Recommended Agenda

Monday, September 25

Note: the recommended agenda below is not intended to serve as a comprehensive schedule for your time at the conference! To build your own agenda based on these suggestions, visit our interactive online agenda or use MedTech Connect. 

07:00 AM - 06:00 PM

Registration Open

09:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Schedule a Few Meetings in MedTech Connect

10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

Official Opening and Global Ministerial Opening

The MedTech Conference officially opens with a ministerial panel, moderated by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The panel will feature government officials from the U.S. and around the world who will share their visions about medical technology investment, innovation, entrepreneurship support, and other key factors driving growth and development for the benefit of patients worldwide.

• Moderator: Ivy Teh, Global Managing Director, The Economist Intelligence Unit Healthcare 

• H.E. Mokhtar Hazbellaoui, Minister of Health, Population, & Hospital Reform, Algeria 

• Hon. Gaétan Barrette, Minister of Health, Government of Quebec, Canada 
• Prof. Piotr Czauderna, Senior Advisor to The President – Chairman of the Presidential Healthcare Council, The Chancellery of the President of Poland 
• Lord Prior of Brampton, Parliamentary Undersecretary of State, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, United Kingdom 
• Ian Steff, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing, Department of Commerce, United States

Location: Convention Center - Room 210 A

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Lunch Break

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM

Diagnosing Opportunity: Manufacturer and Laboratory Insights

Senior business leaders will discuss how manufacturers and laboratories can work together to deliver diagnostic advances to patients and navigate a challenging marketplace.

Speakers:

• Brian Blaser, Executive Vice President, Diagnostic Products, Abbott 
• Doug Bryant, President & CEO, Quidel 
• James L. Zehnder, M.D., Director, Clinical Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine

Location: Convention Center - Room TBD

02:30 PM - 03:15 PM

Coffee Break

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Catch up on work emails

05:00 PM - 05:30 PM

AdvaMed's Women's Executive Network Reception (open to all registrants)

05:30 PM - 07:00 PM

Welcome Reception (open to all registrants)

The San Pedro Square Market is the Downtown San Jose meetup place for foodies, music lovers, locally-made shop supporters, demanders of coffee perfection, history seekers, old-time barbershop hunters, social media trendsetters and wine and beer libation imbibers. The Market is the all-around best place to hang out, complete with an open-air plaza and sidewalk café – there is no better place to kick off the conference and welcome everyone to San Jose.

Tuesday, September 26

07:30 AM - 09:00 AM

Morning Plenary Session: Hearing from the New Administration & Hearing from a Patient

• Patient Story: Ian Burkhart
• Scott Gottlieb MD, Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration

Location: Convention Center - Grand Ballroom

09:00 AM - 05:15 PM

MedTech Connect Open

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

The Point of Person Laboratory

Wearable and in vivo diagnostics could transform diagnostics and health care delivery. Innovators and business leaders will discuss the emerging technologies that will drive this market and the implications for patient care.

Speakers:

• Jeffrey Brewer, President & Chief Executive Officer, Bigfoot Biomedical 
• Phil Charron, MEd, User Experience Design, Basil Leaf Technologies and Sr. Vice President of Consulting & Talent, Think Company
• Carlos Milla, MD, Professor of Pediatrics (Pulmonary Medicine), Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital
• Bill Rader, President & CEO, Efferent Labs, Inc. 
• Lucile Salter, Packard Children's Hospital

Location: Convention Center - Room TBD 

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Coffee Break

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch Plenary Session: Lessons Learned from Silicon Valley 

• State of the Industry Briefing: Scott Whitaker, President and CEO, AdvaMed
• Joshua Newman, MD MSHS, Chief Medical Officer, Salesforce
• David Brailer, Managing Partner and CEO, Health Evolution Partners

Location: Convention Center - Grand Ballroom

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Schedule Meetings in MedTech Connect

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Afternoon Plenary Session: Innovation as a Discipline & MedTech Innovator $500K Competition Finals

• Keynote Speaker - Dr. Regina E. Dugan, Vice President of Engineering, Building 8, Facebook

The MedTech Conference is excited to welcome MedTech Innovator back to the plenary stage on the afternoon of Tuesday, September 26. Four finalist companies from the MedTech Innovator competition will present to a panel of industry-leading judges and compete for the audience vote to win $500,000 in prizes and the award of MedTech Innovator 2017!

