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Upcoming New Event 2025

MINDSTART HACKATHON

  • 4 - 6 June 2025
  • Jerusalem, ISRAEL

Join us for a groundbreaking 72-hour hackathon focused on transforming healthcare innovation and tackling real-world medical challenges.

A groundbreaking 72-hour hackathon focused on transforming healthcare innovation and tackling real-world medical challenges.

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Thank You & See You Next Hackathon!

Congratulations to the winning teams and sincere thanks to everyone who joined us.
Your enthusiasm and commitment were inspiring – see you at our next event!

About MinDset

MinDset fosters leadership, innovation, and excellence among future medical professionals through workshops, courses, and conferences. Our mission is to equip participants with the skills to drive meaningful changes in healthcare. MinDset also proudly publishes the Journal of Israeli Medical Students (JIMS), showcasing groundbreaking research and promoting academic excellence.

About MinDstart
Hackathon 2025

Join us for MinDstart Hackathon 2025, a groundbreaking 72-hour event dedicated to revolutionizing healthcare innovation and solving real-world medical challenges. Hosted by MinDset, the Israeli Medical Association, top Israeli medical centers, top high-tech and biotech companies, and all Israeli medical faculties, this hackathon will unite 200 participants – including medical students, physicians, tech developers, and entrepreneurs from around the globe.

As the first international hackathon designed specifically for medical students, this one-of-a-kind event will foster collaboration between future healthcare leaders and industry experts to drive innovation and research in global health.

Be part of this transformative experience and help shape the future of healthcare at MinDstart Hackathon 2025. Together, we can empower the brightest minds to create meaningful advancements in medicine.

Why Should I Participate

Medical students are the future of healthcare, and MinDstart Hackathon 2025 provides an unparalleled opportunity to develop essential skills beyond the traditional classroom or clinical setting. Here’s why you should take part in this groundbreaking event.

Hands-On Experience
in Medical Innovation

MinDstart Hackathon is not just a competition - it’s a real-world innovation lab where medical students can actively engage in solving pressing healthcare challenges. By working alongside physicians, tech developers, and entrepreneurs, participants will experience firsthand how interdisciplinary collaboration drives medical advancements.

Hands-On Experience
in Medical Innovation

MinDstart Hackathon is not just a competition – it’s a real-world innovation lab where medical students can actively engage in solving pressing healthcare challenges. By working alongside physicians, tech developers, and entrepreneurs, participants will experience firsthand how interdisciplinary collaboration drives medical advancements.

Exclusive Access to Industry Leaders and Experts

This hackathon is hosted by MinDset, the Israeli Medical Association, leading medical centers, top high-tech and biotech companies and all Israeli medical faculties, ensuring that participants learn from and connect with top-tier professionals in the field. The chance to receive mentorship and feedback from experienced physicians, researchers, and innovators is an invaluable steppingstone for any aspiring healthcare leader.

Strengthen Problem-Solving
and Teamwork Skills

Medical practice goes beyond knowledge – it’s about applying it in fast-paced, real-world settings. This 72-hour hackathon pushes participants to think innovatively, collaborate effectively, and develop practical solutions. By leveraging extensive medical data research, participants will hone critical problem-solving and leadership skills essential for a thriving medical career.

Hands-On Experience
in Medical Innovation

MinDstart Hackathon is not just a competition - it’s a real-world innovation lab where medical students can actively engage in solving pressing healthcare challenges. By working alongside physicians, tech developers, and entrepreneurs, participants will experience firsthand how interdisciplinary collaboration drives medical advancements.

Hands-On Experience
in Medical Innovation

MinDstart Hackathon is not just a competition – it’s a real-world innovation lab where medical students can actively engage in solving pressing healthcare challenges. By working alongside physicians, tech developers, and entrepreneurs, participants will experience firsthand how interdisciplinary collaboration drives medical advancements.

Exclusive Access to Industry Leaders and Experts

This hackathon is hosted by MinDset, the Israeli Medical Association, leading medical centers, top high-tech and biotech companies and all Israeli medical faculties, ensuring that participants learn from and connect with top-tier professionals in the field. The chance to receive mentorship and feedback from experienced physicians, researchers, and innovators is an invaluable steppingstone for any aspiring healthcare leader.

Strengthen Problem-Solving
and Teamwork Skills

Medical practice goes beyond knowledge – it’s about applying it in fast-paced, real-world settings. This 72-hour hackathon pushes participants to think innovatively, collaborate effectively, and develop practical solutions. By leveraging extensive medical data research, participants will hone critical problem-solving and leadership skills essential for a thriving medical career.

Global Networking
and Career Opportunities

With 200 participants and hundreds of mentors from across the world, including fellow medical students, physicians, and tech experts, this event offers a unique chance to build an international professional network. The connections made here could open doors to future research collaborations, medical technology ventures, or even career opportunities in the ever-evolving field of digital health.

