Hello, you!

Yes, you, the wonderful, dynamic person who is keen to become a world class, inclusive, leader in healthtech... or someone who is just keen to be around warm, kind, interesting and eclectic folks in healthtech.

We are thrilled you are interested in learning more about what it means to be an OHT volunteer! If you’re reading this, it means we’ve met, you've stumbled across the OHT website or community, or you’ve been at one of our events and you want to know a bit about us and our world domination plans and maybe even get involved (we’re secretly rooting for that)!

There are two main ways you can get involved behind the scenes, as an OHT Fellow or as a volunteer

OHT is a good balance of fun and chaos. Whilst you’re reading this, please also have a think about your motivations for becoming a Fellow/volunteering (screw it, we'll just say "volunteers" from now on). Volunteers usually have a balance of selfish and selfless reasons e.g. I want to build my personal profile and have a vehicle to test projects AND I want to meet lots of start-ups and give back to the community with my x, y, z knowledge. Also, it’s crucial that you have an interest in at least one, if not all, these factors:

• Elements of community-building
• Diversity, inclusion, openness & kindness
• HealthTech/Medtech/Digital Health/Biotech

The important thing to remember is we are all doing this together, as volunteers, who love helping one another to build a more open and inclusive health technology sector, whilst having lots of fun. For little tips and tricks on how you can behave as a volunteer in such a way that improves how inclusive the OHT community feels, head to ‣

Please read the ‣ to get an understanding of how the Fellowship works and the OHT Fellows' Charter to gain an understanding of what is expected.

If at this stage, becoming a Fellow seems like too much commitment or a bit overwhelming, don't worry about it!

You can:

• Become a volunteer, which means you can join and existing OHT Fellow's project (anything in the "In progress" row on the ). Fellow are always thrilled to hear from people who want to join their projects so please don't hesitate to get in contact! We would hope that after joining an existing Fellows' project, you'd be inspired to become a Fellow yourself!
• If that too sounds a bit too much for now, no sweat. Just sit in the wings of OHT by engaging on our Slack workspace, following us on Twitter or signing up to our monthly newsletter (the previous of which can be found at )