IT for a Heart - From Idea to a Life Saving Application

Discover how a team at TrailBlazers transformed AED maintenance from a disorganized system of Excel sheets and messages into a life-saving web application in this 11-minute talk. Follow the journey as Régina ten Bruggencate and Yasser Arenas explain how they collaborated with the Amersfoort Resuscitation Network during a hackathon to develop an innovative solution using cutting-edge technologies including the latest Java and Angular versions, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, and Cypress for front-end testing in the Google cloud. Learn how this application, which has been actively used for a year and continues to evolve with new features, simplifies maintenance and issue reporting to increase AED availability—ultimately combining technological innovation with social impact to save lives.