2023 Speakers

Eric A. Secemsky, MD, MSc, RPVI, FACC, FAHA, FSVM, FSCAI is the Director of Vascular Intervention in the CardioVascular Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Section Head of Interventional Cardiology and Vascular Research at the Smith Center for Outcomes […]

Ashish Shah is the Vice President of Research, Development and Engineering at Viant responsible for the design and development of medical devices in the areas of minimally invasive surgical technologies, drug combination products, orthopedic instrument and devices and bio processing […]

Duncan Smith BEng MBA, is SVP, Managing Partner of the medical business at Sagentia Innovation. With a background in consumer electronics systems development, he spent 15 years in R&D and manufacturing before moving to technology consultancy, where he has worked […]

Sarah A. Solomon is a partner in the firm’s Technology and Life Sciences groups. She currently serves on the firm’s Executive Committee and as a Co-Chair of Women@Goodwin. Sarah represents biotechnology, pharmaceutical and other life sciences companies in connection with […]

David Tallon is Vice President of R&D for Stryker’s Neurosurgical business which he has led for the last 7 years, in addition to leading cross-divisional programs for the development of fully integrated neurotechnology and procedural solutions. He has more than […]

Ibim Tariah Ph.D is the Technical Business Development Director – Medical Devices for SGS North America. Dr. Tariah is a globally well-known and respected expert, with a wealth of knowledge and experience including regulatory knowledge of combination devices, incorporating biologics, […]

Kathryn Unger was named vice president, environmental, social and governance at Boston Scientific in 2022. She previously served in a number of global leadership roles at Cargill, most recently as vice president of North America Government Relations. Prior to Cargill, […]

Jeff Valk is co-founder and CEO of Admetsys. Prior to taking the helm of Admetsys, he was the company’s Chief Technologist, responsible for development of its automated glucose control and continuous diagnostics system for hospital care and the state-of-the-art informatics […]

Richard brings 20+ years’ experience in building international businesses and has throughout his career sought opportunities for positive market disruption through technological application. It was this desire that led him to co-found FundamentalVR to help address an age-old problem for […]

Ryan Watson is the Spine R&D Director for ZimVie. Watson oversees new product introduction (NPI), managing a global team of research and development engineers. He has served ZimVie or its legacy companies in engineering leadership roles for over 8 years. […]

Rebecca joined ZimVie after progressive leadership roles with Zimmer Biomet’s Spine and ASC businesses over the past five years. She brings strong strategic commercial experience in the medical device and healthcare sectors from companies including BD Medical Systems, CR Bard, […]

Sean Whooley is a reporter who traded in the high school sports beat for the medical device beat in August 2019. He spent time covering sports in Twin Falls, Idaho, before returning to his native Massachusetts to report on high […]

Grayson Zulauf has deep expertise in wireless power systems, specializing in wide-bandgap semiconductors for next-generation power electronics. He has held Electrical Engineering, Product Management, and Executive Leadership roles throughout his career, joining Motiv Power Systems as part of the first […]