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MEDICAL
DEVICES:
The Age of Entrepreneurs
Medical devices present an enticing and lucrative niche
for entrepreneurs. Compared with pharmaceutical development,
medical devices can be conceived, developed, certified, and
marketed within the time frame and budget of entrepreneurs
and their backers. The medical device industry is thriving
in Southern California, with vibrant communities in Orange
County and Los Angeles County. What is the landscape for the
medical device industry in Southern California? What are the
opportunities for entrepreneurs and established companies?
Join us as our expert presenters and panelists help us decide
on the best practices for building long term success and explore
where the opportunities lie.
In this program, we will explore the emerging opportunities
in the medical device field and address issues, such as:
- What is the landscape like in Los Angeles County and
Orange County for medical device entrepreneurs?
- Where are the emerging opportunities in the medical device
field?
- What does it take to move university technology to the
market place?
- How do technology companies with established products
in other fields recognize the opportunities in the medical
device industry and how do they port their technology to
the medical device field?
- What are the pitfalls in starting and growing successful
medical device companies?
- What are the areas to avoid?
- What types of management teams are important for success
in the emerging medical device industry?
- What are the major concerns of investors in the medical
device industry? How are such concerns best addressed?
- How can an entrepreneur without specific technical skills
succeed in founding and growing medical device company?
Our presenters and panelists will answer these questions and
more...
Dr. Herbert D. Zeman, President of CONENHILL, INC.,
Prof. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of
Tennessee Health Science Center.
Gordon Benhard, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Elpac Electronics Inc.
John Dalfonsi, Managing Director, Roth Capital
Partners
Roger Zickfeld, Managing Director Coldwater Associates.
Jerry Gallwas, The Beckman Foundation
Scott R.Carter, Assistant Director, Office of
Technology Transfer California Institute of Technology
Steve Halasey, Group editor for MX: Business Strategies
for Medical Technology Executives and IVD Technology, both
publications of Canon Communications (Los Angeles).
MODERATOR
Russell M. Frandsen, Attorney, Squire Sanders &
Dempsey, LLP
PRODUCERS
Russell M. Frandsen, Attorney, Squire Sanders &
Dempsey, LLP
Lynn Foster, Emerging Technologies Director,
Greenberg & Traurig, LLP
Christie Parker & Hale
Christie, Parker and Hale LLP is a Pasadena-based intellectual
property law firm. The firm was founded over forty years ago,
and now has over thirty lawyers who specialize in the law
of patents, copyrights, trademarks, unfair competition, and
related technological, licensing and litigation issues. The
lawyers of the firm have expertise and experience in a broad
range of technologies, including computer hardware and software,
semiconductors, electronics, communications, physics, chemistry
and chemical engineering, biotechnology, materials science,
and mechanical engineering.
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Registration,
Networking and Complimentary Dinner:
5:30 p.m. at Chandler Dining Hall
Program:
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Baxter Lecture Hall
$40.00 per person ($10 for full-time students with student
ID's; free to Caltech students and faculty)
Registrations are taken by fax, email and on-line up to 12:00
noon the day of the event. Pre-registration and pre-payment
are required for this event. There
are no refunds for no-shows.
Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum
Industrial Relations Center 1-90
383 S. Hill Avenue
Pasadena, California 91106
626 395-3916 Fax: 626 795-7174
entfor@caltech.edu
http://www.entforum.caltech.edu
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