What is it? 

The pitch competition takes place on Friday, the final day of Academy, from 10 am to 1 pm CST. Each Academy team will have 10 minutes to pitch their solution in front of our judge's panel, followed by  2-3 minutes of Q&A.​

3 winners will be selected by the judging panel. Winners will be invited to present at an Academy Showcase.

 

Judging Criteria

1. Market Fit: Are you solving a relevant employer problem?

2. Innovative: Rating the quality and uniqueness of your innovation (and your ability to speak to it)

3. Fundamentals: Your leadership team, funding, and credibility of your solution overall

4. Potential Impact: Current or potential data around ROI, clinical outcomes, engagement, etc.

5. Quality of Presentation: Clear, concise, and complete

 

What to Include

Overview of solution, user experience, integration with employer ecosystem, highlighting solution’s unique features/ differences, outcomes using actual client experience, pricing– EHIR- specific pricing or pricing model otherwise.

 

What to exclude:

Restating/ describing “the problem”, long intros of founders/ executives, details on funding situation, too much information: power in brevity, do not read from a script!

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