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Network and Collaborate to Bring Innovations to Market
The NASS Innovation Summit explores the business and innovation lifecycle of medical technologies, helping you move your cutting-edge products and ideas to market. You’ll network and collaborate with other medical professionals, entrepreneurs, investors, and recognized leaders and pioneers in innovation who will help you discover your personal roadmap to success!
Overcome your challenges, get solutions and expert guidance through discussion forums, roundtable discussions, mentorship and spine pitch opportunities. Hear exclusive insights from top business executives and influential investors to take your ideas to the next level.
Day one will focus on a market overview and funding opportunities. Day two topics will address securing your IP, monetizing your product and gaining market access.
Register now to secure your seat at this extraordinary opportunity to learn, connect and grow your knowledge on medical device innovation.
Bridging the Gap from Concept to Commercialization
"With very limited acquisitions, 95% of startups failing, and funding increasingly scarce, understanding the right pathway to success has never been more critical. The NASS Innovation NetWORK Summit is designed to address these challenges head-on, serving as a unique collaboration focused on business design, achieving product-market fit, and bridging the gap from concept to commercialization.”
Alyssa Huffman, CEO of Allumin8
Gain Cutting-Edge Information on New Technologies and Biotech Solutions
NASS has a strong commitment to supporting and promoting innovation in spine care and spine surgery. The NASS Innovation summit will bring together clinicians, scientists, academicians, Medtech and Biotech companies and key industry thought leaders to share knowledge and new developments. This conference is unique in the spine space and is truly a "must attend" event for anyone wanting to get the cutting edge information on new technologies and biotech solutions in the spine and spinal cord areas.
Michael G. Fehlings, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACS, FRSC, FCAHS
Innovating In the Relentless Pursuit of Eradicating Spine Pathology
"The NASS in Innovation Summit brings together the most diverse group of professionals with one goal in mind, improve spinal care across the entire continuum of care. Business leaders, government leaders, hospital leaders, scientists and clinicians will all be discussing, debating and taking into account, the economics, the regulatory concerns, and the steps towards innovating In the relentless pursuit of eradicating spine pathology."
Isador Lieberman, MD
Program Committee
Zoher Ghogawala, MD Izzy Lieberman, MD Mike Wang, MD, NS Zori Buser, PhD, MBA Scott Kreiner, MD Michael Fehlings, MD Chris Kauffman, MD Greg Banker Marc Viscogliosi Alyssa Huffman, MBA Uri Hadelsberg, MD, MBA Eric Muehlbauer, MJ, CAE Christina Wolf
Program Topics
Day One: Market Overview and Funding Opportunities
- Overall Spine Market Outlook
- Current issues in the MedTech Innovation Ecosystem
- The Hidden Truth in Funding Spine Innovation
- Early-Stage Funding in Spine: Bootstrapping, Surgeon Angels, and Strategic Seed Capital
- Venture, Strategic, and Private Equity Funding: When More Money Becomes a Risk in Spine Innovation
- Alternative Funding Models: Grants, Health System Partnerships and Distributor Capital
- Clinician-innovator: Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs
Day Two : Securing your IP, Monetizing Your Product and Gaining Market Access
- Patent Strategy for New Spinal Technology: Protecting Innovation from Concept to Market
- FDA Approval: Securing a Breakthrough Device Designation
- Coding for New Technologies
- Payer Perspective on New Technologies
- How Health Systems Really Decide: A Playbook for Startups Trying to Enter Spine Hospital Inventories
- The Spine Surgeon’s Role in Adoption: Physician Alignment, Data Transparency, and Trust in the Innovation Process
- Spine Innovation Pitches