6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Pre-Conference Registration (receive conference materials, presenting company notebook, etc.)

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm 

Pre-Conference Reception

Pre-Conference Panel Discussion (ran concurrently with above Reception)

Hosted by Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin

"Valuation Methodologies for Early- and Late-Stage Medical Technology Companies"
 

Panelists:

• Rob Andrews, Director, Healthcare Investment Banking

• Gary Brewster, Senior Vice President
• Naomi Derner, Vice President

7:00 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 am

Welcome/Opening – Sharon O’Reilly 
President & CEO
Medtech Insight

8:15 am

Keynote Speaker

"What Start-Ups Do Right—and Wrong"

Rick Randall

- CEO, TranS1

- Former President & CEO of Target Therapeutics, Incumed, Innovasive Devices, and Conceptus

9:15 am – 11:55 am

Company Presentations

9:15 am

Moderator - John Pfaff
Vice President & General Manager
The MedTech Group

9:20

Adiana

9:30

SafetyNet

9:40

MINRAD

9:50

NovoSci

10:00

CoreValve

10:10 am

Moderator - Monique Goossens
Product Line Manager, Medical
Teledyne Microelectronic Technologies

10:15

Acologix

10:25

LifeAssays

10:35

Triton BioSystems

10:45

Hayes Medical

10:55

MiTiHeart

11:05 am

Moderator - Brian Eslinger
Director of Sales & Marketing
Reglera

11:10

BioCare Systems

11:20

Argentum Medical

11:30

Nanolution

11:40

Cerdak

11:50 am - 12:15 pm

Featured Speakers
"Setting Up Your Company for Successful Acquisition"
Kevin Collins
Partner
Dorsey & Whitney
Janet MacLeod, Ph.D.
Associate
Dorsey & Whitney

12:15 – 1:20 pm

Networking Buffet Lunch

1:20 pm

Return to Session

1:25 pm - 1:40 pm

Featured Speaker
"Why Do I Have To Do Risk Management?"
Harvey Rudolph, Ph.D.
Global Medical Program Manager
Underwriters Laboratories

1:40 pm – 5:30 pm

Company Presentations

1:40 pm

Moderator - Cynthia Melocik
National Business Development Specialist
Medmarc & The Hartford

1:45

Access CardioSystems

1:55

Viking Systems

2:05

NMT Medical

2:15

MDMI Technologies

2:25

Valor Medical

2:35 pm

Moderator - Craig Eslinger
Executive Director, Market Development Services
PPD

2:40

Affinergy

2:50

GARRETTtechnologies

3:00

MicroMRI

3:10

Bone Solutions

3:20

Monteris Medical

3:30 pm

Moderator - Todd Tomba
VP - Medical Devices
Battelle - Health and Life Sciences

3:35

Nervonix

3:45

Acta Vascular Systems

3:55

Heart Assist Technologies

4:05

4:15

Mazor Surgical Technologies

4:25 pm

Moderator - Kevin Collins
Partner
Dorsey & Whitney

4:30

Gene Express

4:40

Cardiac Assist

4:50

Biowave

5:00

HemaMetrics

5:10

Advanced Bioelectric

5:20

MagForce Nanotechnologies

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Sponsor-Supported Networking Session

6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Tabletop Exhibits Open
Buffet Dinner in Exhibit Area

7:00 am

Continental Breakfast

8:00 am

Welcome/Opening – Sharon O’Reilly 
President & CEO
Medtech Insight

8:10 am

Featured Speaker

"The State of Healthcare Investing in 2004 and Beyond"

James M. Garvey
CEO & Managing Partner

Schroder Ventures Life Sciences

8:45 am – 12:55 pm

Company Presentations

8:45 am

Moderator - Marty Rogo, Senior Marketing Manager
Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin

8:50

SmokeSignals

9:00

Cardio-Optics

9:10

Polymerix

9:20

OsteoResorb

9:30

BioniCare Medical Technologies

9:40 am

Moderator - Tracy Warren
Senior Associate
Battelle Ventures

9:45

Access Bio

9:55

ZARS

10:05

GlucoLight

10:15

Applied Spine Technologies

10:25

Keimar

10:35 am

Moderator - Catherine Barale
General Manager, High Tech Strategic Business Units
Underwriters Laboratories

10:40

Haptica

10:50

Proxy Biomedical

11:00

Chiroxia

11:10

Advanced Medical Diagnostics

11:20

11:30 am

Moderator - Ron Podraza
CEO
Reimbursement Principles

11:35

11:45

11:55

12:05

12:15

12:25 pm

Moderator - Andrew Calhoun
Director of Membership
AdvaMed

12:30