is an NGO that um provides a number of amazing initiatives and projects that are perhaps the one that they are most famous for is the pulse oximetry project. And they've distributed over 20,000 pulse oximeters to theaters across the world. We then got the National MedTech Foundation, which is a national student and trainee led group that connects healthcare professionals as well as engineers and technologists together to come up with innovative solutions to healthcare challenges asset, which is the association of surgeons in training that the largest trainee uh representative body for surgeons in training in the UK. And then we have the NIH R Global Health Research Unit on global surgery that lead practice changing uh programmatic research that happens across all the whole, the whole world. So do check out their um websites, there's some links in your key resource documents and finally, a big thank you to me. Um who, who are the online um education partner here and are supporting us to deliver pretty much all of our educational content, but particularly for the full innovation course, it's all happening on on metal and it's all been brought to you free um live and on demand. So that's excellent. I think so I just wanna really quickly talk about the unmet need here, the kind of overall big problem, the crux of it and why I think with this kind of uh program is really, really important. And it comes down to the core fact that less than 6% of all surgical devices in the world actually has a surgeon as a co inventor. And I suspect that globally, you know, this is partly why globally, less than 10% of all devices actually reach clinical trial, which is that pivotal stage to get your innovation of technology adopted, resulting in a less than 1% adoption ring, which is uh demonstrates a significant amount of waste I feel and a lost potential med tech is like one of the largest contributors to the rising cost of health tech delivery of healthcare delivery across the world in both high income and low mid income countries. So it's absolutely critical that um we um as you know, trainees and um professionals in this area actually get involved and get engaged to try and address these core problems. Overall, there's a lack of innovators in this area. It might feel like that's not the case because we're often in very uh niche networks. But actually on the, on the wider scale, there's a significant lack of skills and expertise globally. So we need to try and instill that in the next generation and in our colleagues and and indeed in ourselves and to actually foster f innovation principles to help with the development and evaluation of new technologies that can actually have impact in these contexts. Fundamentally, there's a lack of interdisciplinary collaboration. So we've done our absolute best to try and bring together engineers, coders and healthcare professionals. For this hackathon, we also have a range of innovation mentors in the background that are from different backgrounds. And for those projects that are successful in going to the next the next stage, you will be assigned project uh coordinator that will help you connect those necessary expertise, but that interface between those different disciplines. That's where the magic really happens in innovation. So this is just an overview of the course. Many of you will probably have done some or hopefully all of these modules. Um And if you've got any spare time over this weekend or in the weeks or days and weeks that follow, please do feel free to catch up on these modules um on the medical platform. But we've we've endeavored to cover the the whole spectrum of things that I guess you kind of hopefully need to know if you want to deliver a frugal innovation. So from understanding unmet needs all the way through to design technologies for low resource environments, training and expertise in development of technologies as well as doing research uh projects that are relevant for that device or that technology in that context as well as pre presenting some case studies. And then hopefully, today we're gonna be talking about of course, the hackathon methodology and how to deliver a hackathon and then hopefully take you forward to do some guided innovation over this weekend and beyond. So I just want to talk a little bit about or orientating you into a couple of little areas that I think are quite important to get your mindset, right? For the, for a hackathon and for indeed doing any kind of project in technology or innovation. So there's this three part awareness agreement access concept. The first step, the first step really of a project is trying to get to generate a sense of awareness both in yourself and in people that may be using your products. So you want to identify, raise awareness about any challenges. And I met needs many of these things that you may face already in your practice in your day to day life. Or you may have relatives that have healthcare problems and you can recognize a need in them. Um or you may speak to colleagues or staff or members of the public and identify needs that way. But you need to try and figure out what are the actual problems and really get to grips with it. And if it's a problem that you experience, I guess directly, then you'll have so much more intrinsic motivation and a better understanding of the project. Once we've got the unmet need, always start with the unmet need. Once you've got it, you can then start thinking about any potential solutions to this. There could be modifications to systems or processes, but they could also be technology solutions. We often think of them as technology solutions. Once you've generated the awareness both of the unmet need and and thought about some terms of solutions, we need to generate an agreement amongst the team