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mARCH 9TH | Houston, TX | TMCi |  1:00pm - 6:30pm

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Greenlight Guru teamed up with Velentium and Rook Quality Systems at the TMC Innovation Center for a day full of networking and quite a few amazing speakers. Houston's top medical device quality, regulatory, clinical data, and engineering professionals filled the room connecting the Houston Medtech community.

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  Time: 1:00pm - 6:30pm 

   Location: Houston, TX

  Venue: Texas Medical Center Innovation

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Agenda


 

1:00 pm: Arrival & Networking

Enjoy networking with your peers who make up the medical device community of Houston, TX.

2:00 pm: Panel: Understanding Strategies, Opportunities, and Challenges for MedTech 

A panel featuring Joanna Nathan, Larry Lawson, Alex Arevalos PhD and, Kyle Rose will share their personal stories, experiences, and thoughts on the future of the industry and the MedTech Ecosystem in Houston.
 
Join to understand the top challenges, strategies, and opportunities in MedTech that impact product development and quality management and how leaders are addressing and adapting to these concerns. Plus, ask the experts live questions following the discussion!
 

3:15 pm: The Global Medical Device Podcast: Live

Join Dan Purvis, CEO of Velentium as he sits down with Etienne Nichols to discuss his experience leading Velentium through serving on the frontlines of the pandemic response. He'll share insights on how investing in culture when things are calm enables medtech firms to survive crises and thrive on challenge.
 

4:15 pm: Roundtable Discussions

Work hands-on with peers to discuss challenges and learn skills that can impact your business
 

5:00 pm: Networking + Hors d'oeuvres + Drinks

Each city’s top medtech professionals are invited to attend and enjoy our specially selected drinks and hors d'oeuvres.
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ABOUT THE ROADSHOW

The Greenlight Guru True Quality Roadshow brings together MedTech leaders in quality, regulatory, clinical, and product development to learn industry best practices and trends, meet their local MedTech community, and find inspiration to continue improving the quality of life.

Join us (for free!) to connect with expert speakers, attend engaging workshops, and enjoy ample networking that is sure to deliver important connections and learnings just for MedTech leaders in this new era of work.

 

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Guest Speakers

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Dan-Purvis

Dan Purvis

President – Owner | Velentium

Dan Purvis

President – Owner | Velentium

A serial entrepreneur and the founder of six companies, Dan Purvis has deep experience with small business. An engineering graduate of Texas A&M with an MBA from Rice University, Dan brings 25 years of practical know-how in creating corporate environments that people want to work in and clients want to engage. Dan realized that if you seek revenue first, relegate “culture” to a poster slogan, and shoehorn in customer care, you’ll reap dysfunction. But if you make promises you keep, put client success on par with your own, protect your people and keep operations human—then loyalty, referrals, growth, and profit will follow. And the way to do that is through culture.
 
Velentium, Dan’s current firm, began as a two-person operation in 2012. It currently ranks #34 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing privately-held engineering companies nationwide, and has averaged 50% annual growth since its inception. As a result, Dan and Velentium co-founder Tim Carroll were named 2021's Entrepreneur of the Year - Gulf Coast. Dan's recent book, 28 Days to Save the World: Crafting Your Culture to be Ready for Anything, was hailed as a "Must-Read" by the Next Big Idea Club.
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Kyle Rose

President | Rook Quality Systems

Kyle Rose

President | Rook Quality Systems

Medical Device expert specializing in development of efficient Quality Systems for small and startup medical device companies. As President of Rook Quality Systems, Mr. Rose works as a contract Quality Manager for multiple medical device companies, overseeing overall quality strategy, and ensuring compliance through documentation and auditing services. Mr. Rose is a certified quality auditor (CQA) and has regulatory and submission experience for a variety of markets, including FDA, CE Mark, Health Canada, and CFDA. Mr. Rose encourages the simplification of Quality Systems to reduce the quality burden and improve compliance through training and efficient QS design.

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Joanna Nathan

Co-Founder & CEO | Prana Thoracic

Joanna Nathan

Co-Founder & CEO | Prana Thoracic

I am an investor turned entrepreneur on a mission to improve outcomes for lung cancer patients as the CEO of Prana Thoracic. Our technology is the first minimally invasive medical device to enable early diagnosis and intervention in lung cancer.

At the start of my career, I received the gift of entrepreneurship, an unexpected pivot that changed my path from research to innovation. My roles as Research Engineer at Texas Heart Institute and Director of Product Development at Saranas taught me what it takes to bring innovative technologies from idea to reality. My work at Mercury Fund, followed by my role as New Ventures Manager at Johnson & Johnson MedTech Center for Device Innovation expanded my perspective on innovation to include the investor mindset and ultimately led me to step back into an entrepreneurial role with Prana Thoracic.

I am invested in growing and supporting Houston’s life science community. I’ve mentored countless founders, and continue to advocate for students and aspiring entrepreneurs, as co-founder of Enventure and as President of the Board for Rice University Engineering Alumni.

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Larry Lawson

Founder & Executive Chairman | Proxima CRO, Formerly Preventice Solutions

Larry Lawson

Founder & Executive Chairman | Proxima CRO, Formerly Preventice Solutions

Larry Lawson is a Founder and Executive Chairman at Proxima. He has 45+ years of experience in the healthcare industry.

He has been the founder, board member, and executive at several medical device companies: eCardio Diagnostics, Decisio Health, HeartcoR Solutions, and Preventice. He is an Angel Investor with the Goose Society, TMC Venture Fund, and Angel MD.

He is a Distinguished American Award recipient from the Horatio Alger Association.

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Alex Arevalos PhD

CEO | Starling Medical

Alex Arevalos PhD

CEO | Starling Medical

I am a serial medical device entrepreneur with 13+ years of C-level management of innovative medical device startups including Saranas, Alleviant Medical, and now Starling Medical. Beyond leading a diverse array of technical teams, I have direct experience in fundraising, business development, value analysis, operations, and regulatory strategy.

At Starling we are bringing the future of an AI centered proactive and predictive healthcare system to patients today. We are building the world's first continuous at home urinary diagnostic remote monitoring platform that seamlessly integrates into anyone's bathroom routine. By detecting changes in patient's urine over time with our novel toilet indwelling device and our digital health infrastructure, we are capable of identifying exacerbations of a patient's chronic condition early and preventing life threatening hospitalizations.

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Etienne Nichols

Medical Device Guru | Greenlight Guru

Etienne Nichols

Medical Device Guru | Greenlight Guru

Etienne Nichols is a Medical Device Guru and Mechanical Engineer who loves learning and teaching how systems work together. He has both manufacturing and product development experience, even aiding in the development of combination drug-delivery devices, from startup to Fortune 500 companies and holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. Having managed cross-functional teams to update designs of legacy products, Etienne understands the pain of following the Design Controls process in paper-based QMS environment. His expansive knowledge, experience, and passion with medical devices is evenly matched with how much he enjoys helping customers work efficiently through the design and development process to bring safe, high quality products to market.

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