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.
2018 Waterloo Region
MedTech Conference
Canadian MedTech:
What's Holding Us Back?
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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Conference Speakers
Dr. Rueben Devlin
Premiers' Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine, Government of Ontario
Adrien Cote
Science Lead and Business Advisor, Velocity
Armen Bakirtzian
CEO & Co-founder, Intellijoint Surgical
Bardish Chaggar
Government of Canada
Brian Lewis
President & CEO, Medical Devices Canada (MEDEC)
Brenda Rankin
Client Outlook
Dana Fox
Institute for Smarter Government
David Rouselle
President, CPSO 2016-2017
Franck Hivert
Oculys Health Informatics
Joseph Cafazzo
Executive Director, Biomedical Engineering, UHN
Josephine McMurray
Wilfrid Laurier University
Laurie Lafleur
Paragon Consulting Partners
Lisette Van Gemert-Pijnen
Professor, Persuasive Health Technology at the University of Twente (Netherlands)
Mohamed Alarakhia
MD, Director, eHealth Centre of Excellence
Murray Gamble
President, The C3 Group of Companies
Neil Fraser
President, Medtronic Canada; Regional Vice-President - Canada, Medtronic plc
Paul Nagy
PhD, FSIIM, Associate Professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Dr. Paul Salvini
Chief Executive Officer, Waterloo Accelerator Centre; Associate Vice President of Research Commercialization, University of Waterloo
Shanti Gidwani
National Senior Director, Healthcare, Cisco Canada
Sonny Kohli
Co-Founder, Cloud DX; 2017 XPRIZE recipient for 'Bold, Epic Innovation'
Wayne Gudbranson
CEO and Founder, Branham Group Inc.
Innovation Showcase Top 7
Spencer Waugh
CEO, AceAge
Bobby Green
Co-Founder & COO, Amina Health
Arjumand Ateeq
Founder & CEO, Baysil Inc.
Moazam Khan
Co-Founder & CEO, Curiato Inc.
Patricia Quinn
Co-founder & CEO, Monarch Collection Inc.
Wayne Li
CEO, NextUp Care
Noah Debrincat
Co-founder & CEO, SannTek Labs