Berlin Playground

13 -14 March, 2024
Berlin, Germany

Connect & Experience annual alumni event

“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family; Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.” – Jane Howard

From 2019 until today, our community has grown from 20 to over 130 ecosystem leaders. It has strengthened significantly, and its impact has extended to thousands of startups worldwide. We have experts in deep tech, AI, innovation policies, climate tech, health, academia innovation, open innovation and beyond.

Combining this incredible network and knowledge within us, along with the influence when we come together and connect, constitutes one of the most powerful tools we possess.

The Playground serves as the heart of our community, providing us with the opportunity to build our tribe, connect, learn from each other, and grow stronger together.

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Agenda

  • 1st August 2023

Application Opens

  • 1st October (23:59, CET)

Application Closes

  • 4th October 2023

SELECTION ANNOUNCEMENT​

  • 16th October 2023, 10:00 CET

ONBOARDING WEBINAR (FOR ACCEPTED PARTICIPANTS)​

  • 26th-30th November 2023

VISIT TO Silicon Valley​

  • March 2024

Follow up conference - the European "Playground"

FAQ

The Berlin Playground is the Connect & Experience alumni event of the year! 

All cohorts, since the first programme that took place in Israel in 2019, and right up until the last cohort from Silicon Valley in November 2023 will be there.

In order to join the Playground, you have to register in advance by clicking on the “Register here” button at the bottom of the page and fill in your information. People who will not register will not be able to participate in the Playground events.

This is a community event for alumni of Connect & Experience and EIT Goes to NYC. If you wish to invite a colleague, please reach out to Tal Caspi:  [email protected]

The Berlin Playground provides a unique platform for ecosystem leaders to gain beneficial and relevant knowledge, as well as practical tools to boost their ecosystem.

With Connect & Experience alumni from the past 5 years, this is an incredible chance to network with ecosystem leaders from across Europe, participate in peer-learning workshops, and elevate your ecosystem to the next level.

Since the 2023 Israel cohort wasn’t able to complete the full C&E programme this past October, special time will be dedicated for you to experience some of the content that was originally planned for you.

The 2023 cohort is invited to join us before the playground already on 12th – 13th March, 2024.

Agenda for Connect & Experience 2023 Israel:

Tuesday, March 12: 19:00– 21:00 – Connect & Experience 2023 Happy Hour

Wednesday, March 13:  09:00 -16:00 – C&E 2023 Highlights:

  • Map your Ecosystem Workshop: define your ecosystem needs, challenges and value proposition
  • “Let’s Talk Tacheles”: how to take your ecosystem to the next maturity level


Please make sure to approve your arrival to these days on the registration form.

The Playground is offered as a Connect & Experience community event at no charge to alumni.

 

Travel and accommodation is not covered, except in the following case:

 

Connect & Experience October 2023 Israel participants, that were eligible for reimbursement, will be eligible for reimbursement for travel and accommodation for the Playground.

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Connect & Experience offers more than training. The C&E community network is an active EU online and offline community offering easy access to opportunities, curated content, matchmaking, soft landing services, and support. The community provides a space for community builders from Europe and Horizon Europe associated countries to interact, share best practices, and collaborate to enhance your startup community.

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Access to Healthcare

The Health not The Death is a fundamental human right. A healthy population is not to be seen as human and social capital, an input, or by-product, towards economic growth. Alongside a healthy and sustainable environment, a solidarity, a healthy population must be the ultimate goal especially nowadays in helping Ukrainian migrants with cancer and their families.

Solidarity in health is a cornerstone of EU health policy. There are wide disparities in many health outcomes across the region and those outcomes. The access rules dramatically affect healthcare systems which are at the forefront of the migrant way, the people who are searching for help and the way how we could enhance and support their healthier and wellbeing status.

In order to ensure their access to care and continued cure in need, the probability of receiving a timely diagnosis and of surviving differs greatly from country to country where they are now. There is lack of information, help and inequalities in access. People need help in navigating cancer knowledge, diagnostics, secondary monitoring and prevention, way of treatments, and care.

