Startup Building from Academia to Exit (Medtech | Biotech | Digital Health)

Date: Wed 19th Jan 2022 (3:00 PM London | 10: 00 AM NY)

Meet & hear from successful tech businesses owners, and understand how to build a start-up and bring it in various stages of development to Exit.

Speaker: Tom Hayhurst, Managing Director Horizon Performance Consulting Group

Taylor Cottle, President Johns Hopkins Biotech Network, CEO & Co-founder Aptabridge

Tom Hayhurst has been working closely with biotech start-up companies to advise founders, VC, and executive management on how to build the sales and marketing functions of a startup enterprise.

He has been consulting with executives from pre-IPO/startups to Fortune 500 companies in the healthcare industry. His scope of over 150 clients include device, lab services, point of care, and information management companies.

Taylor Cottle is a devoted cell biologist and biophysicist with experience and a deep interest in bringing biotechnology innovation to patients. He received his B.A. at the University of San Diego in Biochemistry and Music and is currently completing his PhD in Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology at Johns Hopkins.

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Regulatory Essentials for Startups (Medtech | Biotech | Digital Health)

Date: Wed 26th Jan 2022 (3:00 PM London | 10:00 AM NY)

Speaker:

Dr. Carmen Peeß, Managing Director of AstraCon GmbH

Dr. Carmen Peeß studied cell and molecular biology and specialized in molecular immunology and tumour biology. She worked with interdisciplinary project teams in the early product development of anti-tumour drugs, companion diagnostics and diagnostic products at Roche Diagnostics. Carmen joined AstraCon as a project manager and scientific advisor for the pharma and life science segment in 2015. Since then she has become an expert in regulatory affairs and quality management matters. Carmen became a managing director of AstraCon in summer 2017 and uses all her qualities to find solutions for the regulatory challenges of her customers.

Dr. Franziska Baumgarten, Senior Partner and Co-Founder of AstraCon GmbH

Dr. Franziska Baumgarten has over 20 years of experience in the MedTech market, having worked for four renowned Notified Bodies. To better support the customers, she founded AstraCon GmbH in 2015 in Germany. Since then, she has successfully consulted many start-ups and SMBs. Franziska, with her many years of expertise in the medical device sector loves to support clients when they are faced with tricky business decisions and complex strategic planning. With a lot of finesse and an eye for innovative ideas, she helps our clients understand that regulations can indeed be used as a powerful tool and how to leverage them for successful business development.

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Startup Valuation & Investment Deal Negotiation

Date: Wed 23rd Feb 2022 (3:00 PM London | 10: 00 AM NY)

Meet & hear from top-tier minds of business schools INSEAD & LBS on how to value your technology startup & negotiate deals with VCs?

Speaker: Patrick Cox, MBA INSEAD, Venture Associate

Atakan Erdogdu, MFA (Financial Analysis), London Business School

Patrick is a recent MBA graduate from INSEAD Business School. He started his finance career at JP Morgan working across EMEA Equity and Rates Derivatives and later worked for a systematic Long Short Hedge Fund trading across global equity market. During his MBA he has interned in Investment Banking and at a Search Fund, a Private Equity vehicle used for entrepreneurial managers to target and acquire middle market companies to take over and run. He is currently developing a Go-To-Market strategy for a FinTech company, Business Development for an Accelerator and helps Elavity by providing guidance to pre-seed companies. 

Atakan is a Masters in Financial Analysis at London Business School (LBS).

Prior to joining LBS, he worked at BeHive Consulting where he combined the insights from behavioral economics and finance with traditional management consulting methods and provided strategic advice to firms in fintech, insur-tech, telecommunication, and transportation companies.

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IP Value Creation

IP is one of the key components in both early-stage and well-established companies, therefore for medtech, digital health and biotech start-ups its crucial to develop a strong patent strategy right from the start.

ELAVITY jointly with the law firm Vossius & Partner invites you to this online event about the strategic importance of IP and licensing in the context of fundraising.

Topics:

• Developing a strong patent strategy

• Understanding license agreements

• The value of IP in early stage start-ups

Financial Valuation

One of the pitfalls for start-ups is financial valuation. Often the times the academics and entrepreneurs do not have a clear understanding of financial value of the technology companies in their infant stage.

ELAVITY invites you to this online event about the financial valuation of early-stage technology companies in the context of fundraising.

Topics:

• Developing methods for financial valuation

• Understanding the value of technology companies

• The importance of valuation in early stage start-ups

Master Class on Intellectual Property for New Ventures

Date: 9th June 2021 (4:00-6:00 PM CEST/ 9:00-11:00 AM EST)

By: Dr. Philipp Marchand, Patent Lawyer | Dr. Kamran Houshangpoor, Swiss Federal Institute | Dr. Ali Ardakani, Novatuer Ventures

IP is one of the key components in both early-stage and well-established companies, therefore for medtech, digital health and biotech start-ups its crucial to develop a strong patent strategy right from the start.

