Vote for Kelly and Adam to Speak at SXSW and Elevate the Conversation on Diabetes!

Our Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Kelly Close, and Senior Editor, Adam Brown, have both been asked to speak at the 2016 South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference – an incredible opportunity to raise public awareness for diabetes and the critical needs of people within the diabetes community.

But, we need YOUR support in order to make these panels a reality. Help us convince SXSW that diabetes needs to be a part of next year’s Conference by voting for Kelly’s and Adam’s panels to be included in the 2016 agenda.

VOTE FOR KELLY

VOTE FOR ADAM

If selected to participate, Kelly would be joining Manny Hernandez, Scott Johnson, and Divakar Ramakrishnan for a panel discussion titled, “Smashing ‘One Size Fits All’ Diabetes Care.” This panel will focus on how the future of diabetes technology can help ease chronic disease burden. The questions that will be discussed include:

What are the new tools, technologies and resources driving change in the management of diabetes and the behavior of people with diabetes?
How can emerging technologies and connectivity advance drug delivery and device innovation to improve patient health?
What do improvements in the technology of diabetes care mean for other chronic conditions?

Adam would be joining a panel with Marc Monseau, Amanda Sheldon, and Donna Cryer to discuss how to go about “Creating the Health Advocates of Tomorrow.” Key questions in that panel will include:

How does traditional patient advocacy need to change to be effective in the new value-based healthcare environment?
How can technology and lean thinking and design principles be applied to patient advocacy to better serve the community and enhance patient experience?
How will the understanding of quality metrics have to change, and not just quality of care metrics but quality of life metrics and clinical outcomes?

Here are the steps to voting (the whole process takes about 3-4 minutes total):

Go to https://auth.sxsw.com/users/sign_up
Complete the fields to create an account — Click Create my Account button.
You will receive an email to confirm your account. On the email, click on the "Confirm my account” link.
You will be taken to the Login page: enter your newly created credentials.
At this point, you can either search for the panel using the “Search/Vote” option or easier, click on this link for Adam, and this link for Kelly.
Click on the thumbs up on the left side of the page and you’re done!