
2023 Agenda
Spread out over two days full of leading industry innovators and networking opportunities.
2023 Agenda
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
7:00 – 8:00 am PDT
EXPERIENCE
Registration & Networking Breakfast
7:15 – 8:00 am PDT
EXPERIENCE
Octane Capital and Growth Breakfast (Invite Only)
8:15 – 8:30 am PDT
WELCOME
Welcome and Introduction
Cheryl Wood, Senior Signature Event Manager, Octane
Bill Carpou, CEO, Octane
EMCEE – Nazli Azimi, Biotech Executive, Chairwoman of Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation, Board Member at Omeat and Zehna Thereapeutics
– Defining Entrepreneurial Intelligence – EI
8:30 – 8:55 am PDT
KEYNOTE
Generative AI – The Angst and the Excitement
What are the personal and professional tools required to successfully move from ideation stage to commercialization? How has the merging of medical technology and therapeutics with digital therapeutics impacted entrepreneurialism?
Harvey Castro, MD, MBA, Author, ChatGPT Healthcare
8:55 – 9:45 am PDT
PANEL
The Evolving Funding Environment
Turn the impossible to possible. What are the current options in the funding environment that are most successful during these changing times? How should you navigate in an environment with higher cost of capital and how does this impact your strategic exit?
Panel Topic Overview
Dan Gil, CEO, Pelage Pharmaceuticals
Panel Discussion (9:05 – 9:45):
Jason Dreibelbis, Partner, K&L Gates (Moderator)
Dan Gill, CEO, Pelage Pharmaceuticals
Scott Joslyn, Chief Innovation Officer, UCI Health
Brian Meshkin, Managing Partner, Profound VC
Nick Olson, Senior Director, Corporate Development, Edwards Lifesciences
Jeffry Weinhuff, Managing Partner, Visionary Ventures
9:45 – 10:15 am PDT
EXPERIENCE
Morning Break
10:15 – 11:00 am PDT
PANEL
Overcoming Roadblocks Efficiently
How to strategically advance into new market pathways, educating people about the needs and value, and establishing commercialization success.
Jim Mazzo, Executive Chairman, Neurotech (Moderator)
Bobak Azamian, MD, PhD, CEO and Chairman, Tarsus Pharmaceuticals
Christopher P J Barty, CTO and Executive Director, Lumitron Technologies
Samuel R. Browd, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington Department of Neurological Surgery, and Co-Founder, Chief Medical Officer, Board Member, Proprio
Jane Rady, Senior VP Corporate Strategy & Business, Glaukos
11:00 – 12:00 pm PDT
CAPITAL & GROWTH
Fast Pitch
Octane LaunchPad SBDC Companies
Emcee: Eric Morgan, Vice President, Community Affairs, Fivepoint
Five companies will present ten-minute presentations on the main stage.
- Fluidbiomed
- Sayenza BioScience
- Integrated Medical Sensors (IMS)
- Swiftsure
- Steadiwear Inc
- Alyve Medical
12:00 – 1:00 pm PDT
EXPERIENCE
Awards Lunch – 2023 Medical Innovation Prize Recipients
David R. Braxton, MD, Chief of Molecular Pathology Services at Hoag Family Cancer Institute, Subspecialist Pathologist in Digestive Diseases, Cancer Genomics & Precision Medicine
John Cupp, MD, Surgical and Hematopathologist, Director of Digital Pathology, IT Physician Champion, Department of Pathology, Hoag Hospital
1:00 – 1:30 pm PDT
PANEL
The Role of Hospitals with Innovative Product Development
The partnership between hospitals and early-stage companies involves navigating multiple departments and stakeholders, as well as addressing a wide range of topics. What are the responsibilities of a clinical champion? What is the best way to engage, when, and with whom? What resources are required to support companies’ needs, milestones, clinical studies, and evaluations? Is there a way for the hospital to leverage its institutional resources and help companies demonstrate clinical utility and value? In what ways can hospitals and clinicians’ feedback accelerate product development, FDA approval, and commercialization?
