Agenda

• 09:00 - 09:05

  Welcome

  Scott Phillips, CEO and Founder of StarFish Medical

• 09:05 - 09:20

  Opening Remarks

  Michael Hill - Managing Director of Octane Capital Markets, Octane Capital & Growth at Octane OC

• 09:20 - 09:55

  "Lessons Learned from the Birth of TAVR"

  Stanton J. Rowe - Founder & CEO, NXT Biomedical Incubator

• 09:55 - 10:25

  "From Entertainment Law to Eye Color Change: What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been”

  Gregg Homer, JSD (PhD) - Chairman and Chief Science Officer at Strōma Medical Corporation

• 10:25 - 10:45

  Coffee/Tea & Networking

• 10:45 - 11:15

  "Finding the Sweet Spot: How to Balance the Right Idea, Execution and Culture in a Medtech Startup"

  Bill Walker Ph.D. - Director of Entrepreneurship, Duke Engineering - Inventor, serial entrepreneur, and educator

• 11:15 - 11:45

  "Going after the Holy Grail of Ophthalmology - The LensGen story"

  Ramgopal Rao - Chief Executive Officer, LensGen, Inc.

• 11:45 - 12:15

  "From Whiteboard to Company – Case Studies in Finding Product-Market Fit"

  Paul Lovoi, PhD. - Co-Founder and CTO, MindRhythm Inc.

• 12:15 - 13:05

  Lunch

• 13:05 - 13:20

  Afternoon Welcome & Opening Remarks

  Yiorgos Polizos - Vice President, Sales & Marketing, LifeScience Outsourcing

• 13:20 - 13:50

  "Effective Communications with Regulators"

  Deepika A. Lakhani Ph.D. - Vice President of Regulatory & Quality, PAVmed Inc.

• 13:50 - 14:10

  "Why SBOM are Critical to Managing Medical Device Software Supply Chain"

  Yoav Raiter - Chief Executive Officer and Director of Scryb and Cybeats

• 14:10 - 14:40

  "Developing the World’s First Ingestible Digital Fluorometric Laboratory: From First Principles to First In Human"

  Nick Allan - Bio Services Manager at StarFish Medical

• 14:40 - 15:10

  "Getting Value from Strategic Health System Partners"

  Expert Panel

  Panelists:
  Ryan Kelly, PhD, MBA - General Manager, Innovation Lab

  Pablo Avalos - Associate Director of Translational Medicine, Regenerative Medicine Institute

  Matt Mitcho - Co-Founder & CEO, Gemelli Biotech

• 15:10 - 15:30

  Coffee/Tea & Networking

• 15:30 - 16:00

  "Power Play – Where therapeutic benefit meets market realities"

  Ryan Douglas - Co-Founder, Deepwell, NeuFluent / Founder, Nextern

• 16:00 - 16:35

  "Case Studies in Strategic Exits"

  Earl Slee - (Retired) Vice President, Technology, Strategy and Business Development, Medtronic Brain Therapies

• 16:35 - 17:00

  Closing Remarks

  Scott Phillips - CEO and Founder of StarFish Medical

• 17:00 - 18:00

  Networking Reception