The Open Healthware Conference brings together medical and open source professionals working on creating accessible and open hardware.
The Open Healthware Conference brings together medical and open source professionals working on creating accessible and open hardware. The event is a completely free gathering of people interested in how to make hardware for health care open source. RSVP here. It will be taking place at Gray Area in San Francisco July 9/10, 2026. The Open Healthware Conference is part of the Open Healthware OSE (Open Source Ecosystem) initiative seeks to unify the open source hardware and healthcare communities by making designs for healthcare integration publicly available. The initiative will create a community agreed-upon standard for health-related open hardware projects. We invite the community to help shape the future of Open Healthware through this process.
Attend the conference, July 9 & 10, 2026
Open Healthware will take place in San Franciso, California from July 8 to July 11, 2026. There is an incredible lineup of speakers, talks, and workshops. Tickets to the Open Healthware Conference are free and you can get them here. If you cannot attend in person, the event will be live streamed on our YouTube channel. Please reach out if you have any questions.
The Open Healthware conference will be hosted by Gray Area on July 9 and 10:
Gray Area2665 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
The Open Healthware Closing Reception will be hosted by Openwater on July 10 at 7:00pm:
Openwater733 Front Street, Suite C1
San Francisco, CA, 94111
There are also Open Healthware workshops on July 8 and July 11, 2026 which will be hosted by Studio 45:
Studio 4545 29th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
| Time | Speaker | Presentation Type | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | Breakfast and registration at Gray Area 2665 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 |
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| 9:00 AM | Alicia Seidle | Live | Welcome from OSHWA Open Healthware members |
| 9:10 AM | Yves Nazon | Live | The Open Healthware Certification: How We Got Here & Where We’re Going |
| 9:30 AM | Alessia Romani | Virtual | Enabling Accessible Speech Assessment and Therapy Through Open Hardware: Development of an Open-Source Nasometer System |
| 10:00 AM | Alex Hornstein | Live | The Epilepsy Treatment Gap, and a Close Look at Where Open-Source Hardware can Help and Where it Can't |
| 10:30 AM | Bo Morgan | Live | Assistive Medical Technology for Blind & Low-Vision People |
| 11:00 AM | Break | ||
| 11:30 AM | Douglas Brantner | Live | Open Source MRI |
| 12:00 PM | Liz Henry, Olga Prilepova | Live | Repair-Ability: Open Healthware in Practice Part 1: Reverse Engineering R-net for Power Wheelchair Right to Repair Part 2: Service Delivery and Access in Rural Settings |
12:30 PM | Table Time and Lunch |
| 2:00 PM | Erin Mckiernan | Live | Using Open Hardware to Improve Biomedical Education |
| 2:30 PM | Alex Barton, Jack Keenan | Live | Quality Management Systems for Small Scale Community Manufacturing |
| 3:00 PM | Break | ||
| 3:30 PM | Juan Escudero, Christian Villareal, Aisen Chacin, PhD | Live | From Biofilm to Bioengineered Tubular Constructs: A Rotational Bioreactor for Regenerative Bacterial Cellulose in Surgical Simulation |
| 4:00 PM | Joel Murphy | Virtual | Designing Sideways: Medical Adjacent Devices |
| 4:30 PM | Reitwiec Shandilya | Live | Open Pressure Sensing Device(OpenPSD): Reclaiming Abandoned Medical Devices Through Open-Source Hardware |
| Time | Speaker | Presentation Type | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | Breakfast and registration at Gray Area 2665 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 |
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| 9:00 AM | OSHWA Team | Live | Welcome Back! |
| 9:10 AM | Alexandra Bremers | Live | Can Anyone Build This? A Global Case Study of Documentation for Open Healthware Fabrication |
| 9:30 AM | George Fakes, Daniel Lam | Live | Restoring Discontinued Clinical Hardware Through Open Source: A Case Study in MRI-Guided Prostate Biopsies |
| 10:00 AM | Andrew Lamb | Live | Open Healthware - Around the World | 10:30 AM | Jen Wilson | Virtual | Quality Assurance in Open Source Manufacturing |
| 11:00 AM | Break | ||
| 11:30 AM | Enrico Bassi | Live | Open Hardware and Hospital Makerspaces in Healthcare Emergencies |
| 12:00 PM | Stephen Applebaum | Live | Customer-Driven Rebirth of Class II Medical Device: Electrical Median Nerve Stimulator |
| 12:30 PM | Silvestr Tkac | Live | From Files to Function: Making Open Health Hardware Replicable under Constraints with Focus on 3D Printing |
| 1:00 PM | Lunch | ||
| 2:00 PM | @CriptasticHacker | Live | Bee Venom Therapy, Opensource Bee Cage Climate Control, Indigenous Health Practices |
| 2:30 PM | Yadira Sanchez | Live | El humo llega primero: Open Hardware Air Alarm for Wood-Fire Kitchens in Indigenous and Rural Communities |
| 3:00 PM | Adriana Cabrera | Live | Open Innovation, Soft & Bio-inspired Technologies, Wearables |
| 3:30 PM | Break | ||
| 4:00 PM | Anthony Di Franco | Live | Open Source Solutions for Medical Supply Chain Challenges |
| 4:30 PM | Dan Blizinski | Live | Building Community Around Open Medical Devices: Lessons from the Trenches |
| 5:00 PM | Avinash Baskaran | Live | On the Pathway to the Open Source Healthware Ecosystem | 7:00 PM | Openwater Closing Reception | Live | Openwater, 733 Front Street, Suite C1, San Francisco, CA, 94111 |
Workshops are happening Wednesday July 8 and Saturday July 11 at Studio 45 (45 29th St, San Francisco, CA 94110).
July 8, 2026 - Open Healthware Certification Workshop
July 11, 2026 - Medical Workers and Makers: A Hardware Building Workshop
Gray Area is fully ADA compliant. The building has an accessible entrance, and there are no stairs required to access any of the main floor conference spaces, making the event easily navigable for wheelchair users and others with mobility needs. There is a single-stall ADA-compliant restroom located on the main floor. If you or any of the speakers require a ramp to access the stage, please let us know in advance.
**For Speakers** While the venue has a ramp available, it is not attached to the stage unless requested.
