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!

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

View the full DeviceTalks West 2017 schedule & directory