Innovation for a Healthier Future
Connecting clinicians, researchers, entrepreneurs, and innovators to reimagine diabetes care.
Summit
Reimagining Diabetes Care Through Innovation
Diabetes affects millions of people across Asia, creating complex challenges that extend beyond diagnosis and treatment—from prevention and early detection to long-term disease management, patient engagement, access to care, and the prevention of complications.
This summit is designed to bring diverse perspectives together and ask a fundamental question:
How can we reimagine diabetes care to make it more accessible, personalized, effective, and human-centered?
Through keynote presentations, expert panels, interactive sessions, and innovation-focused discussions, participants will explore emerging opportunities in digital health, artificial intelligence, medical technology, data, remote monitoring, precision medicine, behavioral health, and healthcare delivery.
MIT HACKING MEDICINE MALAYSIA 2026
INTERNATIONAL HEALTHCARE INNOVATION SUMMIT & HACKATHON
“Winning the Fight Against Diabetes: Innovating Solutions for Better Health Outcomes”
20–23 November 2026
M World Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Hosted by
Purple Door (M) SdnBhd • First Experts SdnBhd
MIT Hacking Medicine Partner Programme
Programme
DAY 1 — INTERNATIONAL HEALTHCARE INNOVATION SUMMIT
Monday, 23 November 2026 | 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM | M World Hotel, Kuala Lumpur
Day 1 Promise
From Patient Problem → National Challenge → MIT Method → Innovation → Scale → Action
Day 1 is designed not as another conventional diabetes conference, but as an immersive healthcare innovation experience — moving participants from understanding the human and system-level challenges of diabetes, to discovering, challenging and building solutions.
ACT I — THE HUMAN PROBLEM
| Time | Session | Speaker | Focus |
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| 08:30–09:00 | Registration, Innovation Exhibition & VIP Networking | — | — |
| 09:00–09:15 | THE HUMAN STORY — Living with Diabetes: What Healthcare Systems Miss | Patient Representative, Diabetes Malaysia (TBC) |
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| 09:15–09:30 | WELCOME ADDRESS — Building Malaysia's Healthcare Innovation Ecosystem | Mary Sebban, Founder & CEO, Purple Door (M) Sdn Bhd |
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| 09:30–09:45 | PARTNER WELCOME — Why Healthcare Malaysia is Coming to Malaysia | Mohamed Pasha, Founder & Managing Director, First Experts Sdn Bhd |
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| 09:45–10:15 | MINISTERIAL KEYNOTE — Malaysia's Innovation Imperative | YB Datuk Seri Dr. Dzulkefly Ahmad, Minister of Health, Malaysia (TBC) |
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| 10:15–10:30 | OFFICIAL LAUNCH — MIT x Hacking Medicine Malaysia 2026 | — |
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| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break & Strategic Networking | — | — |
ACT II — UNDERSTANDING THE CHALLENGE
| Time | Session | Speaker | Focus |
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| 11:00–11:25 | MALAYSIA’S DIABETES CHALLENGE — Where Are We Losing the Battle? | Representative, Ministry of Health Malaysia / Institute for Public Health (TBC) |
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| 11:25–12:05 | MIT FEATURE KEYNOTE — The MIT Mindset for Health Innovation | Prof. W. Eric Grimson, Chancellor for Academic Advancement, MIT (TBC) |
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| 12:05–12:45 | DUAL TECHNOLOGY SPOTLIGHT — From Detection to Prediction: Can AI Change the Diabetes Care Pathway? | Daniel Ting Shu Wei, SingHealth Duke-NUS (TBC); Dr Elina Chow, UHK (TBC), moderated by G. Saravanan, Informed Solutions |
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| 12:45–14:00 | Networking Lunch & Innovation Exhibition | — | — |
ACT III — FROM IDEAS TO IMPACT
| Time | Session | Speaker | Focus |
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| 14:00–15:00 | INNOVATION SHOWCASE — Diabetes in Action: Solutions at Scale | 5 rapid-fire innovation presenters (7 min each) |
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| 15:00–16:00 | REGIONAL HIGH-LEVEL ROUNDTABLE — What Will It Take for Asia to Win Against Diabetes? | Moderator: Prof. Syed Mohamed Aljunid, Health Economist (TBC); panel TBC |
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| 16:00–16:30 | Afternoon Refreshments & Strategic Networking | — | — |
ACT IV — CHALLENGE THE STATUS QUO
| Time | Session | Speaker | Focus |
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| 16:30–17:00 | THE OXFORD-STYLE DEBATE — “AI and smart devices are overhyped solutions to a systemic prevention problem” | 2 speakers for, 2 speakers against (Clinician, Technologist, Innovator, Patient/Advocate) |
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ACT V — FROM CONFERENCE TO ACTION
| Time | Session | Speaker | Focus |
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| 17:00–17:30 | THE MIT SUMMIT CLOSING & HACKATHON LAUNCH — Ending Talk. Now We Hack. | Zen Chu, MIT Hacking Medicine (TBC) |
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Day 1 ends with: “Tomorrow, you will not just discuss healthcare innovation. You will create it.”
DAY 1 — THE JOURNEY
09:00 Understand the Patient
11:00 Understand the National Challenge
11:25 Explore the MIT Method
12:05 Explore What Technology Can Do
14:00 See What Is Already Possible
15:00 Ask What Asia Must Change
16:30 Challenge Conventional Wisdom
17:00 Move From Discussion to Action
17:30 MIT Hacking Medicine Begins
DAY 1 OUTCOMES
UNDERSTOOD — The human and system-level challenges of diabetes.
IDENTIFIED — High-value unmet needs suitable for innovation.
LEARNED — The MIT approach to interdisciplinary healthcare innovation.
DISCOVERED — Emerging AI, digital health and clinical innovations.
CHALLENGED — Conventional assumptions about technology and prevention.
CONNECTED — With clinicians, patients, entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, policymakers and industry.
ACTIVATED — Into the MIT Hacking Medicine Challenge.
THE MIT HACKING MEDICINE MALAYSIA 2026 PROPOSITION
THIS IS NOT ANOTHER DIABETES CONFERENCE.
It is a healthcare innovation platform built around one of Malaysia’s most urgent healthcare challenges.
We bring the problem.
MIT brings the methodology.
Our innovators build the solutions.
Our ecosystem helps take them to scale.
FROM PATIENT PROBLEM TO HEALTHCARE SOLUTION.
FROM DISCUSSION TO ACTION.
FROM MALAYSIA TO ASEAN.