Sometimes you have challenges that are so big, not one company is struggling with it, but all of them. And then you have to join forces, even if you are competitors. So, this time, I don’t have one but 2 guests. Liesbeth Haspeslagh, Brand and customer manager Vaccines at MSD and Florence Strubbe, Medical Director at GSK. Both are pharma companies, researching and producing vaccines, and both are extremely interested to understand how we can go from vaccination to immunization.

As one of the challenge owners of Hack Healthcare, this time I’m talking to Joeri Nieuwinckel. He’s a pharmacist by education, but currently working as Hematology lead at Roche Belgium & Luxembourg. But besides that, he’s also experienced as a caregiver for his partner going trough cancer. Which makes this topic close to home.

In this episode, my guest is Jeremy Martin. Innovation Lead at Roche Belgium. With a background in design and innovation he joined Roche almost a decade ago to help this pharmacompany become more robust on innovation. For many pharma companies, innovation equals R&D, but Jeremy looks beyond that, as you will notice in this podcast.

In this first episode, we want to introduce you to the founder of HackBelgium, Leo Exter. He moved to Belgium over 25 years ago, has a background in marketing and discovered the love for hackathons over a decade ago. That led him to create HackBelgiumLabs, a company focusing on using hackathons as a means to make an impact in the world.

If you ever want to change the world, participating in a hackathon is probably a good place to start. On October 23th & 24th, HackBelgium is organizing the fourth edition of HackHealthcare. In this podcast series, we want to dive into the challenges, introduce you to the people behind the screens and take you along on the journey of Hack Healthcare. My name is Tom, and I will be your host. Welcome to the HackHealthcare Podcast.