Day 1 | Monday, October 16 |
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Time | Main Stage - Rooms 220-222: Talks and Panels |
8:30 - 9:00 | Check in, badges pick up, light breakfast and networking |
9:00 - 9:10 | Welcome to INTERFACE Ventures Day - Main Stage |
9:10 - 10:00 |
Talks: The future of business in digital health and startup stories - Session 1 Moderated by Michael Bidu, INTERFACE Health Innovation in health IT procurement: unleashing the power of the EMR Paul Casey - Director of Business Development, QHR Technologies 100,000 genomes: what happens when institutional thinking collides with an ambitious start-up project Tyler Wish - Co-founder and past CEO, Sequence Bio Only Optimists Need Apply Liz Dickinson - Executive Chair, MIO Global |
10:00 - 11:00 |
Panel 1: The Top 10 finalists of #IHCX2017 share their startup stories Moderated by Jonathan Woods, Business Reporter Panel 2: More Top 10 finalists of #IHCX2017 share their startup stories Moderated by Jonathan Woods, Business Reporter |
11:00 - 11:30 | Break |
11:30 - 12:05 |
Panel 3: The world of digital health ecosystem development, innovation hubs and accelerators Moderated by Michael Bidu, INTERFACE Health Amanda Cashin - Head of Illumina Accelerator, San Francisco Sean Lumb - Director, entrepreneurship@UBC Wayne Samuels - VP Business Development, Canada Health Infoway Lindee David - CEO, Joule Inc. |
12:05 - 12:20 |
Report: Annual state of the union report: digital health and medical devices Scott Phillips - CEO, StarFish Medical, Victoria |
12:20 - 1:00 |
Panel 4: VCs share insights and stories of success and failure Moderated by Paul Geyer - President & CEO, Discovery Parks Richard Osborn - Managing Partner, TELUS Ventures Shafin Diamond Tejani - Partner, Victory Square Ventures Brenda Irwin - Managing Partner, Relentless Pursuit Partners |
1:00 - 2:00 |
Lunch break, networking, demos and exhibition time |
2:00 - 2:10 |
Insights into TELUS Health + TELUS Ventures and the Ecosystem Richard Osborn - Managing Director, TELUS Ventures |
2:10 - 2:20 |
How Genome BC supports genomic research, commercialization and personalized medicine Pascal Spothelfer - President & CEO, Genome BC |
2:20 - 2:30 |
It’s just about people: CDRD Gordon McCauley - CEO, CDRD (Centre for Drug Research & Development) |
2:30 - 2:45 |
A movement for change: Joule Inc. Lindee David - CEO, Joule Inc. |
2:45 - 3:15 |
Panel 5: The new way to transform learning and education in medicine, technology and design Moderated by Kirk LaPointe, Editor in Chief, Business In Vancouver Dr. Gordon Matheson - Professor Emeritus, Stanford University School of Medicine Rob Kruger - Heads, School of Health Sciences, BC Institute of Technology Caylee Raber - Director of Health Design Lab, Emily Carr University of Art + Design |
3:15 - 4:00 |
Panel 6: What does industry and gov’t need to do to uncover the real value of digital health? Moderated by Kirk LaPointe, Editor in Chief, Business In Vancouver Paul Brownrigg - VP Clinical System Transformation and Innovation, Vancouver Coastal Health Heather Davidson, ADM Partnerships and Innovation, BC Ministry of Health Dr. Eric Cadesky - Family Doctor, Board Member, Doctors of BC Evgueni Loukipoudis - CTO, CHANGE Healthcare (a McKesson company) Richard Osborn - Managing Director, TELUS Ventures |
4:00 | Closing first part of day 1 and exhibition time |
4:00 - 6:00 |
Break and leisure time, visit surroundings of Vancouver Convention Centre Enjoy the exhibition and the Innovation Lounge or the outdoor patio Check out Tap & Barrel or Cactus Club with your new friends or go for a walk to Stanley Park |
