Welcome
Scott Phillips, CEO and Founder of StarFish Medical
Opening Remarks
Michael Hill - Managing Director of Octane Capital Markets, Octane Capital & Growth at Octane OC
"Lessons Learned from the Birth of TAVR"
Stanton J. Rowe - Founder & CEO, NXT Biomedical Incubator
"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
Coffee/Tea & Networking
"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
"Going after the Holy Grail of Ophthalmology - The LensGen story"
Ramgopal Rao - Chief Executive Officer, LensGen, Inc.
"From Whiteboard to Company – Case Studies in Finding Product-Market Fit"
Paul Lovoi, PhD. - Co-Founder and CTO, MindRhythm Inc.
Lunch
Afternoon Welcome & Opening Remarks
Yiorgos Polizos - Vice President, Sales & Marketing, LifeScience Outsourcing
"Effective Communications with Regulators"
Deepika A. Lakhani Ph.D. - Vice President of Regulatory & Quality, PAVmed Inc.
"Why SBOM are Critical to Managing Medical Device Software Supply Chain"
Yoav Raiter - Chief Executive Officer and Director of Scryb and Cybeats
"Developing the World’s First Ingestible Digital Fluorometric Laboratory: From First Principles to First In Human"
Nick Allan - Bio Services Manager at StarFish Medical
"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
Coffee/Tea & Networking
"Power Play – Where therapeutic benefit meets market realities"
Ryan Douglas - Co-Founder, Deepwell, NeuFluent / Founder, Nextern
"Case Studies in Strategic Exits"
Earl Slee - (Retired) Vice President, Technology, Strategy and Business Development, Medtronic Brain Therapies
Closing Remarks
Scott Phillips - CEO and Founder of StarFish Medical
Networking Reception