Since September you have been (re)introduced to stakeholder engagement, ethical decision-making, the Canadian policy landscape, and the iterative design process as they relate to developing digital health solutions for older adults with complex health needs. The courses, workshops, and webinars have all focused on providing you with the framework and skills to develop solutions that have a stronger chance of being implemented in real-world settings.
This capstone project will build on all of these skills and encourage you to think further about how solutions can be brought out of the lab and into the hands of those who need them. At the end of the capstone, you and your team will create a video pitch of your solution; the team with the most persuasive pitch will receive a prize!
After completing this course you will be able to:
- Describe the barriers and facilitators to implementing technology and technology-based service solutions in real-world settings.
- Research and evaluate the market potential and value proposition of a technology or technology-based service solution.
- Understand the process of bringing a product to market via commercialization.
Required Group Work and Expected Outcome
During this course, you will remain in your Understanding Innovation groups to refine your previously developed prototypes and work together to learn how it would, theoretically, be implemented and commercialized.
Please note that each group is asked to continue using their allotted Slack Channel to communicate and plan meetings. Throughout this course, you will view webinars and complete activities designed to culminate in a final presentation. Group activities will be completed within short, allotted times to encourage rapid decision-making and have strong deadlines.
By the end of the course, you and your group members will have further refined your early-stage prototypes, mapped how your end-users would access and use the solution, and created a feasible go-to market strategy for your solution. Throughout the capstone you will be asked to create a series of slides that, taken together, will create a persuasive slide deck or pitch deck that your team will use to present their solution.
The final assignment of this capstone is a recorded presentation of your pitch to be uploaded to the course website. We will share links of those recordings to the EPIC-AT slack channel so you will be able to watch each other’s presentations.
Recorded presentations will be assessed by a panel of stakeholders and researchers using criteria we will share below. The team with the highest ranking presentation will receive a prize!
Some deadlines to consider:
June 24 | Group Activity #1- Review prototype feedback and create slides 1-4: Title, The Problem and The Solution. |
July 2 | Group Activity #2- Understanding the market and create slide 5-6: The Opportunity and Competitive Analysis. |
July 9 | Group Activity #3- Share preferred business models and decide on one. Create slide 7: Business Model |
July 15 | Group Activity #4- Consider what roles each group member served in the development process thus far and the roles everyone would have if your product were to launch. Create slides 8-9: The Team and The Close. |
July 16-24 | Meet with Capstone Project mentors to get feedback: Dr. Sam Liu is available to meet with teams on July 16, 18, 23, and 24 between 8am-11am PT/11am-2pm ET. Please email him to book at 30-45 min meeting; not all team members are required to attend. |
July 22-July 26 or August 12-14 | Meeting with EPIC-AT Team to share Pitch. Email training@agewell-nce.ca to request a meeting with Sam to run through your pitch. Only 1 team member, the one pitching, need attend. |
August 16 | Submit final recording of pitch. Pitches will be judged by a panel of AgeTech experts over the next week or two. Feedback will be delivered and the team with the highest scoring pitch will receive a prize. |
Total Estimated time: 6-7 hours