The UCSF California Preterm Birth Initiative (PTBi) and Twilio present Hackers for Birth Justice — the second annual Hackathon event where tech and birth equity meet to improve Black infant and maternal health outcomes. Imagine what we can achieve when we put tech experts and mothers with lived experience in a creative and innovative space together to develop solutions to combat challenges burdening Black mamas and babies.
A Hackathon is an innovation strategy that uses hearts, minds and technology to co-create collaborative solutions for complex issues. For this hackathon, you can expect a two day event where you will form small teams, build creative solutions to a business problem, and demo your app to peers, and PTBi and Twilio leadership. You should anticipate spending 6 - 8 hours total to create a working prototype.
You don't need to be a developer in order to participate. We need everyone's expertise: Product Managers, Subject Matter Experts, Designers, Data Analysts. If you have a vested interest in the future of Black maternal health, we want you to participate.
You may also participate as a VIEWER ONLY if you would like to join for the kick-off and demo ceremony. We ask that you still register as a viewer to received event related details by email.
With Twilio, you can add communications like SMS, voice, video, and chatbots to your apps, using the language you already know, and integrate with the apps and systems you already depend on. At the hackathon, engineers from Twilio will partner with your team to help you build your app.
Learn more at Twilio.com/docs
Hackers for Birth Justice 1st annual event took place in June of 2022. It was a successful event where tech and birth equity met to improve Black infant and maternal health outcomes. The event fully brought to life what we imagined we could achieve when tech experts and mothers with lived experience collaborate in a creative and innovative space to develop solutions to combat challenges burdening Black mamas and babies. Read all about it HERE