Anthony Chang, MD, MBA, MPH, Chief Intelligence and Innovations Officer, Children’s Hospital of Orange County (Moderator)
Haleh Armian, MSc, Director of Biomedical Innovation Ventures, Hoag
Joanna Develter, Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs Critical Care, Edwards Lifesciences
Tad Funahashi, MD, Chief Innovation & Transformation Officer, Kaiser Permanente
Ryan Kelly, PhD, MBA, Chief Innovation Officer, The Innovation Institute
Edward S Kim, MD, MBA, Senior Vice President and Physician-in-Chief, City of Hope Orange County
1:30 – 2:00 pm PDT
PANEL
Improving Payer and Provider Value Leveraging AI
How can AI be used to improve payment integrity and take friction out of the payer, provider ecosystem. Early planning with reimbursement strategy. Battle with payers, solutions around margins, staff increases. The value of designation for enhanced reimbursed pathway. The value of AI with coding.
Clay Wilemon, CEO & Chairman, 4L Data Intelligence (Moderator)
Brian Berkowitz, Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development, Lyric
Tonya Dowd, MPH, Executive Vice President, Reimbursement, Value Generation and Market Access (RVMA), PRIA Healthcare
Douglas Farquhar, Vice President of Strategy, Reliant Health
John Fundingsland, Head of Healthcare Platform Operations, LTIMindtree
2:00 – 3:30 pm PDT
Octane Portfolio Companies
Emcee: Carlos Ramirez, Partner, Cooley
Octane portfolio companies that have graduated from Octane’s LaunchPad accelerator sponsored by the SBDC will pitch their products to our investor ecosystem with key strategics and physicians.
- TechImmune
- Bright Uro
- Cern Corporation
- YouAttest
People’s Choice and Judge’s Choice Winners Voting & Announcement!
Judges:
3:30 – 3:45 pm PDT
EXPERIENCE
Afternoon Break
3:45 – 4:25 pm PDT
PRESENTATION
Digital Pathology: Back to the Present, Leap to the Future
The practice of Pathology in U.S. hospitals continues to operate just as it has for the last 100 years, whereby a tissue biopsy is fixed in chemicals, manually processed, stained with dyes, and sectioned onto glass slides. Pathologists then view these slides via microscopes and perform tissue-based tests in order to provide a disease diagnosis. Digital Pathology is a relatively new sub-field that utilizes computer-based technology and AI to scan/digitize specimen slides, generate and manage biopsy information as well as provide virtual microscopy. Hoag has partnered with innovative companies to revolutionize Digital Pathology with an end to end solution from real time data image acquisition to data optimization, storage and management.
Join Hoag’s panel of physician thought leaders and partner companies to gain insights on how we are collaborating to transform conventional pathology and embrace Digital Pathology in our community to improve patient outcomes, streamline clinical workflow, and lower health care costs.
Michael Brant-Zawadzki, MD, FACR, Senior Physician Executive, Hoag Hospital, The Ron and Sandi Simon Endowed Chair, Executive Medical Director, Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute (Moderator)
David R. Braxton MD, Chief of Molecular Pathology Services, Hoag Family Cancer Institute, Subspecialist Pathologist in Digestive Diseases, Cancer Genomics & Precision Medicine
John Cupp, MD, Surgical and Hematopathologist, Director of Digital Pathology, IT Physician Champion, Department of Pathology, Hoag Hospital
Chris Freudiger, PhD, CTO & Co-Founder, Invenio Imaging – Streamlining Intraoperative Pathology with Laser Imaging and Artificial Intelligence
Matthew Nuñez, President & Chief Business Officer, SmartHealth Dx – Changing Pathology Image by Image, Minute by Minute
Kenneth Tang, MS, CEO and Co-Founder, Precidx -The Elephant in Digital Pathology
4:25 – 5:00 pm PDT
PANEL
Successful Investment Strategies
Defining how strategics and investors evaluate opportunities and how entrepreneurs can
prepare in advance to raising private and public capital. How to successfully set up for
deal room success.
