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Agenda

JointVentures - June 14-15, 2010
Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare, Rosemont, IL

Preliminary Agenda
(subject to change)

Monday, June 14, 2010

10:00 am – 7:00 pm	Registration - O'Hare 5 Ballroom Foyer on Lobby Level
10:30 am – 12:45 pm	Educational Workshops for Ortho-Spine Start-Ups: "The New Golden Rules of Clinical Trial Planning & Implementation" BioMedGPS is proud to offer our start-up ortho-spine presenters – and all other interested JointVentures attendees – the opportunity to attend two complementary, back-to-back educational workshop sessions focused on topics designed to help manage your resources and investment capital in a more efficient manner and improve the likelihood of meeting clinical trial milestones and achieving benchmarks. A working lunch is provided to pre-registered participants. Registered Attendees: Please plan to attend both sessions as their content will be complementary. RSVP instructions are below. Session One: 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Presented by Musculoskeletal Clinical Regulatory Advisers (MCRA) Discussion Topics: Clinical data similarities and differences affecting reimbursement and regulatory planning Integrating reimbursement activities for future coding and health economics Value creation through reimbursement integration Management of surgeon and hospital selection and compensation for clinical trials Investigator/investors: Financial disclosure and conflict of interest Responding to increased costs of compliance with new or proposed regulation
11:30 – 11:45 am	Working lunch served
	Session Two: 11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Presented by Medmarc and The Hartford Financial Services Group Discussion Topics: Relationship between regulatory/compliance controls and clinical trial/products liability risk United States Tort System Tort System impact on the medical technology and life sciences industry Best practices for mitigating clinical trial/product liability risk Duties and responsibilities of corporate directors and officers Illustrations of private company directors and officers litigation To our registered attendees: RSVPs for these sessions are required by Friday, June 4th: please e-mail tracy@biomedgps.com to RSVP
1:15 – 1:25 pm	Conference Opening/Welcome Sharon O’Reilly Founder, President and CEO, BioMedGPS, LLC
1:25 – 2:00 pm	Keynote Address: Dane A. Miller, PhD Co-Founder and Board Member, Biomet, Inc.: "Starting Biomet, Then & Now"
2:00 – 4:10 pm	Start-Up Company Presentations
2:05 – 2:10 pm	Moderator: George Ayd, Assistant VP, Business Development and Marketing, Medmarc and their strategic alliance partners The Hartford and Biomedic‐Insure
2:15 – 2:25 pm	Life Spine, Inc.
2:25 – 2:35 pm	Innovative Medical Device Solutions (IMDS)
2:35 – 2:45 pm	Articular Engineering, LLC
2:45 – 2:55 pm	NociMed, LLC
2:55 – 3:15 pm	Networking Break - Networking/Exhibit Hall, O’Hare 4
3:20 – 3:25 pm	Moderator: Bryan Hughes, Director, P&M Corporate Finance
3:30 – 3:40 pm	OrthoCor Medical
3:40 – 3:50 pm	TissueGene, Inc
3:50 – 4:00 pm	CoreSpine Technologies, LLC
4:00 – 4:10 pm	Small Bone Innovations, Inc.
4:10 – 4:30 pm	Networking Break - Networking/Exhibit Hall, O’Hare 4
4:40 – 6:00 pm	Venture Capital Panel Discussion: "Changing Times Mean Changing Funding Strategies" Moderator: Matt Steere Managing Director, Life Sciences Investment Banking, Canaccord Genuity Confirmed Panelists: Tim Berkowitz, President and Managing Director, HealthPointCapital Dave Stassen, Managing Director, Split Rock Partners Hal Mathews, MD, VP Clinical and Medical Affairs, Medtronic Spinal & Biologics Mike Sherman, Partner, MB Venture Partners Dave Hood, President, DH3 & Associates, and Former Senior Advisor for the Principal Assistant for Acquisitions, US Army MRMC Anthony Viscogliosi, Chairman and CEO, Small Bone Innovations, Inc., Principal, Viscogliosi Bros. LLC
6:00 - 7:30 pm	Evening Reception/Buffet
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
7:00 am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:15 – 9:00 am	Interview with Dr. Hal Mathews, MD, Spine Surgeon and VP Clinical and Medical Affairs, Medtronic Spinal & Biologics: "The Changing Customer Under Healthcare Reform" by Charles Chon, Director, Thomas Weisel Partners Introduction by: Sharon O’Reilly Founder, President and CEO, BioMedGPS, LLC
9:00 - 9:20 am	Networking Break ‐ Networking/Exhibit Hall, O’Hare 4
9:20 am – 12:10 pm	Start-Up Company Presentations
9:25 - 9:30 am	Moderator: Amanda Tracy, VP Global Marketing, Musculoskeletal Clinical Regulatory Advisors, LLC (MCRA)
9:35 - 9:45 am	Soft Tissue Regeneration, Inc
9:45 - 9:55 am	ORTEQ Bioengineering Ltd.
9:55 - 10:05 am	SpineFrontier, Inc.
10:05 - 10:15 am	OrthoX, LLC
10:15 - 10:25 am	ProChon BioTech, Ltd.
10:25 - 10:35 am	MTF Sport Medicine
10:25 - 10:45 am	Networking Break ‐ Networking/Exhibit Hall, O’Hare 4
12:00 – 1:00 pm	Luncheon
1:00 – 1:30 pm	Guest Speaker: Stan Mendenhall, Editor and Publisher, Orthopedic Network News "Device Prices and Hospital Payment: Trends and Challenges" Topics to be Covered: - Trends in prices paid by hospitals for medical devices - Prices paid vs. device utilization: The key differences - Challenges faced by hospitals in managing device innovation - What device manufacturers can do to help the hospitals
1:35 – 2:30 pm	Start-Up Company Presentations
2:30 – 2:50 pm	Networking Break
2:50 – 4:00 pm	Panel Discussion - "From Here to Device Commercialization: Regulatory/Reimbursement Challenges and Opportunities" Moderator: Janet Webb, President/Founder, MEDVantage, Inc. Confirmed Panelists: Glenn Stiegman, VP, Regulatory Affairs, Musculoskeletal Clinical Regulatory Advisers, LLC (MCRA) Charles Schneider, VP, Reimbursement, Musculoskeletal Clinical Regulatory Advisers, LLC (MCRA) Thomas Novelli, Director of Federal Affairs, Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA) Neal Defibaugh, VP Clinical & Regulatory Affairs, AxioMed Spine Corporation
4:00 pm	Adjournment

Notes: Agenda subject to change prior to event; all changes will be posted regularly on this page. Following each 10-minute presentation and during the networking breaks, companies will be available in the adjacent Exhibit/Networking ballroom.