This session is designed for the people who know snakebite best: researchers, clinicians, frontline health workers, community health workers, and people who have personally experienced snakebite or supported someone who has. The goal is to help this audience see where their knowledge is essential to the prize, and to connect them with the non-snakebite innovators who will be entering alongside them.

A lived experience panel is the anchor of this session. It grounds the prize in real human impact and provides context that no dataset can. The session closes with a matchmaking breakout designed to connect snakebite experts with the tech and logistics innovators they need as collaborators.

By the end of this session, participants should be able to: articulate the specific barriers in the patient journey from their own experience or expertise, identify where the prize's scope matches their work, and connect with at least one potential collaborator whose skills complement theirs.

Note that this session will be delivered in Spanish.

This event is delivered by Appropedia Foundation, if you have any questions, please contact snakebite.prize@appropedia.org