with the leaders in Medtech
This is a living agenda. As we continue to add new speakers and
timely discussions, the lineup is taking shape around the topics
that matter most. From headline Keynotes to Fireside Chats and
tactical workshops, we're building a program that captures the
pulse of medtech today and tomorrow.
Unlocking APAC’s MedTech Potential - A Gateway to Global Success
William Jin
Partner, Mednovation hub
Liang Lu
Vice President / General Manager, Southeast Asia & Pakistan, BD
What’s Holding Asia Back in Medtech?
Dan Lippis
Corporate Vice President, JAPAC Region, Edwards Lifesciences
John Eng
Vice President, Healthcare, Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB)
The Future of Longer, Healthier Lives
Soyoung Park
General Partner, 1004 Venture Partners
Arthur (Yen Yu) Chen
Managing Partner, BE Health Ventures
Ruben de Francisco
Founder & CEO, Onera Health
Linda Seah
VP and GM Emerging Asia, hologic
Seemant Jauhari
Partner Healthcare, Jungle Ventures
Renal Denervation: Unlocking a New Era in Hypertension Care
Chris Eso
Vice President, Global Head of Corporate and Business Development, M&A and Ventures, Medtronic
Jie Wang
Co-founder, Chairman of the Board, Chief Medical Officer, SyMap Medical
Singapore’s Unique Approach to Fostering and Backing Healthcare Innovation
Joseph Mocanu
Managing Partner, Verge HealthTech Fund
Jui Lim
CEO, SGInnovate
Danny Belkin
Director, Technology Incubator, SingHealth
Irene Cheong
Assistant Chief Executive, Innovation & Enterprise, A*STAR
Anselm Tan
Digital Health and MedTech Lead, ClavystBio
Scaling Diagnostics: From Innovation to Infrastructure
Peter Fischer
CEO, InkSpace Imaging
Christina Vallgren
CEO, Terapet
Jeremy Au
Chief Operating Officer, Lucence
Lohendran Baskaran
Director, CVS.AI Research Lab, National Heart Centre Singapore
Adrian Cheong
Founding Partner, Bioworld Ventures
Hard-Learned Secrets to Thinking Big in Asia
Warren Wang
Chairman and CEO, Genesis MedTech Group
Roger Brooks
Founder, RBrooks Group
Bioconvergence: The Future of Vision Technology
Assaf Barnea
CEO, Sanara Capital
Ash Attia
CEO, Bionic Vision Technologies
Qizhi Linna Fu
VP Operations And General Manager, China & Hong Kong, STAAR Surgical
Daria Lemann-Blumenthal
CEO, Nanodrops
Almog Aley Raz
CEO, CorNeat Vision
Reaching Across Borders: Multinational Corporate Collaboration and Investment in the US and China
Chris Eso
Vice President, Global Head of Corporate and Business Development, M&A and Ventures, Medtronic
Jinghua (Michael) Wang
Managing Director, Greater China Ventures, Medtronic
Helen Yang
Senior Vice President & Chief Investment Officer, Fosun Pharma
Michael Wang
Founding Partner, Sunmed Capital
Patchwork or Pathway? Navigating Regulatory Fragmentation in APAC
Carlos Granada
Co-Founder, LearUp Systems
Julia Yuan
General Manager, General Manager Clinical Consultancy Research Center (CCRC)
Gabriel Sim
Director, Strategic Partnerships, Asia Pacific Medical Technology Association (APACMed)
East Meets West
Yuval Binur
Managing Partner, Arsuf Global Partners
Haisong Tang
Venture Partner China, Sanara Capital
Helen Yang
Senior Vice President & Chief Investment Officer, Fosun Pharma
Cynthia Chen
Chairwoman and President, Pulnovo Medical
Julia Yuan
General Manager, General Manager Clinical Consultancy Research Center (CCRC)
From Local Insights to Global Impact - Advancing MedTech in Asia Pacific
Glenn Vavoso
Senior Vice President and President, Asia Pacific, Intuitive
Scott Pantel
CEO, LSI
Co-Founding Capital: How Investors Are Shaping the Next Generation of Startups
Owen Willis
Founder and General Partner, Opal Ventures
Colin Tan
Investment Director, Coronet Ventures
Eric Loh
CEO, Trendlines Medical Singapore
Pieter Wijffels
Venture Partner, NLC Health Ventures
Amanda Way
Global Program Director, LSI
U.S. Reimbursement Fundamentals
Tonya Dowd, MPH
Executive Vice President, Reimbursement, Health Economics, and Market Access, PRIA Healthcare
New Era: Finding The Right Place for APAC Within The Startup Strategy
Ramin Mousavi
President & Chief Executive Officer, CathWorks
Joe Mullings
Chairman & CEO, The Mullings Group Companies
Omid Akhavan
Managing Director & Founder, Anthro Ventures
Chris Eso
Vice President, Global Head of Corporate and Business Development, M&A and Ventures, Medtronic
Sabrina Wang
Partner, Knobbe Martens
Sourcing Innovation: Can Medtech Replicate Biotech’s Asia Playbook?
