| Time |
Title |
Speakers/Moderators |
| Thursday,
June 10th |
|
2:00pm-5:30pm
Pavilion Reception
|
Registration
|
|
4:15pm-5:30pm
Pavilion 1 & 2
|
Converging: Robotics &
Healthcare
The Psychology of Patient Behavior
A Progress Report from the
Mass. Life Sciences Center
|
Speakers:
Tod Loofbourrow, President, iRobot Healthcare
Business Unit
David
Rose, Founder, Vitality
Susan
Windham-Bannister, PhD, CEO,
Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
Moderator:
Jeff Krasner, Managing Director, Krasner Health Strategies
|
5:30pm-7:00pm
Garden Terrace
|
Opening Cocktail Reception
|
|
| 7:00pm- |
Dinner
on the town (with fellow attendees)
|
|
| Friday,
June 11th |
|
7:30am-4:00pm
Pavilion Reception
|
Registration |
|
7:30am-8:30am
twenty eight Atlantic
|
Breakfast
|
|
8:30am-9:00am
Grand Pavilion
|
Welcome and Introductions
|
|
9:00am-10:00am
Grand Pavilion |
Diagnostics Innovation:
Where We're Heading |
Speakers:
Mara Aspinall, CEO,
On-Q-ity
Doug
Levinson, PhD, President and CEO, Seventh
Sense Biosystems
Bill Pignato, Global Head of Regulatory
Affairs, Novartis Molecular Diagnostics
Donald Pogorzelski, President, Genzyme
Diagnostic Products
William Rodriguez, MD, CEO, Daktari Diagnostics
Moderator:
Una Ryan,
OBE, PhD, CEO, Diagnostics for All
|
| 10:00am-10:30am |
Networking Break
|
|
| 10:00am-11:30am |
Guest
Activity: Harbor
Cruise departing from Wequassett boat launch
|
|
10:30am-11:30am
Grand Pavilion |
A Dispatch from the Labs:
Boundary-Breaking Research |
Speakers:
Donald
Ingber, MD, PhD, Founding Director, The
Wyss Institute
George
King, MD, Director of Research, Joslin Diabetes
Center
Moderator:
Michael Gilman, PhD, CEO, Stromedix
|
| 10:30am-11:30am |
Children's
Activity: Sandcastle
building on the Wequassett beach (all ages welcome)
|
|
| 11:30am-11:45am |
Networking Break
|
|
11:45am-12:30pm
Grand Pavilion |
The
News from PhRMA / The Big Picture in Life Sciences VC
|
Speaker:
Scott LaGanga,
Senior Director, Alliances, Affordability and Access, PhRMA
Terry
McGuire, Co-Founder, Polaris Venture Partners
Moderator:
Ansbert Gadicke,
MD, Managing Director, MPM Capital
|
12:30pm-1:45pm
Garden Terrace
|
Lunch
|
|
1:45pm-2:45pm
Grand Pavilion |
Reality
Check: Business Models for Personalized Medicine |
Speakers:
John Glaser, PhD, VP and CIO, Partners Healthcare
Raju
Kucherlapati, PhD, Paul C. Cabot Professor of
Genetics, Harvard Medical School Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women�s Hospital
Dietrich Stephan, PhD, CEO, Ignite Institute
Reed
Tuckson, MD, EVP and Chief of Medical Affairs,
UnitedHealth Group
Moderator:
Jeff Elton, PhD, Kew Group; formerly COO,
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
|
| 2:45pm-3:00pm |
Networking Break
|
|
3:00pm-4:00pm
Grand Pavilion |
Adventures in Venture:
CEOs and Investors on the New Dynamics of
Corporate Investment
|
Speakers:
Steven Hall, PhD, Venture Partner, Lilly
Ventures
David Steinberg, Founding CEO, Enlight
Biosciences; partner, PureTech Ventures
Jeff Steinle, Senior
Director, Medtronic
Joseph Yanchik, CEO, Aileron Therapeutics
Moderator:
Maggie Leflore, PhD, Managing Director,
MedImmune
Ventures, Inc.
|
| 4:30pm-6:30pm |
Participant
and Guest Activity: Boating on Pleasant Bay (at
the Wequassett)
|
|
| 6:00pm-10:00pm |
Children's
Program
at the Wequassett Children's Center (dinner
included)
|
|
7:00pm-10:00pm
Outer Bar |
New
England Clambake
(Convergence attendees are welcome
to have 1 guest join them.)
|
|
| Saturday,
June 12th |
|
8:00am-12:00pm
Pavilion Reception
|
Registration |
|
8:00am-9:00am
twenty eight Atlantic
|
Breakfast
|
|
9:00am-10:00am
Grand Pavilion |
The
Research Agenda: Priorities, Collaborations, and
Achieving Optimal Productivity |
Speakers:
Richard
Gregory PhD, Sr. VP, Head of Research,
Genzyme
Peter Mueller, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer,
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Al
Sandrock, Jr., MD, PhD, SVP of Neurology R&D,
Biogen Idec
Moderator:
Alison
Taunton-Rigby, PhD, OBE,
CEO, RiboNovix
|
| 9:30am-10:30am |
Guest
Activity: Yoga
on the beach
|
|
| 10:00am-10:30am |
Networking Break
|
|
10:30am-11:30am
Grand Pavlion |
From My Perspective:
The
Biotech Opportunity in Asia / The Re-Start / The
State of Partnerships
|
Speakers:
Earl "Duke"
Collier, Jr., CEO, deCode
genetics
Michael Lytton, EVP of Corporate Development,
Biogen Idec
Stephen
Knight, MD, Managing Partner, Fidelity
BioSciences
Moderators:
Scott
Kirsner, Innovation Economy columnist,
Boston Globe
Amir
Nashat, PhD, General Partner,
Polaris Venture Partners
|
| 10:45am-11:45am |
Children's
Activity: Yoga
on the beach
|
|
| 11:30am-11:45am |
Networking Break
|
|
11:45am-12:30pm
Grand Pavilion |
How
"Connected Health" Will Transform Healthcare
Delivery (This final session is open to guests of
registered participants.)
|
Introduction:
Bruce Rychlik,
Managing Director, Life Sciences, J. Robert Scott
Speaker:
Joseph
Kvedar, MD, Director, Center for Connected
Health |
12:30pm-1:30pm
Garden Terrace
|
Closing Lunch
|
|
| 2:00pm-4:00pm |
Participant
and Guest Activity: Excursion
to Chatham's Outer Beach
|
|
