December, 2024

• No Meeting

January 27, 2025

• Topic: Overview and update – OmniaBio
• Guest Speaker:  Tony Rotunno, SVP / GM and Site Head

January 29, 2024

• Topic: Overview and update – Swift Medical
• Guest Speaker: Rob Fraser, VP Clinical Innovation
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slides used]

February 26, 2024

• Topic: Overview and Update – Launchit Ventures
  Guest Speaker: Jamie Harsevoort, Founder & CEO
  [presentation slides used]

March 25, 2024

• Topic: Meet the Synapse Competition Winners
• Guest Speaker: Jennifer Gauvreau, Director, Marketing, Innovation Factory

April 29, 2024

• Topic: Overview & Update – Cntrl+
• Guest Speaker: Karen Brunet, Founder & President
  [presentation slides used]

May 27, 2024

• Topic: SOPHIE, CAMEDA and HEALTHI Program & Looking Forward
• Guest Speaker: Alek Tirpan (Program Manager), Brandon McIntyre (Program Coordinator), Jadyn Pereira (Business Analyst Intern), Innovation Factory
  [presentation slides used]

June 24, 2024

• Topic: Overview and update  – Vessl Prosthetics 
• Guest Speaker: Sydney Robinson, CEO and Co-Founder
  [presentation slides used]
• Update – Bay Area Research Logistics
• Guest Speaker: Kaitlin Guarasci, General Manager
  [presentation slides used]

July 29, 2024

• Topic: Overview of Mohawk Medbuy & Innovation Launchpad Program
• Guest Speaker: Markus Lenarcyzk, Director Innovation & Value-Added Sourcing, Mohawk Medbuy Corporation
  [presentation slides used]

August 26, 2024

• Topic: Mohawk College’s IDEAWORKS
• Guest Speaker: Doug Ward, General Manager, mHealth & eHealth Development and Innovation Centre (MEDIC @Mohawk)
  [presentation slides used]

September 30, 2024

• Topic: 2024 Advamed Medtech Conference
• Guest Speakers: Ray Briscuso, Executive Vice President, Conferences & Events (Advamed),
  Asmaa Al-Hashimi, Life Science Lead, EcDev (City of Hamilton),
  Sergio Aguirre, Co-Founder & CEO (Epineuron), and
  Leslie Ravid, CMO (GTI Medical)
  [presentation slides used – Advamed] [presentation slides used – Invest Hamilton

October 28, 2024

• Topic: Overview and update – Afynia Labratories
• Guest Speaker:  Dr. Lauren Foster (co-founder & CEO)  and Dr. Jocelyn Wessels (co-founder & CSO)
  [no presentation slides used]

November 25, 2024

• Topic: Overview and update – ToeFx
• Guest Speaker: Monika Yazdanian, CEO

January 30, 2023

• Topic: Overview and update – EmergConnect
• Guest Speaker: Ron Galaev, CEO
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slides used]

February 27, 2023

• Topic: Overview and update – FyeLABS & BioscienceLA
• Guest Speaker: Suvojit Ghosh, Founder & CEO (FyeLABS)
  Dave Whelan, CEO (BioscienceLA)
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slides used]

March 27, 2023

• Topic: Update on Synapse Pitch Competition Winners!
• Guest Speakers:
  Dallas Barnes, founder & CEO, Reya Health
  Oleksiy Zaika, co-founder, Vessl Prosthetics
  Kaitlyn Spivak, Events Coordinator, Innovation Factory
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slides used]

April 24, 2023

• Topic: Overview and update – Epineuron Technologies
• Guest Speaker: Sergio Aguirre, Founder & CEO
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slides used]

May 29, 2023

• Topic: Overview and update – Cosm Medical
• Guest Speaker: Derek Sham (Founder & CEO)
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slides used]

June 26, 2023

• Topic: Overview and update – Synmedix
• Guest Speaker: Maya Farha (CEO)
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slides used]

July 31, 2023

• Topic: Program overview, impact and update – Ontario Centre of Innovation: Life Science Investment Fund (LSIF)
• Guest Speaker: Michael Jones (Business Development and Commercialization Manager, Ontario Centre of Innovation)
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slides used – OCI]
• [presentation slides used – Fero International]

August 28, 2023

• Topic: Overview and update – Able Innovations
• Guest Speaker: Jayiesh Singh, CEO
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slides used]