and amongst key stakeholders. So we need to find the right people that can come together at the right time to develop this concept. Ff further, we have to foster amongst this team and amongst the other stakeholders, a uh a feeling of culture change, you know, and you know, an ability to try and address these barriers and that can be really, really difficult, especially when you're dealing about perceived high tech innovations such as artificial intelligence in a low resource environment. That's a significant challenge that you guys are gonna have to overcome. Importantly, as I said before, is interdisciplinary collaboration and finding the right key stakeholders and partners from the different specialties that you may need to get involved. Many of you will be healthcare professionals, but also you may need engineers, you may need digital health experts, you may need coders, you may need policy, you may need ethicists, you may need other specialties as well. Once you've generated the awareness, gathered the right team and generated a an agreement and some consensus around it. We need to think about how we increase access to your valuable solution, your valuable ideas. Here's where I start thinking about targeted feasibility studies. So how can I make the minimum viable product or MVP? So the very smallest version of your idea. How can I make that quickly and affordably and test it in a pilot study or a feasibility study to see if it generates any kind of impact in terms of addressing the problem that I think in doing that process, you'll identify that actually, maybe you didn't fully understand the problem or you haven't fully targeted your idea in the right way and it will help you change and adapt it. And you can do that iterative cycle over and over again. And that's essentially how you get to the best, best idea. You need to engage with leaders both in your local context and also internationally. And you need to generate some evidence as well because ultimately, we're working in a high risk environment which is healthcare. So we need to generate some evidence that what we're doing is not causing any harm initially and then eventually moving forwards that it's better than the alternative and so on and so forth. Some global innovation methodologies. There's a huge amount out there in the literature and I can't and won't cover all of that today. And we've covered many of the these concepts in a number of the different modules, but you'll also be able to spend some time over the weekend um sharpening up your knowledge and doing some extra reading around these. But just in terms of the kind of headline methodologies that I think may be useful for you. Number one is responsible innovation. This is about considering the sustainability, the partnerships, ethical practices in your innovation and making sure that you're doing things in a responsible way as possible. A lot of the times environmental impact is covered under responsible innovation. And I think that if you can think about the carbon accounting and the kind of footprint element of innovation, I think it will be beneficial. It's not always possible, but I think it's a, it's an important thing that's likely to increasingly be mandated by funders and stakeholders in the future. And this is where green innovation can come in. Reverse innovation is about identifying best practice wherever it arises. So traditionally, it's been thought of high income countries ident, you know, identifying innovation in a low low income country and adopting it. But actually, it's about sharing innovation globally. So wherever it's essentially uh um a con the concepts come up with, it's about figuring out how we can use that in the different markets in a different context, in the most appropriate way. Disruptive innovation is about what fundamentally alters practice. So things like um a new app that fundamentally changes the way you interact with a customer, for example, that would be an example of disruptive innovation. So if you can find something that alters the way that a market is interacted with the process or practice, and that can create a creative game changing idea. And then finally, we've got full innovation that we'll be covering in more detail in the next couple of slides. But the sentence here sums it up quite nicely, I think and it's about doing better with less thinking about context specific designs. So how will my technology work in that specific environment? And of course, you need to involve the interdisciplinary stakeholders, those are actually and help you develop the solution and feel the problem that you have. This is some of the sort of um going into unpicking a few more details around f innovation principles for global surgical innovators and I use the SC gra and a number of talks, but I think it's very relevant here. So starting from the top left, you wanna think about making the most of your resources. So you need to be cost effective, time, effective, resource, effective and efficient as well. So all the bits that go into your component into your product, all the components that go into your product, how can you squeeze as much value out of each and every single one of them to make it as um resource efficient as possible. Um That says that my presentation is sl stuck on slide six. I should be on slide eight. Is anyone else having some issues? Just someone in the chat just saying that their presentation is stuck. Um It's not stuck on my. OK. All right. Um It's not stuck anymore. OK. Perfect. Yeah. Sometimes there can be a little bit of a lag just potentially refresh the screen. But yeah, so thank you. So I'll move on. So yeah, just moving around like a clock face. Once we've done the, I think, thought about all the different resources that we might need to make the most of we