James Ferguson
​James is a physics welding programmer, applying his years of knowledge working in the health sector to the areas of bioinformatics and biohacking. With prize-winning hackathon experience, James brings knowledge and experience to the world of hacking health. His track record includes competing in Hackagong, HealthHack and GEHack events in 2015, placing 3rd in HealthHack for coming up with an algorithm to improve the BWA tool for sequence alignment. This lead to further research opportunities in bioinformatics with the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and networking opportunities to work on other interesting projects, such as LAMP Diagnostics, building a rapid point of care STI testing kit.

Location

Dantia Smart Hub
​63 Ridley Street,
Charlestown, NSW 2290 Australia

Our Event Mission

Grow the capacity of Lake Macquarie businesses and community teams to collaborate on joint technology projects, with the guidance of experienced mentors for well targeted + responsive initiatives, leveraging contemporary technology platforms.

Supporter?

Sponsor enquiries are welcomed for the development of future iterations of this event.
Call:
Derrek Lush
Development Executive, Dantia
0488 068 448
or
Brian Hill
Event Producer
​0414 430 450
LakeMacHack is a Venture Catalyst event produced by Laughing Mind for Dantia.