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.
| 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 |
| 9:10 AM | Yves Nazon | Live | |
| 9:30 AM | Alessia Romani | Virtual | Enabling Accessible Speech Assessment and Therapy though 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 Bling & Low-Vision People |
| 11:00am | Break | ||
| 11:30 AM | |||
| 12:00 PM | Tendeyaki Katsiga | Live | Power Wheelchair Right to Repair and Reverse Engineering, Planning for the Unexpected: Delivering Access in Rural Settings |
| 1:00 PM | 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 | Juan Escudero, Christian Villareal, Aisen Chacin, PhD | Live | From Biofilm to Bioengineered Tubular Constructs: A Rotational Bioreactor for Regenerative Bacterial Cellulose in Surgical Simulation |
| 3:30 PM | Break | ||
| 4:00 PM | George Fakes, Daniel Lam | Live | Restoring Discontinued Clinical Hardware through Open Source: A Case Study in MRI-Guided Prostate Biopsies |
| 4:30 PM | Reitwiec Shandilya | Live | Open Pressure Sensing Device |
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| Day Two July 10, 2026 |
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| Breakfast and Registration will be at 8:30, Breakfast at Gray Area | |||
| Time | Speaker | Presentation Type | Title/Position |
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| 9:00 AM | Joey Castillo | Live | |
| 9:10 AM | Avinash Baskaran | Live | |
| 10:00 AM | Joel Murphy | Live | Desiging Sideways: Medical Adjacent Devices |
| 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 ot Function: Making Open Health Hardware Replucable 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 primero: Open Hardware Air Alarm for Wood-Fire Kitchens in Indigenous and Rural Communitiea |
| 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 | Herine Rodriguez | Live | Thank you |
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.