wanna focus on core functionalities. So how can we get the, how can we get the um the very crux of the problem solved by the very crux of the solution, for example. So what's the kind of bare minimum that we can do to get the job done? So it's all about focusing down on the core functions that you need to um address your problem moving down. We've got optimizing performance levels. So we need to try and think about how can we ensure sustainability building in things like resilience um both into your projects and into the way that you deliver um your work um both in as a healthcare professional and as an innovator. Finally, even uh next, we need to think about how we can find opportunity in a diversity. So ultimately, if you've come across a, a challenge, so for example, accessing some data or um a coding challenge, an engineering challenge or something like that, consider that an opportunity because if you're finding it difficult to solve, it may be that other people are finding it difficult to solve. And if you can come up up with an innovative, elegant fix to that, you may have found a valuable idea, a valuable product that someone will be, you know, very keen to get involved with. For example. So think flexibly think about how you can adapt it. If there's a problem, for example, accessing data, how can you come up with a way of generating that data or whatever it may be? Um We can then also moving around the clock face, we need to work in teams and indicate those users. So you need to put patients and users of the technology right at the center. If you do that, you will almost always be on the right track. You need to try and collaborate across boundaries. So both geographic boundaries, political boundaries and technical boundaries. And finally, you need to know your purpose to try and figure out, you know, why, why are you intrinsically motivated to solve this problem? That's why I said why at the start if it's a problem that you face in your practice or that, you know, personally that someone faces in your life, then that would be, you know, incredibly motivating and powerful for you moving forwards. So innovation is generally about doing something new that increases value. So you ideally wanna come up with something new or doing something that's already been done. But in a different new way and it has to ideally increase value, making a valuable change is how I define value. So it doesn't have to be necessarily making uh financial value, it could be in social value and scientific value and coming up with new knowledge, all of that's valuable. There's tons of different ways that you can generate value. It doesn't just have to be gadgets, drugs and technology. Obviously, this, this the theme of this hackathon is A I and digital. So I guess we're expecting digital solutions, but it could be, you know, the innovation itself doesn't have to be in doing something particularly new And from an engineering perspective, it could be doing something that's already tech technology, technologically proven, but in a different way or applying it to a different context to a different process, to a different setting. So that's kind of those kind of things that, you know, you don't have to come up with a brand new program, but you could apply it to a new context that would also be, you know, innovative in, in and of itself. So some core innovation skills here just to summarize in these five points, try and understand the unmet need and really define the problem coming up with the problem statement ie identifying exactly what the issue is, tends to be one of the hardest steps of the whole process. OK. Really defining it in a really good way. Knowing how to create an interdisciplinary team and find the right skill sets that you need is also a really big challenge. But uh if you can master that skill and cultivate that network, it will help you accelerate your innovation faster. You need to generate some evidence. OK? You need to generate some proof that what you're doing is a good idea effectively. And in healthcare or high risk environments, you wanna make sure that it's safe and not going to harm other people. Number four, think about those different innovation methodologies and translating that evidence into practice. That's the next key step. You can basically translate your innovations via entrepreneurial, which means starting a new venture and sort of taking all that risk yourself and gen generating the product that way or entrepreneurial activity and an entrepreneurial activity may be doing something similar but within your own organization. So if you already work for a hospital, how can you innovate within the hospital for the hospital? Or if you already work for a university or a company, how can you innovate for that company, for that university? And there's this concept of an in innovation funnel where right at the start, you'll have loads and loads and loads of different ideas. And part of the hackathon process is about how you identify the most promising ideas and whittle them down through that funnel towards the er right hand side. And you wanna end up with ideally the most sort of promising single idea or a couple of ideas essentially. So hackathons originated in computer and software industry actually. And this, you know, this isn't the first hackathon that gas man. So many of you may have done previous hackathons in the past. This may be the first hackathon for the for others though. So essentially what used to happen is that programmers would be tasked with solving a challenge, an engineering challenge in, in, in, in coding, for example, and they'd be tasked with a sprint like exercise. So they'd be said there'd be a time pressure element to it and they'd be tasked with trying to fix that problem as fast as possible, using whatever