Demo Day
Prototypes to partnerships — live on stage.
The annual showcase. Chapter pitch competitions feed a national stage, where teams present what they built to clinicians, faculty, sponsors and investors.
What you are watching
Months of work, in minutes.
Demo Day is the culmination of the programme cycle. Teams present solutions to real clinical problems — designed, developed and validated with mentors and clinicians alongside them.
Chapter pitch competitions run first. The strongest teams carry into the national showcase, in front of clinicians, faculty, sponsors and investors. Audience Choice awards go to the best pitch and the best poster.
How a team gets here
01
Identify clinical needs
Teams work with healthcare professionals to uncover real, unmet needs in the clinical setting.
02
Design and prototype
From sketches to functional prototypes, students build medical technologies using design thinking and rapid iteration.
03
Validate with experts
Teams receive feedback from clinicians, researchers and investors to refine usability, feasibility and impact.
04
Pitch to launch
On Demo Day, teams present their ventures to a live audience, gaining visibility, funding opportunities and potential partnerships.
From the archive
Nine batches of evidence.
Batch 9 — National Demo Day & Banquet, 2023
Demo Day 2018 — chapters share one stage
Audience Choice awards
A chapter Demo Day
TempAural — an outpatient seizure monitoring device
The cohort
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Speaker series
The people who have done it.
Alongside the programme, Sling Health chapters host founders and operators. Jim McKelvey joined the series in 2021; Sam Altman in 2022.
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