Agenda

• 08:00 – 08:40

  Registration, Coffee/Tea & Networking

• 08:40 - 08:45

  Welcome

  Scott Phillips, CEO and Founder of StarFish Medical

• 08:45 - 09:00

  Opening Remarks

  Amol Deshpande MD, MBA, MaRS Discovery District Senior Director Health Sciences, Ecosystem and Capital, Venture Services

• 09:00 - 9:35

  "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

• 9:35 - 10:10

  "A History of the Point of Care Blood Diagnostic Industry"

  Imants Lauks - Executive Chairman of Questat Inc.

• 10:10 - 10:30

  Coffee/Tea & Networking

• 10:30 - 10:50

  "Why SBOM are Critical to Managing Medial Device Software Supply Chain"

  Yoav Raiter, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Scryb and Cybeats

• 10:50 -11:10

  "FDA Cybersecurity Draft Guidance"

  Helen Simons, Senior QA Manager at StarFish Medical

• 11:10 - 11:50

  "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

• 11:50 - 12:30

  "Financing for Medtech Startups"

  Sam Ifergan, Founder & Managing Partner at iGan Partners

• 12:30 - 13:15

  Lunch

• 13:15 - 13:30

  Afternoon Welcome & Opening Remarks: "Supporting Canadian companies with a pathway to product adoption in the healthcare system"

  Bibaswan Ghoshal - Director, Market Acceleration at OBIO®

• 13:30 - 14:10

  "From small medical device startup to NASDAQ listing and FDA PMA approval"

  Ali Ardakani - Managing Director Novateur Ventures Inc.

• 14:10 -14:45

  "Building a moon rocket, the Cyberdontics Story"

  Dr. Christopher J. Ciriello - Founder & CEO, Cyberdontics

• 14:45 - 15:00

  "Roadblocks to Medical Device Certification"

  David Bell - Partner and Account Executive at MegaLab Group Inc.

• 15:00 - 15:20

  Coffee/Tea & Networking

• 15:20 - 15:55

  “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

• 15:55 - 16:30

  "Building a Disruptive Med Tech Start-Up"

  Bryce Klontz, President and CEO of New View Surgical

• 16:30 - 17:05

  "Milestones to Efficient Value Creation"

  Scott Phillips - CEO and Founder of StarFish Medical

• 17:05 -17:10

  Closing Remarks

  Scott Phillips - CEO and Founder of StarFish Medical

• 17:10 - 18:00

  Networking Reception