they needed, the different resources, the different people that they might need. But since then, they've evolved and now they emerge in several different industries. And there's a a huge range of different hackathon examples in healthcare and science because it's about generating, ultimately, it's about generating fixes to problems. The idea is that we try and bring people together from diverse range of disciplines and different backgrounds to try and tackle a common problem or common problem. So in healthcare, this tends to involve obviously healthcare professionals, but it can also um involve scientists, engineers, business people, product designers, and indeed patients as well. The idea of this hackathon over this weekend is to provide you some dedicated time space and ex and um information to facilitate this collaborative working and innovative thinking. So there's no particular rules or limits but and you know, we want you to think as freely as possible, but we will provide you with some kind of structure for those that haven't taken part before if you want. Um, you know, get a, get a really good introduction to those. So this is just a few of the examples of different hackathons that we've delivered over the years. We've delivered a number of virtual hackathons, um, particularly to address COVID needs and we couldn't meet in person. We've delivered er, hackathons and med tech themed events at a number of our conferences at gas. So we've also ran A I assisted hackathons. So II employ you to use your, your favorite A I assistant to help you with your hackathons. They tends to generate lots of interesting ideas for you at the very least. Um We've also delivered global surgical exons in um lower countries as well, both in Kenya and in and in India. So I got a range of expertise in the team and to help you hopefully take these, um take your ideas further forward. So today, what's it gonna look like and over and today and tomorrow, what's it actually gonna look like? So you'll need to start thinking about and you, you, you'll have a number of guided innovation sessions. You've got a couple today and you've got a couple tomorrow and these are really dedicated time periods in the program for you to come to, to come together with your teams, which may be on board um on the platform today, or it may be that you've identified teams offline or you're all sat around the computer and I know for a fact that there's a few people that are doing that you need to think about unmet needs that you find motivating and challenging to try and address. So, you know, ideally these are ones that could be solved with a digital technology solution because I feel like that's where a lot of our speakers expertise are gonna be. And also, I guess it is the theme of the hackathon. So ideally it's got a digital um er technology theme to it. Artificial intelligence, data, science, machine learning. If it does have uh if you, if you do have interest in that or expertise in that, that's also quite good. I think it would be really interesting to see some innovative solutions with that. But basically you need to have start to think about different unmet needs and your first guided innovation session this morning. I think I would try and just focus on what unmet needs you want to solve as a team to list them all out, go through them all, rank them in order of priorities in terms of what you think you wanna address first, you'll be working with hopefully people from different expertise, but there are a large number of healthcare professionals here versus other specialties today. And that tends to be the case um despite our best efforts. So I if you are missing particular skill sets or, or um expertise in your team ident the key really. And the second step is to just identify the skills gaps. So figure out what skills would you actually need if you were to take this idea forward? Because you can still take part in the whole hack film and submit a concept note at the end, which I'll talk to you about in a second, but you can still take part in the whole process. And if you're successful, we'll then connect you to those, we'll try our very best to work with you to find those skill sets, which indeed you might identify them yourself after the event. So you'll have an opportunity to receive some guidance from a number of um hackathon mentors both during the session, uh both during the event um uh through the speakers that are talking. So ask them as many questions as you can post any questions on the chat during your guided innovation session. If you've got any questions and we will endeavor to get back to you as soon as possible. The final thing to say is that if you are, let's take your idea forward, you will be given um as much support as we possibly can afterwards. 0.4 is around project creation. You'll need to present your ideas. So hopefully, we'll have um a number of you guys presenting a quick pitch about your concept uh in the second half of tomorrow. And then also you'll have a, yeah, you know, the, the extra day until um early this week to submit your concept. Not the whole idea really is around identifying and developing digital solutions to address global surgical care challenges. Um I'm just gonna answer one of the questions that I've just seen on the chat from uh this year. So where did we find the modules you mentioned before? They're all on metal. So if you just uh go on to the Normal Metal page, Search for Gas O which is our organization name, all of our previous contents on the listed underneath our organization name. If you've got any problems, just message again and we'll figure it out. So how to hack, I'm not gonna continue labeling the point, but just to summarize it really, really succinctly in step one, you need to define your problem. Figure