September 25, 2023

• Topic: Program overview, impact and update – Ontario Innovation Bioscience Organization (OBIO)
• Guest Speaker: Christina Yeh (VP Technology Commercialization)
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slides used]

October 30, 2023

• Topic: Overview and update – PreOperative Performance
• Guest Speaker: Fergal Kerins (Founder & CEO)
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slides used]

November 27, 2023

• Topic: Overview and update – Cortex Design & CAMEDA Program
  Guest Speaker: Dylan Horvath, Founder & CEO
• presentation slides used
  [and a TedX talk]

January 31, 2022

• Topic: Overview and introduction – Good To Go Test
• Guest Speaker: Catriona Franc, Manager Business Operations, Bay Area Health Trust
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slides used]

February 28, 2022

• Topic: Overview and update – Allarta Inc.
• Guest Speaker: Maria Antonakos (Co-Founder & COO) & Harald Stöver (Co-Founder & CEO)
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation overview provided – full slides available upon request]

March 28, 2022

• Topic: Update on Synapse Pitch Competition Winners!
• Guest Speaker: Jennifer Gauvreau (Manager, Marketing & Events, Innovation Factory)
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slides used]
• Guest Speaker: Saumik Biswas (Founder & CEO, Tenomix)
  [presentation slides used]
• Guest Speaker: Roe Sivanandan (President & CEO, Gojitech)
  [presentation slides used]
• Guest Speaker: Sarrah Lal (Founder & CEO, Kultura Diagnostics)
  [presentation slides used]

April 25, 2022

• Topic: Overview and update – McArthur Medical Supplies
• Guest Speaker: Frank Fiorenza (Inventor/Product Development/Sales Leader)
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slides used]

May 30, 2022

• Topic: Overview and update – Ironstone Product Development
• Guest Speaker: Joel Ironstone (President & Principal Consultant)
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

June 27, 2022

• Topic: Overview and update – HyIvy Health
• Guest Speaker: Rachel Bartholomew (Founder & CEO)
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slides used]

July 25, 2022

• Topic: Government of Ontario’s Life Science Strategy
• Guest Speaker: Andrew Guy, Director, Advanced Technologies Branch (Innovation, Scale-Ups and Regional Economic Dev. Division), Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slides used]

August 29, 2022

• Topic: Overview and update – AtomVie Global Radiopharma
• Guest Speaker: Ghadeer Shubassi, Associate Director, AtomVie Global Radiopharma Inc
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slides used]

September 26, 2022

• Topic: Overview and update – NERv Technology
• Guest Speaker: Amr Abdelgawad, Founder and COO
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slide used]

October 31, 2022

• Topic: Overview and update – Adapsyn Bioscience
• Guest Speaker: Andy Haigh, President & CEO
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slides used – please contact Synapse for a copy]

November 28, 2022

• Topic: Overview of Ontario Genomics BioCreate Program
• Speaker: Brittney Hess, Manager, Investment & Venture Development & Elaine Corbett, Director, Sector Innovations & Programs, Ontario Genomics
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights
  [presentation slides used – please contact Synapse for a copy]

January 25 2021

• Topic: Investment Approach and Overview: HaloHealth Angel Investor Network
• Guest Speaker: Luke Sheen, Executive Director, HaloHealth
  [presentation slides used, and are available upon request]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

February 22, 2021

• Topic: Recent Success and Looking Forward: Enhanced Medical Nutrition
• Guest Speaker: Eric Zimmerman, CEO and Founder, Enhanced Medical Nutrition
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

March 29, 2021

• Topic: Meet the Synapse Competition Winners
• Guest Speaker: Jennifer Gauvreau, Manager Marketing & Events, Innovation Factory
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

April 26, 2021

• Topic: Overview of CREATE (CentRE for dAta science and digiTal hEalth) @ Hamilton Health Sciences
• Guest Speaker: Jeremy Petch, Founder, CREATE
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

May 31, 2021

• Topic: Compliance for Digital Health Data Privacy and Security
• Guest Speaker: Simon Woodside, Co-Founder and CTO, Medstack
  [presentation slides used and these]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

June 28, 2021

• Topic: CCEM & HEALTHI – NRC-IRAP Programs in Hamilton
• Guest Speaker: Andreas Korinek, Executive Director, Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy (CCEM); [presentation slides used – CCEM]
• Alex Muggah, Director, Synapse Consortium; [presentation slides used – HEALTHI]
• Joon Kim, ITA, NRC-IRAP
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

