Opening Session:
09.30 – 10.00 Registration
10.00 – 10.10 Welcome address
- Andreas Persidis, Chairman of the Hellenic BioCluster Board of Directors
- Representatives of Greek Authorities
10.10 – 10.30 The Hellenic BioCluster
Ioannis Trantakis, Business Development Manager of the Hellenic BioCluster
Session Ι: Innovation in Healthcare
10.30 – 11.15 State of the art lecture: Presentation of an Innovation Platform – JLABS
Guenter Huhle, Head of Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JLABS EMEA
11.15 – 11.35 Coffee Break
Session II: Bringing Innovation to Market
Session chair: Nicos Nicolettos, Member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic BioCluster
11.35 – 12.00 Access to Finance for Healthcare SMEs
Leonid Shapiro, Managing Partner, Candesic
12.00 – 12.20 Patents as Strategic Support in Health Care
Dimitris Roukounas, European Patent Attorney
12.20 – 12.40 Market access for Pharma and Medical devices in Europe
Christian Hill, CEO of MAP Biopharma
12.40 – 13.00 Regulatory Path for orphan drug
Philippe Carteron de Balmont, General Manager & Founder, CarthaGenetics
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break
Session III: Healthcare Innovation in Greece
Session chair: Ioanna Koukli, Member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic BioCluster
14.00 – 14.50 Success stories from Greek Life Science companies
- Leonidas Alexopoulos, Associate Professor, NTUA, Co-founder of Protavio Ltd
- Alexandre Tsoukalis, Managing Director and CTO, Micrel Medical Devices
14.50 – 15.50 Panel discussion: Emerging Trends in the Life Sciences
Moderator: Andreas Persidis, Chairman of the Hellenic BioCluster Board of Directors
Panelists:
- Panagiotis Baras, Chairman and Managing Director of Philips Greece S.A.
- Lorenzo Pengo, Director of Healthcare for Central Eastern Europe at Microsoft
- Konstantinos Mefsout, Government Affairs Manager, AbbVie Pharmaceuticals S.A.
- Kathi Apostolidis, Vice President of European Cancer Patient Coalition
- Christina Andrikopoulou, Head of Health Branch - Hellenic Association of Insurance Companies
- Sotiris Pavleas, Special Advisor, General Secretariat of Research and Technology
15.50 – 16.00 Concluding Remarks
16.00 – 17.00 Networking