out exactly what your unmet need is. Why is it important? Why is it still a challenge? Why hasn't it been solved yet? Are there any solutions that already exist or partial solutions that already exist that you could be inspired from? Importantly, figuring out who's affected by this? Is it patients, healthcare professionals? Is it policymakers and so on and so forth? Step two, once you've figured out the challenge, think about. But um once you've figured out the unmet need, think about any challenges or issues you may face in addressing this early. It doesn't matter that there are lots of issues. It, what matters is that you identify them early and start to think about potential ways of addressing them. That's what we're hoping to get out of this form process. So list any barriers that you think you're gonna face. Has anyone actually tried to address these? Why did those efforts succeed or fail? Those kind of analyses are really important? Step? Three. Once you've done those, um first bits you think about all the potential ideas and concepts that you may wanna uh generate to address that problem. So these need to be hypothetical but plausible solutions to that challenge that you've come up with that and that need that you've come up with. So at this stage, we want, we want, you know, quantity, I guess over quality. So ideally, you have lots of different ideas that you can start just to list a mind map potentially or however you want to do it, but just to list them and they could be a product or a device. So a new technology, a new app, a new website, a new tool, it could be a new service. So an existing tool used in a different way, it could be a system innovation. So how are things changed in, in terms of a system or a process? It could be doing something very similar about applying it to a different population? That could be the innovation, as I said. So your ideas particularly at this stage, don't need to be a final product. The whole idea is to try and figure out quick iterative ideas for you to develop and take forwards. OK. And these are things that you can describe more in your concept note. And indeed figure out when you get, when you take these forwards to the project stage, just some things to help you figure out how you could define your concept and figure out which concept you might want to start taking forward. Things like the PO framework are really important. So thinking about the population who's actually affected by your t um who's gonna be affected by your technology or solution? What does your technology do to actually solve the problem? And what currently happens at the moment? What would you be comparing this to? What difference do you hope that your approach will have versus the current approach? And this is the kind of methodology that's used in um in the UK. Buy. Nice to when they evaluate things like their med tech products for, for the NHS. So step four things like um prioritizing your concepts, prioritizing your ideas can be really difficult because often you like a lot of different ideas at once, but once you've figured out your most promising initial ideas, maybe say three or 45 ideas, you might want to perform something called a swot analysis on them. So this is where you think about the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for each of your concern. Um This is a really good way that II do in terms of prioritizing the projects that maybe I want to get involved with or take part in. Um And uh they help you kind of decide which ones you might want to explore, explore further forwards. Again, you don't have to have all of these things figured out yet. But this helps you structure your thinking in terms of deciding which projects you might want to take forward. Another way that you can think about how you prioritize your concepts or ideas is using things like this business model canvas from strategize. So it's templates you can get on online. Um But obviously include it here in the, in the slide show and handouts. So here these gives you the things like the resources, the partners and other things that you know, each of these boxes will give you ideas about things to think of, think about and then it will help you hopefully prioritize the ideas that you want to take forward and structure your thinking. Step five. Once you've figured out which one or ones you want to take further forward, you need to start populating your concept lo and this has been emailed to you and this essentially is your application form for, for funding to take your idea forward. That's the idea I'd focus on your most init your most promising initial idea and really kind of, I think it'd be great if you could come up with your one idea towards the end of the first day. Cos then it gives you the second day and a bit more time on Monday to actually come up with your concept. Not cos it's not a huge exhaustive massive project proposal, but it's uh a little bit of work that you will have to do to put, to put in. And ultimately, it's a competitive process to, to, to win some funding. So in brief, you need to think about a description of your unmet need solution, how it may um figure out how your solution may address the unmet need, think about your main findings from a swat analysis and figure out what are the things that would be required, the resources, the skills, the activities that you need to do to take that to the next stage if you're successful after the hackathon. So these are just some bullet point ideas that the gas team have um you know, been thinking on and we have a number of projects in these kind of areas as well as some expertise. So this isn't necessarily bias you, but sometimes people come and they may have ideas, but they may have actually not really thought about this that much and they might want some ideas