Medventions 2024 Fall Lecture Series

The Medventions 2024 Fall Lecture Series is a hybrid (in-person and virtual) educational series designed to equip the next generation of medtech innovators with the knowledge and skills they need to transform healthcare. The Lecture Series offers an excellent opportunity to learn about health technology innovation, how to validate healthcare needs, invent new medical technology products, and plan for their implementation into patient care.
Each lecture is one hour. Select lectures will include an accompanying networking and workshopping portion. The networking portion is thirty minutes. The workshopping portion is one and a half hours. Attendees who attend in-person will be able to attend the networking and workshop portion. Lectures with a supporting workshop will include a light meal for in-person attendees. Virtual attendees will only be able to attend the lecture portion.

Medventions Lecture Series attendees can earn a Certificate in Medical Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship by attending eleven (11) or more lectures. Attendees interested in enrolling in the certificate program must indicate upon registration through Eventbrite. Attendees interested in obtaining a certificate must attend the lectures in-person. Certificates will be awarded at the end of the Lecture Series to eligible attendees.

LECTURE ONE - The Medical Technology Ecosystem in Canada

LECTURE TWO - Healthcare Entrepreneurship & Start-Up Strategy

LECTURE THREE + WORKSHOP - Market Research & Analysis

LECTURE FOUR + WORKSHOP - Health Design Thinking

LECTURE FIVE + WORKSHOP - Business Models and Fundamentals of Medical Device Finance and Fundraising

LECTURE SIX + WORKSHOP - Technology Transfer & IP Fundamentals

LECTURE SEVEN + WORKSHOP - Medical Device Regulation

LECTURE EIGHT + WORKSHOP - Reimbursement & Health Economics

LECTURE NINE - Pitching to Investors – Swimming with the Sharks

LECTURE TEN - R&D and clinical strategy

LECTURE ELEVEN + WORKSHOP - The Exit Path: Medtech Investors and Investments

LECTURE TWELVE - Quality and process management

LECTURE THIRTEEN - Marketing and sales distribution in medtech

LECTURE FOURTEEN - To be announced

Host or Publisher Sunnybrook Research Institute