Ayogo is very excited to be attending some of the most prominent conferences in the digital health space. Here is a list of some of the upcoming events we will be attending.

Upcoming events:

The Apps for Health and Education Conference 2013: Our CEO Michael Fergusson, will be presenting as part of the Gamification Deep Dive panel at the Apps for Health and Education Conference. Join us in Hamilton on May 16th. For more information, please visit their website.

HXD May Meetup: Michael Fergusson will be a guest speaker at the the HXD May meetup on the effectiveness of mobile and social gaming strategies. Join us on Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 at 7:00pm at the Sin Bin.

Digital Health Summer Summit: Our CTO Paul Prescod, will be discussing key triggers, nuts and bolts for successful consumer adoption as part of a panel at the Digital Health Summer Summit. Join us in San Diego, CA on June 14th. For more information, please visit their website.

Games for Health: Michael Fergusson will be speaking about what we’ve learned about designing games for chronic disease management. Come  say hello in Boston, June 26-28. Fore more information, please visit their website.

And as always, if you have any questions or would like to set up a meeting with us, feel free to contact us at info@ayogo.com

Past Events:

The 5th Annual Technology Conference: Michael Fergusson attended the 5th Annual Technology Conference in Houston, TX. At the conference, new and innovative ways of improving health care were presented.

The 3rd Patient Adherence & Advocacy Summit: Our CEO Michael Fergusson, presented a session on, “Empowering Patients to Improve Adherence through Mobile and Social Gaming” at the 3rd Patient Adherence & Advocacy Summit in Philadelphia on February 26th. For more information on the event, please visit their website.

The HIMSS Annual Conference: Michael Fergusson attended the HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition on March 3rd to 7, 2013. At the event, Michael discussed the future of mobile health and how it can help improve patient engagement, adherence and the delivery of health care. For more information on the event, please visit their website.

CAPHC 2012 Conference: Our Creative Director, Jesse Spink presented a session on, “Navigating Health 2.0: Apps or Oranges without Going Bananas,” Tuesday, October, 30th in Vancouver. For more details about the event, please visit their website.

Health 2.0 Europe: Michael demoed our game, I heart Jellyfish, on Wednesday November 7th in Berlin at the Health 2.0 Conference. For more information about the event, please visit their website.

Diabetes Innovation Summit: Our CTO, Paul Prescod was a panellist in the session, “Gaming Diabetes: Breaking Down Silos with Gaming.”

30th Annual BC Export Awards: We were selected as finalists at the Digital Media & Entertainment category.

E&Y EOY: October started with Michael’s win at the E&Y Gala, which we wrote about here.

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Upcoming events:

The 3rd Patient Adherence & Advocacy Summit:Our CEO Michael Fergusson will be presenting “Empowering Patients to Improve Adherence through Mobile and Social Gaming” at the 3rd Patient Adherence & Advocacy Summit. Join us in Philadelphia on February 26th. For more information, please visit their website.

The HIMSS Annual Conference :Michael Fergusson will be attending the HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition from March 3rd to 7, 2013. Join us in New Orleans to discuss mobile health future and how it can help improve patient engagement, adherence and the delivery of health care. For more information, please visit their website.

The 5th Annual Technology Conference: April 2-3, 2013 will find Michael in Houston, TX for the 5th Annual Technology Conference. Join us to learn more about innovative ways of improving health care. For more information, please visit their website.

And as always, if you have any questions or would like to set up a meeting with us, feel free to contact us at nicole@ayogo.com

Past events:

CAPHC 2012 Conference: Our Creative Director, Jesse Spink will be presenting at the session, “Navigating Health 2.0: Apps or Oranges without Going Bananas,” at 2:30 PM on Tuesday October 30th in Vancouver. For more details, please visit their website.

Health 2.0 Europe: Michael will be demoing I heart Jellyfish on Wednesday November 7th in Berlin. For more information, please visit their website.

30th Annual BC Export Awards: We’re finalists in the Digital Media & Entertainment category. Wish us luck!

Diabetes Innovation Summit: Our CTO, Paul Prescod was a panellist in the session, “Gaming Diabetes: Breaking Down Silos with Gaming.”

E&Y EOY: October started with Michael’s win at the E&Y Gala, which I wrote about here.

