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Cut through the noise. Elevate what matters. 

The Akros Innovation Festival is a 3-day strategic sprint for innovation teams at health systems, payers, and MedTech companies who are overwhelmed by pilot requests, internal ideas, and early-stage startups. In just three days, you'll be able to confidently prioritize the few ventures that are worth scaling. 

Bring Focus to Your Innovation Pipeline

The Akros Innovation Festival isn’t just a healthcare event—it’s a live, AI-supported, decision-making sprint designed for health system, MedTech, and payer innovation teams. Powered by the Bilt Breakthrough platform, our workshop compresses months of market evaluation, storytelling refinement, and commercialization planning into three transformative days.

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Whether you're juggling 30 ventures or wrestling with unclear priorities, this festival delivers radical clarity on which 5 to move forward—and gives each one the narrative, data, and momentum to do it.

What Makes It Different

Live Collaboration, Real-Time Data
Stakeholders aren’t just observers—they co-create, respond to live data, and align around a shared strategy. Every decision is backed by evidence, not gut instinct.

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AI-Augmented Sprint Format
We use proprietary LLM and API workflows to analyze features, identify emotional drivers, and map social relevance—on the spot, in the room.

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Healthcare-Ready Application
Our team of healthcare strategists and venture experts bring payer, provider, and MedTech context—ensuring every venture emerges market-ready, not just market-aware.

3 Days

What Happens During the 3-Day Sprint

In just three days, we guide your team through a structured, high-intensity sprint that brings strategy, market data, and execution into one shared room. Powered by Bilt’s AI-driven platform and grounded in Akros’ commercialization expertise, each day builds toward radical clarity—on what makes your ventures truly distinct, what resonates emotionally with healthcare buyers, and what tools you need to act.

 

From live feature scoring and customer sentiment analysis to hands-on asset creation and go-to-market planning, this experience distills complexity into confidence—and equips your top ventures to move forward fast.

Break – Surface What Sets You Apart

  • Catalog and rank 50+ venture features for relevance and uniqueness

  • Benchmark against 100+ competitive signals in real time

  • Pressure-test positioning statements using narrative frameworks

  • Align on 2–3 standout differentiators with GTM potential

Refine – Align to What the Market Feels

  • Analyze live sentiment from customers and experts

  • Identify payer and provider emotional triggers

  • Reshape stories based on customer clarity and decision-making needs

  • Map venture narratives to broader trends and social priorities

Build – Create Tools That Launch Action

  • Co-create a customized knowledge base and GTM toolkit for top ventures

  • Develop share-ready pitch assets, landing page wireframes, and GTM plans

  • Launch a custom AI agent that can generate messaging and visuals on demand

  • Score and rank all ventures for pilot and investment readiness

Who Should Join

We’ve designed the Festival for teams responsible for innovation decisions in complex healthcare environments, including:

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  • Venture and innovation arms at health systems

  • Corporate VCs investing in healthcare

  • Product teams at managed care organizations

  • Strategy leaders at MedTech and healthtech firms

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This is not just for decision-makers—it’s for builders ready to act.

What You Leave With

  • A focused list of the 5 most investable, pilot-ready ventures

  • Real-time workshop dashboards, alignment maps, and GTM playbooks

  • Same-day prototypes, story frameworks, and AI-powered toolkits

  • Clear next steps to secure funding, pilots, and commercial traction

Festival Formats

  • On-Site Deep Dive: Private, in-person workshop tailored to your venture pipeline

  • Cohort Festival: Multi-org format for accelerators and venture coalitions

  • Open Festival: Peer-powered format with emerging healthtech and investor teams

Let’s Build What the Market Will Adopt

We don’t do theoretical strategy. We work in-room, in real time, with the tools and data that drive fast execution. If you’re ready to focus your innovation pipeline and act with confidence—this is your next move.

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