to start with or some kind of broad topics to start thinking about. So they don't have to be this at all. There's no particular merit. If you do choose one of these ideas, these are literally just potential options that you could think about to get yourself started. Your final idea may be totally different. But the thing, one of the big challenges in A I and global health is that the data that we have uh to train machine learning models tends not to actually come from low malignant countries. And that's because of a huge challenge with data structuring, you know, and non digital data majority of data potentially is non digital and certainly nonstructured. So how can we curate data sets for A I training? That's a really big important challenge. Things like surgical training and education, how can we get that to people that may struggle to travel or remote areas? And how can we break down barriers to accessing surgical training and aesthetic training and obstetric training. A I powered peroperative triage decision support. You know, that would be really, really interesting. How can we potentially put some data behind how we triage and make decisions in providing surgical care, telemedicine? So doing medicine in a remote setting or how do we follow up people remotely? For example, after surgery, that would be really interesting. And there's a number of projects that are kind of in that area. And then finally, there's a huge ethical question around data and A I use in any context, but I think it's really pronounced in global health and there's not a huge amount of solutions yet. So there's a lot of innovation that could be had. So how do we ensure what we do is done ethically or what are the ethical innovations, ethical processes that we could think about to improve data in A I and Global Health. There's a range of different options and these are just a few that we've sort of basically thought of, but there's many different options out there and you could, you should pick whatever you think, you know, is a valuable idea to yourself, you know, definitely. So some support after the hack. So these, these bits are quite important and it's reiterated again in your concept notes. So once you've gone through the hack phone, you've caught up with any module content that you need to and you've spent some dedicated time thinking about your met, need your solution, doing the necessary steps. You want to start putting all this content down to your concept note, which is essentially an application form for a small grant. So we have um project pots up to 3000 lbs um for you to deliver a minimal viable product. So to try and get your concept or I your idea to MVP stage, that's the idea, projects will be judged on a range of things. But I guess five key areas that we're interested in is are your projects and ideas actually solving important problems. Um And you need to try and articulate why you think the problem is important to you is your product project feasible? Can we can act, can we could, could we with you actually deliver this project to an MVP stage. We don't, you know, it, we want it to be ambitious, but of course, realistic. The third idea, the third thing that we, I guess we're thinking about is are the applicants, you know, are you motivated to actually achieve for the project? Do you have the necessary um motivation to actually drive you through the difficult stages of delivering a project? Because we really wanna fund projects that reach the M VB stage. Number four, you know, can we and our collaborators support you uh effectively? So think about the expertise and skills that may be involved in some of the organizations that we work with and see if your ideas could align to. That doesn't have to be the be all end all though because we can bring in additional partners as needed. But I guess that's something to consider. And the final thing is, does the application, I guess advance things like A I data digital technology in global health. We are really interested in those kinds of fields. So if you can have a flavor or a trend, a theme of that, then I think that would strengthen your application. So while you have time over Saturday and Sunday to uh take part in the hack on and do any extra reading and um and hacking and working together essentially on this, um We realize that because you're, you know, busy, it's the weekend you might have other commitments, clinical commitments, whatever they may be. And there's different time zones and people that are getting involved across the whole world here, we will, even though the half finishes tomorrow afternoon, we will also have the rest of the day tomorrow and all of Monday as well to um work together with your team to submit um your uh concept note and you just need to email it to gas.uk at gmail.com um by the end of the day, but it's summertime on the 23rd of September. So, um we will then uh review them all thoroughly and we'll give each and every single one feedback and we endeavor to do that within 30 days of submission. Ok. Those that are successful will be, um we will have some dedicated chats with and figure out exactly how we can take it forward and support you as best as we can both with the funding that you requested. But also um any expertise, guidance skills that we think you may find beneficial. Ok. So I hope that makes sense. I can see that um, you've been um putting in a few questions in the chat and I think my colleagues uh both at Metal and Gas have been answering them. Um I'm going to stop there in the interest of time. If there are any other questions that you guys have for me to answer now, feel free to pop in the chat. Um, while you're thinking about those. I just want to take this opportunity again to thank you all for taking part in this hackathon. Um I hope you have a