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Fireside Chat: How to Do Proof of Concepts Right With HealthTech Startups?

The final session of the program was a fireside chat on “How to Do PoC’s right with HealthTech Startups?” between Berkin Gökbudak and Serdar Gemici, moderated by Kaan Akın. On what he would recommend to startups doing PoC’s, Serdar Gemici stated “Sometimes, you may need to change some parts of your product or flow due to regulations or the internal processes of corporations. It’s important to be flexible and proactive. For all PoC’s, I recommend that startups understand the decision-making and purchasing processes of the corporation because it’s easy to get lost.” To answer what challenges Bayer faced when working with startups, Berkin Gökbudak added “A lot of challenges. The timing was one of them due to Covid, but also aligning your pace with a startup was and is a challenge for big companies. There were, of course, environmental challenges due to the fact that the telemedicine market in Turkey is not mature. However, Bayer is willing and open to external innovation which makes us a good partner.”

Moderator: Kaan Akın, Founder & CEO at Hackquarters

Guest Speakers:
Berkin Gökbudak, Business Unit Head Women’s Health - Turkey & Iran at Bayer
Recai Serdar Gemici, Co-Founder & CEO at Albert Health

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