DeviceTalks West – Bringing world-class education to the medtech community
DeviceTalks will be returning to the west coast on December 11-12, 2017 with an expanded day-and-a-half program designed to better serve the medtech community. The program features two dedicated tracks including “Building Better Companies” for senior executives and “Building Better Products” for engineering managers and their engineering teams.
Program highlights include:
- Keynote addresses and plenary panels featuring exclusive insights from industry leaders changing the course of medicine
- A dedicated engineering track designed to help engineers do their jobs better
- A technology showcase featuring the hottest medtech companies in the marketplace today
- Ample networking time to network with the best of the best in the industry
Join us at DeviceTalks West for this don’t miss industry event!
Featured Keynote Speaker
Stacey Pugh
Featured Speakers
Kim Bridges Rodriguez
President & CEO, Acessa Health Inc.Ginger Pigott
Vice Chair of the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Health Care Litigation Practice, Greenberg TraurigChris Thierfelder
Director, Research & Development, Halyard HealthBill Betten
President, Betten Systems SolutionsJeffrey Brewer
President & Chief Executive Officer, Bigfoot BiomedicalBelinda A. Mohr, Ph.D.
Lead Health Economist, Global Health Economics Team, W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Jordi Parramon
Director, Medical Devices, Verily-Google Life SciencesFrank Pokrop
Director, Regulatory Affairs, Becton DickinsonJeff Wyman
Vice President, InVentures, Smith and Nephew Advanced Surgical Device DivisionSuzanne Winter
Vice President, Americas Region, Medtronic DiabetesPaul Grand
CEO, MedTech InnovatorStuart Karten
President, Karten DesignJustin Barad, MD
Co-Founder and CEO, Osso VRAndy Schimmoeller
Senior Electrical Engineer, BattelleDebbie Donovan
Senior Director, Corporate Marketing, EndoGastric SolutionsWinnie Yu, Ph.D.
Sr. Director, Medical Innovation, FlexHarsh Dharwad
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Nihon Kohden AmericaScott Thielman
CTO and Co-Founder, Product Creation StudioBill Evans
SVP, Innovation, XimedicaStanton Rowe
Corporate Vice President, Advanced Technology and Chief Scientific Officer, Edwards LifesciencesJeff Gross, Ph.D.
CSO, Canary MedicalAnnie Cashman
Global Medical Business Development Manager, Proto LabsReggie Groves
CEO, REVA MedicalMatt Reifenberger
Health Economics and Reimbursement, Edwards Lifesciences
Agenda
Monday, December 11
1:00pm: Registration, networking
1:30pm: Plenary Session: Speed equals innovation but how do I do my job faster?
2:30pm:
- Managing Suppliers to improve speed to market
- The regulatory pathway of tomorrow: How do we gameplan for changes in Silver Springs, EMEA and more?
3:30pm: Exhibition/Networking break
4:00pm:
- Hot Topics: Financing, IP, and Products Liability Trends Impacting MedTech
- Creating the Connection: A Hands-On Approach to Creating Value in Connected Healthcare Ecosystems
5:30pm: Exhibition/Networking Reception
6:30pm: Dinner and DeviceTalk: Featuring Stacy Pugh, Vice President, Medtronic Neurovascular
Tuesday, December 12
8:00am: Exhibition/Networking Breakfast
9:00am: Tools for Succeeding with Outsourced Product Development
10:00am: Innovation story with Edwards Lifesciences’s Stanton Rowe
10:45am: How Innovation transforms markets and Industries
11:45am: Exhibition/Networking break
12:15pm:
- What’s next in sensors?
- Untethering of innovation: The Wireless Revolution
1:15pm: Exhibition/Luncheon
2:15pm: Understanding value-based healthcare and its impact on medtech
3:15pm: Fireside Chat: Inside Bigfoot Biomedical with CEO & Founder Jeff Brewer
