Recognizing
& Celebrating the Innovation Powering a Healthier World
Exciting innovations are challenging the status quo across health and medicine in areas like life science & therapeutics, medical tech and devices, digital and mobile health, healthcare systems, care delivery, reimbursement models and IT, public health, advancing science, and more.
TEDMED celebrates the ideas behind this progress in a program called The Hive, which is dedicated to celebrating the power of imagination and human potential that emerges from our collective “hive” mind.
THE HIVE 2016
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The Hive 2016: Audacious
At TEDMED 2016, all 24 Hive entrepreneurs took the stage for the first time in a new session called "Audacious." They shared how their visionary thinking and innovations are affecting change across health and medicine. These talks - all delivered in a unique, 2 minute format - feature disruptive ideas such as therapeutics for aging and the microbiome, new tools for diagnosing cancers, accessible models of global philanthropy, creative methods for delivering care to those in need, new public health initiatives, solutions for managing chronic disease, and much more.
These 24 talks were shared across 4 creatively themed mini-segments – Tremendously Tiny, Public Spirit, Curveball, and Zoom Out.
The ideas shared by the innovators in this segment are about the power of leverage. They exhibit the incredible potential of manipulating data and living matter at the smallest scale to achieve some surprisingly large effects. These entrepreneurs have learned “the art of thinking big by thinking small.”
This segment explores the world of the altered perspective. These six ideas address six different problems, and every one of them comes at the issue from an unusual angle. In baseball, a curve ball is what happens when the batter goes to swing at the incoming pitch; suddenly the ball isn’t where he thought it would be. It’s cleverly arced into a new place that nobody expected.
This segment represents a collection of creative curve balls that get over the home plate of health and medicine in surprising ways
In this segment, the common theme is the common good, especially created by importing tools, technologies and paradigms from other sectors into health care. As we learn from these innovators, if visionaries rule the world then there is no hard and fast dividing line between the public good in health and medicine and every other sphere of life.
This segment is about bringing the lines into sharper focus by stepping back and seeing the big picture. Spotting trends and patterns that you couldn’t see before. These entrepreneurs specialize in zooming out to previously hidden trends and patterns.
The Hive Nomination
& Selection Process
A Hive organization may be nominated by one of its members, by a colleague, by any member of the TEDMED community, by TEDMED’s Editorial Advisory Board and/or by members of the TEDMED staff. If you would like to nominate an organization for the Hive, please use our online nomination form below.
TEDMED also consults incubators, accelerators, academic institutions, innovation centers and venture capitalists for nominations that should be considered for the Hive. If you are from, or know of, an accelerator, incubator or innovation center that should be included in our nomination process, you can contact us here.
All Hive nominees are referred to TEDMED and its Editorial Advisory Board. TEDMED also relies on outside feedback from our Research Scholars, a diverse group of carefully selected experts who have professional training, objective knowledge, and institutional credibility.
These groups work collaboratively to evaluate each nominated Hive organization and its leadership in order to ensure scientific rigor and credibility, topical relevance, and cutting-edge innovations that reflect the power of human potential and challenge the status quo across health and medicine.
Submit a Nomination
Please fill out as much information as you're able to, in the form below. The more information you provide, the better our team will be able to evaluate and consider your nomination.
We consider ALL nominations that come through, but because of submission volume, we are unable to respond to each. Rest assured, your nomination will be fairly evaluated.