Registration, Coffee/Tea & Networking
Welcome & Opening Remarks
SCOTT PHILLIPS, CEO StarFish Medical
YING TAM, Managing Director, Health Venture Services MaRS
Entrepreneur Perspectives
STEVE ARLESS: Success factors for selecting technologies and building high value startups
SAMEER SABIR: From Academia to Acquisition - Closing the loop
Coffee/Tea & Networking
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
Financing Panel
PANEL: Financing for maximum value - moderated by ALI ARDAKANI, with DEREK MAZUR, ERIC TANSKY, and PETER VAN DER VELDEN
Lunch
Afternoon Welcome & Opening Remarks
GAIL GARLAND, President and CEO, Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization: Achieving Impact Through Adoption of Innovative Health Technologies.
Expert Panels
PANEL: Boston's medtech ecosystem -moderated by JOEL WEINSTEIN, with SAMEER SABIR and JAY CAPLAN
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
Coffee/Tea & Networking
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
Coffee/Tea & Networking
Maximizing Value
PARTH KHANNA: 4 Fundamentals: Your Clinical Evidence Stories Unlocked
SCOTT PHILLIPS: Be Bold Early. The data points behind maximum valuations
Closing Remarks
SCOTT PHILLIPS
Networking Reception
MATTHEW ZISCHKA: Welcome Remarks
Networking Reception Sponsored by Smart & Biggar