Apps and pizza: Dubai's Heart Ping hits Milan

Dubai startup Heart Ping truly expanded its horizons over the weekend, traveling to Milan to speak at the Expo Innovation Challenge.

The startup, an app that alerts medical professional to patients who are having cardiac problems, won the chance to attend the Milan EXPO after winning the Dubai HackaMENA hackathon in April – which happens to also be when the team came together.

Heart Ping CEO Khodor Ammar, backend developer Majid Hussein, mobile developer Minhajj Mahmoud, and frontend developed Ulugbeck Makhmudov built a mobile app created a button which would identify a patient’s location and ‘ping’ the nearest medical professional using SMS technology.

The Expo Innovation Challenge at the Milan World Expo, which took place over October 9-10 and sponsored by the Dubai Airport Free Zone (DAFZA), was one of the main prizes for the HackaMENA winners, who were invited to showcase the solution they created. It also featured a 72 hour hackathon – which the Heart Ping team decided to join in as well – themed ‘Feeding the planet: energy for life’ where 100 participants coded, designed and pitched their solutions.

The winner was IN FOO SOO, a solution focusing on smart and innovative warehouse designs, which received 15,000 euros ($17,000 USD) and the first runner up was Farm Hero which won 5000 euros ($5700). Additionally, the teams also win six months of mentorship and business incubation from European institutions.

Dubai will host the next World Expo in 2020, and DAFZA is looking to Milan as a guide.

Original article by Rachel Williamson

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