Running MIT Hacking Medicine Malaysia on T-Minus
We run the programme management for MIT Hacking Medicine Malaysia 2026 in Kuala Lumpur, on our own event software. That software is now a product, T-Minus.
PPCN · November 2026
MIT Hacking Medicine Malaysia 2026 takes place in Kuala Lumpur from 20 to 23 November: a three-day hackathon on diabetes at Menara KPJ, followed by the Diabetes X Innovation Summit on Monday 23 November. First Experts organises the event with MIT Hacking Medicine, and KPJ Healthcare is the Title Sponsor. We run the programme management.
Our co-founder Claus F. Nielsen has been a mentor at MIT Hacking Medicine in Bangkok since 2024. This year he is the Programme Manager for the Malaysian event.
One system for the whole event
An event like this needs sponsors, speakers, tickets in ringgit, student passes checked by a person, university blocks, visa letters, volunteers, mentors on shifts, judges and messages to every applicant. Most organisers spread this across spreadsheets, a ticketing site, WhatsApp groups and email.
For Kuala Lumpur we built one system. The public website in English and Malay, with registration, tickets and sponsor pages, runs on it. So does the event office behind it: the plan by gate, the sponsor pipeline, registrations, tickets reconciled every day, decisions and risks, and a WhatsApp line that sends the team its morning brief. It replaced three spreadsheets within days. We deliver it white-label for First Experts.
From one event to T-Minus
The system is now a product, T-Minus. It is for organisers of summits, company events, hackathons and pitch competitions. Every deadline sits on one board with its owner. Decisions reach the person who decides, with the options, and can be answered from WhatsApp. Tickets are paid the way each country pays, into the organiser's own account. Judges score on their phones, and results and certificates go out from the same system.
We offer it first in Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore. The approach is the one we used for twelve years in European health programmes: one source for every figure, a record of who did what, and a named person who approves before anything goes out.
Come to the summit
The summit on Monday 23 November is open to everyone with a ticket. Zen Chu, Faculty Director of MIT Hacking Medicine, gives the keynote at 09:45, and the hackathon teams present their work. Tickets are at mymithackmed.com/tickets.
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