In addition, an international competition that will be held as part of the annual cardiology conference, ICI Meeting 2011, will try to locate the innovations and inventions aimed at improving the treatment of patients with cardiovascular diseases
Press Release
The opening event of the International Cardiology Conference ICI 2011 will be dedicated this year to the "Innovation Academy" - a one-day meeting, which will be held on December 4, 2011 at the David Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv. The mini-conference, which will be held in part as a practical workshop, will equip its participants with important skills and tips required for an entrepreneur and researcher in order to develop new biome technologies and how to finance the first steps in registering patents, developing a prototype, financing and initiating new ideas.
Among the lecturers who will deliver the workshops and lectures: Prof. Haim Lotan, director of the heart department at Hadassah Ein-Karem Hospital, who serves as co-chairman of the conference (with Prof. Raphael Biar, director of the Rambam Hospital), Prof. Paul Eitzio, Mara "B, a surgeon, who will deal with the "foundations of creativity", Prof. William Durfee, who specializes in mechanical engineering and especially in device design and planning medical, Dr. Todd Brinton, an expert in biotechnology engineering, who will tell "How do you determine whether a new medical device is necessary or not?", Rick Geofrin, CEO of Mitrahlin Company, Ofer Yodfat, founder and CTO of Madingo Company, who will explain that not every start-up company is a success story and will try to equip those present with tips for the success of their next start-up, Dr. Amir Belson who will deal with the procedures for building a company Medical devices and Dr. Dalia Magido, director of the Israeli venture capital fund 7 Health Ventures, who will learn how to write a proper business plan.
Who will be the start-up of the year in the field of cardiology?
An international competition aimed at identifying and locating extraordinary inventions designed to improve the treatment of patients with cardiovascular diseases will be held as part of the ICI 2011 cardiology conference, which will be held in Tel Aviv in December 2011. The competition is open to doctors, entrepreneurs and start-up companies with an idea or development at any stage, when the organizers Looking mainly for "new and original ideas".
The ICI conference is considered a world leader in the field of innovation, and the innovation awards competition offers both clinical and commercial validity, which will draw the attention of investors and other stakeholders to the competition participants. The candidates will be invited to present their ideas in front of a panel of expert judges, including engineers, doctors and entrepreneurs, as part of the ICI conference, on December 4, 2011 at the David Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv. The winners of the competition will be invited to Galway, Ireland, to take part in an innovation workshop of the global company Medtronic, during which they will learn how to turn ideas into mature products intended for the general market.
"Innovation, and especially in the field of medicine, is the engine of any organization that thinks of success in such an unstable economic era," says Professor Raphael Biar, chairman of the conference. "The competition, which has already gained a global reputation, will provide the international platform for entrepreneurs, researchers and start-ups from the line, and will allow them to present their innovations and the potential inherent in them for the future of cardiology to an international panel of experts from the fields of medicine and industry. I have no doubt that the winners will attract the attention of venture capitalists and other investment professionals."
The international conference ICI Meeting 2011, which deals with innovations in the field of interventional cardiology, emphasizes innovation, technologies, equipment and new treatments. The conference will be held at the David Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv, between December 4-6, 2011. More than 1000 guests from Israel and abroad are expected to participate in the conference, among them doctors and medical teams dealing in interventional cardiology, doctors from the various fields of medicine related to this field, such as radiologists and electrophysiologists, Scientists and researchers who want to receive an update on the situation the current state of the field and how the future will look, senior representatives representing the leading companies in the field as well as entities interested in technologies in this field.
As part of the conference, there will be live broadcasts of catheterizations from the leading centers in Israel using modern technological methods and means, and a technological parade of start-up companies from Israel and the world.
