HIV Innovation Sprint Discovery Day: Atlanta, GA

Whether you are someone living with HIV, a caregiver, a health educator, or a technologist, and/or you are someone who wants to make a real difference in your community, the HIV Innovation Sprint is for you.

We are thrilled to welcome a brand-new cohort in Atlanta to maintain the momentum that we have gained running this experience in three different cities across the Southeast- Birmingham, Miami, and New Orleans.

Progress has been made in HIV Prevention, but we’re not done. Too many people still lack access to the tools, care, and information they need to stay healthy. At the same time, many great ideas and resources aren’t making it to the communities that need them most. Discovery Day marks the beginning of our HIV Innovation Sprint in Atlanta and is about closing that gap.

Simply put, it is a one-day experience built around listening, learning, and collaboration. DHIT will bring together people from all walks of life to dig into what’s really happening locally, in Atlanta, when it comes to HIV prevention. It is also where new, purpose-built ideas will lead to real change, from the bottom up rather than the typical top-down processes you may be used to.

This will NOT be a conference held in a windowless hotel ballroom, full of boring presentations and lectures. It is a working session facilitated by us and led by you, where you will be asked to leverage the full spectrum of your brain power and creativity.

You’ll join a room (with windows 😉) full of people who care deeply about changing the healthcare continuum. Together, we’ll explore stories, insights, and opportunities, and start forming ideas for how we can do things differently, now. Then explore how technology can unlock the power of those collective ideas. It’s also the starting point for the HIV Innovation Sprint, where teams will go on to design and develop community-driven solutions in the weeks ahead.

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• Local voices and lived experiences to set the context
• Interactive breakout sessions to explore challenges and opportunities in HIV prevention
• A hands-on introduction to design thinking and human-centered innovation
• A technology showcase to highlight local innovation
• Space to connect, build trust, and explore what matters most for your community
• A continental breakfast, catered lunch, and beverages + snacks throughout the day

• An open mind
• A willingness to listen and share
• Curiosity about how things could be better
• A passion for community
• A notebook or laptop (ideas will fly)

We're thrilled to host our event in the beatuiful, modern space at Portal Innovations, who provides early‑stage biotech and medtech startups in Atlanta with seed funding, world‑class wet and dry lab space, management expertise, and network access, enabling local life‑science innovators to build and scale where they live.

Discovery Day is FREE to attend and all are welcome! Whether you’re in the community or serving it, your voice matters here.

*If you need a written statement for taking time off of work to participate in this event, we are happy to provide one.

The Digital Health Institute for Transformation (DHIT), in collaboration with Gilead Sciences, are leading this HIV Innovation Sprint, bringing people who could benefit from HIV prevention together with innovators and those serving the community to design prevention solutions.

QUESTIONS? If you have any questions please reach out to us at any time to info [at] dhitglobal.org

Host or Publisher DHIT - Digital Health Institute for Transformation