About

One question drives this hackathon: how do we help people see sooner, and see better?

Eye disease is often silent until it is advanced. Screening capacity is finite, clinics are far from many patients, and the tools that could close that gap are frequently built without clinicians in the room. BeyondVision exists to change that starting condition.

Over the course of the programme, teams of two to six build a working concept in ophthalmology and eye care, from earlier detection and triage to surgical planning, rehabilitation, and access for patients far from a specialist centre. You are not writing a proposal. You are building something that can be demonstrated.

Who should apply

Ophthalmologists, residents, and allied eye-care professionals who see the problem daily. Engineers, data scientists, and developers who can build. Designers who can make a clinical tool usable under pressure. Students and researchers with a hypothesis worth testing. The strongest teams combine several of these.

How teams are supported

Clinical mentors from MNGHA are available throughout, so assumptions can be tested against real practice rather than guessed at. Submissions are assessed by a mixed panel of clinicians and technologists against a published rubric, and reviews are conducted blind so the work is judged on its merits.

Partners

BeyondVision is delivered by the Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs in collaboration with King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC) and King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS).