Program

Day 1 – 08 June

09.00 - 10.00

Coffee and network

SEC LL2 Atrium

10.00 - 10.10

Welcome Speech

James Jack, Head Business Owners & Multigen, UBS Wealth Management

10.10 - 10.45 Green Chemistry John Warner, chemist, inventor, educator, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Green Chemistry

10.45 – 11.00

Harvard Innovation Ecosystem

Rebecca Xiong, Managing Director, Programs and Engagement Harvard innovation labs

11.00 - 11.30

HealthTech bleeding edge research

Prof. David A. Weitz, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics; Core Faculty Member, Wyss Institute at Harvard University

11.30 - 12.15

Reimagining Aging - Panel

Amol Sarva, Life Extension Ventures
Brennan Overhoff, Founder of Mansarover
Michael Florea, Founder of Olden Labs PBC

12.15 - 14.00

Lunch and network

SEC LL2 Atrium

14.00 - 14.30

Innovation disrupting Healthcare

Raminderpal Singh, CEO Incubate.bio
Viswa Colluru, executive from EnvedaBio

14.30 - 15.10

Artificial Intelligence applied to medicine

Jorge Cortell, Harvard University Venture Innovation Fellow and iLabs Expert-in-Residence; European Commission Expert on Venture & Investments

15.10 - 15.45

BioTech and HealthTech Trends - Panel

Jennifer Lum, Cofounder and Managing Partner at Biospring Partners and advisory board member at The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School

Vishal Doshi, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, AUM Biosciences

Raminderpal Singh, CEO Incubate.bio

15.45 - 16.20

Breakthroughs in Genomic Engineering and Synthetic Biology

Prof. George Church, Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

16.20 - 18.00

Harvard walk tour & Network

Led by a Harvard University student
18.00 - 18.30 Inspirational talk Joe de Sena, Founder Spartan Race

18.30 - 22.00

Apero & Networking Dinner

at Harvard Faculty Club

Day 2 – 09 June

 

09.00 - 09.30

Coffee & Network

 

09.30 - 11.00

Pagliuca LifeLab and Harvard Innovation Labs - laboratory tour

Tour by Tim Jarrett, Site Head, Life Lab; and Jorge Cortell, HLS, iLab

 

11.00 - 13.00

Connect with entrepreneurs disrupting healthcare:

Adaptilens - Liane Clamen, MD, Founder & CEO: Developing an intraocular lens that imitates the human lens so that patients will have near, intermediate, and distance vision without eyeglasses or contact lenses.

Alvus Health - Junhan Zhao, Founder: Alvus Health develops target identification and drug discovery platform by AI and high-throughput patient-derived organoids.

NixBiosensors - Meridith Cass, Founder & CEO: The first biosensor to analyze sweat and provide endurance athletes with personalized hydration data — scientifically validated and delivered in real time.

ilios Therapeutics - Luca Giani, Founder &  CEO: Innovative chemistry platform generating therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases.

Novaxs - Alina Su, Founder & CEO: A needle-free injector with intelligent injection reminder and tracking system that can provide an easier way for self-injection with more efficiency and less pain.

 

13.00 -14.00

Lunch

14.00 -14.10

Event closure

*Agenda subject to change upon speaker availability.