Registration, Coffee/Tea & Networking
Welcome
Scott Phillips, CEO and Founder of StarFish Medical
Opening Remarks
Amol Deshpande MD, MBA, MaRS Discovery District Senior Director Health Sciences, Ecosystem and Capital, Venture Services
"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
*This session will be livestreamed free
"A History of the Point of Care Blood Diagnostic Industry"
Imants Lauks - Executive Chairman of Questat Inc.
Coffee/Tea & Networking
"Why SBOM are Critical to Managing Medial Device Software Supply Chain"
Yoav Raiter, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Scryb and Cybeats
"FDA Cybersecurity Draft Guidance"
Helen Simons, Senior QA Manager at StarFish Medical
"BioManufacturing: The future of MedTech"
Expert Panel moderated by Nick Allan, Bio Services Manager at StarFish Medical
Panelists:
Molly S Shoichet, PhD, O.C., O. Ont., FRS' Co-Founder and CSO of AmacaThera, University Professor at University of Toronto
A. Vikram Pandit, Co-Founder and CEO of Phycus Biotechnologies
Jason Dowd, PhD & MBA, Vice President of Science & Technology at CCRM
Jordan Thomson (PhD,), Associate Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & Resource Development at Ontario Genomics
"Financing for Medtech Startups"
Sam Ifergan, Founder & Managing Partner at iGan Partners
Lunch
Afternoon Welcome & Opening Remarks: "Supporting Canadian companies with a pathway to product adoption in the healthcare system"
Bibaswan Ghoshal - Director, Market Acceleration at OBIO®
"From small medical device startup to NASDAQ listing and FDA PMA approval"
Ali Ardakani - Managing Director Novateur Ventures Inc.
"Building a moon rocket, the Cyberdontics Story"
Dr. Christopher J. Ciriello - Founder & CEO, Cyberdontics
"Roadblocks to Medical Device Certification"
David Bell - Partner and Account Executive at MegaLab Group Inc.
Coffee/Tea & Networking
“Building medical device companies from scratch – Lessons and insights from one clinician entrepreneur’s magical journey.”
Lishan Aklog, MD - Chairman & CEO of PAVmed
*This session will be livestreamed free
"Building a Disruptive Med Tech Start-Up"
Bryce Klontz, President and CEO of New View Surgical
"Milestones to Efficient Value Creation"
Scott Phillips - CEO and Founder of StarFish Medical
Closing Remarks
Scott Phillips - CEO and Founder of StarFish Medical
Networking Reception