ELAVITY jointly with the law firm Vossius & Partner, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property and Novateur Ventures, invites you to this Masterclass on Intellectual Property for New Ventures. A variety of topics will be covered as described in below and the strategic importance of IP and licensing in the context of fundraising will be highlighted.

Topics:

• Deep dive into Intellectual Property definition as a key value driver

• Short introduction to the common IP rights else than patents (trademarks, designs and copyright)

• Patents and patentability criteria (technicality, industrial application, novelty and inventive steps)

• Applications of Intellectual Property

• How to use IP to protect your business

• Common strategies to extend protection beyond the 20-year term

• Developing a compelling IP Portfolio

Master Class on Financial Valuation for New Ventures

Date: 23rd June 2021 (4:00-6:00 PM CEST/ 9:00-11:00 AM EST)

By: Emil Jonsson, Finance Consultant , M.Sc. Finance | Dr. Pedro Saffi, Cambridge Judge Business School

One of the pitfalls for start-ups is financial valuation. Often the times the academics and entrepreneurs do not have a clear understanding of financial value of the technology companies in their infant stage.

ELAVITY jointly with Cambridge Judge Business School invites you to this Masterclass on financial valuation of early-stage technology companies in the context of fundraising.

Topics:

• Developing methods for financial valuation

• Understanding the value of technology companies

• The importance of valuation in early stage start-ups

• How to manage finances in new ventures

• Develop a strategy on your fundraising to take maximum return as a founder

• Master the art of valuation as an investor

AI in Healthcare Revolutionizing Diagnostics and Pharma

Date: 30th June 2021 (4:00-6:00 PM CEST/ 9:00-11:00 AM EST)

By: Mitul Shah, Vice President AI, Proscia, USA | Prof. H. Tizhoosh, University of Waterloo, Canada | Jan Miksatkoo, CEO Ententee, Prague | Dr. Sadegh Mohammadi, Senior Data Scientist Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Germany

Artificial Intelligence is the current trend in healthcare and is revolutionizing the industry in various ways. Diagnostics, drug discovery , imaging and decision making support among many other fields has seen major technological advances using AI and ML. In this workshop we intend to learn from academic and industry leaders how AI is transforming the healthcare in early-stage diagnostic, towards therapeutics.

ELAVITY is inviting you to this event with industry and academic leaders of AI and ML in healthcare diagnostics, therapeutics and IT.

Topics:

The Future of AI in Healthcare: Supervised versus Unsupervised"

• Supervision: Learning from examples, variability, generalization• Unsupervision: representation, pattern matching, clustering, visualization• Supervised AI and low hanging fruits in healthcare• Unsupervsion and pervasive problems in medicine

Trends & Challenges in bringing new technologies into current healthcare IT infrastructure.

• How to integrate new software products with existing EMR systems & workflows?• Why data sharing among the providers is still nontrivial? • What are the technical and ethical challenges of patient empowerment apps?

AI trend in Digital Pathology

• The role of AI in future of diagnostics

• Importance of early diagnosis in Cancers

• False positive and False negatives which human eye does not pick.

• The value that AI brings in for Image based diagnosis.

• Challenges in adaptation

• AI as an assistant to Pathologist and Radiologist or replacing them.

Team Building, How to build successful teams in Tech Startups, When/How/Who?

Date: 14th July 2021 (4:00-5:30 PM CEST/ 9:00-10:30 AM EST)

By: Nanci Govinder, Board Member, Entrepreneurship Trainer, and Jury Member and Advisor to start-up companies, Lausanne Switzerland

Yessica González, Head of Human Resources, Hopin, Barcelona

Team is a key factor to success or failure of start-ups. Team is also a key element in investment decisions made by VCs. Without a team in place who shares common values and objectives in long-run organizations would fail.

Hiring process is becoming more expensive for companies, while job market is competitive hiring in tech is challenging due to lack of technical experts and time consuming process of recruitment. If you are a start-up at early stage and would like to learn the key elements to build a successful company or a scale-up at growth stage and trying to cope with the challenge of going from 100-1000 employees within 1 year or a corporate who is seeking to find a balance between HR process in large organization and take some take away on team building this seminar is right one for you.

Topics:

• How to build a successful Team , patterns to follow

• Essentials of team building for start-ups

• Diversity or hiring similar

• How to incentivize employees at early-stage Tech companies

• Roadmap to successful team building essentials for Founders

• Essentials for effective communication

• Leading by example :Hopin a successful start-up journey

• Practical case on how to go from 1-1000 employees in scale up phase

• What makes a successful team

• Establishing agreed team behaviours and communications

• Building team trust

• Clarifying roles within teams

• Developing Leadership

• What is a hiring process like in a scale up Tech company