Hacking Health Camp · 2027

Agoris analysis · updated October 2026

Key takeaways

• "INNOVATION IN HEALTH STARTS HERE": Hacking Health Camp is positioned by its organisers as the largest healthcare hackathon in the world, launched in Strasbourg in 2014.
• Organisers: Health Factory & OpenCare Lab, in partnership with the Hacking Health Foundation and the Université de Strasbourg.
• 2027 edition: 20-22 March 2027 at the Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg (4 rue Kirschleger, 67000 Strasbourg). Registration open on the official website.
• Hybrid format over 3 days: 50 hours of hackathon, plus workshops and talks beforehand (January to March). This is not a stand-based trade show: there is no conventional exhibitor floor plan.
• Audience blending healthcare professionals, patients, engineers, designers, developers, makers and entrepreneurs, brought together in multidisciplinary teams to prototype over a weekend.
• 2027 prices: EUR 40 incl. VAT (students, jobseekers, patient associations), EUR 120 incl. VAT (SMEs, associations, healthcare professionals, individuals), EUR 600 incl. VAT (organisations with turnover above EUR 500k).

Who exhibits

Typical profile

Hacking Health Camp is not a stand-based trade show but a hackathon-conference. The "exhibitor community" here consists of participants and institutional partners rather than commercial exhibitors. The profiles brought together: healthcare professionals (doctors, carers), patients and informal carers, engineers and developers, designers, makers, students and digital-health entrepreneurs. Teams form on site around real clinical challenges.

Notable exhibitors

The event draws on a dense network of local and national partners and sponsors. Among the partners and sponsors listed for the most recent edition: Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Médecine, Eurométropole de Strasbourg, ARS Grand Est, IHU Strasbourg, Fondation FORCE, Epitech, EM Strasbourg, La French Tech Est, BioValley, NextMed, OpenCare Lab, Agence du Numérique en Santé, Alsace Business Angels. The up-to-date list is published on the official website.

Quality of attendance

The event brings together an international digital-health innovation community over three days. The organiser reports welcoming more than 400 participants per edition (figure announced for the 2026 edition, not audited). Participation volumes are therefore self-declared by the organiser, not based on an audited report.

Activities & community

Conference programme

The edition unfolds in two stages: a phase of workshops and talks beforehand (from January to March), then the 50-hour hackathon from Friday evening (6 pm) to Sunday evening (6 pm). The multidisciplinary teams work on real clinical and usage challenges, from chronic-disease management to artificial intelligence in healthcare, with the aim of delivering a working prototype on the Sunday.

Awards and prizes

Several prizes reward the best projects at the end of the hackathon. At the 2026 edition, the winners included: the MediSignes Urgence project (a carer-patient communication tool for emergency situations, led by an EM Strasbourg student), awarded the "Best Patient Solution award"; the REPER project (detection of drug interactions in elderly patients, led by pharmacology students and a developer from Télécom Physique), awarded the "Quest for Health prize"; and the PRIORA project (access to adaptive clinical trials). The detailed prize categories for the upcoming edition are published on the website as the event approaches.

Community & networks

Hacking Health Camp runs an active community beyond the event, relayed on LinkedIn and the organiser's networks, and anchored in Strasbourg's healthcare ecosystem (CHRU, IHU, BioValley, NextMed). The event is part of the international Hacking Health movement.

On site: what you need to know

For access, parking and accommodation, see the venue page: Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg (4 rue Kirschleger, 67000 Strasbourg).

Specific to the event:

• 2027 dates: 20-22 March 2027 in Strasbourg.
• Intensive residential format of 50 hours, from Friday evening (6 pm) to Sunday evening (6 pm): plan for suitable logistics (on-site catering included in the ticket, continuous workspaces).
• Registration open via the official website.
• Participant access is by ticket registration, distinct from a trade-show visitor model.

How much it costs to exhibit

Hacking Health Camp is not a stand-based trade show: there is no exhibitor price list. The business model rests on two levers. On the one hand, participation: the profiles (hackers, healthcare professionals, students, mentors) register via ticketing across three pricing tiers confirmed for 2027: EUR 40 incl. VAT (students, jobseekers, patient associations), EUR 120 incl. VAT (SMEs with turnover below EUR 500k, associations, healthcare professionals, individuals), EUR 600 incl. VAT (organisations with turnover above EUR 500k). The preparatory workshops beforehand are free. On the other hand, partnership and sponsorship: companies and institutions support the event as sponsors or partners (visibility, access to talent, sponsored challenges), under terms negotiated directly with the organiser. For a corporate presence, contact is made via the official website.

Preparing your visit

For the exhibitor

Here, "exhibiting" should be read as "becoming a partner or sponsor" or "proposing a challenge".

• 6 months out: get in touch with the organiser to frame the partnership format (sponsorship, sponsored challenge, mentoring).
• 4 months out: define the clinical or usage challenge submitted to the teams, mobilise your in-house experts as mentors.
• 2 months out: prepare the resources (anonymised datasets, specifications) made available to the teams.
• 1 month out: brief the mentors and spokespeople, lock in your presence across the conference and hackathon phases.

For the decision-making visitor

• Target the phase that interests you: talks and workshops beforehand, or hackathon immersion over the weekend.
• To spot solutions or talent, aim for the pitch sessions and the prize-giving on the Sunday.
• Register as soon as registration opens: capacity for a residential format is limited.
• Prepare your objectives: recruitment, innovation watch, identification of projects to incubate.

Policy & CSR initiatives

The social commitment of Hacking Health Camp is expressed first through its mission: the Hacking Health Foundation, a volunteer-run partner NGO, states "fostering inclusive innovation by connecting people to solve real-world health problems" and sets out four founding values: Inclusivity, Collaboration, Integrity, Inspiration. Co-organiser of the Strasbourg event, OpenCare Lab is constituted as a cooperative society of collective interest (SCIC), a structure with a general-interest mission: it explicitly aims to "improve citizens' health, empower citizens on health matters and guarantee equal access to new health offerings", co-building solutions with patients, informal carers and front-line professionals. The host venue, the Faculté de Médecine of the Université de Strasbourg, is engaged in a formalised approach: the Université de Strasbourg has obtained the DD&RS label (Sustainable Development & Social Responsibility) for four years, covering five areas: strategy and governance, teaching, research, environmental management and social policy. By contrast, an environmental CSR policy specific to the event (carbon footprint, eco-design, ISO 20121 certification of the event itself) is not publicly documented at the time of writing.

How the trade show has evolved

Trajectory analysis

Born in Strasbourg in 2014, Hacking Health Camp has established itself as France's benchmark event for open innovation in healthcare, positioned by its organisers as the largest healthcare hackathon in the world. Its geographic stability (Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg) and calendar stability (March) make it an anchor point for the Grand Est healthcare ecosystem, backed by the CHRU, the IHU and BioValley. The continuity of organisation by Health Factory & OpenCare Lab, and the public-private partnership network (Université, ARS, Eurométropole, industry players), explain the format's longevity. The challenge for the coming editions remains the conversion of prototypes into startups and deployed solutions, as illustrated by Pixacare and Hypno VR, cited among the startups to come out of the hackathon.

Unless otherwise stated, all factual data in this listing comes from the organiser's official website (hackinghealth.camp).