Steve Bourke is a dynamic patient advocate representing EUPATI CH (The European Patients’ Academy, Switzerland), the experts in patient engagement for the DayOne Hackathon. He is the founder of PersonalPulse GmbH, empowering people who are patients, and a co-founder of RheumaCura Foundation; rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases can be prevented and cured. He is also co-moderator of the patient advisory board for the PharmaLedger Project. His passion is to remove the stigma around disease through clear and effective health communications while empowering people with elegant technological solutions to manage the daily burden of disease. He is ideally positioned with a background in exercise physiology, biomedical research and health communications to “Empower people who are patients.”