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Your pitch deck is an important and versatile tool for attracting investment and strategic partners, onboarding new stakeholders, and even driving your marketing narrative. In this talk, we’ll cover the essential slides and storylines that resonate across audiences, what decision-makers really care about, and how to make complex science easy to grasp. You’ll see how brand and design elevate credibility, how compelling visualizations can do some of the heavy lifting, and how a well-crafted deck can become one of your most powerful business assets.
Learn why market research is essential during the innovation process and throughout the product lifecycle of a medical product. Explore key research techniques and when to apply them. Discover how market research can help you gather critical business intelligence, such as identifying unmet needs, estimating market size, and assessing the priorities of various stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem, to inform a path to market success.
Building great technology isn’t enough. Many startups focus on product development and regulatory approval, only to struggle raising funding because investors don’t see a clear path to market. The key to success? A believable go-to-market strategy early in your journey. In this session, I’ll share lessons from MedTech startups — including one that failed despite FDA clearance — and show practical steps to integrate commercial planning, de-risk your startup, and win investor confidence before launch
Building great technology isn’t enough. Many startups focus on product development and regulatory approval, only to struggle raising funding because investors don’t see a clear path to market. The key to success? A believable go-to-market strategy early in your journey. In this session, I’ll share lessons from MedTech startups — including one that failed despite FDA clearance — and show practical steps to integrate commercial planning, de-risk your startup, and win investor confidence before launch
Why are European healthcare costs so much lower — and innovation so much slower? This talk dives into cultural and structural contrasts: lean European organizations vs. U.S. executive roles, risk-averse workforces, conservative investors, and heavy regulation. With a focus on Germany–U.S. contracts, we’ll explore what it really takes to break into transatlantic healthcare markets.
For many biomedical innovators, design controls can feel like a maze of regulations standing between breakthrough ideas and real-world impact. But what if they’re not a barrier, but a blueprint? From idea to creating a startup to commercialization of the device, flexible/scalable Design Controls can drive patient confidence and engineering excellence while meeting regulatory requirements. Jason Glithero has over 20 years of medical device experience in using and upgrading design control systems that lead to agile and faster design development scenarios.
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Learn tips on preparing a compelling pilot grant proposal, understand review criteria, improve overall impact, and more!
Keynote Presenter: Camille Vaughan, MD - Emory University
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This talk will be in-person and in Zoom. Lunch will be provided for those who attend in-person. You will receive an Outlook invite after registering.
Raising capital for an early-stage startup is one of the toughest hurdles in entrepreneurship. Beyond funding, investors often shape company strategy and management. Join Michael Schultz, Senior Director of Venture at Portal Innovations (Chicago), for an insightful session on securing support for your biomedical innovation. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn from a pro!
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