Irene Pylypenko

Irene lives at the intersection of health, technology and marketing. She is passionate about leveraging technology to improve the healthcare system and our personal health. Currently, Irene is the Director of Marketing at PetalMD, the leading Canadian physician scheduling software. Irene is also the Director of Hacking Health Montreal and has driven global expansion of the non-for-profit. Her startup journey started a decade ago in various industries such as the healthcare, internet, and e-commerce. Her educational background is in Bioinformatics from McGill University.

Hacking Health is an international non-for-profit organization dedicated to fostering collaborative innovation that engages key groups of stakeholders to create solutions for healthcare challenges. It is done by bringing together doctors, nurses, developers, designers and entrepreneurs through events, workshops, hackathons, challenges, etc. Hacking Health started in Montreal in 2012, and is now in over 24 cities with over 5000 participants worldwide.