We’ll bring the coffee, tea and croissants, Danish pastries, and fruit juice.

You bring your smile, business cards, and positive energy for the day ahead!

Breakfast

Conference Host Joe Hage welcomes you to the conference and sets the stage for the productive and enjoyable day ahead.

Joe Hage

Details to follow.

Michelle Sullivan

Nick Skaer, CEO and Founder of Orthox, has been at his startup for 17 years now with pre-clinicals around the corner.

How will he transition to the next stage of his company’s growth? How would you?

Nick Skaer PhD

Click here to apply for one of the eight Fast Round spots.
This is how a ‘Fast Round’ works:

• It’ll be just you and Joe onstage, both sitting on bar stools.
• Joe will ask questions, the kind he’d ask if he walked up to your trade show booth.
• Joe won’t prepare in advance. In fact, the less he knows, the better.
• Joe will start with this question: “So who are you, and what do you do?”
• Questions will flow naturally from there.
• Joe may also ask (so be prepared): “Teach us something about your work (but not in any way self-promotional) that you believe the average guest in our audience may not know.”
• If you choose to bring something onstage, it will be small enough for you to carry on and off the stage.
• You’ll need to fill out a simple one-page template. During our three minutes, we’ll project it onscreen to aid visual learners. It will also appear in show photographs (and can subsequently be used for your social media efforts).
• It will be recorded and professionally edited for your later use, however you see fit.

It’ll be fun, casual, and a real crowd-pleaser. Starring you!

Here’s an sample Fast Round, featuring our mate Stephen Carter. Should we feature you too?
(A modest additional charge assessed to cover production costs.)

10x

During our short break, meet new friends with the technologies and skills to get you to market smarter – and faster!

Break

If you’re in medical devices, you likely need Real World Evidence, patient data, and clinical trials.

The value of this work comes from the ability to interpret data in its many forms. Nyquist Data helps by curating regulatory approval data previously hidden in document. Come with data points you need to pull for something you’re working on.

Presenter Helena Ting (and Nyquist Founder Michelle Wu, remotely) will demonstrate how easy to pull – and how detailed and copy-and-paste-ready presentable – the data you need from any FDA, EU, Chinese, Japanese, or clinical trials database.

It’s an amazing tool. That’s why I had to have them present, and why I accepted their sponsorship.

Come prepared!

Helena Ting

Among the most popular MDG Premium features is #what-do-you-need, where members lean on the community for business-furthering connections, introductions, and answers.

In this interactive session, I’ll pass the microphone around so each of us can tell the room where you’re stuck, what help you need, which introductions will help you grow your business faster, better, and less expensively than you can on your own.

It works famously virtually. It may be even more successful here, in person, for the first time at a 10x Medical Device Conference.

Assess your business. Isolate your greatest challenge or need. Then share with the audience.

It’s the very spirit of this event.

Joe Hage

We have a lovely fork buffet planned. I get to choose five items (not sure which yet).

So if you have a preference or dietary restrictions, now’s the time to let me know!

Lunch

Details to follow.

Erin White

Jeff McBride joins Diarmuid for questions and answers after a short presentation. They explain,

“For a medical device to be successful it needs to fulfil three essential criteria. It must fill an unmet medical need, it must demonstrate clinical utility, and it must have the support and endorsement of key opinion leaders. Software, is no different.

Doctors and clinicians are essentially in the business of data acquisition. “”How long have you felt this way?”” “”Where does it hurt?”” “”Have you changed your lifestyle recently?”” Is there a family history of this condition?”” Not all medical devices contain software, and not all health-related software is a medical device.

Understanding the classification of your software product or idea is critical towards determining the success or failure of your start-up company. Development of Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) presents a number of challenges to budding medical technology entrepreneurs. These include a wide range of hurdles to overcome including, finance, investment, technology, hardware, procurement, regulatory, legal etc. etc. The SaMD entrepreneur needs to be a master of all of these, or so it would appear.

SaMD entrepreneurs will get insights into best practices for developing products and meeting the challenges they face. Potential investors can gain insight into the mindset of the SaMD world. Potential suppliers and vendors can discover the most suitable ways of interacting with SaMD companies. Most importantly, by applying a patient-outcome approach towards the successful deployment of novel medical technologies, everyone will empathise and understand the needs and benefits of a successful product journey from concept to market.”

Diarmuid Cahalane

Innovating in the digital health space is especially risky when it comes to intellectual property.

Speaker Stephen Carter will show you where the risks are and what you can do to protect yourself.

Valuable for any digital health entrepreneur.

Stephen Carter

No offense to our speakers, but this is my favorite part of every 10x.

Make your own sundae with all the toppings! Yay!

Ice Cream Social!

Leslie Hammermüller

Details to follow.

Sina Kahen

Andrew will discuss how to change behaviors to become more agile, how to facilitate technology adoption, and integrate into legacy systems.

Andrew Cowen

Kate is a futurist and transhumanist who seeks to harness technology to promote humans beyond current physical and mental limitations.

What role do medical devices play?

Kate Levchuk

We’re excited (honored, actually) to welcome 2016 keynote speaker (10x Medical Device Conference, San Diego) Philip Low, PhD back to our stage.

As NeuroVigil Chairman, CEO & Founder, iBrain Inventor and Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness Author, Dr. Low will share his latest developments and what you can expect from the future of neurotechnology.

We’ll also have a “Fireside Chat” with Dr. Low on this, the tenth anniversary of his seminal work, the “Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness.”

Philip Low PhD

• 2-hour reception and networking with our sponsors, speakers, and guests
• Two drink tickets, light food included

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

Can’t make the whole event but want to mingle and learn?

No problem, join us at a steep discount Thursday night for our keynote and reception – and still meet everyone we assembled!

We’d love to include you, if even for a little while.

Come to our Reception!

It’s true, the day-long program has concluded.

But the new relationships you formed are just beginning!

If you go back to work and don’t keep in touch with the people you met, well, why’d you come in the first place?

Go. Cement relationships. Build your network of medical device professionals on whom you can rely.

Start with me: linkedin.com/in/joehageonline.

You’re a 10x alumnus now! You can call me anytime, for anything.

I’m happy to know you.

Keep in touch!