Adrian Lam
President & CEO, Corvista Health
Cynthia Chen
Chairwoman and President, Pulnovo Medical
Hanson Gifford
Partner, Lightstone Ventures, and The Foundry LLC
Alexis Cheng
Co-Founder & Vice President of Operation & Business Strategy, Cornerstone Robotics
Building and Scaling Successful MedTech Ventures from Singapore
Mary Kan
Programme Director, MedTech Catapult, A*STAR
Steven Kum
Chief Medical Officer, M&L Healthcare
Jolene Ooi
Partner, Investments, EDBI
Mike Kennewick
Managing Partner, AI Thinktank
From Pitch to Partnership: Engaging Investors for Capital and Growth
C David Adair
Founder and Managing Partner, Solas BioVentures
Irit Yaniv
Founding Partner, Almeda Ventures
Josh Berg
Principal Partner, Kindling Investment Partners
Evelyn Tee
Partner, LSC - LifeSciences Consultants
Zoe Zhu
Director, EQT Group
Invisible Risk: Cybersecurity Mistakes That Stall Market Momentum
Sean Lavin
Founder & CEO, Alpha Lavin Advisors
Hima Chetty
Principal Consultant, Compliance Solutions (Life Sciences)
Trevor Slattery
Director, Medical Device Cybersecurity, Blue Goat Cyber
Get on the Plane: Why the Best Returns Require the Trip
Nick Pachuda
Innovation & New Ventures, Precision Life Science Partners
Buzz Palmer
Co-Founder, CEO, Investor, Medtech Actuator, and Synthesis Capital
Sujit Dike
CEO, Gyder Surgical
Kristine James
CEO, Transmedic Group
Touchpoints that Matter: Building Health Systems for the Next Billion Patients
Vy Tran
President, Asia Pacific and Japan, Siemens Healthineers
Scott Pantel
CEO, LSI
The Archipelago of Innovation: Navigating Japan’s Startup Landscape
Shinya Yamamoto
Professor, Angel Investor, Entrepreneur, Tohoku University
Henry Peck
Chief Business Officer, LSI
Can Asia Produce a Medtech Unicorn?
Abel Ang
Chairperson, Advanced MedTech Investments
Greg Garfield
Senior Managing Director, KCK Medtech
Why We Said No: Lessons From the Investments Family Offices Didn't Make
Omid Akhavan
Managing Director & Founder, Anthro Ventures
Tyler Wanke
Investor, MadSci / Wanke Family Office
Ivanny Franklin
Managing Partner, MedSight Capital
Nicholas Drysdale
Chief Financial Officer, XCath
Mark Wang
Partner, Pureland Global Venture
More than Manufacturing: Developing Integrated R&D, Supply Chain, and Innovation in APAC
Joaquin Lasso
SVP & General Manager, Sports Medicine, Smith+Nephew
Peter Horan
Managing Director, Asia-Pacific, BIOTRONIK
Cindy Koh
Executive Vice President and Member of EXCO, Singapore Economic Development Board
Wee Han Kuek
Vice President, Research and Development, Venture Corporation Limited
Bridging the Gap: Equity and Innovation in Patient Reach
Deepak Sahu
Managing Director, Trinity Life Sciences
Buzz Palmer
Co-Founder, CEO, Investor, Medtech Actuator, and Synthesis Capital
Dr. Shailendra Bajpai
Medical & Public Affairs Director - Asia, embecta
Iris Lin
Head of JAPAC, QuidelOrtho
Samuel Au
CEO, Cornerstone Robotics
How to Engage Clinicians as Investors in Medtech Venture
Gavin Leonard
CEO, MedTech Syndicates
Jeremy Teoh
Urological Surgeon, Clinical Director of Urology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jeyla Sadikova
Co-Founder & CSO, illumicell AI
Michel Bielecki
Co-Founder & CEO, illumicell AI
Wayne Huang
Partner, BE Health Ventures
M&A and Partnerships: How Strategics Approach Asia
David Allen
Vice President, Medtronic
Felicia Chung
Senior Director, Global Business Development, Olympus
Catherine Jennings
