Event organisers are putting the focus on healthtech for their first ever online event. It will bring together startups, academics, medics and investors from the field, such as Patrice Harris, president of the American Medical Association; Vas Narasimhan, CEO of Novartis; Leana Wen, visiting professor of health policy and management of George Washington University; Dorry Segev, professor of surgery and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and David Kopp, CEO at Healthline Media.

These industry leaders will shine a light on how tech is addressing and accelerating solutions to the global pandemic. Young agile startups are creating faster and quicker solutions to democratise health care.

Everlywell, a healthtech startup set to speak at Collision from Home, secured authorisation from the FDA to launch self-administered, at-home COVID-19 diagnostic kits.

“We’re incredibly humbled to welcome Dr Tedros Adhanom, one of the most important people in the world right now, to Collision from Home. This global pandemic has created a warlike scenario where the health industry is in an arms race, except the arms are not weapons - they are medical advancements that will save lives, such as tracking systems for contact tracing, and super fast testing.

"We are desperate to return to any kind of ‘normal’ and, now more than ever, we are relying on everyone in the field, from world leaders in medicine to the nurses on the frontline. I believe the tech advancements we’ll make over the next year and into 2021 will be incredible, and change the way healthcare is run forever,” said Paddy Cosgrave, Founder and CEO of Collision from Home.