Shifting our mindset, supporting healthcare connectivity, removing inequalities overall across Europe is our mission and even more now in a time of crisis, helping the Ukrainian people dealing with cancer is a good place to begin this transformative revolution.

1) Whether we have a chance to foster more holistic and integrated approaches to receive information and care, by supporting coordination and maximising an enabling and health-enhancing effect of care across services from different countries?

2) Whether actions should address the social determinants of health, the countries where they are now, the health need which they have, the social and language barriers are the conditions which have to be taken into consideration in a coordinated manner?

How might we improve patients and /or people who seek healthcare support, access to healthcare services at an EU & the Member States Healthcare systems level? Especially in a time of crisis in Europe.

How might we support refugees fleeing from their countries by navigating them to medical centres to receive best available care?  

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Predictive Treatment

Precision medicine aims to personalise care for every individual. Nongenomic and genomic determinants, combined with information from patient symptoms, clinical history, and lifestyle (nutrition, physical activity, stress etc.), can facilitate personalised diagnosis and prognostics. Yet this goal requires access to massive amounts of data which may come from different structured and unstructured sources; these can be our medical records, laboratory testing, a range of medical devices as well as from the patient himself. AI & ML can combine input from these multiple sources, analyse them and identify biomarkers that can support health professionals make more informed decisions. The convergence of precision medicine with the advanced AI capabilities will improve the ability to personalise care – improve diagnosis, risk prediction as well as therapy planning.  

HCPs want to better predict treatment response, given uncertainty around which treatment to prescribe to which patient and when to prescribe. How do we risk assess the patients, match them with the right treatment (personalised). How can we transform the wealth of data and link it to the predictive nature of how the patient will respond?

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Patient Journey Navigation

Being diagnosed with cancer is overwhelming and comes as a blow. Patients may feel on a roller coaster of emotions—they are scared, lost & confused not knowing what to expect, who to refer to, what to do and how to tell their loved ones.  They directly refer to “Dr. Google” to look for information about their disease, possible treatments, QoL strategies with the aim to have better understanding of their disease and learn how to better cope with their disease & treatment, yet information is not always valid, accessible, nor personalised or tailored to the patient’s status and needs therefore left with huge amounts of non-relevant information. Coming to the doctor, the physician’s time is limited and mostly focusing on the physical aspects of the disease & treatment, not leaving much time to ask questions nor discuss more holistic aspects of the disease such as emotional, psychological, social aspects. The patient (& caregiver in many cases) leaves the room with unanswered questions, doesn’t remember much of what has been said, and feels he is not heard, nor seen as a whole.

The need for navigating this journey along the emotional psychological stress is overwhelming & patients and their caregivers look for support (case manager/companion/partner) to help manage their disease holistically – starting from having clarity around their disease and treatment by having access to reliable and personalised information during their journey as well as having an integrated holistic care system , supporting them and their loved ones to navigate through the different aspects of their disease – medical, emotional, logistical, psychological, social, rights.

How can we support patients to navigate through the complexity of their disease and treatment ensuring they have validated holistic information about their disease journey & treatment and be empowered to  effectively manage their care 

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Peer-to-Peer Medical Exchange

As medical events pivoted from conference centres and meeting rooms to the virtual settings, learning opportunities continue. Lectures and presentations are translated to the new digital world, yet the ability to connect and network is relatively lost. Peer interaction is essential not only for information exchange but to share practical insights, allows consultation & in-person experience cross country and across borders leading to better disease management.

This peer-based learning/ consultation is highly valued amongst practising clinicians and was generally achieved when HCPs and KOLs met their peers in national & Intl conferences, group debates, advisory boards and even during quick corridor conversations. Attempting to replicate these in-person experiences into the digital space creates challenges and are not effective nor impactful as face-to-face engagements. 

How might we improve HCP medical exchange enabling physicians to easily communicate, consult, exchange opinions leveraging individual experts & centres of excellence knowledge, experiences, and practices?

How can we leverage the technological expertise to allow HCPs to connect with leading experts across countries to get advice / counselling for their cases?

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