Time | Room 223: Information Sessions + Workshops |
11:30 - 11:50 |
Insights into NRC-IRAP strategy and programs in digital health Rizwan Kheraj - Industry Technology Advisor, NRC-IRAP Pacific Region |
11:50 - 12:10 |
New partnership programs between research and industry Megan Griffith - Research Partnerships & Promotion Officer, NSERC Pacific Region |
12:10 - 12:30 |
These five IP mistakes can make or break your startup Roger Kuypers - Partner, Life Sciences Practice, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin |
12:30 - 12:45 |
How does Canada Health Infoway support digital health innovation Wayne Samuels - VP Business Development, Canada Health Infoway |
12:45 - 1:00 |
How a large health insurance consulting group thinks about innovation? Todd McLean - Vancouver Office Leader, MERCER Canada |
1:00 - 2:00 | Lunch break, networking, demos and exhibition time |
Time | Room 224: Investment Forum, Pitches and Marketplace |
11:30 - 12:15 |
Fast Pitch Canada! Hosted by TELUS Ventures + Discovery Parks Investments Canadian startups compete for $2.5 mil. in INTERFACE money Judges Paul Geyer - CEO, Discovery Parks Rob Peets - Director, TELUS Ventures Pat Brady - Director Investments, Genome BC Brenda Irwin - Managing Partner, Relentless Pursuit Partners Shafin Diamond Tejani - Partner, Victory Square Ventures Startups: To be announced |
12:15 - 1:00 |
NEW! Reverse Pitch Hosted by CHANGE Healthcare Large healthcare authorities, hospitals, tech, insurance pitch the startup and innovator community MERCER Canada CHANGE Healthcare TELUS Health + TELUS Ventures Vancouver Coastal Health |
1:00 - 2:00 |
Lunch break, networking, demos and exhibition time |
2:00 - 4:00 |
B2B Marketplace: 60 Meetings in 120 Minutes “Speed dating” - 20 min. per meeting - to accelerate the digital health investment and buying process between pre-qualified startups and Top 10 finalists #IHCX2017 and large VCs, strategic investors, healthcare providers. |
4:00 - 6:00 |
Break and leisure time, visit surroundings of Vancouver Convention Centre Enjoy the exhibition and the Innovation Lounge or the outdoor patio Check out Tap & Barrel or Cactus Club with your new friends or go for a walk to Stanley Park |
Time | Main Stage - Rooms 220-222 |
6:00 - 9:30 |
Grand Finale #IHCX2017 and INTERFACE Awards Show Hosted by CHANGE Healthcare, Kids Brain Health Network and INTERFACE Health |
6:00 - 6:30 |
Welcome reception, music and networking, cash bar |
6:30 - 7:30 |
Dinner and first round of pitches |
7:30 - 7:45 |
Break and entertainment |
7:45 - 8:45 |
Dessert and second round of pitches |
8:45 - 9:00 |
Break and entertainment |
9:00 - 9:30 |
Announcing the Top 3 of #IHCX 2017 and Awards Ceremony and closing the day |
Day 2 | Tuesday, October 17 |
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Time | Main Stage - Rooms 220-222: Talks and Conversations |
9:00 - 9:30 |
Check in, badges pick up, light breakfast and networking |
9:30 - 9:40 |
Welcome to INTERFACE Ideas - Main Stage |
9:40 - 10:30 |
Talks about the “Future of Health: Real.” - Session 1 Moderated by Michael Bidu, INTERFACE Health How advanced bio sensing wearables will transform healthcare Parminder Singh - Founder and CEO, LifeLens Technologies My wish: let’s do collective innovation to solve mental health for youth Aidan Scott - Founder, SpeakBOX Is technology yet another top-down approach to behavioural design? Dr. Gordon Matheson - Professor Emeritus, Stanford University School of Medicine |
10:30 - 10:50 | Break |
10:50 - 12:00 |
