EXECUTIVE SUMMARY


Jo Vandeurzen, Flemish Minister for Welfare, Public Health and Family, gave out the prizes


programme and code, so the match between these two interests really appealed. “I think we had a strong concept,” she adds.


“It is a do-able and a concrete idea that can be operating very quickly and will directly address the issue of social isolation for older people, while younger people will like it, too.” The judges voted unanimously that YO-


Tickets was not only the winning idea of the four, but also one that could definitely reach the market. They were impressed with the winning


“I am thinking about


becoming a doctor, but I also like to


really appealed” 50 | AAL FORUM 2014


programme and code, so the match between these two interests


team’s grasp of the challenge related to social isolation, the agility with which they blended that challenge with a commercial opportunity and the speed and ambition with which they planned to get the solution to market. The hackathon also highlighted another key theme that was a focus of attention for many AAL stakeholders, and that was the need for intergenerational collaboration, involving young people in the development process. The hackathon was well received by delegates at the Forum, too. Those questioned saw it as a valuable innovation for the event and one that should be repeated more as a way of generating great ideas for the market and speeding up the process for getting those ideas funded for development. Tom Braekeleirs summed it up afterwards,


referring to his “change the world” remark. “Over the last couple of days,” he said in his summing up speech, highlighting the mood of optimism the hackathon had generated, “we did that here in Ghent. We all have the ability to change things, however small.”


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