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Agenda

  • 8:30 - 8:35

    Welcome & Introduction of Scott Phillips

    MaRS

  • 8:35 - 8:40

    Welcome

    Scott Phillips, CEO and Founder of StarFish Medical

  • 8:40 - 9:30

    "Pivotal Moments and Critical Decisions – Insights from 50 Years as a Serial Medtech Entrepreneur"

    Manny Villafaña, Serial Entrepreneur and Inventor

  • 9:30 - 10:00

    "Venturing into Medtech as a 22-year old: what I’ve learned along the way"

    Moufeed Kaddoura, CEO & Founder at Kenota Health

  • 10:00 - 10:30

    Coffee/Tea & Networking

  • 10:30 - 10:50

    "Looking to the Future: Upcoming Alignment between ISO 13485 and QSR"

    Helen Simons, Director of QA/RA at StarFish Medical

  • 10:50 - 11:00

    "Introducing Ella - AI Regulatory Tool"

    Thor Tronrud, PhD, Software Engineer at StarFish Medical

  • 11:00 - 11:20

    "Inside look at Regulatory Compliance – CSA/UL/ETL/CE & Global Market Access"

    Garry Lee, Founder & Partner of Megalab Group Inc.

  • 11:20 - 12:10

    "AI powered Imaging - How Big Data and Machine Learning are Transforming Medical Care in Real Time"

    Ersin Bayram, PhD, Director, AI and Datascience, at Perimeter Medical Imaging AI

  • 12:10 - 13:05

    Lunch

  • 13:05 - 13:10

    Afternoon Opening Remarks

    OBIO

  • 13:10 - 14:00

    Intellectual Property and Company Value – Q&A with Kris Shah and Tuba Yamac about IP and the largest medtech transaction in Canadian history

    Tuba Yamaç and Annie Gauthier, Partners at BCF Business Law, & Kris Shah, President at Baylis Medical Technologies

  • 14:00 - 14:30

    "Research to Reality: from what if? to clinical trials"

    Molly Shoichet, PhD, Co-Founder & CSO of Amacathera, Prof. UofT

  • 14:35 - 15:05

    "Developing the World’s First Ingestible Digital Fluorometric Laboratory - From First Principles to First In Human"

    Nick Allan, Bio Services Manager at StarFish Medical

  • 15:05 - 15:35

    Coffee/Tea & Networking

  • 15:35 - 16:25

    "From Angiotech to Canary Medical – One of Canada's Most Iconic Medtech Founders offers Insights and Perspectives from his Career as a Serial Entrepreneur"

    Bill Hunter, President & CEO at Canary Medical Inc.

  • 16:25 - 16:55

    "Medtech in 2023 - Case Studies to Help Navigate Current Conditions"

    Scott Phillips, CEO and Founder of StarFish Medical

  • 16:55 - 17:00

    Closing Remarks

    Scott Phillips, CEO and Founder of StarFish Medical