Kenji Funahashi, Partner, Wilson Sonsini (Moderator)
Kenan Jiang, Partner, Excellent Capital
John E. Osborn, Venture Partner, BioVentures
Ramin Valian, Vice President Eye Care, Abbvie
5:00 pm PDT
EXPERIENCE
Closing Comments
5:00 – 7:00 pm PDT
EXPERIENCE
OCTANEFEST
Thursday, October 26, 2023
8:00 – 8:30 am PDT
EXPERIENCE
Registration & Networking Exhibitor Breakfast
8:30am – 10:00 am PDT
BREAKFAST WITH EXPERTS
EMCEE – Terri Ross, President, APX Platform Powered by Engage; CEO/Founder Terri Ross Consulting; Co-Founder, The Aesthetic Success
Welcome and Introduction of Breakfast with the Experts
Each expert will host 2 x 40 minute sessions at a round table for 10. The expert selects their topic and attendees sign up to attend their sessions of choice.
10:00 – 10:20 am PDT
EXPERIENCE
Networking Break
10:20 – 11:10 am PDT
PANEL
Optimizing Talent Resources to Build a Positive Internal Culture
Highlighting specific strategies to build a culture of inclusion with a focus on recruiting a balanced talent team. Addressing the current times and providing a futurist outlook on talent attraction and retention.
Janet Clardy, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Experian (Moderator)
Joshua Benton, Principal, Human-Centered Design, RSM US LLP
Shelly Carolan, Managing Partner, Commercial Healthcare, WittKiefer
Kimberly Cates, Global Head of HR, Mentor LLC
Doug Fauth, Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition, MicroVention, Inc
Reg Chhen Stewart, PhD, Vice President, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Chapman University
11:10 – 11:30 pm PDT
FIRESIDE CHAT
Mistakes and Lessons Learned from Startups. An insight into the success path of InBrace.
Bill Carpou, CEO, Octane
Clint Carnell, Founder, Greyspace; Executive Chairman, Geneo; Founder & Board Member, OrangeTwist; CEO, InBrace
11:30 – 12:00 pm PDT
PANEL
National & Global Regulatory AI Initiatives
Malpractice exposure and regulatory exposure for AI initiatives and development.
Marc Alcser, Shareholder, Stradling (Moderator)
Professor Angela Aristidou, DEL Digital Fellow, Stanford University; Ass. Prof. in Strategy & Entrepreneurship, University College London
Deepti Pandita, MD, FACP, FAMIA, Chief Medical Information Officer, UCI Health
Neil Sahota, CEO, ACSILabs
12:00 – 2:00 pm PDT
CAPITAL & GROWTH – LUNCH
Octane Portfolio Company Presentations
Emcee: Natalie Harney, CBPA, Certified Business Performance Advisor, Insperity
Octane portfolio companies that have graduated from Octane’s LaunchPad accelerator sponsored by the SBDC will pitch their products to our investor ecosystem with key strategics and physicians.
- Pretika MedTech
- Vena Medical
- SedMed
- 2Pi-Sigma Corporation
- Total Flow Medical
People’s Choice and Judge’s Choice Winners Announced
Judges:
2:00 – 3:00 pm PDT
CAPITAL AND GROWTH
Fast Pitch
Octane LaunchPad SBDC Companies
Emcee: Ralf Brockhaus, CEO, Smilefish
Six companies will present ten minute presentations on the main stage.
- Rubitection
- NZ Technologies Inc. (NZTech)
- Taurus Vascular
- Vessl Prosthetics Inc
- Bodiometer
3:00 – 3:15 pm PDT
EXPERIENCE
Afternoon Break
3:15 – 4:00 pm PDT
PANEL
Perspectives for Success in Women Founded, Women Led, and FemTech Companies
Highlighting the value, opportunities, and lessons learned. Keying into the rise of female entrepreneurship, how to leverage the power of your network and board to optimize opportunities.
Joyce Averna, Vice President, JP Morgan Private Bank (Moderator)
Marinela Gombosev, President, COO, SPARK Neuro
Gregg Klang, President, Cern Corporation
Terri Ross, President, APX Platform Powered by Engage; CEO/Founder Terri Ross Consulting; Co-Founder, The Aesthetic Success
Summer Taylor, Managing Director, Deloitte
4:00 – 4:10 pm PDT
EXPERIENCE
Closing Comments
4:15 – 6:15 pm PDT
EXPERIENCE
Closing Reception — Hosted by Women Leaders of Octane
Sponsored by Microvention – All registered attendees welcome!
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