37 °C Health Tech
Health Tech & Life Science Business Conference
Welcome to 37 ºC
The healthtech and lifescience conference and networking oppurtunity of the year.
37 ºC presents an excellent occasion for participating in discussions, product demonstrations and networking, all leading to new business collaborations.
Presentations, panels and discussions will be aimed at providing you with commercial and academic output, stimulate economic and technological development, formation of new alliances for international cooperation, and spark the creation of new technology ventures and new investments
Speakers 2019
17th-18th June, Stavanger Forum
Bent Høie
Norwegian Minister
The Minister of Health and Care is responsible for hospitals, health services in the municipalities, general health care and mental health.
Norwegian ministry of health and Care services
Naeem Zahid
MD, PhD, Senior Business Developer
Naeem Zahid is a business developer at Telenor. He works with digitalization of work processes at hospital to increase efficiencies and reduce burden for patients.
Trained as a surgeon, PhD in public health and MBA, he has hands on experience with delivering both healthcare and developing new solutions.
His main interests are new technologies such as 5G and AI.
Telenor
Kathrine Myhre
CEO
Kathrine Myhre established the health cluster Norway Health Tech (previously named Oslo Medtech) in 2009 and has since then been the CEO of the organization. Norway Health Tech was awarded NCE (Norwegian Centre of Expertise) by Innovation Norway’s cluster program in 2015 and received Gold Label-status by the European cluster organization in 2016 and is a non-for-profit member organization focusing on innovation in the health space.
She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oslo in political science and built on this for her Master degree in Political Science from the University of Reading, UK in 2001. She then went on to working with innovation strategies and business creation based on novel research from the University of Oslo (UiO) until 2008 – from 2004 until 2008 as the Director of Innovation at Birkeland Innovation (now Inven2), the technology transfer office at University of Oslo.
From 2008 she held the position as Director of Innovation at the company IT Fornebu. It was from this position the concept of Norway Health Tech was formed and launched in 2009.
Kathrine Myhre has initiated and led numerous strategic and innovative processes and projects, within a broad spectrum: conduction of creative processes, market analysis, business creation, handling of IPR, marketing and sales and facilitating financing of key projects and businesses.
Kathrine Myhre has over the years built a solid network in the health sector, nationally and globally, and is a renowned speaker in the field of health innovation and technology.
Norway Health Tech
Lance Black
Associate Director, TMCx
Lance Black, MD, MBID is the Associate Director of the Texas Medical Center’s TMCx Accelerator program.
Also within the TMC Innovation umbrella, Lance served previously as Medical Device Innovation Lead – where he utilized his extensive military, medical, and engineering expertise to support the resident companies of TMCx in developing innovative healthcare technologies.
After earning his B.S. in Biological Engineering from Louisiana State University and his M.D. from LSU Health Sciences Center of New Orleans, Lance entered the U.S. Air Force, where he completed a residency in family medicine with additional training in aerospace medicine. He had the opportunity to deploy twice during his service – first as Chief of the Medical Staff at Manas Transit Base in Kyrgyzstan – and then as a Squadron Flight Surgeon in Okinawa, Japan. During his time in Manas, Lance helped to create a mobile modular medical facility aimed to uplift the surrounding defunct healthcare system. In Japan, he responded to in-flight emergencies and orchestrated protocols ensuring the safety of F-22 pilots and their crew.
His work with wounded warrior amputees during his military career and his background in biological engineering prompted him to refocus his efforts from patient care to the design and development of medical devices. Following the completion of his commitment to the military, Lance attended Georgia Tech’s Masters of Biomedical Innovation and Development program – which included one year in its Masters of Industrial Design program.
“I believe proximity is key in everything we do here at TMC Innovation,” Lance emphasized. He added, “When you are close to something, you develop a new understanding of it and your whole person, physical and emotional, draws into focus. That is why I believe in what I do – because a lot of entrepreneurs are close to the problems that they are solving and truly care about making it better for those who follow.”
At TMC Innovation, Lance enjoys being around amazing, motivated people whom he believes are ‘the change’ needed in healthcare. He is passionate about technology and learning new approaches to healthcare. Lance is inspired every day at TMC by the fact that he is able to collaborate with people who are passionate about what they do.
ABOUT TMC INNOVATION
The TMC Innovation Institute is shaping the future of health care by uniting promising innovators with the best minds in academia, science and medicine. Its programs help startups streamline the development of therapeutic, diagnostic, medical device and digital health breakthroughs in world’s largest medical complex. Housed within its 100,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility, TMC Innovation focuses on bringing the best solutions to unmet health care needs to the Texas Medical Center by providing tools and action plans necessary to move products and companies forward, regardless of development stage. TMC Innovation also lowers the barriers of access to hospital stakeholders and key opinion leaders across the TMC campus. In addition, no medical center offers as many opportunities to discover solutions that are shaping the future of health care as the Texas Medical Center.