Contribute to the
Future of Healthcare

Medicine is constantly evolving, and the next breakthroughs in patient care, diagnostics, and treatment could come from you. By joining MinDstart Hackathon 2025, you’ll have the opportunity to make a tangible impact on the future of healthcare, addressing global medical challenges with innovative solutions.

Global Networking
and Career Opportunities

With 200 participants and hundreds of mentors from across the world, including fellow medical students, physicians, and tech experts, this event offers a unique chance to build an international professional network. The connections made here could open doors to future research collaborations, medical technology ventures, or even career opportunities in the ever-evolving field of digital health.

Contribute to the
Future of Healthcare

Medicine is constantly evolving, and the next breakthroughs in patient care, diagnostics, and treatment could come from you. By joining MinDstart Hackathon 2025, you’ll have the opportunity to make a tangible impact on the future of healthcare, addressing global medical challenges with innovative solutions.

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MinDstart Challanges

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PSYCHIATRIC CHALLENGE

REDUCING EARLY READMISSIONS AMONG PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS

The Challenge:

Approximately one in three psychiatric patients is readmitted within 30 days of discharge -reflecting a significant gap in continuity of care. These frequent readmissions indicate not only clinical relapses, but also systemic, logistical, and social shortcomings that undermine long-term recovery and place a significant burden on mental health services.

Objective:

Develop an integrated solution to support psychiatric patients’ stability after discharge. This may include tools for early detection, improved follow-up, patient engagement, adherence support, and community resource coordination.

BREAST CANCER CHALLENGE

PERSONALIZING PREVENTION THROUGH RISK-BASED SCREENING

The Challenge:

Despite significant advances in detection and treatment, breast cancer remains one of the most common and deadly malignancies among women worldwide. A major barrier to early detection is the lack of personalized risk awareness. Most women do not know their individual risk and are therefore less likely to engage in timely, proactive screening — especially in underserved populations. Current risk assessment tools are often outdated, underutilized, and not integrated into routine care or digital health environments. This contributes to late diagnoses, unnecessary anxiety for low-risk individuals, and missed opportunities for prevention in high-risk groups.

Objective:

Create a solution that helps women understand their breast cancer risk in an accessible, intelligent, and equitable way.

MEDICAL EDUCATION CHALLENGE

ENHANCING MEDICAL RESIDENCY THROUGH PERSONALIZED LEARNING AND REAL-TIME FEEDBACK.

The Challenge:

Medical residency is a critical phase in the development of future physicians – yet the current system remains largely time-based, emphasizing duration over demonstrated competence. Residents are expected to master diverse clinical skills under high-pressure conditions, often with limited feedback, fragmented mentorship, and no systematic tracking of which clinical exposures they’ve experienced – or missed. This results in wide variability in training quality and preparedness. Amid global discussions around shortening residency programs to address workforce shortages, there is an urgent need to make clinical training more efficient, structured, and outcome-oriented – without compromising educational quality or patient safety.

Objective:

Design a tool that personalizes residency training with real-time tracking of clinical experiences, skills, and milestones. It should enhance feedback, support adaptive learning, and enable data-driven decisions.

GYNECOLOGY CHALLENGE

PREDICTING THE CLINICAL COURSE OF ENDOMETRIOSIS

The Challenge:

Endometriosis affects approximately 1 in 10 women of reproductive age, yet the path to diagnosis often takes 7 to 10 years – a delay that leads to prolonged suffering, mismanagement, and irreversible complications. Even after diagnosis, clinicians currently lack tools to predict the disease’s clinical course, rate of progression, or risk for future complications such as infertility, chronic pelvic pain, or organ damage. This diagnostic and prognostic uncertainty leads to generalized, trial-and-error approaches to care, further burdening patients and healthcare systems alike.

Objective:

Develop a tool to predict endometriosis progression over time, helping clinicians personalize treatment and manage risks. It should use clinical, biological, imaging, and patient-reported data to forecast disease severity, symptoms, and complications.

TMC
Cardiology Challenge

REDUCING TREATMENT DELAYS FOR WOMEN WITH ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

The Challenge:

cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women worldwide, yet women suffering an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are significantly more likely to delay seeking medical attention – and less likely to receive timely, evidence-based care compared to men. Atypical symptom presentation, implicit bias in clinical assessment, and low public awareness all contribute to under-recognition and treatment delays. These delays lead to avoidable morbidity and mortality, highlighting a critical need for targeted solutions that close the gender gap in cardiovascular care.

Objective:

Develop a solution to shorten diagnosis and treatment time for women with suspected heart attacks by raising awareness of sex-specific symptoms and speeding up recognition and clinical decisions for patients, clinicians, or both.