President, Peripheral Vascular, Boston Scientific
Akihiro Maeda
Head of Scouting, Medical Device, BD & License Dpt., Teijin
Ryan Roberts
CCO, Veranex
Anchored in Asia, Wired to the World: Singapore’s Innovation Story
Ruey Feng Peh
Head of Innovation, Genesis Medtech Group
Leng Wan Soh
Assistant Managing Director, Enterprise Singapore
Zhi Min Sim
Director Int'l Partnership, Tsinghua Medicine
Yau Chung Wong
CEO, Advance MedTech
The Aging Brain: Challenges and Opportunities in Neurodegeneration and Neurotrauma
Jordi Parramon
CEO, General Partner and Co-founder, Nexus NeuroTech Ventures
Daniel Teo
Managing Partner, Hunniwell Lake Ventures
Caitlin Morse
CEO, BrainSpace
Branden Rosenhan
Founding Partner, MedMountain Ventures
From Scalpel to Software: Reimagining the Surgical Suite
Mike Clouthier
Vice President, Business Development and Licensing, Medtronic
Dr Lynne Lim
Founder & CEO, Nousq
Derrick Yong
Chief Engineer, Biobot Surgical
Eduardo Fonseca
CEO, XCath
Marc Gliner
Deputy Director, Haventure
Strategy and Commercial Infrastructure Needed to Scale Medtech in the U.S.
Fredrik Nyberg
Managing Director Asia Pacific, Medtech Innovator
Ken Nelson
Angel Investor & Partner, MedTech Advantage Fund
David Uffer
Managing Director, MedTech, Trinity Life Sciences
Weronika Michaluk
MedTech Practice Lead, HTD Health
Telling Your Story to Early-Stage Investors
Branden Rosenhan
Founding Partner, MedMountain Ventures
Tiffany Rosenhan
Co-Founder, Jumelle Press
Redefining the Global Standard of Care in Maternal & Fetal Health
Jeyla Sadikova
Co-Founder & CSO, illumicell AI
Thang Vo-Ta
Co-Founder & CEO, Calla Lily Clinical Care
Ruben Molina
CEO & Co-Founder, INNITIUS
Chia-Pin Chang
CTO/Group GM, INEX Innovate
IP Goldmine or Landmine? Investor-Ready IP Strategies
David Schmidt
Partner, Knobbe Martens
Sabrina Wang
Partner, Knobbe Martens
Varun Turlapati
Managing Partner, Chaanakya Capital
Realizing Asia-Pacific’s Promise Through Talent
Supratim Bose
Vice Chairman of the Board, CMR Surgical
David Uffer
Managing Director, MedTech, Trinity Life Sciences
The Australia Advantage: Smart Capital Strategies in a Shifting Global Market
Peter Traianou
President & CEO, Emerging Health Connections
Emily Casey
Community & Partnerships Lead, Tenmile
Matthew Frith
Chief Operating Officer, MedTech Actuator
Peter Vranes
CEO & Co-Founder, Nutromics
Critical Items to Consider When Bringing Your Medtech Startup to the US
Joe Mullings
Chairman & CEO, The Mullings Group Companies
Ajay Nair
Partner, The Mullings Group Companies
Borderless Data: Why One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Angela Paterson
Principal Consultant, Compliance Solutions Life Sciences
Edwin Lindsay
Managing Director and Principal Consultant, Compliance Solutions Life Sciences
David Vu
Program Director, Biomedical Data Hub, A*STAR
Ask the Experts: Globalization Strategy and Partnership Readiness
Ramin Mousavi
President & Chief Executive Officer, CathWorks
Kristi Nakayama
Sr. Vice President, Business Development, Global CRO & Consulting Services, Veranex
Unlocking APAC’s MedTech Potential - A Gateway to Global Success
William Jin
Partner, Mednovation hub
Liang Lu
Vice President / General Manager, Southeast Asia & Pakistan, BD
Touchpoints that Matter: Building Health Systems for the Next Billion Patients
Vy Tran
President, Asia Pacific and Japan, Siemens Healthineers
Scott Pantel
CEO, LSI
What’s Holding Asia Back in Medtech?