For more information, please visit www.tmc.edu/innovation.
TMC Innovation Institute
Emiel Janssen
PhD Head of quantitative and molecular pathology Managing director laboratory for molecular biology Head of research group at Department for Pathology
University Hospital of Stavanger
Gold Partners
Silver Partner
Bronze Partners
In Cooperation with:
Organising Partners:
Hospitals and care providers
can meet technology companies, entrepreneurs and new talent.
Students
can exchange with industry, R&D and academia. Furthermore, 37 ºC is an ideal opportunity for high profile political discussions.
Politicians
can exchange with industry, R&D and academia. Furthermore, 37 ºC is an ideal opportunity for high profile political discussions.
At the 37 ºC Lifescience you will
meet the top
BioTech
Patient care best practices
Personal and custom treatments
Gene Tech
Artificial Intelligence utilization
Politics and Regulations
Big Data opportunities and pitfalls
Medicine and treatment laws
Personal and surgical robotics
Personalized data
NanoMedicine
Digitized medicine
- I really enjoyed the 37 °C meeting. Hope to see you again in 2019!
Nordic R&D Executive
37 ° C is an excellent venue to get acquainted with the Norwegian/Scandinavian healthcare ecosystem and build connections with its highly innovative and creative companies and individuals.
Pharma Partner of 37 °C in 2018
[..] We met exiting new contacts, including potential partners and customers, to expand our business network. [..] We are already looking forward to the 2019 edition of 37 °C Life Science.
Benjamin Dahle CEO and Vegard Thorset Våge Quality Manager, MicroA AS
International Audience
United States, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Luxenburg, Spain, Israel, United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, France, Spain and more.
2019 The Smart patient:
Politics, laws and regulations
Bent Høie,
Norwegian Minister,
Norwegian ministry of health and Care services
Politics, laws and regulations
"Personalized medicine and large-scale data analysis has the potential to transform our health services in the years to come[..]"
[..] Cooperation across disciplines, sectors and countries is an essential part for success in order to achieve this and
this conference is a very good opportunity to build new networks"
Access international markets
"Very cool to connect here in Stavanger and seeing what they're building in terms of the new hospital, the Innovation Center, all the startup companies that are here and even some of the big companies and thought leaders around digital health and digitizing the hospitals of the future.
It's really great to connect with other like-minded leaders who are trying to transform medicine and transform healthcare from a digital perspective
Access international markets
Erik Halvorsen,
Director at TMCx Accelerator in 2018,
Texas Medical Center
About Norwegian health tech
Artificial Intelligence
Norway has one of the strongest and most admired health-related personal data registries and is a unique location for development of machine learning and artificial intelligence applications for the healthcare sector.
Rapid Growth and solid revenues
Value creation in the Norwegian life science industry doubled over ten years, reaching 50 billion NOK in 2014, and continues to grow rapidly. Seven of ten companies have launched new products during the last three years, and report 30% percent of revenues from these products.
Massive R&D spend
Norwegian technology and capital – traditionally channeled into the oil and gas industry – is increasingly seeking opportunities in the fast-growing life science sector. Norway’s annual spending on R&D in healthcare exceeds 1 billion euro.
The Experience
If you’re lucky to have some extra time in Stavanger before or after the conference, click to see some of the most attractive options:
Industry
Josep Carbó, Business Developer at Mediktor Corporation.
Industry
"37 ºC is an exciting opportunity for us to explore the market in Norway and in the Nordics in general. This is a market that it's very interesting for us as we see a lot of potential.
We think it is a very mature market and (that it's) ready for the digital transformation that is happening in healthcare"
Investors, R&D and Academia
"I expect great conversations wonderful presentations, meeting with people and the collaboration opportunities"
Investors, R&D and Academia
Saara Malkamäki , Specialist at Sitra – The Finnish Innovation Fund.
Early stage & Startups
Benjamin Dahle CEO and Vegard Thorset Våge Quality Manager, MicroA AS
Early stage & Startups
We met exiting new contacts, including potential partners and customers, to expand our business network. [..]
[..]We are already looking forward to the 2019 edition of 37 °C Life Science"
Hospitals and careproviders
"[..]I found the conference very interesting and made a number of connections with biotech executives that I believe will lead to future interactions"
Coffebreak, snack and mingling in the exhibition
Mingling and networking in the Exhibition area
Students
Get insights and connect with industry, academia and network with potential projects and employers
Ticket info
Amounts excl. VAT. Amounts in EUR updated in October 2018.
All tickets Incl. coffee/tea and lunch
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Don't forget
The event is from monday 17th June to tuesday 18th of June
This allows for anyone that want’s to request and join hikes the weekend 15th-16th June to any of the nearby sights and mountains.