Agenda

Exploring the Promise of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)

This Conference is organized by the Southern California Biomedical Council (SoCalBio), the trade association of the bioscience and digital health industries in the Greater Los Angeles region. This event explores Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) technologies that promise to disrupt the $3 trillion US healthcare system. It is also a forum for key providers, payers, entrepreneurs, and investors to share how innovation can improve the delivery of care at lower costs. Furthermore, it provides an opportunity to learn from companies and providers how they are overcoming internal politics and regulation issues to offer IoMT and big data solutions to improve patient care.

Keynote Speakers

Morning Keynote

Dr. Soeren Mattke, Managing Director of RAND Health Advisory Services

Dr. Mattke will deliver the breakfast keynote presentation focusing on “the barriers to entry and diffusion of digital health innovations.”

Dr. Mattke is an expert in evaluating new technologies and products as well as innovative approaches to organizing and delivering health care services, especially for chronic care. He has worked with a long list of leading pharmaceutical, device, and health care technology companies and is helping his clients worldwide on how to measure and communicate the value of their innovations. He is advising clients on strategic planning decisions, product approval applications, coverage and reimbursement strategy, post-market product development, and corporate communications.

Dr. Mattke received his M.D. from the University of Munich and his M.P.H. and D.Sc. from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Luncheon Keynote

James Crawford, Vice President and Group Business Information Officer of Kaiser Permanente

James Crawford is Vice President and Group Business Information Officer for Kaiser Permanente information technology in Southern California. He leads the delivery of information technology to more than 3.7 million Kaiser Permanente members in Southern California, as well as 6,000 physicians and 61,000 employees who work in 14 medical centers and nearly 200 medical offices across the region.

Mr. Crawford has more than 20 years of experience in information technology. Before assuming his current position in 2006, he served various roles within Kaiser Permanente, including Senior Director of Planning and Operations and Regional Chief Information Officer for the Georgia and Ohio regions.

Mr. Crawford holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles

Moderators & Panelists

Wade Ackerman

Attorney

Covington

Pratik Agrawal

Data & Informatics Innovation

Medtronic Diabetes

Patrick Bertagna

President & CEO

GTX

Seamus Blackley

Principal Scientist

Daqri

Peter Blaisdell, PhD

Scientific Advisory Board Member Meditope Biosciences

William Dolphin

Investor and Serial Entrepreneur

Ahmed Enany

President & CEO

SoCalBio

Cesar Garcia

President & CEO

Silvergens

David Hood

President

DH3 Associates

Dan Hurley

VP of IT

Solera Health

Neal Kaufman

Founder & CMO

Canary Health

Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Director

USC Center for CyberPhysical Systems and the Internet of Things

Michael Maylahn

President

Stasis Labs

Onur Mudanyali

Director of R&D

Cellmic LLC

Michael Orosz, PhD

Research Director

USC ISI

Jag Padala

CTO

Tagnos

Dean Sawyer

President & CEO

Sentrian

Ayman Salem

CEO

Ikioo Technologies

Robert Schultz

Device Regulatory Affairs

Amgen

Subbarao Surampudi, PhD

Program Manager

NASA-JPL

Nima Tajbakhsh

Lead Scientist

VoxelCloud

Julian Vergel de Dios

Software Developer

GEM

Scott Witt

Sr. VP

Unified Dispatch LLC

Kevin Zhang

Partner

Upfront Ventures

8:00 am

Introduction

8:15 am

Keynote Presentation:

Consumer vs medical digital health wearables: trends, competitive dynamics, market drivers, emerging applications, and disruptive technologies

8:45 am

Break

8:55 am

Panel I:

Medical wearables hubs: money flows, technology transfer, role of digital titans vs startup activities

9:55 am

Break

10:00 am

Southern California wearable device showcase1:

Applications for medical diagnostics and screening

11:00 am

Break

11:05 am

Southern California wearable device showcase2:

Applications for other medical purposes

12:05 pm

Networking Luncheon:

1:00 pm

Luncheon keynote:

Future of wearables: role of enabling technologies (genomics, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and augmented reality)

1:45 pm

Break

2:00 pm

Southern California enabling technology Showcase 3:

Advances in electronics, sensors and smart material, improvement in connectivity and data transmission and processing, power management systems

3:00 pm

Break

3:05 pm

Panel II:

Consumer adoption, privacy, who owns the data

4:05 pm

Break

4:10 pm

Panel III:

Public policy and regulatory reforms

5:10 pm

Final remarks

5:30 pm

Concluding reception:

Meet the speakers

6:30 pm

Concluding Networking Reception