Invest Northwest 2009 Agenda

March 17th
8:00-8:45 am (Bay Auditorium)
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Chris Rivera, WBBA President
Keynote- Dr. Barbara J. Dalton, Pfizer Inc. - "Corporate Dealmaking-From Venture to Acquisition"
8:45-9:00 am

Break

  Bay Auditorium
Q&A Observation Room
Harbor Dining Room
Q&A Inlet Room
Sound Conference Room
Q&A Coastal Room
Moss Adams
Pacific Boardroom
K&L Gates
Cove Room
9:00-9:15 am Fiatlux Imaging, Inc DesignMedix Aequus BioPharma, Inc.

Poster Sessions in
Hospitality Suites

9:15-9:30 am Mirabilis Medica Indel Therapeutics Inc. Dimera
9:30-9:45 am Picomole Instruments Inc. Allozyne enGene Inc.
9:45-10:00 am

Poniard Pharmaceuticals

MediQuest Therapeutics, Inc. viDA Therapeutics
10:00-10:15 am LightIntegra Technology Inc. VLST Corp Ligocyte
10:15-10:30 am

Break

10:30-11:10 am

(Harbor Dining Room)
"NW Innovation- Partnering with Tech Transfer": Ulrich Mueller (FHCRC), Linden Rhoads (UW) Keith Jones (WSU), Carl Weissman (Accelerator), Mario Kasapi (UBC), Arundeep Pradhan (OHSU). Moderated by WBBA President, Chris Rivera.

11:10-11:15 pm

Break

  Bay Auditorium
Q&A Observation Room
Harbor Dining Room
Q&A Inlet Room
Sound Conference Room
Q&A Coastal Room
Moss Adams
Pacific Boardroom
K&L Gates
Cove Room
11:15-11:30 am Calistoga Pharmaceuticals Spiration, Inc. PharmaIN

Poster Sessions in
Hospitality Suites

11:30-11:45 am Calcionics Corporation Advanced Imaging Technologies Aquinox Pharmaceuticals Inc.
11:45-12:00 pm Enject Calypso Medical Oasis Diagnostics
12:00-12:15 pm Healionics LipoSonix Onkor Pharmaceuticals
12:15-12:30 pm Silere Medical Technology, Inc. Inson Medial Systems Kineta, Inc.
12:30-1:45 pm

Lunch (International Promenade)
"The View from Here" George Milstein, Pacific Growth Equities, moderator.
Panel: Doug Williams (ZymoGenetics), Michael Emery (Rainier Funds),
Meenu Chhabra (Allozyne), Christopher Somogyi (Intellectual Ventures and Healionics)

  Bay Auditorium
Q&A Observation Room
Harbor Dining Room
Q&A Inlet Room
Sound Conference Room
Q&A Coastal Room
Moss Adams
Pacific Boardroom
K&L Gates
Cove Room
2:00-2:15 pm Targeted Growth Ratner Biomedical Inc. Insilicos

Poster Sessions in
Hospitality Suites

2:15-2:30 pm Bio Architechture Lab Impel NeuroPharma Signature Genomics
2:30-2:45 pm Floragenex, Inc. Acucela Inc. Sirius Genomics
2:45-3:00 pm Yecuris Genome Diagnostics PriTest Inc.

Innovators of the poster
technologies available

3:00-3:15 pm Open Micronics Rheoblast Inc.
3:15-3:50 pm

Break

3:50-4:45 pm Keynote (Bay Auditorium)
George Poste, BioDesign Institute - "Biotechnology, Molecular Medicine, and the Future Evolution of Healthcare"
 

Concurrent Activities

5:00-6:45 pm (Bay Auditorium)- Speed-dating, International Promenade, moderated by Luke Timmerman
5:00-7:30 pm (Harbor Dining Room)- Reception, Pacific NW Food and Wine Showcase


March 18th

7:45-8:45 am

CEO/CFO/BusDev/Investor roundtable breakfast
Moderated by Michelle Burris, CFO Trubion Pharmaceuticals

8:45-9:00 am

Break

  Bay Auditorium
Q&A Observation Room
Harbor Dining Room
Q&A Inlet Room
Sound Conference Room
Q&A Coastal Room
Moss Adams
Pacific Boardroom
K&L Gates
Cove Room
9:00-9:20 am Seattle Genetics EGI Sound Pharmaceuticals

Poster Sessions in
Hospitality Suites

9:20-9:40 am OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pathway Medical Technologies Spaltudaq
9:40-10:00 am Oncothyreon Inc. Cardiac Science Corporation Alder Biopharmaceuticals
10:10-10:30 am Combimatrix Cell Therapeutics Inc. Response Biomedical
10:30-10:50 am Zymogenetics Adnavance Technologies SCOLR Pharma, Inc.
10:50-11:10 am Immune Design Trubion Pharmaceuticals PhaseRx
11:20-11:30 pm

Break

11:30-12:15 pm

Dr. Xiaoming Zou, Director, External R&D Affairs, Amgen, ”Prospecting and Partnering”
(Bay Auditorium)

12:20-2:00 pm

Lunch (International Promenade)
” Financing and Operating a Device Start-Up in Today's Challenging Economy”
Moderated by Stephen Levin, Elsevier Business Intelligence
Panel: Jens Quistgaard (Liposonix); Tom McAleer (Archus); Paul Buckman (Pathway Medical);
Sam Brasch (Frazier Healthcare Ventures);Gregory Sessler (Spiration)

   

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