July 26, 2021

• Topic: Southern Ontario Pharmaceutical and Health Innovation Ecosystem (SOPHIE) Program
• Guest Speaker: Michael Jones, SOPHIE Program Manager
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

August 30, 2021

• Topic: Leveraging Manufacturing Infrastructure to Grow Life Sciences Firms
• Guest Speaker: Stephen Veldhuis, Director of McMaster Manufacturing Research Institute
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

September 27, 2021

• Topic: Navigate pain points of scaling a business – from ideation to IPO and beyond
• Guest Speaker: Sarah Romanuck, Director, SWO + GTA, RBCx
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

October 25, 2021

• Topic: Overview and update – Eye3 Concepts Inc.
• Guest Speaker: Kate Riley, CEO of Eye3
  [presentation slides used – available upon request]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

November 29, 2021

• Topic: Overview and update – Elarex Inc.
• Guest Speaker: Brent Lefebvre (Director, Partnerships & Strategy) & Rob DeWitte (Co-Founder & CEO)
  [presentation slides used]
• Topic: Overview of SOSCIP (Smart Computing for Innovation) Program
  Derrik Leach (Partnerships and Business Development Lead)
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

January 2020

• Topic: Overview of Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Capacity & Capabilities
• Guest Speaker: Padraic Foley, Director of Business Development and Commercialization, OCE
• Guest Speaker: Nicole DeLong, Manager, Business Development and Commercialization (Health), OCE
  [presentation slides used, and are available upon request]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

February 2020

• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights [not available]
• Topic: Overview of Michael G. DeGroote Health Innovation, Commercialization & Entrepreneurship Initiative
• Guest Speaker: Sarrah Lal, Education Lead, MGD Health Innovation, Commercialization & Entrepreneurship
• Guest Speaker: Leigh Wilson, Senior Manager, MGD Health Innovation Commercialization & Entrepreneurship
  [presentation slides used]

March 2020

• Topic: Community Updates & Networking
• No guest speaker
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

April 2020

• Topic: COVID-19 Community Watch App
• Guest Speaker: Jamie Harsevoort Founder and CEO, Webility Solutions Inc.
• Guest Speaker: Anthony DiValentino Director of Client Relations, Lumedia
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

May 2020

• Topic: Thriving in Our New Environment
• Guest Speaker: Peter Kalra, President & CEO, Bay Area Health Trust (BAHT)
• Guest Speaker: John Hands, Director, Business Development, Bay Area Health Trust
• Guest Speaker: Kaitlin Guarasci, Director of Client Serivces, Bay Area Research Logistics
• [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

June 2020

• Topic: Hamilton Hospitals Engagement with CanHealth Network
• Guest Speaker: Fraser Edward,VP Partnerships & Business Development, St. Joseph’s Health System
• Guest Speaker: Dan Perri, Chief Medical Information Officer, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton
• Guest Speaker: Katie Porter, Executive Director, Research Administration, Hamilton Health Sciences
  [presentation slides used, and are available upon request]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

July 2020

• Topic: Overview and Update – VoxNeuro
• Guest Speaker: James Connolley, CEO and Co-Founder, VoxNeuro
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

August 2020

• Topic: Overview and Update – ToexFx
• Guest Speaker: Monika Yazdanian, CEO and Co-Founder, ToeFX

September 2020

• Topic: Making Interdisciplinary Research a Reality at the Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health
• Guest Speaker: Prof. Jeremy Hirota, Canada Research Chair in Respiratory Mucosal Immunology
  Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering –McMaster University
  CEO and Co-Founder –Infinotype
  [presentation slides used]
•  Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

October 2020

• Topic: Introducting the Clinic@Mac and the Clinic@St. Joe’s
• Guest Speaker: Sarrah Lal, Assistant Professor, Division of Education & Innovation Education Lead, MGD Health Innovation, Commercialization & Entrepreneurship
• Guest Speaker: Leigh Wilson, Project Development Manager, MGD Health Innovation, Commercialization & Entrepreneurship (MGD Health ICE)
• Guest Speaker: Milica Vukmirovic, Michael DeGroote Innovation, Commercialization
  Entrepreneurship Fellow, McMaster University
  Innovation and Commercialization Consultant, The Research Institute at St. Joe’s Hamilton
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

November 2020

• Topic: Strategy and Future Vision of the McMaster Innovation Park
• Guest Speaker: Ty Shattuck, CEO, McMaster Innovation Park
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