Dan Lippis
Corporate Vice President, JAPAC Region, Edwards Lifesciences
John Eng
Vice President, Healthcare, Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB)
The Archipelago of Innovation: Navigating Japan’s Startup Landscape
Shinya Yamamoto
Professor, Angel Investor, Entrepreneur, Tohoku University
Henry Peck
Chief Business Officer, LSI
The Future of Longer, Healthier Lives
Soyoung Park
General Partner, 1004 Venture Partners
Arthur (Yen Yu) Chen
Managing Partner, BE Health Ventures
Ruben de Francisco
Founder & CEO, Onera Health
Linda Seah
VP and GM Emerging Asia, hologic
Seemant Jauhari
Partner Healthcare, Jungle Ventures
Can Asia Produce a Medtech Unicorn?
Abel Ang
Chairperson, Advanced MedTech Investments
Greg Garfield
Senior Managing Director, KCK Medtech
Renal Denervation: Unlocking a New Era in Hypertension Care
Chris Eso
Vice President, Global Head of Corporate and Business Development, M&A and Ventures, Medtronic
Jie Wang
Co-founder, Chairman of the Board, Chief Medical Officer, SyMap Medical
Why We Said No: Lessons From the Investments Family Offices Didn't Make
Omid Akhavan
Managing Director & Founder, Anthro Ventures
Tyler Wanke
Investor, MadSci / Wanke Family Office
Ivanny Franklin
Managing Partner, MedSight Capital
Nicholas Drysdale
Chief Financial Officer, XCath
Mark Wang
Partner, Pureland Global Venture
Singapore’s Unique Approach to Fostering and Backing Healthcare Innovation
Joseph Mocanu
Managing Partner, Verge HealthTech Fund
Jui Lim
CEO, SGInnovate
Danny Belkin
Director, Technology Incubator, SingHealth
Irene Cheong
Assistant Chief Executive, Innovation & Enterprise, A*STAR
Anselm Tan
Digital Health and MedTech Lead, ClavystBio
More than Manufacturing: Developing Integrated R&D, Supply Chain, and Innovation in APAC
Joaquin Lasso
SVP & General Manager, Sports Medicine, Smith+Nephew
Peter Horan
Managing Director, Asia-Pacific, BIOTRONIK
Cindy Koh
Executive Vice President and Member of EXCO, Singapore Economic Development Board
Wee Han Kuek
Vice President, Research and Development, Venture Corporation Limited
Scaling Diagnostics: From Innovation to Infrastructure
Peter Fischer
CEO, InkSpace Imaging
Christina Vallgren
CEO, Terapet
Jeremy Au
Chief Operating Officer, Lucence
Lohendran Baskaran
Director, CVS.AI Research Lab, National Heart Centre Singapore
Adrian Cheong
Founding Partner, Bioworld Ventures
Bridging the Gap: Equity and Innovation in Patient Reach
Deepak Sahu
Managing Director, Trinity Life Sciences
Buzz Palmer
Co-Founder, CEO, Investor, Medtech Actuator, and Synthesis Capital
Dr. Shailendra Bajpai
Medical & Public Affairs Director - Asia, embecta
Iris Lin
Head of JAPAC, QuidelOrtho
Samuel Au
CEO, Cornerstone Robotics
Hard-Learned Secrets to Thinking Big in Asia
Warren Wang
Chairman and CEO, Genesis MedTech Group
Roger Brooks
Founder, RBrooks Group
How to Engage Clinicians as Investors in Medtech Venture
Gavin Leonard
CEO, MedTech Syndicates
Jeremy Teoh
