Applications are open for the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) Innovation Award Program 2022.

The goal of the Award is to improve the healthcare ecosystem by supporting healthcare innovations. This is achieved by showcasing innovators’ work on the global stage, linking them to potential investors and mentors.

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Benefits

• Become a part of the WISH 2022 summit.
• Showcase your work to a community of healthcare leaders.
• Also, meet experts, based on innovation needs.
• One-to-one meetings with investors (pitch)
• In addition, WISH media support for up to 1 year.
• Join WISH mini-summits as well as events.
• Become a WISH innovation program alumni ambassador.
• Opportunity to get mentorship and support for up to 1 year.
• Also, an opportunity to join an accelerator program.
• Opportunity to get incubated at local innovation hub.
• Opportunity to participate at Web Summit 2022.
• Moreover, an opportunity to win the ‘WISH Innovation Award’ cash prize.

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Available Competition

Spark Competition

WISH is keen to highlight some of the most exciting startup innovations in healthcare through its WISH Spark competition. WISH celebrates the spirit of innovation through its WISH Spark Innovators program, which provides a platform for tomorrow’s most promising healthcare leaders. Their innovations include devices, applications, innovative delivery models, and design-based solutions that improve quality of care and patient experience, while also reducing the cost of care.

Booster Competition

The WISH Innovation Booster represents some of the world’s most exciting healthcare innovations, ranging from practical devices and business models to design-based solutions. Each innovation showcase has the potential to transform global health, both reducing the costs of healthcare delivery and improving the quality of care for patients. The WISH Innovation Booster provides a chance for entrepreneurs to exhibit their healthcare innovations in front of some of the world’s leading health experts, Health ministers, decision-makers, and investors. WISH provides a platform to enable delegates to engage with these exciting ideas that are changing healthcare from the ground up.

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Eligibility

• The Spark competition is open to startups at its early stage, within the first two years
• The Booster competition is an open startup launched within the last six years.