Emerging CEO Panel Session 1: Idea Stage & Planning
Topics: What does a startup CEO do, finding a startup CEO and discovery to market. Featuring: Doug Falk, CEO, Vita Therapeutics; Ric Hughen, CEO, Linshom and JHTV MIR; and Kristen Valdes, CEO, b.well Connected Health
Emerging CEO Panel Session 2: Getting it Off the Ground
Topics: One-year operating plan, building the founder team, advisory board and raising capital. Featuring: Jesse Christopher, CEO, Longeviti Neuro Solutions; Dan Roche, Founder, Qualytics / JHTV MIR; Ellington West, CEO, Sonavi Labs.
Emerging CEO Panel Session 4: Scaling & Keeping it Going
Topics: Building the operating team, managing your startup, building and sustaining culture and managing turnover and turmoil. Featuring: Steven Bannon, Human Resources Executive; Nick Culberton, CEO, Protenus; Graham Dodge, Former CEO, Sickweather/JHTV MIR; and Ben Gibbs, CEO, Ready Robotics.
Emerging CEO Panel Session 5: Commercializing Digital Solutions
Topics: MVP and user feedback, protecting your competitive advantage, customer growth and scaling. Featuring: Sally Frank, WW Lead health and Life Sciences, Microsoft for Startups; Gorkem Sevinc, Founder and CEO at Qualytics; and Daniel Freedman, Co-Founder / Co-CEO at Burnalong.
Emerging CEO Panel Session 6: SBIR Grants
Topics: Non-dilutive funding, the differences between RO1 and SBIR-STTR, the grant process, turning a Phase I into a Phase II, and working with consultants. Featuring: Sarah Lee, CEO and Co-Founder of Relavo; Brian Lipford, Founding Partner of Key Tech; and Kelvin Liu, VP, Tech Dev of Pacific Bioscience and CEO, Founder of Circulomics.
Emerging CEO Panel Session 7: Equity Compensation & Cap Table Management
Topics: Tying equity with positions, incentives, common mistakes, cap table best practices, and making it easy to invest. Featuring: Sherrod Davis, Chief Operating Officer at EcoMap Technologies; Matt Hellauer, Managing Partner at PTX Capital; and Bill Stevens, Chief Financial Officer at Previse
Emerging CEO Panel Session 8: Regulator Strategies: Medical Devices & Digital Technologies
Topics: Determining the regulatory pathway, working with consultants, pre-submissions, 510(k) and predicate devices, medical devices, digital, and other regulatory paths, and ties to clinical trial design. Featuring: Peter Hoban, VP, Product Strategy at Oncospace; David Narrow, CEO at Sonavex; Kelliann Wachrathit-Kub, Regulatory Affairs Consultant and Mentor-in-Residence at JHTV
Open Source Beyond GitHub
Topics: Understanding the critical role open source can play in universities, corporations, and the government. Featuring: Randal Burns, Chair, Computer Science Department at Johns Hopkins, Founder and CEO of Gigantum; Sayeed Choudhury, Director, OSPO, Carnegie Mellon; Dan Roche, Successful serial entrepreneur and investor; and Andrew Wichmann, Software Intellectual Property Manager, JHTV.