Urological Surgeon, Clinical Director of Urology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jeyla Sadikova
Co-Founder & CSO, illumicell AI
Michel Bielecki
Co-Founder & CEO, illumicell AI
Wayne Huang
Partner, BE Health Ventures
Bioconvergence: The Future of Vision Technology
Assaf Barnea
CEO, Sanara Capital
Ash Attia
CEO, Bionic Vision Technologies
Qizhi Linna Fu
VP Operations And General Manager, China & Hong Kong, STAAR Surgical
Daria Lemann-Blumenthal
CEO, Nanodrops
Almog Aley Raz
CEO, CorNeat Vision
M&A and Partnerships: How Strategics Approach Asia
David Allen
Vice President, Medtronic
Felicia Chung
Senior Director, Global Business Development, Olympus
Catherine Jennings
President, Peripheral Vascular, Boston Scientific
Akihiro Maeda
Head of Scouting, Medical Device, BD & License Dpt., Teijin
Ryan Roberts
CCO, Veranex
Reaching Across Borders: Multinational Corporate Collaboration and Investment in the US and China
Chris Eso
Vice President, Global Head of Corporate and Business Development, M&A and Ventures, Medtronic
Jinghua (Michael) Wang
Managing Director, Greater China Ventures, Medtronic
Helen Yang
Senior Vice President & Chief Investment Officer, Fosun Pharma
Michael Wang
Founding Partner, Sunmed Capital
Anchored in Asia, Wired to the World: Singapore’s Innovation Story
Ruey Feng Peh
Head of Innovation, Genesis Medtech Group
Leng Wan Soh
Assistant Managing Director, Enterprise Singapore
Zhi Min Sim
Director Int'l Partnership, Tsinghua Medicine
Yau Chung Wong
CEO, Advance MedTech
Patchwork or Pathway? Navigating Regulatory Fragmentation in APAC
Carlos Granada
Co-Founder, LearUp Systems
Julia Yuan
General Manager, General Manager Clinical Consultancy Research Center (CCRC)
Gabriel Sim
Director, Strategic Partnerships, Asia Pacific Medical Technology Association (APACMed)
The Aging Brain: Challenges and Opportunities in Neurodegeneration and Neurotrauma
Jordi Parramon
CEO, General Partner and Co-founder, Nexus NeuroTech Ventures
Daniel Teo
Managing Partner, Hunniwell Lake Ventures
Caitlin Morse
CEO, BrainSpace
Branden Rosenhan
Founding Partner, MedMountain Ventures
East Meets West
Yuval Binur
Managing Partner, Arsuf Global Partners
Haisong Tang
Venture Partner China, Sanara Capital
Helen Yang
Senior Vice President & Chief Investment Officer, Fosun Pharma
Cynthia Chen
Chairwoman and President, Pulnovo Medical
Julia Yuan
General Manager, General Manager Clinical Consultancy Research Center (CCRC)
From Scalpel to Software: Reimagining the Surgical Suite
Mike Clouthier
Vice President, Business Development and Licensing, Medtronic
Dr Lynne Lim
Founder & CEO, Nousq
Derrick Yong
Chief Engineer, Biobot Surgical
Eduardo Fonseca
CEO, XCath
Marc Gliner
Deputy Director, Haventure
From Local Insights to Global Impact - Advancing MedTech in Asia Pacific
Glenn Vavoso
Senior Vice President and President, Asia Pacific, Intuitive
Scott Pantel
CEO, LSI
Strategy and Commercial Infrastructure Needed to Scale Medtech in the U.S.
