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2018 Waterloo MedTech Conference

Canadian MedTech: What's Holding Us Back?

Working together to establish Waterloo Region as a global leader in collaborative, community-focused healthcare innovation.

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This proceedings report was produced by John Gregory, Opencity Inc., Rebecca MacIntyre, Intellijoint Surgical Inc., and Shirley Fenton, Waterloo MedTech.

Explore our new 2018 conference proceedings report

The proceedings report shares how the conference wove the ideal balance of no-holds-barred storytelling, policy insights, and pertinent panel discussions. Find the top 7 innovators and start-ups showcase and the inaugural 2018 MedTech Awards.

"In Waterloo we have our outstanding technological ecosystem and incubators with proven success, our outstanding postgraduate institutions, the Perimeter Institute, our nanotechnology centre, and the latest winner of the Nobel prize in physics, Dr. Donna Strickland from the University of Waterloo. We need to find a way to come together to make this happen because if we don't, the outcome for our health system and our economy is unthinkable," remarked Dr. Doug Dittmer, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physician.

Wednesday, October 24, 2018
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
St. George Hall, Waterloo Ontario

Bringing entrepreneurs, start-ups, researchers, industry and government experts, thought leaders, and healthcare professionals, together to innovate solutions to pressing healthcare problems.

Join us at Waterloo Region's largest cross-sector gathering involved in health care.

Conference Plenary Speaker

Dr. Rueben Devlin Chief Health Strategist, Government of Ontario

Learn from over 20 experts from industry, health care, government, incubators and academia on how to make it through the medtech maze and how we could make this path easier.

Download the Waterloo Region MedTech Conference 2018 Agenda (.pdf)

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