USC 6th Annual Body Computing: Our Associate Producer, Michelle Parent demoed the clinician’s edition of I Heart Jellyfish to a packed conference.

Health 2.0 Matchpoint: Our CEO Michael was invited to meet with some major players in the insurance industry, such as Aetna, Kaiser Permanente, Premera Blue Cross, United Healthcare, and Ziegler.

Interface 2012: Digital Health Innovation Summit: Our Social Media Strategist, Shehani Kay (that’s me!) presented “Level Up: How Game Thinking Benefits Healthcare,” at this Vancouver based conference.

2012 Connected Health Symposium: Michael demoed Monster Manor in the Innovators: Demos of Products That Could Make a Difference Session.

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For the moment, our VP Customers and Partners, Philip Barratt, is manning the office solo but as we grow, we’ll be recruiting new talent for our UK office.

Ayogo Health UK has also recently joined the European Connected Health Alliance (ECHAlliance) as a “SME Start-up Member”. ECHAlliance is an initiative designed to support and promote the wider adoption of healthcare and wellbeing products, services, applications and innovation. ECHAlliance delivers leadership for the development of Connected and MHealth markets and practice across Europe. We’re thrilled to be working with ECHAlliance at a strategic level to promote connected health initiatives.

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The “Diabesties” concept was the brainchild of CDN’s program director, Jo Treitman, after she started texting with several friends who were also struggling to manage their diabetes while on their college campus.

The College Diabetes Network (CDN) is a non-profit organization that helps students create groups on college and university campuses, and provides information relevant to young adult life with Type I diabetes.

Diabesties is a free diabetes tracking tool and the latest in the arena of social mobile health apps.

Download Diabesties!

More Diabesties in the news:

Global News: ‘Diabesties’ app targets college kids to keep their diabetes in check

Diabetes Mine: Find Your ‘Diabesties’ Through New App!

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The game is integrated with the BlueLoop diabetes tracking app, which allows children to effortlessly enter all of their diabetes information and allows parents to monitor and stay informed anytime, anywhere. Every time children enter their BG information into the BlueLoop app they are rewarded with a piñata to crack open in Monster Manor. Piñatas hold all sorts of fun inside, from “Beanz” that will help children collect more monsters, to “Gold” that will buy their monster new pets. In addition to rewarding kids, parents are provided with insights, strategies and a tool to support their child’s management efforts. Parents can also send their child an extra special piñata that has a better chance of winning bigger prizes! This is designed to give parents a daily opportunity to show support to their child and give them the encouragement they need to properly manage their diabetes.

This game is currently in closed beta.

If you’d like to join our beta test, click here. If you’d like a demo, contact us at info@ayogo.com.

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With the aim of spreading awareness about the importance of physical activity to prevent diseases like Type 2 Diabetes, the Great Race hosts multiple city scavenger hunts. Contestants compete in teams to find clues that lead to locations around their city. Once they figure out the clues and find the check-in codes, they will be given bonus challenges for more points. Along the five-mile course, the Great Racers will discover an abundance of public spaces their city to have fun, kick the ball around, or relax and enjoy the fresh air.

The app allows players to see all the important data they need, such as when and where the race starts, the clues, the challenges, the timer and their points. But because the race appeals to people of all walks of life, older phones also needed to be considered. For this reason, Ayogo implemented a SMS (text-message) system, which allows people with simple mobile phones to play the game by texting in their answers and receiving all the information in condensed texts. All they need to do is learn the simple text commands, such as ‘checkin’ or ‘clue’, to get to playing.

If you’d like to participate, please visit The Great Race.

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The game uses the phone’s accelerometer to allow the player to tilt the phone and dodge obstacles to avoid spilling their glass. As enemies approach, players must push them away – with points being awarded for how long you keep the milk upright and how many enemies you defeat.

Milk vs Cats has two gameplay options – casual and active. The casual version allows you to play stationary, while seated or standing, and creates the illusion of walking within the game. The active version enables you to play while on the go in your schoolyard, backyard or at home – using the device’s camera to integrate the player’s real life surroundings. The device’s GPS system is also used, to determine the distance travelled and accordingly, the points collected.

Milk vs Cats was created in partnership with Ayogo and Dare (an advertising agency) for The Prairie Milk Marketing Partnership. The game is compatible with the iPhone and the iPod touch.

It is available for download now.

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“Diabesties” harnesses the power of social accountability and engagement. The iphone app lets friends get real-time peer support, troubleshooting and motivation from each other. The application also logs all the blood glucose data points entered for later access.

Just released in the App Store, Diabesties is a diabetes tracking tool and the latest in the arena of social mobile health apps.

“With more and more technology and information available, I firmly believe that community support will play a huge in the landscape of type 1 diabetes care,” said Jake A. Kushner M.D. Chief of Pediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology at Baylor College of Medicine. “Diabesties is an important part of that vision, as it allows people with diabetes to help each other connect and encourage each other.”

The “Diabesties” concept was the brainchild of CDN’s program director, Jo Treitman, after she started texting with several friends who were also struggling to manage their diabetes while on their college campus.

The College Diabetes Network (CDN) is a non-profit organization that helps students create groups on college and university campuses, and provides information relevant to young adult life with Type I diabetes.

“Through Ayogo, the “Diabesties” concept was able to be brought to life, and allowed to grow into its full potential as a tool for users with diabetes,” said Treitman. “Ayogo’s team not only was actively involved in the technology design, but was also willing to work closely with us to build a user interface which reflected the true user experience of a person with diabetes.”

The app is free to users. How is that possible? Michael Fergusson explains: “Ayogo has a social gamification platform, which we use as the foundation for a number of health-related projects, including several in the diabetes space. All of these applications are intended to be, and to remain, free to the end users. How we find the money to develop and operate these apps is through sponsorships, grants, and research funds that we procure to support our platform. This lets us effectively give our services to organizations like CDN, whom we are very proud to be able to support.”

“Let’s face it, there’s something special about talking to another person with diabetes, who also deals with it every day, and just ‘gets’ it,” said CDN in a statement about the app.

Download Diabesties!

More Diabesties in the news:

Global News: ‘Diabesties’ app targets college kids to keep their diabetes in check

Diabetes Mine: Find Your ‘Diabesties’ Through New App!

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Past events:

Diabetes Innovation Summit: Our CTO, Paul Prescod was a panellist in the session, “Gaming Diabetes: Breaking Down Silos with Gaming.”

E&Y EOY: October started with Michael’s win at the E&Y Gala, which I wrote about here.

USC 6th Annual Body Computing: Our Associate Producer, Michelle Parent demoed the clinician’s edition of I Heart Jellyfish to a packed conference.

Health 2.0 Matchpoint: Our CEO Michael was invited to meet with some major players in the insurance industry, such as Aetna, Kaiser Permanente, Premera Blue Cross, United Healthcare, and Ziegler.

Interface 2012: Digital Health Innovation Summit: Our Social Media Strategist, Shehani Kay (that’s me!) presented “Level Up: How Game Thinking Benefits Healthcare,” at this Vancouver based conference.

2012 Connected Health Symposium: Michael demoed Monster Manor in the Innovators: Demos of Products That Could Make a Difference Session.

Upcoming events:

CAPHC 2012 Conference: Our Creative Director, Jesse Spink will be presenting at the session, “Navigating Health 2.0: Apps or Oranges without Going Bananas,” at 2:30 PM on Tuesday October 30th in Vancouver. For more details, please visit their website.

Health 2.0 Europe: Michael will be demoing I heart Jellyfish on Wednesday November 7th in Berlin. For more information, please visit their website.

30th Annual BC Export Awards: We’re finalists in the Digital Media & Entertainment category. Wish us luck!

And as always, if you have any questions or would like to set up a meeting with us, please drop me a line at info@ayogo.com

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“It’s the team at Ayogo, especially co-founder and CTO Paul Prescod that makes this possible,” tweeted Michael following his win.

We’re thrilled that our team’s hard work building health games and apps, which has helped improve people’s lives in measurable ways, is garnering the attention of global leaders like Ernst & Young.

“One glimpse of Michael Fergusson and it’s obvious the CEO didn’t take the well-worn path to becoming top dog at his own business,” writes Jessica Barrett in BC Business. “Fergusson’s dreadlocked mane and pearl-buttoned western shirt suggest an individual who dances to his own beat.” No truer words have been written!

Below is the video vignette Ernst & Young showed at the awards gala. Congrats Michael! Go team!

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