Financing Healthcare Innovation: Is it working?

Health 2.0 Amsterdammers,

We are the storm chasers, innovators and transformers, who live on the edge, pushing the boundaries of an archaic healthcare system. At the end of the day, our efforts require funding to bring them to life. At this extended event, we will bring together many stakeholders with a number of presenters and panels to learn and contribute to this very important topic and to explore the question of: " Is it actually working?"

What are the first words that come to mind when you hear the word “healthcare”? For many, and forgive my use of hashtags it is: #archaic , #broken, #inefficient, #costly, #manual and the list goes on. While the google trends quick search (http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=healthcare%20innovation) on the words “healthcare innovation” may not be a true indicator of the market, the upward trend certainly correlates with the amount of activity we have been witnessing. Crowdfunding, angels, venture capital, corporate ventures, public funds, public private partnerships, numerous accelerators and incubators and the list continues. So throughout the event we will also engage our presenters into answering a question that is on many people's minds: So what do you do if you are a healthcare innovator with a bright idea? What are your funding choices and pros and cons for each?

Agenda

17:30 Networking: Connect, Create and Cure together

18:00 Event Introduction (Eugene Borukhovich, Steve Seuntjens)

18:10 PHS Portfolio Company Pitch: SkinVision (https://skinvision.com/)

18:20 PHS Portfolio Company Pitch: Qolpac (http://www.qolpac.com/)

18:30 PHS Portfolio Company Pitch: Machtfit (http://www.machtfit.de/)

18:40 Panel 1: The journey of a fundable and funded startup (Moderated by Katarzyna Rabczuk)

It is always great to hear the success stories from startups but the road has many bumps along the way and only a few make it. We will hear from the founders of PHS portfolio companies: what was their journey to get the funds, their lessons learned and go forward scaling of the business goals. We will also get feedback form the venture capital community on what made them invest into their portfolio companies.

Panelists

SkinVision, Qolpac & Machtfit

JulianeZielonka (http://julianezielonka.de/), LARAcompanion

Erik de Heus (http://www.phsfund.com/team/erik-de-heus/), PHS Capital

Janke Dittmer (http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/janke-dittmer/0/aa8/238), Gilde Healthcare

Bernd Mintjes, (http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/bernd-w-mintjes/5/8b0/69) Maxwell Group

19:05 Panel 2: New models of engagement: Can healthcare innovation find a new business model? (Moderated by Steve Seuntjens)

The odds of getting a small pilot is relatively high, but in order for the startup to survive and scale the pilot needs to grow significantly. The health startup ecosystem is absolutely packed with pilots and trials but where does a startup go from there? What are the new business models for healthcare that we are seeing emerge? How can we make these models sustainable and tested?

Panelists

Edward van Wezel (http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/edward-van-wezel/1/3a4/736), Bio Generation

Janke Dittmer (http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/janke-dittmer/0/aa8/238), Gilde Healthcare

Jacco Schutte (http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/jacco-schutte/13/1a/a66), Menzis

Bart Collet (http://be.linkedin.com/in/bartcollet), HealthStartup.eu

19:30 Coffe Break

19:45 Special Message from Sustainable Healthcare Challenge (http://www.sustainablehealthcarechallenge.nl/), Hans Dijkstra

19:50 Panel 3: Public – Private Partnership Models: Myth, reality or is it too early to tell? (Moderated by Eugene Borukhovich)

Public-private partnership is another trendy phrase we keep hearing, but is it working? Are there any success stories? Is there a good marriage in these partnerships? Some think it’s a myth, some believe it is the only way to go forward but many are on the fence. This also highly depends on the country, region and even local municipality. In this intense panel, we will focus on Netherlands to help the local entrepreneurs make the right choice.

Panelists

Jeroen van Duffelen (http://nl.linkedin.com/in/jvduf), ACE Venture Lab

Charles Gimbrere (http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/charles-gimbrere/3a/132/a30), ZorgvoorInnoveren

Paul Pelsmaeker (http://nl.linkedin.com/in/pelsmaeker), TNO

Min-Sung Sean Kim (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/min-sung-sean-kim/20/117/ba0), XL Health

20:10 So where is pharma in all this?

Certainly the pharma industry business model has been and will continue being disrupted so what are some examples on how some of the key players adapting? In this 15 minute presentation, Bayer will present their Grants4Apps program.

Speaker

Jesus Del Valle (http://de.linkedin.com/in/yeysus), Grants4Apps

20:25 Wrap up and closing comments

20:30 Drinks & Networking sponsored by Grants4Apps

As always, we kindly ask you to provide a firm RSVP

Hope to see you there!!!!