Event Speakers

Meet our Judges

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Tania Yoder

Tania Yoder

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Finn Lutz

Finn Lutz

Chef
Deborah Villa

Deborah Villa

Student

Our Mentors By Challenges

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Gynecology

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Psychiatry

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Cardiology

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Breast Cancer

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MinDstart Hackathon Awards

First Place

10,000$

& Exclusive Accelerator Program

Team EndoVolt Pioneering a breakthrough in women’s health with an innovative, non-invasive solution for early diagnosis and functional classification of Endometriosis.

Meet the outstanding team members, who come from no fewer than five different medical faculties across the country:

Mika Rabinovich – Ben-Gurion University

Yarden Feller – Tel Aviv University

Pninit Liber – Bar-Ilan University

Yaara Goldstein – Bar-Ilan University

Shani Klausner – Technion

Sagiv Klein – Hebrew University

Team EndoVolt

Team SkillScope

Second Place

5,000$

& Innovation Course

Team SkillScope introduced an artificial intelligence platform designed to integrate with hospital computer systems. Without requiring any additional effort from residents, the platform seamlessly fits into their daily workflow and serves as a tool to track their progress throughout their residency.

Meet the outstanding team members:

Shani Erez – Hebrew University, Tzameret Track

Hillel Stern – Hebrew University, Tzameret Track

Sivan Kijner – Hebrew University, Tzameret Track

Maayan Aloni – Hebrew University

Lihi Fridan – Hebrew University, Tzameret Track

Noa Shochat – Hebrew University, Tzameret Track

Third Place

2,500$

& Innovation Course

Team BrainPower introduced a psychiatry-focused application aimed at reducing the rate of recurrent hospitalizations among psychiatric patients.

Meet the team members, all of whom came from the United States especially for the Hackathon:

Devorah Siegel – NYU

Ze’ev Gems – SUNY Downstate

Baruch Meir – Indiana University Medical Center

Eden Monahin – NYITCOM

Liora Rahmi – Drexel University Medical School

Gabriel Reznik – Stern College

Team BrainPower

First Place

10,000$

& Exclusive Accelerator Program

Second Place

5,000$

& Innovation Course

Third Place

2,500$

& Innovation Course

First Place

10,000$

& Exclusive Accelerator Program

Third Place

2,500$

& Innovation Course

Congratulations to Our Winners!

Places 4–6th will receive limited amount of WeCcelerate consultation hours

*  Awards are subject to change at the Host’s discretion.

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HACKATHON Schedule

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Note: All remaining time outside scheduled sessions is dedicated to team work on hackathon projects.
The working space will be open daily from 07:00 to 23:00.

1st Day

June 04, 2025

Nefesh B'Nefesh Campus|
Jerusalem

Registration & Breakfast
  • 09:00 - 10:00
Opening Remarks
  • 10:00 - 10:20
Hackathon Overview & Timeline
  • 10:20 - 10:35
Opening Lecture

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  • 10:35 - 11:05

Prof. Varda Shalev

Managing Partner, Team 8

working session
  • 11:05 - 19:00
Gala Evening & Dinner

Separate registration required!

  • 19:00 - 22:00
  • Rooftop of Nefesh B’Nefesh

Nelson Kety

Host & Speaker

2nd Day

June 05, 2025

Nefesh B'Nefesh Campus|
Jerusalem

Power Start – Optional Morning Sports Session
  • 09:00 - 09:45
working session
  • 09:45 - 18:00
Lecture - Pitch Like a Pro: The Art of Storytelling
  • 18:00 – 19:00
  • Rooftop of Nefesh B’Nefesh

Brachie Sprung

Partner at Amiti VC & Chief Storyteller

Dinner
  • 19:00 - 20:30

3rd Day

June 06, 2025

Nefesh B'Nefesh Campus|
Jerusalem

Semi-Final Project Presentations
  • 08:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break & Announcement of Finalists and Hackathon Reflections
  • 11:00 – 11:30
Final Presentations
  • 11:30 - 12:30
Additional Break
  • 12:30 - 12:50
Announcement of Winners & Closing Remarks
  • 12:50 - 13:10

Our Event Sponsors

Platinum Sponsor
Ichilov
Golden Sponsor
TMC
Silver Sponsor
Ilanot
Teva
Reichman
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technion
Tel-Aviv faculty
Partners
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Event Venue:

Nefesh B'Nefesh Aliyah Campus

Address:

Sderot Yitshak Rabin 10, Jerusalem, 91950, Israel

Get Directions:
  • Jerusalem - Yitzhak Navon Railway Station
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Rabin Blvd
General Questions

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Registration is free.

Registration is open to medical students in their clinical years from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Bar-Ilan University, and Ariel University.

Registration is open for all medical students, graduates and professionals all around the world!

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