
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
7:30 – 8:30 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, Bioniz – 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?
Keynote Overview
Dan Gil, CEO, Pelage Pharmaceuticals
Panel Discussion:
Dan Gill, CEO, Pelage Pharmaceuticals
Pranjal Gamghir, Managing Director, Healthcare Investment Banking, Citi Bank
Scott Joslyn, Chief Innovation Officer, UCI Health
Jeffry Weinhuff, Managing Partner, Visionary Ventures
9:45 – 10:15 am PDT
EXPERIENCE
Morning Break
10:15 – 10:45 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
11:10 – 12:00 pm PDT
CAPITAL & GROWTH
Fast Pitch Group 1
Octane Portfolio Companies / LaunchPad SBDC
David Beck, General Manager, Haystax
6 companies present on main stage (5 min presentation for each company followed by a 10 minute audience Q&A)
12:00 – 1:00 pm PDT
EXPERIENCE
Lunch – Medical Innovation Prize Awards Luncheon
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, 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
Ryan Kelly, Chief Innovation Officer, Innovation Labs
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)
Douglas Farquhar, Vice President of Strategy, Reliant Health
2:00 – 3:15 pm PDT
CAPITAL & GROWTH
Capital Assist Octane Portfolio Companies (5 Companies)
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.
Carol Distanislao, Managing Director, Capital and Growth
Winners announced and awarded the People’s Choice and Judge’s Choice awards
3:15 – 3:30 pm PDT
EXPERIENCE
Afternoon Break
3:30 – 4:10 pm PDT
PANEL
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, 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
Kenneth Tang, MS, CEO and Co-Founder, Precidx – The Elephant in Digital Pathology
Matthew Nuñez, President & Chief Business Officer, SmartHealth Dx – Transforming Pathology Processes; Maximizing Data and Time
4:35 – 5:15 pm PDT
PANEL
Successful Investment Strategies
Marty Waters, Partner, Wilson Sonsini (Moderator)
Ramin Valian, Vice President Eye Care, Abbvie
5:15 – 7:15 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
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 – 11:00 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
11:00 – 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 – 1:00 pm PDT
CAPITAL & GROWTH – LUNCH
Capital Assist Octane Portfolio Company Presentations (5 Companies)
People’s Choice and Judge’s Choice Winners Announced
1:00 – 1:40 pm PDT
PANEL
National & Global Regulatory AI Initiatives
Malpractice exposure and regulatory exposure for AI initiatives and development.
Angela Aristidou, Professor, Stanford CASBS
1:40 – 2:30 pm PDT
CAPITAL & GROWTH
Fast Pitch Group 2: Octane Portfolio Companies / LaunchPad SBDC
6 companies present on main stage (5 min presentation for each company followed by a10 minute audience Q&A)
2:30 – 3:00 pm PDT
EXPERIENCE
Afternoon Break
3:00 – 3:45 pm PDT
PANEL
Funding Women Founded and Technology Companies
3:45 – 4:00 pm PDT
EXPERIENCE
Closing Comments
4:00 – 6:00 pm PDT
EXPERIENCE
Closing Reception — Hosted by Women Leaders of Octane
Sponsored by Microvention – All registered attendees welcome!
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