Wednesday, November 22, 2017
St. George Hall, Waterloo Ontario
What happens when entrepreneurs, researchers, industry experts, thought leaders, healthcare professionals and government come together to innovate solutions to pressing healthcare problems?
To find out, join us at Waterloo Region's largest cross-sector gathering involved in health care.
This year's conference will explore breaking down barriers to innovation within the healthcare ecosystem.
"Healthcare related technology has the potential to make a powerful and positive economic impact." - William Charnetski, Chief Innovation Strategist, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, keynote speaker at the 2016 Inaugural MedTech conference
Hosted by Waterloo MedTech with support from industry and the community.
Conference Sponsors
Media Sponsor
Conference Speakers
Kathryn McGarry
Minister, Ontario Government and Healthcare Professional
William Charnetski
Chief Health Innovation Strategist, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Dave Jaworsky
Mayor, City of Waterloo
Mohamed Alarakhia
MD, Director, eHealth Centre of Excellence
Armen Bakirtzian
CEO & Co-founder, Intellijoint Surgical
Matthew Bromwich
MD, Pediatric Otolaryngology Surgeon, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario; Associate Professor, University of Ottawa; and Founder and CMO, Clearwater Clinical Limited
Simon Cheesman
Business Lead, Innovation and New Initiatives, Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation, Baycrest Health Sciences
Sarina Cheng
Director Health Records, MyChart PHR Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences
Fiona Fitzgerald
Zone Leader, Life Sciences Canada, GE Healthcare
Paul Finch
PhD, DPodM
Elliot Fung
Director, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, Waterloo Wellington Local Health Integration Network
Harry Gandhi
CEO & Co-Founder, Medella Health
Breanne Halyk
Innovation Activation Manager, JLABS Canada, Johnson & Johnson Innovation
Mary Pat Hinton
CEO & Co-Founder, Emmetros
Franck Hivert
CEO, Oculys
Karim S. Karim
PhD, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo and CTO, KA Imaging
Farnoud Kazemzadeh
CEO & Co-Founder, Elucid Labs
Moazam M. Khan
COO & Co-Founder, Curiato
Jennifer Krul
CXO, Emmetros
Shak Lakhani
CTO & Co-Founder, Avro Life Science
Malcolm Maxwell
President and CEO, Grand River Hospital
Alexa Roeper
CEO and Co-Founder, Penta Medical
Paul Salvini
PhD, CEO, The Accelerator Centre and Associate Vice-President, Research Commercialization, University of Waterloo
Dan Sinai
Senior Executive, Innovation, IBM Canada
Kevin Tuer
VP, Strategic Initiatives & Managing Director, Canada's Open Data Exchange, Communitech
Patricia Quinn
CEO, Monarch Clothes
Spencer Waugh
CEO, AceAge
Zach Weston
Manager, Health System Integration/Performance, Waterloo Wellington LHIN; Faculty Member, Wilfrid Laurier University
Alexander Wong
PhD, Canada Research Chair in Medical Imaging Systems and Associate Professor, Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo