Health Tech Speed Clinic #2

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Dear All,

Health Tech Speed Clinic returns!

The fast-paced event focusing on the med/health tech start-up and product commercialisation scene in Singapore returns for another year. We're all set to go!

Our Co-organisers

ISS-NUS (https://www.iss.nus.edu.sg/centres-of-excellence/smart-health-leadership-centre/discover), Smart Health Leadership Centre

APCO Worldwide (http://www.apcoworldwide.com/)

Venue Sponsor: CoSpace Parks

food/drinks provided

6"Brutally Honest Panellists" - self-explanatory.

First up is Amanda Douglas,

Senior Director in APCO Worldwide's Singapore office, specializes in government relations, policy/regulatory analysis, and patient engagement. With more than 15 years of Asia-Pacific experience, she provides counsel to clients in the health care IT, medical device, pharma, and consumer health fields. Her clients range from Fortune 500 companies to SMEs to industry associations, such as the Advanced Medical Technologies Association (AdvaMed). Her expertise in Asia-Pacific strategic communications, crisis management, high stakes negotiations, and intellectual property stems from seven years in civil service as a trade negotiator at the US Department of Commerce. She received her MA degree from Johns Hopkins University and reads and speaks Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese.

Yuichiro Miki

Columbia Asia Group's Head of New initiatives and Strategy.

Yuichiro currently resides in KL, and previously worked in Singapore and Japan for Mitsui & Co. Ltd. Yuichiro brings his broad experience in healthcare investment, finance, supply chain management, factory operation, business development in Asia Pacific to us, and brings the corporate investment perspective.

Tan Gay Li,

is a global marketing professional with a passion for innovation, with a broad-based, well-rounded experience in consumer healthcare, OTC, medical devices and pharmaceutical industries. Gay Li is now responsible for identifying, leading and driving early stage innovation projects for Pain Relief Category in GSK, qualifying technical feasibility and consumer need relevance. Gay Li was previously responsible strategic marketing for Zimmer-Biomet, and for product life-cycle management of cardiac surgery medical device portfolio in APAC including activities like product launches, development of reimbursement and market growth strategies, in Edwards Lifesciences.

Srikanth Nott

is an experienced business veteran of technology-driven businesses in the healthcare, wellness, electrical and electronic sectors, with significant exposure to all of Asia’s emerging markets, including considerable time spent in China. His expertise focuses on managing large business transformation initiatives and has actively driven change through digital technology, in professional and consumer businesses. Srikanth managed businesses of Philips across Korea, Pacific and the ASEAN regions, building the brand in health & wellness, personal care and in appliances for the home. Functional experiences are in general management, innovation cycle management, commercial operations, project management, supply chain operations, business process redesign and in consumer marketing.

Ling Nee Ker

Ling Nee Ker is the Asst Director with Dept Of Knowledge and Innovation at Woodlands Health Campus, Director at MEDLOOK (New Zealand) and Advisor to SPEEDOC. He brings us his experience in hospital planning, healthcare software and hardware product design and development. Nee Ker also spent significant time in the semiconductor industry and product marketing, holding various positions in design, development, technical support, sales and marketing. It is his passion to contribute to the improvement in care delivery and clinical outcome.

And finally, Tamsin Greulich-Smith

is a skilled risk communications, leadership, and innovation professional, specialising in public health, with more than 20 years of international experience in leading and delivering fully integrated strategic communications, design and transformation programmes. Tamsin currently heads the Smart Health Leadership Centre at the National University of Singapore’s Institute of Systems Science and is responsible for establishing the Centre in order to assist stakeholders within the broad health ecosystem to transform the future experience of health through data, technology and innovation.

...to 'grill' the 2 brave companies to be on stage.

The opportunity for med/health tech companies to support the transformation of healthcare continues to grow, with the health tech startup sector playing an important role in supporting the ongoing evolution of healthcare. This event aims to provide practical insights to support aspiring health tech start-ups, as well as those seeking to commercialise new products, in maximising their impacts.

The Health Tech Speed Clinic will take a quick, direct, yet penetrating look at healthcare and medtech companies in their steps towards product commercialisation and market entry.

Pointing the spotlight on two brave companies, the Clinic will put them through the piercing judgement of a healthcare industry expert panel, who will assess and evaluate their efforts towards product commercialisation, diagnosing strengths and weaknesses, and prescribing recommendations to support successful outcomes.

Company #1 - Innovationskraft Pte Ltd

Innovationskraft Pte. Ltd. is a spin-off start-up that resulted from a final-year project done under the Engineering Design and Innovation Centre in National University of Singapore, Faculty of Engineering

With the rising incidence of stroke and illnesses that lead to it, the number of stroke victims is set to increase in the future. Yet, the number of medical professionals involved in the rehabilitation efforts of stroke victims is not expected to increase. Innovationskraft seeks to replace the traditional method of mirror therapy and improve the efficiency of medical professionals especially physiotherapists, allowing them to treat more patients, more effectively. This would reduce the therapy duration for the elderly, with less time spent in hospitals and clinics.

Company #2 - Sprightly Pte Ltd.

Springhtly Pte. Ltd. is here to build digital health technology to address the challenge of capturing patient-reported data / outcomes and integrating this information into physician and healthcare provider decision-making processes. The objective is to support improved outcomes for patients, clinicians and the healthcare system

Then, remember the two companies that had gone through the Speed Clinic last year? Yes, we're going to bring one of them back (NephTech (http://www.nephtech.com.sg/)), and share their progress, one year on.

Program

Here’s the program.

6.00pm – Prep/Reception/Registrations and networking

6.30pm – Introduction and briefing from panels about what to look out for (a few minutes per panellist)

7.00pm – Company 1 pitch

7.15pm – Grilling by panellists

7.30pm – Company 2 pitch

7.45pm – Grilling by panellists

8.15pm - previous company sharing their progress 1 year on

8.30pm – Open discussion

9.00pm – End

The panellists are free to provide guidance to the two companies thereafter, and for that matter, anyone from our group that gets in touch with them.

Networking

And as usual, you’d get to meet people that have the same interests, needs and wants as you do, so it’ll be a lot of fun!

We can’t do self-introductions as per our group practices, but we hope like-minded folks can gather, pool resources or even seek help collectively to further the sharing economy.

Although this event is held in Singapore, we'll look to have video conferencing for such meetups - happen to have a friend that learnt how to do this in his meetup events.

Not your usual speaker or panel discussion kind of event. Something different, hopefully fun and useful!

Cheers, Ee Bin