Sponsors

Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical solutions that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global medical technology leader for more than 40 years, we advance science for life by providing a broad range of high-performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. For more information, visit https://www.bostonscientific.com/en-EU/home.htmland connect on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

About Enterprise Ireland

Enterprise Ireland is the government organisation responsible for the development and growth of Irish enterprises in world markets. We work in partnership with Irish enterprises to help them start, grow, innovate and win export sales in global markets. In this way, we support sustainable economic growth, regional development and secure employment

About Amazon Web Services (AWS)

There are a number of reasons why leading global and Irish healthcare organisations are choosing to work with Amazon Web Services (AWS). As the most mature and reliable cloud platform—with an extensive portfolio of healthcare and life sciences solutions—AWS provides the security and privacy to operate in a highly regulated industry. And, with world-class cloud infrastructure built at home in Ireland we are home to the first AWS Region in Europe meaning Irish data remains in the jurisdiction.
Over the last year a new wave of innovation for Irish healthcare has taken off and one of the things that has made this possible is the adoption of cloud computing. With AWS Cloud, organisations can increase the pace of innovation, unlock the potential of data and analytics, and personalise the healthcare journey.
Download this ebook to learn how AWS can help you accelerate the digitisation of healthcare.
If you have a specific project you would like to discuss, contact the Irish AWS team here.

About Oracle Health

Oracle has been at the forefront of technology innovation for over 40 years. Our mission is to help people see data in new ways, discover insights, unlock endless possibilities across all sectors, including healthcare. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is built to run every healthcare workload, from legacy application systems to data-science driven and modern machine-learning enabled services, to deliver more informed care choices, predict patient risk factors, and deliver a better, patient-focused healthcare experience. Oracle has helped numerous countries and governments with their response to COVID-19 .For example, Oracle collaborated with the US government and donated to them a COVID-19 Therapeutic Learning System that allows physicians and patients to record the effectiveness of promising COVID-19 drug therapies.

Better data, better decisions, better outcomes

InterSystems provide robust connectivity, data management, interoperability, and analytics for the new generation of MedTech solutions. Our data platform will enable you to

• Unlock the value of all the data you collect, including discrete and unstructured data from electronic medical records, Internet-connected smart healthcare devices, CRM systems, and other sources regardless of format
• Accelerate your software development schedules by leveraging our proven and scalable healthcare data model and HL7 FHIR capabilities

No one has more experience supporting clinical data strategies and connected health information systems than InterSystems. Our technology supports more than 1 billion health records worldwide.

SGS Ireland – building capacity and skills in medical device regulation
SGS is the world’s largest inspection, testing and verification business and has operated in Ireland for over 40 years. SGS, Notified Body under Medical Device Regulation (EU) 2017/745 has developed a 10 week online postgraduate (Level 9) CPD programme in Implementing Regulatory Requirements for Medical Devices, accredited by TU Dublin.
SGS has partnered with TU Dublin’s School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences for the accreditation of this programme.
Led by Dr. Matthew Huntley, SGS Global Medical Device Training Manager, with guest lectures from SGS’s global team of auditors, the programme combines comprehensiveknowledge of the requirements to achieve regulatory compliance with postgraduate accreditation.
This course is aimed at graduates (of science and engineering) and existing employees in the Medical Device sector that are looking to upskill and develop their competence in supporting their businesses in preparing for full compliance with regulation in this increasingly complex sector, including and most specifically, MDR.
At the end of this programme, participants will have established a strong foundation in Medical Device quality assurance. The first cohort is nearing completion and the next course will commence in September 2022. Applications and enquiries contact [email protected]

Convene is a collaboration between TU Dublin, UCD Innovation Academy, and enterprise partners across seven major employment sectors working together for the common purpose of talent development. Funded by the Human Capital Initiative, Convene supports a dynamic network of leaders from across enterprise, academia, innovation, and research in the development of agile models of education that deliver priority skills for the Irish economy and society.

Executive MBA in Life Sciences Leadership
TU Dublin’s Graduate Business School has launched Ireland’s first Executive MBA in Life Sciences Leadership. Building on their award-winning, internationally-accredited Executive MBA programme, this new programme has been co-designed with enterprise to enhance leadership capability in the life sciences sector.

SGS Medical Device Regulation Accredited Postgraduate Programme
SGS Academy’s 10-week, online CPD is accredited by TU Dublin and responds to the need for upskilling existing employees in this increasingly complex sector a. For more details and to register, email [email protected]

Executive Ph.D for Enterprise-Based Leaders
In collaboration with the Graduate Research School, Convene is piloting an executive Ph.D which enables enterprise- based talented individuals define problems, apply systems thinking, and deliver innovative yet pragmatic solutions to benefit their organisations and society. To learn more, email [email protected]

GS1 is a neutral, not-for-profit, member-owned, standards development organisation. We are best known for providing a system of unique numbers, data carriers (e.g. barcodes and radio frequency identification tags) and information sharing standards, relevant to products, relationships, assets, locations, services and processes.
We help healthcare and other sectors to make their processes and solutions safer through the use of standardised identification, barcoding and tracking of products, assets, people, locations and more.
GS1 Ireland is actively working the HSE, Hospitals, Suppliers and other stakeholders to embed the standards in their systems and processes enabling seamless track and trace from manufacturer to the patient bedside.
GS1 standards enable the globally unique identification of every person, every product, every place, every asset and more. With this information we can be sure who did what to whom, when, where, with what and why.
This delivers enhanced patient safety, reduced clinical variation and improved operational efficiency.

