National Harbor and the Gaylord Convention Center
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| Potomac room - huge! |
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| Aloft Hotel - where we stay |
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| (high tech) X-mas tree with Potomac river view |
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| Gaylord Convention Center |
The mHealth Summit takes place in National Harbor, Maryland, just under Washington DC. This is a brand new development, sort of gated community with a "one way in / same way out" entrance. It is actually not bad. The Gaylord Convention center is huge (even by American standards) and can easily accommodate the more then 4.000 attendees that are expected here. Doctors, nurses, care professionals, IT people and people like Marijn & myself. The weather is amazing: high 60's - so no need for a coat.
Every day will start at 07:30 and last till at least 18:00. Packed with presentations. Themes cover things like latest research methods, gaming for treatment, the use of mobile in care communication, messaging in developing countries, global mHealth etc etc.
Lot's of people here to from the UN and from Africa and Asia, where sometimes people do not have clean water - but do have a mobile phone. Marijn and I are more interested in smartphone apps and their mHealth implications.
