AUA Innovation Nexus Program Agenda

McCormick Place South, Chicago, IL
April 27, 2023

7:00 - 8:00 AM	Registration and Networking Breakfast
8:00 - 8:10 AM	Welcome and Opening Remarks	Steven A. Kaplan, MD, FACS Professor of Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
8:10 - 9:10 AM	The Importance of an AUA Incubator	Moderator: Jim Robinson CEO, Urovant Sciences Panel: John Flavin, MBA Founder & CEO, Portal Innovations; Co-Founder, Matter Patrick Flavin, JD President, Portal Innovations; Co-Founder, Matter Brian Friedman, JD, MBA Managing Director, Equity Capital Markets, William Blair
9:10 - 10:00 AM	Urology: Defining the Top of the Funnel	Moderator: John McConnell, MD CEO Emeritus & Professor of Urology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Panel: Neil Fleshner, MD, MPH, FRCSC Co-founder, Point Biopharma; Professor, Division of Urology, University of Toronto Amarpreet S. Sawhney, PhD General Partner, Incept, LLC Michael J. Young, MD, FACS Department of Urology, Director, Division of Innovation and Technology, University of Illinois Chicago
10:00- 10:30 AM	Networking Break
10:30 - 11:00 AM	Financing and M&A Environment for Urology Companies	Michael Ragan Executive Director, Healthcare Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Taking Ideas to Reality	Moderator: Susan Stimson President & CEO, Zenflow, Inc. Panel: David Hung, MD Founder, President, and CEO, Nuvation Bio Theodore Lamson, PhD Co-Founder, Neotract; Co-Inventor, UroLift
12:00 - 1:30 PM	Lunch and Networking
12:00 - 1:30 PM	My Prostate Cancer Journey and How Wall Street Financed Innovations That Saved My Life	Speaker: Charlie Gasparino Senior Correspondent, Fox Business Network
1:30 - 2:45 PM	Reverse Pitches Boston Scientific Laborie Olympus Pfizer	Moderator: Jennie Xue Senior Managing Director, Guggenheim Securities, LLC
2:45 - 3:15 PM	Networking Break
3:15 - 4:50 PM	Showcases BlueWind Medical Overactive Bladder Daniel Lemaitre, Chairman and CEO Roger Dmochowski, MD, Chief Medical Officer CarePath by iO Urology Enlarged Prostate Britton Garrett, CEO Fellow Health Male Reproductive Health William Matthews, CEO and Founder James Smith, Chief Medical Officer and Founding Physician FIZE Medical, Inc. Digital Urinometer Dror Zerem, CEO Global Continence Pediatric Bedwetting Andrew J. Kirsch, MD, Co-founder, President, & Chief Executive Officer Glycologix Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome Dan Deardorf, CEO NINA Medical Enlarged Prostate Shmuel Ben-Ezra, Co-Founder and CEO Dr. Gilad Amiel, MD, Medical Director Valar Labs AI/Bladder Cancer Anirudh Joshi, CEO Virtuoso Surgical Robotic Surgery Duke Herrell, CEO Zida Overactive Bladder Isaac Oppenheim, Founder and CEO	Moderator: Charlie Gasparino Senior Correspondent, Fox Business Network Panel: Amarpreet S. Sawhney, PhD General Partner, Incept, LLC Kevin Slawin, MD Founder & Managing Partner, Rapha Capital Management, LLC Jennie Xue Senior Managing Director, Guggenheim Securities, LLC
4:50 - 5:20 PM	Invaluable Advice for a Career in Biotech: Follow the Science	Mitch Steiner, MD, FACS Chairman, CEO & President, Veru
5:20 - 5:30 PM	Closing Remarks	Steven A. Kaplan, MD, FACS
5:30 - 6:30 PM	Networking Reception