Mr. Warren Ribley, iBIO President & CEO

CONSULATE GENERAL OF INDIA
CHICAGO
11:15am to 12:15
12:15 – 12:20
12:20pm – 12:40pm
Registration, Lunch & Networking
Welcome Remarks: Dr. Ausaf Sayeed, Consul General of India,
Chicago
Keynote Addresses: Professor K. Vijayraghavan (Secretary of
Biotechnology) (Ministry of Science & Technology –
Government of India).
12:40pm – 12:50pm
Mr. Warren Ribley, iBIO President & CEO
Illinois Life Sciences Ecosystem
12:50pm – 1:00pm
Mr. John DeBlasio, Director, Office of International Trade and Investment,
Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, Office of the
Governor of Illinois
1:00pm – 1:10pm
1:10pm – 1:20pm
Mr. Trevor Gunn, Vice President- International Relations,
Medtronic (Washington DC) “Opportunities in the Healthcare
Technology Sector to Serve India: A Medtronic View”
Mr. Steven Collens, CEO of MATTER, Chicago’s healthcare technology
startup center and community hub
1:20pm – 1:30pm
Mr. Dinesh Jain, Founder CEO, Aagami Inc.
Mr. Michael Rosen, Managing Director, Rosen Bioscience Strategies
“Life Science Connections between the Midwest and India” as well as some
of the life science M&A and FDI activity going on between the U.S. and India”
1:30pm – 1:35pm
Dr. Manish Kohli, Consultant Division of Medical Oncology Associate
Professor of Oncology, Mayo Clinic
“Biotech application to cancer”
Comments, Q& A Session
1:35pm – 1:50pm
1:50pm – 2:00pm
2:00pm – 2:10pm
TEA BREAK
Dr. Sumant Ramachandran, Chief Scientific Officer, Hospira “Learnings and growth from Hospira’s investments in India”.
2:10pm – 2:20pm
Prof. Kattesh V. Katti', M.Sc. Ed, Phd, DSC, FRSC, University of Missouri Frontiers of Green Nanotechnology—US-India Bilateral Implications in Medicine
and Agriculture”.
2:20pm - 2:25pm
Mr. A. Alexander, Senior Project Manager at the Center for the
Science of Health Care Delivery at Mayo Clinic.
“Health IT here in the US and its application to India”
2:25pm – 2:30pm
Dr. Sindhu Rajan, Ph.D., Founder and CEO, Prana Diabetes
“Diabetes management program”
2:30pm – 2:35pm
2:35pm – 2:45pm
2:45pm – 2:50pm
Mr. Manu Nair, Vice President, Technology Ventures
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ("OMRF")
Dr. Vemuri Murthy, Member, International Committee, American Heart
Association
“Global Health, American Heart Association and Strategies for India”
Dr. Shekhar Mishra, Bio-Technology initiative
2:50pm – 3:15pm
3:15pm – 3:30pm
Comments, Q& A Session
Vote of Thanks
MC/ Moderator: Gunjan Bajpayee, Social Secretary to Consul General of India,
Consulate General of India, Chicago.
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