DUBLIN, IRELAND--(Marketwire - March 27, 2013) - Elsevier Business Intelligence, publisher of “The Gray Sheet” and the medtech industry’s leading provider of strategic partnership and investment conferences, will host the ‘Investment-in-Innovation (IN3) Medical Device 360 degrees Dublin’ partnering and investment conference on April 16-18, 2013, at the The Shelbourne Dublin. This special event will bring together a diverse group of medtech’s key thought leaders from among corporate business development execs, family office, venture capital and angel investors, start-up entrepreneurs and industry pioneers. Program highlights will include:
Keynote Address on Behalf of Eucomed Creating Value in European Healthcare: Transforming the Medtech Business Model to Deliver Value-Based Innovations: Thierry Herbreteau, President, Europe Middle East Africa and Canada (EMEAC), St. Jude Medical.
Strategics on Deal Priorities -- Driving Growth through Different Structures In this interactive session, large device company executives will share their lessons on how they are driving growth through M & A.
- What is the current appetite for deals? Compared to previous years?
- Thin pickings or window of opportunities? How suitable is the startup community in creating the environment to do more deals?
- Building the infrastructure to do more deals.
- Focusing on revenue-generating companies.
- Tuck-in acquisitions vs. white space deals: where to focus?
- Growth through non-traditional markets: which areas can supplement growth?
Confirmed panelists will include: David Cassak (moderator), Vice President, Content, Elsevier Business Intelligence; Steve Levin (moderator), Editor-in-Chief, Elsevier Business Intelligence; Amir Blumenfeld, MD, MHA, Director of Discovery, Edwards Lifesciences; Chad Cornell, Vice President of Corporate Development, Medtronic; Dennis Crowley, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development & Licensing, Covidien; Townsend Goddard, Director of Business Development & Strategic Planning, Stryker; Tomaso Zambelli, Director of Corporate Strategy & Business Development, Sorin Group; Zeev Zehavi, Vice President, Venture Investments, Johnson & Johnson Development Corp.
In addition to all of the customary conference benefits, presenting company CEOs will have the opportunity to be interviewed on camera, at no charge, for a 3-minute exclusive video in which they may discuss their company and technology. These interviews will be featured post-conference at www.in3tv.com, to which a link will be provided to participating companies for their unrestricted use; availability of these video interviews will be broadly promulgated within the medtech industry. All one-on-one interviews with presenting-company CEOs will take place at, and during the IN3 Dublin conference and be organized by medtech PR/IR expert Ronald Trahan, President of Ronald Trahan Associates, Inc. Videotaping will take place on a scheduled basis only, on one day only of the event: Wednesday, April 17, from 13:00-17:30 local time. To schedule the free on-camera interviews contact rctrahan@ronaldtrahan.com, or call +1-508-359-4005, x108.
IN3 Dublin will feature presentations by 36 early development- to commercial-stage start-up device companies seeking funding and/or strategic partnership. Confirmed presenters to date include: Access Bio, Aerogen, Aleva Neurotherapeutics, AltaScience, APICA Cardiovascular, Calon Cardio-Technology, CapeRay, Chronix Biomedical, Crescent Diagnostics, Dialog Devices, Expanding Orthopedics, FBC Device, Glysure, Humedics, i360medical, Infandx, Life Care Medical Devices, Mainstay Medical, Mederi Therapeutics, MedLumics, Miracor Medical Systems, Nano Bridging Molecules, Neuravi, NeuroMed Devices, Nordocs, Novate Medical, Quanta Fluid Solutions, Regenesis Biomedical, Respinova, Revision Optics, Simpirica Spine, SpineLab, Technopath, Vascular Flow Technologies, Veryan Medical, and Vivasure Medical.
Event co-sponsors include Ronald Trahan Associates Inc., Aptiv Solutions, Enterprise Ireland, Eucomed, Eugene F. Collins, IMDA, KPMG, Life Science Intelligence, Marketwire, MassMEDIC, Mass Medical Angels, Medmarc. Meditech, Seroba Kernel and Pharma Connections.
Visit www.in3dublin.com for full conference and registration details. Emerging medtech companies that would like to apply to present in Dublin should contact Kayleen Kell at 949-797-7142, or email k.kell@elsevier.com
About Elsevier Business Intelligence
Elsevier Business Intelligence (EBI), an Elsevier company built on the heritage of F-D-C Reports, Windhover Information and Medtech Insight, is a global information supplier providing business intelligence on regulatory, business and reimbursement issues that are vital to the healthcare industry. Through a range of products including publications, conferences, databases and reports, EBI places biopharma and medical device professionals, and those who focus on these industries, at the forefront of knowledge, by providing the perfect combination of news and information together with penetrating insight and analysis. EBI (www.elsevierbi.com) has offices in the U.S. in Bridgewater, N.J.; Norwalk, Conn.; Rockville, Md.; and Irvine, Calif.
Contact:
Ronald Trahan, APR
Ronald Trahan Associates Inc.
508-359-4005, x108
