| Tuesday, June 15, 2021 | |||
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| The Challenges and Opportunities Facing the Veterinary Profession in the USA Today and in theFuture, Post Covid-19 | • How to thrive in an environment of automation and telemedicine • Innovations to drive efficiencies: E-commerce and Telemedicine as complementary • Solving the demand problem and making vet care more accessible and affordable • Unpopular opinions and the future of prescription medicines | Matthew Salois - American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) | View Session |
| New Tools and Solutions That Will Take Animal Health Through the Next Evolution | • How to interpret and respond to a new era in pet care delivery • Theorising the number of prescriptions in the future that will move from the veterinarian to Google or Amazon • Thoughts on new business models that can be implemented in animal health • Breakthrough innovations will support the pet owners, farmers and veterinarians of the future | Tim Bettington - Zoetis Kristin Peck - Zoetis | View Session |
| Panel Discussion: Strategic Guidance on Animal Health Regulatory Pathways | This panel with provide the audience with strategic guidance on how to approach the regulatory pathways for animal health. | Klaus Hellmann - Argenta Laura Treml VMD PhD - knoell Jonathan Hare - Clinglobal Terri Wasmoen - Animal Clinical Investigation, LLC Audrey Sue Lavoie - Paul Dick & Associates Ltd. | View Session |
| Developing Medical Breakthroughs for Both Humans and Animals: Regulation Need-to-Knows | The road to an NADA compared to an NDA is shorter, and less costly, but still very challenging and difficult. There are many ways in which the regulatory path in animal health is less risky than in human health, not least because of the ability to do pilot studies in the client-owned animal population. In fact, almost no pivotal clinical studies fail for lack of effectiveness because pilot studies can be done prior to launching the pivotal study. This roundtable will address how to navigate the registration process in animal health, and share tricks of the trade that you need to know to get your product to market quickly. | Linda Rhodes - Independent Consultant Bill Zollers - Argenta | View Session |
| Panel Discussion: The Future of Personalised Pet Health: Challenges and Opportunities | • Customer journeys. Learnings from recent pet owner behavior and how that will influence how we provide pet care in the future • The future opportunities and challenges with regards pet triage and telemedicine • Advanced innovations that will break down barriers and positively impact the sector | Francois Fournier - Virbac North America Nicole Rogers - Whisker Docs Julia Loew - Elanco Jim Penrod - American Association of Veterinary State Board Kathy Turner - IDEXX | View Session |
| How Do We Develop More Responsible, Smarter Innovations for Ruminant Health Whilst Supporting the Environment | Innovation: What innovations will genuinely help farmers to support cattle health whilst maintaining efficiency and productivity Regulation: Strategies to bring the innovation of the future to the market, faster Producers Perspective: How much does the need to be sustainable impact the choice of solution? | John Butler - The Beef Marketing Group Tyre Grant - Elanco Animal Health Richard Hobson - Herdsy John Richeson - West Texas A&M Jan Robinson - The College of Veterinarians of Ontario (CVO) Jared Shriver - Zoetis | View Session |
| Wednesday, June 16, 2021 | ||||
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| Keynote: Farming, Food and the Shifting Horizon | 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | The agricultural landscape was rapidly changing even before the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the global food supply chain. The way we produce, distribute and consume food will soon look very different. What lessons can we take away from this to guide how we feed the planet in the future? As the CEO of Futurity, Jack Bobo makes it his business to stay ahead of the trends and detect the disruptors that trigger them. He joins us to share his insights on the challenges and opportunities awaiting us in the next era of agriculture. | Jack Bobo - Futurity | View Session |
| The Gap Between People and Technology for Intensive Farming | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | • How to achieve successful scaling of advanced technologies and systems • How do we balance farmers getting ROI vs using new technology in an efficient way? • Future Challenges: A focus on people vs full automation | Phil Hord - Hord Family Farms Matthew Rooda - Swinetech Inc. Tom Stein - Maximus Systems John Kolb - Merck Animal Health Ventures | View Session |
| CONCURRENT START-UP PITCHES • PRODUCTION ANIMAL | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Five Companies to present for their technologies for financial investment or strategic corporate partnerships. Shark’s Panel to Judge the companies for the ‘Innovation Award’ - Audience to judge for the ‘People’s Choice Award’ Michael Graham, CFO, Cytophage Yiannis N. Kaznessis, PhD, CEO, General Probiotics Louis Hui, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Healthy Cow Jack Heinemann, President & Chief Operating Officer, Isomark Jenny Filbey, CEO, Mazen Animal Health | View Session | |
| CONCURRENT START-UP PITCHES • COMPANION ANIMAL | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Five Companies to present for their technologies for financial investment or strategic corporate partnerships. Shark’s Panel to Judge the companies for the ‘Innovation Award’ Audience to judge for the ‘People’s Choice Award’ Jeff Barnes, President, Aimalojic Amanda Drobnis, Co-Founder & CEO, Hilltop BioSciences Bailey Surtees, CEO, Kubanda Cryotherapy. Wesley Wierson, Founder & CEO, LEAH Laboratories Alon Landa, CEO, MedcoVet | View Session | |
| CONCURRENT START-UP PITCHES • PRODUCTION ANIMAL | 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM | Five Companies to present for their technologies for financial investment or strategic corporate partnerships. Shark’s Panel to Judge the companies for the ‘Innovation Award’ Audience to judge for the ‘People’s Choice Award’ Randall Tosh, Founder & CEO, Phoreus Harrison Moss, Co-Founder & CEO, Porklogic Yael Alter, Co-Founder & CEO, SOOS Technology Matthew Rooda, Co-Founder & CEO, SwineTech Kerryann Kocher, CEO, Vytelle | View Session | |
| CONCURRENT START-UP PITCHES • COMPANION ANIMAL | 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM | Five Companies to present for their technologies for financial investment or strategic corporate partnerships. Shark’s Panel to Judge the companies for the ‘Innovation Award’ - Audience to judge for the ‘People’s Choice Award’ Albert J. Di Rienzo, Co-Founder, President & Chief Innovation Officer, One Health Group Daniel Grosu, CEO & President, PetDx Craig Mincher, Veterinary & Clinical Director, Telenostic Ashley Kalinauskas, Founder & CEO, Torigen Pharmaceuticals Adriann Sax, Co-Founder & CEO, Vetigenics | View Session | |
| Are We Going to See an Acceleration in the Adoption and Use of Pet Insurance in the US? | 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM | Todd Richter - Guggenheim Partners Alexandre Douzet - Pumpkin | View Session | |