Health Innovation Week 2020 | MaRS Discovery District | 30 March 2020 | MaRS Discovery District, 101 College St, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada

A thriving economy has always depended on the health of its people. Today, new innovations in healthcare are helping people live better lives and improving patient outcomes while making the healthcare industry more affordable and improving efficiencies.

The conference’s many events focus on three key themes:
• Innovation: Startups and their employees are on the front lines of health innovation. Hear from the brilliant minds behind the latest technologies and trends through keynotes, live panels and hackathons.
• Investment: Behind every great idea is a passionate investor. Mix and mingle with startup leaders and diverse financers via networking events, pitch competitions and receptions.
• Adoption: A better healthcare system starts with adopting new technologies to create better outcomes. Engage healthcare providers and government representatives looking to improve policy and infrastructure to improve lives.

Who should attend?
• Startups
• Investors
• Partners

2020 Speakers

Sunita Malhotra
Director, Search and Evaluation, Abbvie

Dr. Lana Janes
Venture Partner, adMare Bioinnovations

Dr. Shelley Boyd
Founding President and CEO, Tracery Ophthalmics Inc. and Translatum Medicus Inc.

Dr. Natalia Martin Orozco
VP, Providence Therapeutics

Ali Sheikholeslami
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UofT and the Head of Fujitsu Co-Creation Research Laboratory at the University of Toronto

Vijay Wadhawan
Vice President, Health and Wellness, Environics

Kim Dayman-Rutkus
Sr. Advisor, Policy and Regulatory Strategies Directorate, Regulatory, Operations and Enforcement Branch, Health Canada

Goldie Nejat
Professor and Canada Research Chair of Robots for Society, University of Toronto

Eric Sutherland
Executive Director, Data Governance Strategy, Canadian Institute for Health Information, CIHI

Elizabeth Toller
Executive Director, Regulatory Innovation, Health Canada

Elissa Strome
AVP Research & Executive Director, Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, CIFAR

Carolyn McGregor
Canada Research Chair in Health Informatics, Ontario Tech University

Sam Ifergan
Founder and Managing Partner, iGan Partners

Richard Osborn
Managing Partner, TELUS Ventures

Anne Woods
Managing Director, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Silicon Valley Bank

Frédéric Lemaitre Auger
Managing Partner, adMare BioInnovations

Michael Gietl
Industry Executive – Midwest and Canada Life Sciences and Healthcare Services, JP Morgan

Philip Tagari
VP Research, Amgen

Brent Stead
CEO, Specific Biologics

Dr. Sheila Singh
CEO, Empirica Therapeutics

Joseph Geraci
CEO, NetraMark Corp

Rosario Cartagena
Chief Privacy and Legal Officer, ICES

Nizar Ladak
CEO, Compute Ontario

Erhan Soyer-Osman
Principal, Two Sigma Ventures

Damian Lamb
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Genesys Capital

Tanja Dowe
CEO, Debiopharm Innovation Fund

Bharat Srinivasa
Co-Founder & Principal, Amplitude Ventures

Joel Finlayson
Partner, iGan Partners

Nick Dawson
National Executive Director of Innovation, Kaiser Permanente

Daniel Cohen
Co-founder and CEO, InVivo AI

Sam Cooper
Co-founder, PhenomicAI

Lucas Siow
Co-founder and CEO, ProteinQure

Naheed Kurji
President and CEO, Cyclica

Fazila Seker
Co-Founder and CEO, MOLLI Surgical

Emma Stern
Co-Founder and COO, Felix Health

Ariel Garten
Co-founder, Interaxon

Christopher Kent
CEO, ODS Medical

Marc Lamoureux
Manager of Digital Health, Health Canada

Parimal Nathwani
Vice President, TIAP

David Sable
Portfolio Manager, Special Situations Life Sciences Fund and Life Sciences Innovation IVF Venture Fund

Liam Kaufman
Co-Founder and CEO, WinterLight Labs

Manmeet Maggu
Co-Founder and CEO, Trexo Robotics

Drew Taylor
Co-Founder and CEO, Acorn Biolabs

Rebecca Ruddy
Business Intelligence Associate, GlaxoSmithKline

Dr. Karen Cross
Co-Founder and CEO, MIMOSA Diagnostics

Mark Elias
Co-Founder and CEO, Steadiwear Inc

Brendan Frey
CEO, Deep Genomics

Muhammand Mamdani
Vice President of Data Science and Advanced Analytics, Unity Health Toronto

Frank Rudzicz
Director of AI, Surgical Safety Technologies

Shayn Diamond
Partner, Whitecap Venture Partners

Elayne Wandler
Senior Director, adMare Academy, adMare Bioinnovations

Kelly Holman
Managing Director, Genesys Capital

Cedric Bisson
Partner, Teralys Capital

Peter van der Velden
Managing General Partner, Lumira Ventures

Sally Daub
Founder and Managing Partner, Pool Global Partners

Kathryn Wortsman
Managing Partner, Amplify Capital

Katherine Hayes
Director, Wittington Ventures

Zayna Khayat
Future Strategist, SE Health

Neil Klompas
CFO and EVP, Business Operations, Zymeworks

Rob Scully
Director, Manulife Capital Ventures

Russel Samuels
Partner, Whitecap

Cynthia Lavoie
Co-Founder and Managing Director, AllosterX

Billy Lai
Senior Associate, iGan Partners

Michelle McBane
Managing Director, Standup Ventures and Senior Investment Director, MaRS IAF

Ritika Mahajan
Principal, Radian Captial

Chris Garabedian
CEO, Xontogeny and Portfolio Manager, PXV Fund

Nilay Thakar
Associate, Arch Venture Partners

Imran Eba
Partner, Action Potential Venture Capital

Nick Adams
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Differential Ventures

Aaron Feierstein
Senior Corporate Development Advisor, Healthworx, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield

2020 Sponsors and Partners

PRESENTING PARTNERS:
• Faurecia
• iGan Partners

CHANGE MAKER:
• Global Affairs Canada

BUILDERS:
• Telus Ventures

CONNECTORS:
• J.P. Morgan
• adMare
• Faurecia
• Toronto
• Silicon Valley Bank
• UHN
• Lumira Ventures

PROGRAMMING:
• Health
• Ontario Brain Institute
• NITRO

COMMUNITY PARTNERS:
• Techto
• Hacking Health
• iGan Partnes
• LSO
• Kite
• Telus Ventures
• Toronto
• Australia United
• WIHV
• OntarioMD
• LifeCentre
• Ontario Bioscience
• Environics Analytics
• CCRM
• Facit
• Global Affairs Canada
• University of Toronto
• Johnson&Johnson