The Open Healthware Conference brings together medical and open source professionals working on creating accessible and open hardware.
Help us shape the Open Source Healthware Community by joining us at the Healthware community meetings. 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. Hardware that meets that standard will be included in a new health-specific certification repository. This new certification will complement OSHWA’s existing open hardware certification. We invite the community to help shape the future of Open Healthware through this process.
Attend the conference, July 9 & 10, 2026
Tickets to the Open Healtwhare Conference are free, here. If you cannot attend in person, the event will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel. Please reach out if you have any questions.
Call for proposals
If you've been working on a project or have experiences you'd like to share, consider submitting a talk to the event. Deadline is April 6th
Submit A Proposal| Day One July 9, 2026 |
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| Breakfast and Registration will be at 8:30 Breakfast at Gray Area 2665 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 |
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| Time | Speaker | Presentation Type | Title/Position |
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| 9:00 AM | Alicia Seidle | Live | Welcome from OSHWA Open Healthware members |
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| 9:40 AM | |||
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| 10:40 AM | Break | ||
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| 11:25 AM | |||
| 11:45 AM | Lunch | ||
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| 1:20 PM | |||
| 1:50 PM | |||
| 2:10 PM | |||
| 2:40 PM | Break | ||
| 3:00 PM | |||
| 3:30 PM | |||
| 3:40 PM | Demo Tables | Live | |
| 5:00 PM |
| Day Two July 10, 2026 |
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| Breakfast and Registration will be at 8:30, Breakfast at Gray Area | |||
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| 10:20 AM | Break | ||
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| 12:00 PM | Lunch | ||
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| 3:00 PM | |||
| 3:30 PM | Break | ||
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| 4:10 PM | |||
| 4:40 PM | Herine Rodríguez, OSHWA Open Healthware Community Cordinator |
Accessibility
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.
