Peter and his team are developing a Smart Diabetes App that intelligently pick up patterns in the diabetics data and uses it for personalized recommendations. Peter is a born entrepreneur. He makes things happen, sees opportunities, and is good at motivating people around him. Peter has a Bachelors in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as several years of experience running businesses. Peter grew up with type 1 diabetes. His father was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1989 at the age of 27 and Peter got diagnosed with type 1 in 2010, at the age of 27.
Christer Busch is an MD, PhD, and senior professor at The Department of Surgical Sciences at Uppsala University Hospital. He is also the inventor of the STEPIT pedal device, which allows your to activate your calf muscles while you sit. STEPIT has been studied in diabetic patients in collaboration with professor Kerstin Brismar and Dr Leon Jonker, UK as well as professor David Bergqvist, vascular surgeon, Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden. Busch specialized in urological pathology and was European Vice President of the International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) 1991-1997 President (ISUP), 1997-2002 Professor of pathology, University of Tromsö, Norway, 2002-2008 adjunct professor of uropathology, University of Uppsala, Sweden, 2013 Senior professor at the Department of Surgical Sciences University Hospital, Uppsala. Busch has published over 240 peer reviewed articles, and has a background in thrombosis and vascular endothelial research.
Brianna Wolin is a passionate entrepreneur, biomedical engineer and food blogger. Find Your Ditto, FYD, began as a student project during her time at the University of Michigan, has earned Brianna several awards at the University as well as recognition by SPARK Ann Arbor, including a fully-funded entrepreneurial bootcamp experience and a commitment to continued guidance. Brianna has lived with Type 1 Diabetes and Celiac Disease the majority of her life. Her food blog, A Different Survival Guide, grew out of her need to cook all of her own low carb, gluten free meals unavailable in campus dining halls. Brianna is the Chief Executive officer of Find Your Ditto, responsible for engagement with universities and healthcare systems, marketing, legal matters, and company finances. Find Your Ditto is the only mobile platform that connects individuals living with the same chronic illness locally for on-demand, in-person peer support to mitigate feelings of loneliness and depression. Users can find their “dittos” and begin to feel like “it’s not just me.”
Charles O’Connell recognized the lack of guidance and support related to exercise and diabetes, and therefore founded FITSCRIPT.COM to help others with diabetes reach their fitness and diabetes goals. In the fall of 2013, Charlie opened the FITSCRIPT Diabetes Fitness and Technology Center, a unique facility dedicated to developing multi-media content related to exercise, diabetes metrics, and integrated data from bio-metric devices. Through August of 2016, over 200,000 people living with diabetes around the world have utilized Fitscript’s GLUCOSEZONE program for exercise guidance and support, and thousands of exercise sessions have been performed in-person at the Fitscript Diabetes Fitness and Technology center. Diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at Yale New Haven Hospital in the fall of 1996, Charlie is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (’02) where he was a two-sport varsity athlete (Football and Track and Field), as well as high school All-American in Track and Field.
David Weingard is the founder and CEO of Fit4D, a company whose mission is to improve the lives of people with Diabetes and other chronic conditions. David was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, at the age of 36, while training for a survival race. A veteran of numerous running and triathlons races (including Ironman triathlons consisting of a 2.4M swim, 112M bike and 26.2M run), David committed to rebuild his life and provide positive energy to the diabetes community while coping with the condition on a 24×7 basis. David’s personal experience receiving meaningful education and support from a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) sparked the idea for Fit4D to leverage technology to scale the patient reach of adherence and outcome improvement programs for pharmaceutical, payer and provider organizations. In 2008, David left Microsoft to found Fit4D, building on his career as an executive in the technology sector. David has a BA in Computer Science and a MBA in Marketing.
Shai Rozen is the co-founder & CMO at Suggestic Serial entrepreneur, a marketing guy, and a product builder. At a co-founder at Suggestic, he use artificial intelligence to tackle health and nutrition. He is passionate about putting an end to disease and the inevitability of immortality.Best advice ever received: don’t panic.
Luka Zupancic is the founder of Easycarb, a project devoted to revolutionize the outdated and complex process of carbohydrate management in diabetes. Being affected by the disease in his professional and personal life, he quickly realized how extremely inefficient the current standard for tracking carbs is, despite it being key for preventing health complications. Luka obtained his MSc degree in Regenerative Medicine at the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna and had worked as a researcher in the biomedical field, prior to switching to entrepreneurship. Apart from his scientific endeavors, his interests include innovative ventures and technology, clinical nutrition and everything sports-related.
Liam was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2002 and wants to develop low-cost solutions to improve health outcomes for people with diabetes through health behavior change. Liam founded Adelie Health in 2016 to use insights from behavioral economics to improve health outcomes for people with diabetes. Liam is close to completing his Ph.D. in health economics at the University of Aberdeen which investigates how behavioral economics can help us understand individual food choices. Liam now wants to apply these insights to build innovative devices to help people with type 1 diabetes. Liam has a BA in Economics and Sociology & Politics, and an MSc in health economics from the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Elizabeth Sacco is the founder of Diabetic Dabs® Inc. A stay-at-home mom turned entrepreneur, Liz developed the concept of Diabetic Dabs® after her son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 2011. While adjusting to the change in lifestyle and facing the challenges associated with diabetes, Liz realized there was a missing component to the blood glucose testing process. Frustrated by not being able to find an easy and efficient solution to removing the excess blood from the finger after testing, Liz took the matters into her own hands to resolve this issue. She conceived, developed, and patented Diabetic Dabs®. Diabetic Dabs® are an ideal companion product to the diabetes monitoring and diagnostic devices. Dabs® are non-toxic, highly absorbent sheets that are designed to fit conveniently into any blood glucose testing kit with its adhesive backing. Dabs® provide the most hygienic method of blood removal and disposal.
Fathi Abdelsalam founded AkibaH while he was finishing his graduate studies at Cornell University. The team committed itself to finding a way to improve the lives of people with diabetes after losing several of their loved ones to the condition and watching many others struggle with its complications. He is very passionate about developing solutions that have substantial social and economic impact. Fathi is a member of several entrepreneurial communities, including Techstars, Sprint Accelerator, Start-Up Chile, Jumpstart Foundry, Parallel 18, and Seamless IoT. He has an M.P.A. in Social Entrepreneurship and Economic Development from Cornell, and dual bachelor degrees in Industrial Engineering and Economics from Florida State. He is also a former senior-level Patent Examiner at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, where he was immersed in the latest, cutting-edge software and high-tech inventions. In his spare time, he loves to travel and explore, having visited all six habitable continents, and lived in Japan, Turkey, Colombia, Chile, and Puerto Rico.