Agenda

• 08:00 – 08:30

  Registration, Coffee/Tea & Networking

• 08:30 - 08:45

  Welcome & Opening Remarks

  SCOTT PHILLIPS, CEO StarFish Medical

  YING TAM, Managing Director, Health Venture Services MaRS

• 08:45 - 10:00

  Entrepreneur Perspectives

  STEVE ARLESS: Success factors for selecting technologies and building high value startups

  SAMEER SABIR: From Academia to Acquisition - Closing the loop

• 10:00 - 10:15

  Coffee/Tea & Networking

• 10:15- 11:30

  Entrepreneur Perspectives and US Financing

  RANDY AUCOIN: Commercializing emerging medical technology – the Exact Imaging story

  ERIC TANSKY: Medical Device IPO and Partnership Landscape - US market point of view

• 11:30 - 12:00

  Financing Panel

  PANEL: Financing for maximum value - moderated by ALI ARDAKANI, with DEREK MAZUR, ERIC TANSKY, and PETER VAN DER VELDEN

• 12:00 - 12:45

  Lunch

• 12:45 -13:00

  Afternoon Welcome & Opening Remarks

  GAIL GARLAND, President and CEO, Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization: Achieving Impact Through Adoption of Innovative Health Technologies.

• 13:00 - 13:30

  Expert Panels

  PANEL: Boston's medtech ecosystem -moderated by JOEL WEINSTEIN, with SAMEER SABIR and JAY CAPLAN

• 13:30 - 14:15

  Regulatory

  VESNA JANIC and DR. SABINA BRUEHLMANN: Successfully Navigating the De Novo pathway for FDA Clearance

  DAVID BELL: ISO 14971 Risk Management and IEC 60601-1-11Home Healthcare Environment testing

• 14:15 - 14:30

  Coffee/Tea & Networking

• 14:30 - 15:45

  Entrepreneur Perspectives

  JAY CAPLAN: Invisible barriers to growth- Lessons learned from InfraReDx and Fractyl

  ROBERT KIEVAL: Reflections on a 16-year startup: One entrepreneur’s experience

• 15:45 - 16:00

  Coffee/Tea & Networking

• 16:00 - 16:50

  Maximizing Value

  PARTH KHANNA: 4 Fundamentals: Your Clinical Evidence Stories Unlocked

  SCOTT PHILLIPS: Be Bold Early. The data points behind maximum valuations

• 16:50 - 17:00

  Closing Remarks

  SCOTT PHILLIPS

• 17:00 - 18:00

  Networking Reception

  MATTHEW ZISCHKA: Welcome Remarks

  Networking Reception Sponsored by Smart & Biggar