really uh you know, interesting experience come up with some fantastic solutions and I really can't wait to review your concert notes and work with you on your projects together. Um Huge. Thank you to uh all team at gas. So in particular, uh Megna Ryan and Gene who've been fantastic helping uh basically deliver this entire event. So it's not possible without you and to all our collaborators and funders as well. Thank you so much. I'll hand back over to uh Megan now. I don't know if we've got a quick um break until our next speaker or if we're gonna roll straight on. Um I think if Ryan's ready, we just wanted a quick intro from him about gas. So, um so he's our current president. Um And I'll just invite him to the stage now. Ok, great. Yeah. So a couple of people have asked about how do we get involved with the skills course. So skills course has happened in terms of the modules have been delivered. Um But like I said, you can watch them all on catch up play back, you know, in your own time free. All those modules are on the um uh metal website via our Gas X page. Just go on to Metal Search Gas as an organization and you'll be able to see all our previous events. Um and if you have any other questions, do just pop them in the chat throughout the day. Yes, super. Thank you. Will. Thanks. See you later. See you later. Great introduction um to the hackathon itself. So hello, I'm Ryan Ellis, uh anesthesia trainee based in uh UK and I'm Gastro president of the year 2024. So just before we dive in to the hackathon itself, which is why we're all here. I just want to do a very brief um overview of Gastro itself, which is with the group organizing this after all. So, Gasar uh stands for Global Anesthesia, surgical obstetric la. So we're bringing together all the disciplines of global surgery and to really get that, that that's multidisciplinary input and this event is expanding that any further by trying to involve engineers and coders as well as well as explain, that's important to get everyone involved. We're also really focused on trying to get trainees involved as well, trying to advocate for improvements in global surgery, bring education as well as events. So if, if you go to the Gas O website, which um we'll post on the, on the chat as well. Me, if you want to post that, we'll find out more about us. Essentially, we were established in 2015 have been growing ever since we put on a number of advocacy events, number of education events, and physical events as well. And most of our work is available and free online via this metal platform. As this event today is, we also provide a number of different grants for travel funds. And um also today, as you can see, we're putting on this uh hackathons, we have a lot of different innovation er things too. We have a number of working groups that you can join. Uh and there's a research working group and it's a great output that comes from there. We actually have an innovation working group. So if you're really excited by what you see today, then please join the innovation working group and become a member of Gas O and you'll be able to find out more because this is just one part of what we're doing. There is lots of great, fantastic work going on uh beyond this as well. I also want to mention that has very kindly put up on the screen for me here. We have our international conference that's coming up on October the 18th and 19th and on the 19th of the day, in particular, we have a number of uh speakers and we have some fantastic speakers um lined up really top top of the line um speakers that have been very kindly uh contributing their time to us and it's really a event not to miss. So please uh sign up, go on our, you can use QR code there may work, but if not go on our website, go to the conference page and look to sign up. Uh If you're based in the UK or you're able to be in the UK, please come along physically. It's gonna be based in Manchester on the 18th. We'll have some workshops as well that you can attend and some of them are um uh uh explained there below on the, on the flyer there. Um But if you're not able to come to UK, you can join virtually And if from a LM IC setting, then you can uh join virtually for free. So it'll be freely accessible on the metal program, you can interact uh in the consequence via the Metal program and see all the fantastic contents that will be delivered there. So really get involved with that and gastric itself. We, in the UK, we have lots of regional events, we have lots of journal clubs that revolve around uh surgery, obstetrics, and anesthesia. We really try to create that community feel. We also have a global er network that you are free to join as well. And we're trying to really grow that and create a community of trainees around the world that can really push forward um what we believe in, in trying to improve uh global surgery in terms of both advocating for improvement and educating others, getting excitement around it and putting on innovative and interesting events like the one we have today, it's really a place where it's growing quite significantly over a few years. And if you want to really get involved in some of this stuff, whether you are completely new to this idea or if it's something you're already interested in, have some experience, both serve you well. And Gasto is really that hub that hopefully will help bring all these things together. So if you want to find out any more, please just uh look at the website or send us an email. Have a look at the different working groups, have a look at the different events we have and have a look at the network that we have and definitely have a look at the conference, which is there, which is, will be a fantastic, if you've not been involved with gas or before, this will be a fantastic way to know more