This session is designed for digital health entrepreneurs and early stage startups who want to understand how to partner with a design and development team to build a successful product or service. Victoria Betton from Mindwave Ventures will guide you through the dos and don'ts of partnering with a tech team through a case study approach with our startup partner, Thalamos.

By the end of the session you will know how to get the best out of partnering with a tech team - from setting your requirements, through to collaborative working and raising investment - you will learn about the key enablers of a successful relationship that drives success.

Arden founded Thalamos in 2018 to address the systemic lack of technology solutions in acute Mental Healthcare. A for-profit social enterprise, Thalamos aims to create technology solutions which support clinicians to improve outcomes. Their first product is designed to Digitalise the Mental Health Act (sectioning), moving it from a slow, error-prone process to one which is swift and helps patients get access to care more swiftly.

Victoria is chief innovation officer at Mindwave Ventures, a social impact design and health technology company. She previously founded mHabitat - an NHS hosted digital health consultancy, and Co>Space North - a digital health and tech for good collaboration space. She is a qualified social worker and coach with over twenty year’s experience in local government, third sector and the NHS.