About Open Medical

Open Medical is a team of clinically-led digital health technology pioneers, specialising in creating bespoke digital patient workflow solutions for every clinical speciality. Our market-leading, fully interoperable cloud-based platform, PathpointⓇ, empowers healthcare professionals to effectively deliver regional integrated care models, by optimising clinical workflows, coordinating distributed teams and enabling seamless collaboration safely and securely. Our flagship product, Pathpoint eTrauma, centralises orthopaedic trauma coordination, replacing whiteboards, notebooks and paper lists with digital pathways. Our expertise and product portfolio also extends into the management of elective waiting list pathways, with multi-specialty end-to-end surgical pathway management, alongside bespoke pathways across multiple non-surgical specialties.

About Image Supply Systems

Image Supply Systems Audio Visual is a leading audio visual and video conferencing integrator and service provider, based in Dublin.
We have over 30 years’ experience working with local and international organisations to fulfil their communication and collaboration requirements in Ireland and abroad.

Specialising in healthcare, corporate, third level education and public sectors, we provide a comprehensive range of AV and conferencing systems and services:

– AV consultation and bespoke design
– Supply of innovative AV technology
– Installation and commissioning
– Tailored user training
– Technical support and maintenance

We are proud to count hospitals and healthcare training centres throughout Ireland as longstanding, valued clients.

About Vocera

Vocera, now part of Stryker, provides clinical communication and workflow solutions that help protect and connect team members, increase operational efficiency, enhance quality of care and safety, and humanize the healthcare experience. Nearly 2,800 facilities worldwide, including more than 2,300 hospitals and healthcare facilities, have selected Vocera solutions to enable their workforce to communicate and collaborate, and engage with patients and families. Our platform can integrate with most clinical and operational systems used in hospitals. Mobile workers can choose the right device for their role and workflow, including smartphones or our wearable, hands-free communication devices, and use voice commands to easily reach people by name, role, or group. For more information, visit Vocera.com.
Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and, together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better. We offer innovative products and services in Medical and Surgical, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics, and Spine that help improve patient and hospital outcomes. For more information, visit Stryker.com.

About Noesis

Founded in 1995, Noesis is an international tech consulting company offering services and solutions to support clients in digital transformation and the development of their businesses. In order to obtain sustained value that is transversal to all sectors, Noesis is focused on infrastructures, software, quality and people. The organisation is based on highly specialized talents, operating in nine business units and six countries – Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Brazil, Ireland, and the USA. In 2020, Noesis joined with Altia, and is listed on The Alternative Equity Market, in Spain. With this incorporation, Noesis is now part of an organisation of more than 2000 employees, with 3 Datacenters and 20 offices.

About MDI Medical
Founded in 1987, MDI Medical Limited is one of the leading healthcare solutions providers in Ireland.
MDI Medical’s core services include consultancy, design, supply and installation of leading medical devices and products as well as providing ongoing technical and clinical support to our healthcare customers.

Our customers are supported through a number of exclusive partnership agreements operating in the following verticals:

• Healthcare Technology
• Clinical IT, Integration and Connectivity
• Ultrasound Imaging
• Patient Monitoring and General Diagnostics
• Consumables
• Healthcare Design and Solutions

Our headquarters are based in a purpose-built premises located in Kells, County Meath Ireland with additional offices in Belfast – Northern Ireland and Liverpool – UK. Presently the company has 38 employees across the three locations.

MDI Medical’s core focus is to further support our customers in healthcare while continuously working with them and our partners in defining & improving the clinical workflows while utilising healthcare technology.
For more information visit www.mdimedical.ie.

About Insight

Insight is one of the largest data analytics centres in Europe. We enable better decision-making by
providing innovative technology solutions to industry and society.
Insight is driven by €150m in funding, supporting 450+ researchers across a broad range of areas in the field of data analytics.

As the national centre for data analytics in Ireland, Insight has delivered a large number of industry collaborations, won substantial funding from the EU and supported comprehensive Education, Public Engagement, and Communications programmes. Our alignment with current and future national priorities and industry sectors is evident from our involvement and support of key strategies from SFI, Horizon Europe, Enterprise Ireland, Project Ireland, the IRC and DTIF.

Insight, through the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centres programme, offers unprecedented opportunities for industry, government and other institutions to collaborate with leading data analytics researchers. Our focus is on advancing the field of data analytics while collaborating with companies that allow all aspects of data analytics and AI to be applied to real world problems.
Insight’s expertise covers the whole data value chain, from the integration of multiple heterogeneous data sources to discovering patterns and trends in data and making explainable sense of them.

About RecruitmentPlus

Since 1999, RecruitmentPlus has been at the forefront of recruiting for medtech, pharma and scientific companies. We understand these sectors. Our experienced recruitment specialists select only the highest calibre candidates to ensure you find the right match for your organisation quickly and efficiently.
We put our company values to work for you:
· We are CUSTOMER CENTRIC: we put our customers – both client and candidate, at the heart of everything we do. Matching candidates to roles is complex; relying not only on experience and in depth market knowledge, but demands intuition, empathy and often lateral thinking to get the best possible outcome, something no computer algorithm can deliver.
· We have INTEGRITY: We understand the sensitivities around the knowledge we hold about both our candidates and clients. Our people embody the highest possible standard of trust and honesty.
· We are CONSTANTLY LEARNING: continuously looking for new and improved ways of doing things, combining fresh thinking with over 2 decades of experience to deliver a progressive recruitment offering.
· We are COMMITTED to you: We are passionate about what we do. We think clever and outside the box, exploring all avenues to ensure we place the right people in the right roles
· We are RELENTLESS and never give up: We listen and learn so we can understand the exact needs of our candidates and clients.