about who we are, what we do, what we provide and the kind of quality uh events that we put on and how you can really develop uh in yourself as well. You can help develop the, um, push for the improvement in global surgery, but you can really develop yourself as well, which, uh which is very important part of it. So that's all I have to say. So please have a look at those um, our website and so forth. And if you want to get involved, please have a look and send us some questions. Uh, are we so thank you very much. Are we ok for the groups or do you have a break now. Thanks Ryan. Yeah. Um I think we're, I think we're gonna hopefully move to the guide innovation session now. Thanks so much Ryan for giving us a really good overview of all the amazing things that guys stop doing. Um II would definitely recommend the conference as well. It's a fantastic um event that you should attend as um uh every year if you possibly can. It's a amazing value for money considering what it is. And if you're interested in global surgery, it's basically your go to conferences specifically for you. So, um, definitely check it out. Um So guys in the, in the guided Innovation sessions, we have um, it's your opportunity really to work together with your team that either you've got from uh the event. So you've, you know, been allocated that team or you may have identified your team prior to this event and have been working with people offline. So basically, it's a free free time. Um If you've got any questions that, you know, maybe technical questions or questions about the hackathon or anything like that, post them in the chat on medal and we'll endeavor to get back to you as soon as we can with, with um with answers or solutions. And if we don't know the answers, we'll hopefully find out someone who may know the answers for you really in the first session. What you, what I would recommend you doing, it's getting up to you you professionals here, but I would read all the content that we've emailed you out this morning. So go through the hackathon guidance note, um go through the concept note as well and look at some of the key resources that we've sent. You try and get yourself orientated into what you're gonna have to hopefully do over the next couple of days. Um And then really, you, as I said, you've got two innovations, guided Innovation sessions today and you've got a couple tomorrow as well. So, you know, those five steps that we presented earlier about um actually going through the hack, those are also covered in the guidance documents that you've been sent. I I'd really try and do one of those steps in each innovation session. So in guided innovation session, one do step one really go through all the different unmet needs that you can think of and try and figure out exactly the problem statement that you and your team want to figure out in guided innovation session. Two, that's where you really want to start coming up with iterative concepts. So think of all the different concepts that you can think of maybe start doing some early sw analyses on them or some extra resource, uh extra research to see what's already out there. Um Which ones you might want to start prioritizing basically in your guided innovation session tomorrow, you might want to start thinking about actually putting some thoughts to the paper about maybe the one or two really, I, you know, high ranking solutions that you've come up with. So figuring out a little bit more about how you can actually make them happen, what the model might look like, what the business might look like, what the technology might look like and actually start to maybe put some text into your concept note and get ready for the pitches. You've got a dedicated innovation session tomorrow before your pitch. So here, you know, this would be really good opportunity to actually figure out who's gonna do the presentation. So maybe it's your team leader or present, present to someone that particularly wants to do a presentation and actually prepare your kind of pitch, which is only gonna be, you know, a couple of minutes, but just to present your idea essentially. Um And then any time that you have around it, that's dedicated time that you could be working on your actual application, you know, on your concept note and treat it like a grant application. I would like a small, small rent application. So that, that's kind of how I would use the, the Innovation Time itself. Um Megna, I don't know if you've got anything else that you want to add or if you want to tell anyone a little bit about, I saw an announcement pop up about a Google Docs for our allocation. So I might hand over to you. Now, in terms of those nitty gritty details. Yeah. So um I've just allocated everyone into groups um based on the master sign up sheet. Uh I know that a lot of people are attending and watching uh uh with catch up later on. Um and I know a lot of people signed up in groups if you can't access the Google Doc. Um Then let me know and I can let you know what group you're in and have a look. We also have the tech support in one of the breakout groups. If you're having any issues at all, you can join that breakout room. Um And Jingjing will kindly help you out there. Um But yeah, I think will has covered everything else in terms of um actual work with the Innovation Groups. So I'm really looking forward to seeing what projects you will come up with. When's our next, when's our next lecture or session on the main stage for people to come back? So we next have a talk at 11 o'clock. So we've got about half an hour, 40 minutes now uh for an innovation session and then I'd allocated a break. But obviously, if you're having a good discussion, then I would say you can carry on until 11. Great. See you back here. 11 guys. Thanks very much, everyone.