Cleveland Clinic’s 2014 Medical Innovation Summit:
Creating Connections and Leading the Conversation
Cleveland Clinic is home to some of the brightest minds in healthcare, and with that, a constant stream of bright ideas. To commercialize the ever growing patient benefitting ideas in the new era of healthcare which mandates value-based, collaborative solutions Cleveland Clinic Innovations’ (CCI) responded with an optimized operating model. While we can all agree the healthcare landscape has changed tremendously, two practices remain vital to the recipe for commercialization success: connections and conversation.
CCI, like many technology transfer and commercialization organizations, is reliant on a large network that includes a variety of stakeholders, from commercial partners and investors to fellow providers, payers, and our academic colleagues. To create meaningful relationships, however, conversation with these stakeholders must be kept candid and current. While technology allows several means to create business connections and keep conversation fresh, nothing beats live collaboration. Cleveland Clinic Innovations cemented a platform over a decade ago for all players to connect for the good of commercializing innovation. This platform is the Medical Innovation Summit.
This year, the Summit plans to open its doors to more attendees than ever before. What used to be a small, focused meeting held on Cleveland Clinic’s campus has grown into a nearly 2,000-attendee conference known for thought-provoking panels, lively 1-on-1 discussions with influential CEOs, and discovery of the latest market-ready technologies. In 2013, the Summit outgrew Cleveland Clinic’s campus, and is now held at the Cleveland Convention Center to connect the rising global mix of decision makers across the care continuum that come to create meaningful relationships and develop actionable solutions.
The 2014 Medical Innovation Summit, “Now, It’s Personal,” will examine investable breakthroughs in cancer treatment and personalized medicine. Keynote speakers include Robert Bradway, Chairman and CEO of Amgen, Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric, and Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President and CEO of IBM. Topics range from the future of Diagnostics, Therapeutics, and Personalized Medicine to Cancer Investments, Cancer Around the World, and the annual unveiling of the “Top 10” Innovations for 2015.
We are also pleased to announce Innovation Base Camp to the AUTM community, which will take place on Sunday, October 26. What’s being described as “A Huddle for Innovators before they take on the Summit” will be an intensive half-day dialog of best practices among innovators and innovative organizations from all industries. Attendees will learn the fundamentals of Harnessing the Entrepreneurial Spirit: From Ideas to Opportunities and Developing an Innovative Culture. Panels will also dive into topics such as Value-Based Innovation, Building and Sustaining a Successful Innovations Consortium, and “Innovestment”: the Trends and Issues with Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing.
The future of the Medical Innovation Summit is wide open. Not only are we in a perfect location in downtown Cleveland - the hub for healthcare innovation - but we have reached a time in healthcare when it is critical for all stakeholders to learn from each other and innovate together. What may have started as a way to bridge academic research to industry, the Summit is now in a position to become the epicenter of medical innovation collaboration. We invite you to join us at the Summit to engage new conversations, make meaningful connections so together we translate more bench side discoveries into patient benefiting products.
I look forward to meeting you at the 2014 Medical Innovation Summit!
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