"Understanding how to create value in a changing healthcare & life sciences ecosystem"
Silver Sponsor:

8:45 am – 9:15 am
Register
9:15 am – 9:30 am
Welcome by:
9:30 am – 10:00 am
Keynote speech: “Adding Value through Partnerships: the MedCity Experience”
SIMON HOWELL, MedCity, Founding Non-Executive Director | King’s College London, Guy’s Campus Dean (UK)
Download the presentation
10:00 am – 11:30 am
“Future trends and trending topics in the life sciences and healthcare industry”
Presentations from international speakers in each business subsector:
- Biopharma: "Breaking up pharma´s value chain - what can we expect".
MICHAEL MÜLLER, Monacon Beteiligungs GmbH, Managing Partner (Germany)
Download the presentation
- Medtech: “Medtech 2016: Current Trends and Emerging Paradigms”
DAVID CASSAK, Innovation in Medtech LLC, Managing Partner (USA)
[Write an email to s.corbett@medtechinno.com to receive the presentation]
- Digital Health: “Healthcare Evolution: What is Different This Time”
VISHAL GULATI, Draper Esprit, Venture Partner; Horizon Discovery Group PLC, Board Director (United Kingdom)
Download the presentation
Session sponsored by:

11:30 am – 12:15 pm
Coffee break – networking
Sponsored by:

12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
“Successful models of public and private collaboration. Learning from the best on tech transfer and science commercialization”
Download the presentation
- ZAYNA KHAYAT, MaRS Discovery District, Health System Innovation; MaRS EXCITE, Director (Canada)
Download the presentation
Session sponsored by:

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Lunch – networking
3:30 pm – 4:15 pm
“Does Catalonia need a Chief Scientist?”
- MEHRDAD HARIRI, Canadian Science Policy Centre (CPSC), CEO & President (Canada)
Download the presentation
4:15 pm – 5 pm
“Dialogues on the BioRegion: 10 conversations to explain the next 10 years”
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Biocat is kicking off a series of dialogues to deep into topics of interest for all members of the BioRegion of Catalonia
- ANDREU MAS-COLELL, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), President (Catalonia)
- JOSEP M. MARTORELL, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Associate Director (Catalonia)
(Topic: Science)
See the video
5 pm
Conclusions and closing remarks
ALBERT BARBERÀ, Biocat, CEO
[Language: All the sessions will be on English with exception of the "Dialogues on the BioRegion", that will be on Catalan]