Talks about “Future of Health: Virtual.” - Session 2 Moderated by Daniel Presnell, VP and Creative Director, SIGNALS How virtual reality, digital technologies can deal with pain Prof. Diane Gromala - Canada Chair in Computational Technologies and Pain Research, SFU What does the photograph of the whole Earth got to do with VR and mental health? Dr. Kenneth Tupper - Director Implementation & Partnerships, BC Centre on Substance Use Feel what they feel: how to build virtual reality for patients Dr. Stefan von Rooijen - CEO of VisitU & Infor-Med VR: The story of a Dutch “doctorpreneur” Can virtual reality therapies make patients better? Dr. Brenda Wiederhold - President, Virtual Reality Medical Center |
12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch break, networking, demos and exhibition time |
1:00 - 1:50 |
Talks about “Future of Health: Augmented” - Session 3 Moderated by Michael Bidu, INTERFACE Health Collision Course: Augmented Reality and 3D Printing in Healthcare Allan Noordvyk - Executive Director of Research, CHANGE Healthcare Artificial Intelligence: Pharma’s New Frontier for Pharmacovigilance Dr. Cristina Damatarca - President, SafePharm Consulting Pain: How The Brain Perceives It - How AI Can Help Sanjay Joshi - CTO, H2O.ai |
2:00 - 2:30 |
Conversations and audience forum “Future of Health: Real, Virtual, Augmented” Panel 1: Solving pain management and the opioid crisis using digital health and VR therapies Moderator: Michael Bidu, INTERFACE Health Panel: Prof. Diane Gromala - PhD, Canada Chair for Computational Technologies and Pain Research, SFU Dr. Brenda Wiederhold - President, Virtual Reality Medical Centre and Scripps Hospital Dr. Kenneth Tupper - Director Implementation & Partnerships, BC Centre on Substance Use |
2:30 - 3:00 |
Panel 2: Changing research in genomics, cancer and personalized medicine for better outcomes Moderator: Dr. Brad Popovich, past Chief Scientist Officer, Genome BC Panel: Sharon Terry, Founder & CEO, Genetic Alliance Catalina Lopez-Correa, Chief Scientific Officer and VP Sector Development, Genome BC Shervin Kamkar, Director, Understand Your Genome Program, Illumina Inc. Gordon McCauley - President & CEO, CDRD |
3:00 - 3:15 |
Break |
3:15 - 3:45 |
Panel 3: How do digital technologies and video games affect the future of sports, fitness and wellness Moderator: Charmaine Crooks - President, NGU Consultants and Five Time Olympian Panel: Roham Gharegozlou - Founding Partner, Axiom Zen Studio Jay Balmer - Co-Founder, Sessions Games Dr. Mark Gorelick - Chief Science Officer, MIO Global Dr. Gordon Matheson - Professor Emeritus, Stanford University School of Medicine |
3:45 - 4:15 |
Panel 4: What does British Columbia’s Virtual and Augmented Reality cluster offer the world? Moderator: Tyler Weiss, IMAGE Engine Design Panel: Jonathan Lutz - VP Corporate Financial Strategy and Planning, EA Eric Hine - Executive Producer, Archiact VR Richard Smith - Executive Director, Centre for Digital Media Angela Roberts - Conquer Mobile |
4:15 - 5:30 |
The BC VRAR Showcase - Future Health: Virtual + Augmented + Mixed Be transported to new digital worlds. A visual gallery of BC’s talent from the education, entertainment, manufacturing and healthcare sectors designed to WOW you. Thanks to EA, Finger Food Studio, Archiact VR, Steampunk Digital, Ossi VR, Conquer Mobile, Gold Tooth Creative, SFU, BCIT, CDM, Emily Carr University for Art + Design and the VRAR Association of BC |
5:30 - 6:00 |
Good bye reception, VRAR demos and networking. See you in 2018! |
NOTICE: The Agenda subject to change without notice.