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 but Drew is one of the best medical device marketing leaders out there. I’m delighted he’s joining us!

Drew Pieprzyk

Mathieu will moderate a panel discussing today’s contemporary issues facing the medical device industry in Europe, from fund raising to regulatory to reimbursement to business development.

Mathieu CharleuxDan PlevXavier GolayDavid Hampton

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

Break

This “State of the Art” thing isn’t just “nice language” to describe your cool technology.

No, it’s much more, as Michelle scratches the surface, below.

Michelle Lott

Click here to apply for one of the fifteen 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: “Tell us your name, where you work, and why we should care.”
• 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. Should we feature you too?
(A modest additional charge assessed to cover production costs.)

10x

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

This is an interactive exercise that emphasizes three key configuration management principles:
• Effective dates determine when documents and parts can be used
• Documents lead, parts follow
• Planning is the only way to control part usage in operations

Martijn Dullaart

Details to Follow

Joseph Anderson

Details to Follow

Joe Hage

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!

A novel technique for stacking and interconnecting solid state cells was shown to significantly increase the energy density and decrease the internal resistance of the battery stack. This development could enable further development of next-generation neuro-stimulation devices by providing an energy source of minimal size (mm-scale footprint and um-scale thickness), appropriate energy density for increasing functionalities and long life avoiding the risk and cost of removal

Main takeaways from the presentation:

1. The requirements of medical sensing devices (implantable and non-implantable) in terms of their size and shape; lifecycle; cost; safety and bio-compatibility) and technical performance (ability to provide energy and power for sensing, communications, data storage)

2. A review of alternatives for powering such devices autonomously including a comparison of the specifications for the power sources: coin cells, cylindrical batteries, solid state batteries, lithium polymer batteries, other chemistries (Silver-Zinc…), super-capacitors

3. Alternative for charging these power sources wirelessly through induction or harvested energy

Denis Pasero PhD

Details to Follow

David Tuch

Details to follow.

Richard Tuson

Event Recap

AI is coming and there is no stopping it. The momentum for AI usage in the healthcare industry is building up and likely to exceed an annual growth rate of 40% by 2021. The biggest benefits of AI are expected to be in the areas of:
robotic surgery, radiological image analysis, diagnostics, and nursing. Fully automatic and autonomous medical systems are already released and being used, and nurses and doctor’s have started adopting the technology to reduce manual work, and to provide more accurate service and impactful interventions to patients. An analysis by Accenture says that key AI applications in healthcare can create $150 billion dollars in annual savings for the US healthcare economy by 2026.

While in other technology areas application of AI is geared primarily at performance, for healthcare applications the primary focus should be on safety. The benefits of AI are so tantalizing that they may overshadow the risks associated with the technology. Ensuring safety of AI is of paramount importance, not only to patients, but also to AI itself. Only a few catastrophic outcomes could spell doom for AI.

Bijan Elahi

• 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 Tuesday night for our keynote and reception.

We’d love to see you!

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!