Location: Convention Center - Grand Ballroom

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Chairmen's Networking Reception

Whether you’re enjoying a pint of Guinness or a locally brewed craft beer, be sure to join us in the Exhibit Hall to check out the latest and greatest from our medtech exhibitors. Take advantage of this excellent networking opportunity with all of your colleagues, including members of the AdvaMed, AdvaMedDx and AdvaMed Accel Board of Directors.

Location: Convention Center - Hall 1 & 2

09:30 PM - 11:00 PM

MedTech After Party

Join us for an incredible experience at Club Auto Sport! This high end garage for true car collectors and incubator for automotive innovation will open its doors and provide us with its vibrant clubhouse, sleek lounge, and TMFC Museum, a one-of-a-kind artfully curated, eclectic private history collection. You will not want to miss rare collectible cars, racing simulators, and, of course, live music.

Wednesday, September 27

08:00 AM - 12:30 PM

MedTech Connect Open

Location: Convention Center - Hall 1 & 2

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

Walk the Exhibit Hall floor

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Success with Surrogates: A New Framework and Best Practices for Surrogate Samples to Support Diagnostic Innovators

Difficulty obtaining clinical specimens can delay and hinder the development of new and improved innovations. In the midst of tremendous advances in diagnostic technologies and the drive to personalized medicine, the use of surrogates can help support diagnostic product development and support validation when clinical specimens are difficult to obtain. Developed by the Medical Device Innovation Consortium collaboration with key stakeholders, this new framework is aimed at supporting validation studies and thereby timely patient access to safe and high-quality diagnostic technologies, and will be launched with participation from FDA and industry on this exciting panel.

• Moderator: Carolyn Hiller, MBA, Program Director, Clinical Dx, Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC)
• Susan Alpert, Ph.D., M.D., Principal, SFA Consulting
• Alberto Gutierrez, PhD, Director, Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health, FDA CDRH
• Patrick O’Donnell, Roche 
• April Veoukas, JD, Director Regulatory Affairs, Abbott

Location: Convention Center - Room TBD

MedTech Innovator Showcase - In Vitro Diagnostics

• Advanced Prenatal Therapeutics, Inc.
• Day Zero Diagnostics, Inc.
• Genomic Expression
• NovaGray
• OncoTab, Inc.

Leadership Views on Diagnostics

CEOs of leading and emerging diagnostics companies share perspectives on policy and market challenges facing the in vitro diagnostics industry and discuss the opportunities they see for future growth in this critical area of health care.

Speakers:

• Moderator: George Serafin, U.S. & Global Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Leader, Grant Thornton 
• John Boyce, Chief Executive Officer, Exosome Diagnostics 
• Eric Compton, Chief Operating Officer, Hologic 
• Franz Walt, President, Laboratory Diagnostics, Siemens Healthineers

Location: Convention Center - Hall 1 & 2; CEOs Unplugged Stage

10:45 AM - 11:35 AM

MedTech Innovator Showcase - Advanced Imaging Diagnostics

• Arterys
• Avenda Health
• Centerline Biomedical, Inc.
• Genetesis
• Promaxo

Location: Convention Center - Hall 1 & 2; MedTech Innovator Showcase Stage

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

The Genomics Revolution: Diagnostic Implications for Patients and Health Care

Advances in our understanding of the genomic drivers of diseases and health conditions are powering proliferation of molecular diagnostics. Panelists will discuss what these developments mean for patient care and the health system, as well as for the diagnostics industry.

Speakers:

• Moderator: Kristin Ciriello Pothier, Global Head of Life Sciences, Parthenon-EY 
• Eric Dishman, Director, All of Us Research Program, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Location: Convention Center - Room TBD

Closing Reception

Gather with your medtech colleagues one last time before leaving Silicon Valley and rock out to a Journey tribute band! We’ll be ending the conference with a closing reception at Paper Plane in downtown San Jose, a hip spot known for creative cocktails and great food. The food’s on us, but don’t forget your wallet as there will be a cash bar at this reception. See you there and be sure to brush up on the lyrics to Don't Stop Believin', Any Way You Want It and more! 

Location: Paper Plane - 72 S 1st St, San Jose, CA 95113