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meet ourco-chairs
Dr. Dylan Attard
Co-Founder & CEO, MedTech World
Paul Grand
CEO, MedTech Innovator
Thu, 26th - 27th June, Fri 2025
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Pre-Registration, Networking Reception and Wine Tasting
Networking Reception
Location - La Honda Winery
6:00 - 9:00 PM Pacific Time
Registration and morning coffee
Networking
8:30 - 9:00
Welcoming Introductions
9:00 – 9:10
Dr. Dylan Attard
Co-Founder and CEO at MedTech World
Paul Grand
CEO at MedTech Innovator
Keynote
Keynote
9:10 - 9:20
Daniel Kraft
Founder at NextMed Health / Digital.Health
What Investors Want in 2025: New Rules of MedTech Fundraising
Panel
9:20 – 10:00
Daniel Kraft
Founder at NextMed Health / Digital.Health
Chris Japp
Partner at Tramway Ventures
Akhilesh Pathipati
Partner at MVM Partners
Dr. Ella Li
Founding Partner at H7 BioCapital
Pitch Perfect: How to Tell a Story Investors Believe
Panel
10:00 - 10:45
Ken Nelson
Partner at MedTech Advantage Fund
Paul Grand
CEO at MedTech Innovator
Pedro David Espinoza
Board Director at Melzi Surgical
Laura Melahn
Founder & Managing Partner at Meadow Valley Partners
Anne DeGheest
Managing Director at HealthTech Capital
Break
Break
10:50– 11:00
Regulatory to Revenue: Building with the End in Mind
Panel
11:00 – 11:45
Mridul Mittal
Co-founder & CMO at Mittal Consulting
Kristen Mittal
Co-founder & CEO at Mittal Consulting
Christian Espinosa
CEO at Blue Goat Cyber
Gary Gershony
Founding General Partner at BayMed Venture Partners
Mariel Fabro
Managing Partner at Beacon Launch Partners
Fundraising Across Borders: Going Global to Raise Capital
Fireside Chat
11:45- 12:15
Dr. Dylan Attard
Co-Founder and CEO at MedTech World
David Constantine
Co-Founder & CEO at Juniper Biomedical
Dr. Ruchi Dana
Partner at MFV Partners
Prakash Thakur, MS, MBA
Head of Healthcare & Life Sciences at UK Dept for Business & Trade
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:15 – 13:15
The ‘No’ Behind the Smile: Why Promising Pitches Still Don’t Get Funded
Panel
13:15 – 14:00
Chris Neil
Founding Partner at MedTech Advantage Fund
Nate Harrington
Managing Partner, Philips Ventures, Philips Healthcare
Rhiya Pau
Principal at Million Lives Fund
Chris Yoo
General Partner at Xcellerant Ventures
Product-Market Fit in MedTech: The Long Road to Love
Panel
14:00 - 14:40
Omid Akhavan
Managing Director at Anthro Ventures
Rachna Dayal
Managing Partner at Sugati Ventures
Manish Wadhwa MD FHRS FACC
Board Chair, Cardiac Electrophysiologist and Chief Medical Officer at Summacor, San Diego Heart and Philips
Ivanny Franklin
Managing Partner at MedSight Capital
Laura Macdonald
Chief Product & Partnerships Officer and Founder at Carecircle
From Non-Dilutive to Strategic Capital: Building a Layered Funding Strategy
Panel
14:30 – 15:25
Ken Nelson
Partner at MedTech Advantage Fund
Rich Wilmot
Partner at Gilde Healthcare
Eric C. Ulchaker, MS, MFin
Managing Partner at Serial Stage Venture Partners (SSVP)
Soyoung Park
General Partner at 1004 Venture Partners
Tyler Wanke
Investor at Wanke Family Office
Coffee Break
Networking
15:30 – 15:40
The First 100 Days After a Raise: What Founders Should Actually Do
Panel
15:40 - 16:15
Patrick Oneill
Partner at MedTech Advantage Fund
Jeff Chu
Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Features Capital
Surbhi Sarna
CEO & Founder of Collate
Patrik Schmidle
Founder & CEO at CARI Health, Inc.
CL Tian
CEO at Phiex Technologies, Inc.
Investor AMA: Ask Me Anything Live on Stage
LIVE Q&A
16:20- 16:50
Paul Grand
CEO at MedTech Innovator
Eric Heinz
Founder & Managing Partner at Heinz Ventures, LLC
Nate Harrington
Managing Partner, Philips Ventures, Philips Healthcare
Vikram Chaudhery
Partner at Genoa Ventures
Branden D. Rosenhan, M.D.
Founding Partner at MedMountain Ventures
Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
16:50 - 17:00
Dr. Dylan Attard
Co-Founder and CEO at MedTech World
Paul Grand
CEO at MedTech Innovator
Closing Reception
Networking
17:30 - 19:30
Orthopedics, Rehab, & Surgical Tools
Startup Presentations
9:15 – 10:15
Joe Lin
COO at Aesclepius Corporation
Andrew Seykora
Co-Founder & CEO at Axia Orthopedics
Yao Li
Founder and CEO at Borns Medical Robotics Inc
Elson Yong
CEO at Carecam
Arun Sethuraman
Founder & CEO at Crely Healthcare
Keita Shimomura
CEO at F.MED Co., Ltd.