Fredrik Nyberg
Managing Director Asia Pacific, Medtech Innovator
Ken Nelson
Angel Investor & Partner, MedTech Advantage Fund
David Uffer
Managing Director, MedTech, Trinity Life Sciences
Weronika Michaluk
MedTech Practice Lead, HTD Health
Co-Founding Capital: How Investors Are Shaping the Next Generation of Startups
Owen Willis
Founder and General Partner, Opal Ventures
Colin Tan
Investment Director, Coronet Ventures
Eric Loh
CEO, Trendlines Medical Singapore
Pieter Wijffels
Venture Partner, NLC Health Ventures
Amanda Way
Global Program Director, LSI
Telling Your Story to Early-Stage Investors
Branden Rosenhan
Founding Partner, MedMountain Ventures
Tiffany Rosenhan
Co-Founder, Jumelle Press
U.S. Reimbursement Fundamentals
Tonya Dowd, MPH
Executive Vice President, Reimbursement, Health Economics, and Market Access, PRIA Healthcare
Redefining the Global Standard of Care in Maternal & Fetal Health
Jeyla Sadikova
Co-Founder & CSO, illumicell AI
Thang Vo-Ta
Co-Founder & CEO, Calla Lily Clinical Care
Ruben Molina
CEO & Co-Founder, INNITIUS
Chia-Pin Chang
CTO/Group GM, INEX Innovate
New Era: Finding The Right Place for APAC Within The Startup Strategy
Ramin Mousavi
President & Chief Executive Officer, CathWorks
Joe Mullings
Chairman & CEO, The Mullings Group Companies
Omid Akhavan
Managing Director & Founder, Anthro Ventures
Chris Eso
Vice President, Global Head of Corporate and Business Development, M&A and Ventures, Medtronic
Sabrina Wang
Partner, Knobbe Martens
IP Goldmine or Landmine? Investor-Ready IP Strategies
David Schmidt
Partner, Knobbe Martens
Sabrina Wang
Partner, Knobbe Martens
Varun Turlapati
Managing Partner, Chaanakya Capital
Sourcing Innovation: Can Medtech Replicate Biotech’s Asia Playbook?
Adrian Lam
President & CEO, Corvista Health
Cynthia Chen
Chairwoman and President, Pulnovo Medical
Hanson Gifford
Partner, Lightstone Ventures, and The Foundry LLC
Alexis Cheng
Co-Founder & Vice President of Operation & Business Strategy, Cornerstone Robotics
Realizing Asia-Pacific’s Promise Through Talent
Supratim Bose
Vice Chairman of the Board, CMR Surgical
David Uffer
Managing Director, MedTech, Trinity Life Sciences
Building and Scaling Successful MedTech Ventures from Singapore
Mary Kan
Programme Director, MedTech Catapult, A*STAR
Steven Kum
Chief Medical Officer, M&L Healthcare
Jolene Ooi
Partner, Investments, EDBI
Mike Kennewick
Managing Partner, AI Thinktank
The Australia Advantage: Smart Capital Strategies in a Shifting Global Market
Peter Traianou
President & CEO, Emerging Health Connections
Emily Casey
Community & Partnerships Lead, Tenmile
Matthew Frith
Chief Operating Officer, MedTech Actuator
Peter Vranes
CEO & Co-Founder, Nutromics
From Pitch to Partnership: Engaging Investors for Capital and Growth
C David Adair
Founder and Managing Partner, Solas BioVentures
Irit Yaniv
Founding Partner, Almeda Ventures
Josh Berg
Principal Partner, Kindling Investment Partners
Evelyn Tee
Partner, LSC - LifeSciences Consultants
Zoe Zhu
Director, EQT Group
Critical Items to Consider When Bringing Your Medtech Startup to the US
Joe Mullings
Chairman & CEO, The Mullings Group Companies
Ajay Nair
Partner, The Mullings Group Companies
Invisible Risk: Cybersecurity Mistakes That Stall Market Momentum
Sean Lavin
Founder & CEO, Alpha Lavin Advisors
Hima Chetty
Principal Consultant, Compliance Solutions (Life Sciences)
Trevor Slattery
Director, Medical Device Cybersecurity, Blue Goat Cyber
Borderless Data: Why One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Angela Paterson
Principal Consultant, Compliance Solutions Life Sciences
Edwin Lindsay
Managing Director and Principal Consultant, Compliance Solutions Life Sciences
David Vu
Program Director, Biomedical Data Hub, A*STAR
Get on the Plane: Why the Best Returns Require the Trip
Nick Pachuda
Innovation & New Ventures, Precision Life Science Partners
Buzz Palmer
Co-Founder, CEO, Investor, Medtech Actuator, and Synthesis Capital
Sujit Dike
CEO, Gyder Surgical
Kristine James
CEO, Transmedic Group
Ask the Experts: Globalization Strategy and Partnership Readiness
Ramin Mousavi
President & Chief Executive Officer, CathWorks
Kristi Nakayama
Sr. Vice President, Business Development, Global CRO & Consulting Services, Veranex


