Techstars Startup Week Tampa Bay 2018

Hackathons, Gaming, and Healthcare, oh my! For Health Innovators’ “Hacking Healthcare” we are taking an in-depth look at how video game and simulation technology are impacting healthcare and the exciting entrepreneurial opportunities ahead.

Our speaker is: Kunal Patel (the local prodigy of gaming and VR/AR)

Kunal is a Central Florida tech leader, community builder, and entrepreneur with >15 years of experience in roles spanning leadership, software development, sales and creative partnerships. He serves as co-founder of brandVR, a Virtual and Augmented Reality platform for driving sales, marketing, education business goals with an immersive wow factor. In 2016, brandVR developed three VR experiences for NASA Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

He is also the co-founder of Indienomicon, the largest community organization for game development studios in the SouthEast, and helped to grow local community talent from six studios in 2013 to 40+ by 2017 sparking economic development and structure around talent.

In 2015, he co-founded Indie Galactic Space Jam, a successful annual collaborative event between the Orlando gaming industry and the space industry to rapidly prototype games that drive excitement for space travel and exploration. Additionally, in 2015, he founded the Orlando Game Space, a collaborative game co-working facility to provide resources to indie game developers and robust professional services in games, digital media, VR and AR development to the marketplace.

Kunal will also be talking about putting Florida on the map for its first medical gaming event where non-profits pitch care challenges to get a solution prototyped in just 48 hours! He's an incredible speaker with a message you should not miss!