DeviceTalks Minnesota is an annual event that allows some of the best minds in medtech to exchange ideas, insights and technologies. Medical Design & Outsourcing’s parent company WTWH Media holds DeviceTalks annually in Boston, Orange County, Calif., and the Twin Cities in Minnesota. It is hosted by MassDevice and attendees can plan to enjoy networking with people […]
DeviceTalks West: Expertise you need to know
Medical device suppliers are light years away from the days when they merely filled orders to spec for medtech OEMs – as a visit to the upcoming DeviceTalks West will quickly confirm. From incorporating steerability into catheters to getting validation and testing done right, the companies serving the medical device industry have become specialized experts in […]
MassMEDIC and DeviceTalks Boston announce partnership to host MedTech Showcase at DeviceTalks Boston in 2018 and 2019
WTWH Media, the parent company of MassDevice.com, Medical Design & Outsourcing and DeviceTalks, is proud to announce an agreement to bring one of the medtech industry’s most respected investor’s conference into its DeviceTalks Boston event. For the next two years, MassMEDIC will host its MedTech Showcase at DeviceTalks Boston in 2018 and 2019, according to the agreement. DeviceTalks, founded in 2011, […]
Want to sell your medtech startup? Be one of these three things
Peter Stebbins meets with a lot of medtech startups as medical device transactions lead at Johnson & Johnson Innovation in Boston. Often, they could benefit from a better grasp of what a buyer is looking for. “It’s not infrequent that someone with an idea perceives it should make sense to J&J, but they don’t understand where our […]
Why you should care about intellectual property
What do early stage companies really need to focus on? Patent attorney David Dykeman says, first and foremost, that it’s intellectual property protection. Dykeman –who co-chairs Greenberg Traurig’s global Life Sciences & Medical Technology Group – will speak at DeviceTalks Boston on October 2. We asked him to give us some ideas on the important issues surrounding […]
DeviceTalks Minnesota: Here’s what you missed
Some of the medical device industry’s top leaders and experts gathered in St. Paul, Minn., in June for DeviceTalks Minnesota. Check out the highlights – and don’t miss DeviceTalks Boston on October 2. [View the story “DeviceTalks Minnesota: Here’s what you missed” on Storify]
5 medtech funding insights you need to know
Venture capital funding isn’t what it used to be for medical device startups, but there are actually reasons to feel optimistic about medtech funding. That was the big takeaway from a four-expert panel at DeviceTalks Minnesota last month. (The next DeviceTalks is Oct. 2 in Boston.) Charlie Whelan, director of transformational health consulting at Frost & Sullivan, […]
What does value mean in healthcare?
“Value” is a word that one hears a lot these days in the medical device industry and healthcare in general, but it’s hard to pin down what it exactly means. Defining what it means matters because public and private healthcare payers in the U.S. and around the world are moving away from traditional fee-for-service payments. […]
3 enduring leadership lessons to boost your medtech success
Brian Johnson, Publisher This one is for the caffeine-addled world-changers out there, who consume leadership memes on Linkedin for breakfast, searching for inspiration with the same passion as a bigfoot truther. For the past 6 years, I’ve interviewed the most successful men and women in the medical device industry at DeviceTalks, a conference I founded […]
Bill Hawkins on his time at Medtronic, Immucor and 25 years in the hot seat | DeviceTalks podcast
For nearly a quarter of a century, William “Bill” Hawkins sat in the corner office of medtech companies of all sizes, before stepping down from Immucor last year to become the Atlanta-based company’s lead director. Hawkins is best known for his 4 years as CEO of Medtronic, where he served in the corner office from […]
CEOs: The medtech investment climate is improving but getting tighter
By Scott Wooldridge The climate for investment in medical device companies is improving but getting tighter, as biotech and pharma horn in on the recovering economy, according to a pair of medtech CEOs speaking at last night’s DeviceTalks: Minnesota event. Entellus Medical (NSDQ:ENTL) CEO Bob White and Martha Shadan, president & CEO at Rotation Medical, spoke with LifeScience Alley CEO Shaye […]
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