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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