December 2020

• Holiday break – no Health Check Up

January 2019

• Topic: Technology & Future of Healthcare Conference
• Guest Speaker: Dennis DiValentino, Physician & President of Hamilton Medical Academy
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

February 2019

• Topic: Overview and Update – Enhanced Medical Nutrition
• Guest Speaker: Eric Zimmerman, CEO and Co-Founder, Enhanced Medical Nutrition
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

March 2019

• Topic: Synapse Life Science Competition 2019
• Guest Speaker: Jennifer Gauvreau, Manager, Marketing & Events, Innovation Factory
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

April 2019

• Topic: Overview of the mHealth & eHealth Development and Innovation Centre (MEDIC)
• Guest Speaker: Paul Brown, General Manager, MEDIC, Mohawk College
  [no slides]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

May 2019

• Topic: Overview and update – Centre for Probe Discovery and Commercialization
• Guest Speaker: Bruno Paquin, Director, Business Development, Centre for Probe Discovery and Commercialization (CPDC)
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

June 2019

• Topic: Building Ontario’s Health Science Industry
• Guest Speaker: Grant Burns, VP Public Affairs and Communication Partnerships and GR, OBIO
• Guest Speaker: Sean Penn, Director Program Development, OBIO
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

July 2019

• Topic: Community Updates and Networking
• No guest speaker
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

August 2019

• Topic: Overview and Investment Approach of AngelOne Investor Network
• Guest Speaker: David Wright, Manager, Investor Services, AngelOne Network
  [presentation slides used]
• Additional handout: Future of Health Summit: Summary
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

September 2019

• Topic: Overview of Hacking Health Hamilton
• Guest Speaker: Cynthia Lokker, Assistant Professor, MSc eHealth FHS Lead, McMsater University & Hacking Health
• Gueset Speaker: Melika Babadi, McMaster University & Hacking Health Hamilton
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

October 2019

• Topic: Disease Design Development (D3) Group @ St. Joesph’s Healthcare, Hamilton
• Guest Speaker: Jodi Gilcrest, Research Coordinator, The Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton
• Guest Speaker: Gail Martin, Executive Director, The Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

November 2019

• Topic: Medical Device Certification and Testing
• Guest Speaker: David Bell, Account Executive, TÜV SÜD
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

December 2019

• Holiday break – no Health Checkup

January 2018

• Topic: Community Updates and Networking
• No guest speaker
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

February 2018

• Topic: Overview of Impact Capital and Doing Business in the United States
• Guest Speaker: Scott Friedman, Partner, Lippes LLC & Co-Founder Impact Capital
• Guest Speaker: Andrea HusVar, Partner, Lippes LLC
  [no slides]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

March 2018

• Topic: Overview of OCE Services and Support for Startups
• Guest Speaker: Nicole DeLong, Business Development Manager, OCE
• Guest Speaker: Gillian Sheldon, Client Services Team Lead, OCE
  [no slides]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

April 2018

• Overview: Integrated Comprehensive Care @ St. Joseph’s Healthcare
• Guest Speaker: Fraser Edward, SVP Partnership & Development, St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

May 2018

• Topic: Community Updates and Networking
• No Guest Speaker
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

June 2018

• Topic: Overview and Update – Mariner Endosurgery
• Guest Speaker: Mitch Wilson, COO and President of Mariner Endosurgery
  [no slides]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

July 2018

• Topic: Community Updates and Networking
• No guest speaker
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

August 2018

• Topic: Community Updates and Networking
• No guest speaker
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

September 2018

• Topic: Community Updates and Networking
• No guest speaker
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

October 2018

• Topic: Introduction to MGD Initaitive on Health Innovation
• Guest Speaker: Sarrah Lal, Senior Manager Michael G. DeGroote Initiative on Health Innovation (MGDII)
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

November 2018

• Topic: Innovation in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke – Building a Cardiovascular Center of Excellence
• Guest Speaker: Dr. Nick Hopkins, Chief Scientist Jacobs Institute (Buffalo, NY)
  [presentation slides used]
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

December 2018

• Holiday break – no Health Check Up

September 2017

• Topic: Community Updates and Networking
• No guest speaker
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

October 2017

• Topic: Community Updates and Networking
• No guest speaker
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

November 2017

• Topic: Community Updates and Networking
• No guest speaker
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights

December 2017

• Topic: Community Updates and Networking
• No guest speaker
• Meeting Summary & Ecosystem Highlights