Gururaj Parande
Co-founder and CTO at Magloy Tech
Jake Edick
CEO/Co-Founder at Magsorbeo Biomedical
Rob Bowden
CEO at MAXM Skate
Lynne Lim
Founder, CEO, CMedicalO at NousQ
Ivan Goh
CEO at QuantumTx Pte. Ltd.
Will Mauldin
Co-founder and CEO at Rivanna Medical, Inc
Jane Wang
Co-founder & CEO at Roceso Technologies
Oke Anakwenze
Founder/CEO at SutureTech
Lia Winter
CEO at Winter Innovations
Regenerative Medicine, Wound Healing, & Personalized Implants
Startup Presentations
10:20 - 11:20
Vaidehi Shah
Chairperson and CEO at Altrazeal Life Sciences Inc.
Fiona Simpson
CEO at BioMimir Inc.
Tim Gleeson
CEO at BRIJ Medical
Michael Floros
CEO at Cohesys
Brad Estes
President and CEO at CytexOrtho
Melissa Krebs
CEO and Founder at GelSana Therapeutics, Inc.
Ryan Roeder
CTO, CEO at HAPPE Spine
Derek Nelson
CSO at inSoma Bio, Inc.
Mousa Ahmadi
COO at Laronix
Danny Lustiger
CEO at MedCu Technologies Ltd
Vikram Ahuja
CEO at OsseoLabs
Peter Boyd
EVP Business Development & General Counsel at ReGelTec, Inc
Yaron Rapaport
CEO at Regenyx Medical Ltd.
Westbrook Weaver
CEO at Tempo Therapeutics
Diagnostics, Oncology, & Urology
Startup Presentations
11:30 - 12:30
Debleena Ray
Founder at 2Strands Biosciences
Filippo Piatti
CEO at ARTINESS
Alexah Boyer
Head of Communications & Investor Relations at Genalyte
Steven Chun
Director at MedInTech Inc.
Dr. Poonam Malik
Executive Chair of the Board & Co-Founder at Microplate Dx Limited
Albert Mikhail
CEO and CoFounder at Multiphze, LLC
Duane Bester
CTO at RadioClash, Inc.
Ella Fung
CEO & Co-founder at Rosalind Dx
Hannah McKenney
CEO and Founder at Starling Medical
Polina A Segalova, PhD
Head of Product at Teal Health
Pam Newcome
Vice President of Marketing at The Flume Catheter Company
Jinqiang Yuan
Co-Founder and CTO at UroMedTech Pte Ltd
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:30
Monitoring, Wearables, & Hospital Operations
Startup Presentations
13:30 – 14:30
Kelsey Mayo
Co-founder and CEO at Armor Medical Inc.
Martin Jensen
Co-Founder and CTO at Australis Scientific
Lydia Leung
CEO and Co-founder at Belun Technology
Amrish Nair
CEO, Co-founder at Biorithm
Nora Herzog
CEO at Connected Consumables
Teresa Prego
CEO at EpiWatch, Inc.
Peter Devlin
President & CEO at Indigo Diabetes NV
Peiru Teo
CEO at KeyReply Pte Ltd
Kristina Cahojova
CEO at Lady Technologies Inc
Neal Piper
Founder and CEO at Luminoah, Inc
JianMing Tan
CEO, Co-founder at Moon Technologies Pte Ltd
Chris Darland
CEO at Peerbridge Health
Samuel Bolland
Co-founder, Director and CTO at Pretect Devices
Kari Cao
CEO & Founder at RenewRX
Liz Golden
CEO at Wavelet
Vascular, Neurovascular, & Neurology
Startup Presentations
14:45 - 15:45
Angel Enriquez
CEO at Emboa Medical
Andrew Ortega-Verdaguer
CEO at IntelVasc Inc
Daniel Lee
Co-founder/CEO at Lumia Health
Yoonho Kim
Founder & CEO at Magnendo
Karl Stoklosa
CEO at Precisis GmbH
Marc Powell
CEO at Reach Neuro, Inc.
Emile Radyte
Co-Founder & CEO at Samphire Neuroscience
Ken Mariash
CEO at Sinaptica Therapeutics
Bart Sanders
CEO at STENTiT
Emily Mirro
President and Co-Founder at SynchNeuro, Inc.
Hyung Posalit
Founder & CEO at Toro Neurovascular, Inc.
John Forrest
CEO at Veravas, Inc.
Alexej Domnich, PhD
CEO/CTO at VesselSens
Galen Robertson
CEO at VQ Biomedical
Cardiovascular Diagnostics, Tools, & Implantables
Startup Presentations
16:00 - 17:00
Vijit Sabnis
Co-founder, CEO at Adaptyx Biosciences
Rune Justesen Ørndrup
CFO, Co-founder at CathVision
Sai Zhou
Founder & CEO at CIRCUCARE INC.
Vidur Sahney
CEO at Conform Medical
Kaustubh Kale
Founder & CEO at Hemotag LLC
Georgi Kadrev
Co-founder & CEO at Kelvin Health Inc
Lucrezia Cester
CEO at LightHearted AI Health
Loic Van Horne
CEO at Narwhal Medical
Meghana Helder
CEO/Founder at Octin Health, Inc
Felix Bauer
COO & Co-Founder at Powerful Medical Inc.
Erick Voorhees
VP of Business Development and Marketing at SIMPLEX QUANTUM, Inc.
Mark Glindmeyer
CTO at SummaCor, Inc.