Program
7:45 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 8:40 AM
8:40 AM - 9:20 AM
9:20 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Registration & Breakfast
Opening Remarks
Sela Gaglia
Executive Director, Corporate & Foundation Relations, SJSU
Marc d'Alarcao, PhD
Interim Vice President for Research and Innovation, SJSU
Plenary Speaker I
Yao Sun, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Topic: Opportunities and Challenges for Critical Care Clinical Decision Support
Location: Student Union Ballroom
Startup Pitches
Break I
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM
SESSION 1:
Medical Device Innovation & Commercialization I
Location: Student Union Ballroom
Janie Mandrusov, PhD
VahatiCor
Topic: From Ideation to Clinical Evidence Generation
Brian Crews
Intuitive
Topic: Performance and safety verification for robotic medical devices
Scott Nierotka
Medical Device Executive
Topic: What It Means to be a Leader in Medical Devices in 2026
SESSION 2:
Intellectual Property & Regulatory Strategy in Healthcare
Location: Studio Room 1
Soody Tronson
STLG Law Firm
Topic: From Lab to Market: Practical IP and Governance for Connected Devices
Alma Lopez
Senior Technical Product Manager
Topic: Building Healthcare Software that Matters: Integrating Technology, Regulation, and Science
Peter Coronado
Agile Regulatory Consulting
Topic: Once You File with FDA, It's Public: Regulatory Strategy and IP Risk in the Age of AI
11:30 AM - 1:20 PM
12:00 PM - 1:20 PM
1:20 PM - 2:00 PM
Poster Competition
Lunch
Plenary Speaker II:
Kate Stephenson, PhD
Dyad Engineering
Topic: Accounting for Ai in Future BME Careers
Location: Student Union Ballroom
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
2:20 PM - 2:40 PM
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
SESSION 3:
Medical Device Innovation & Commercialization II
Location: Student Union Ballroom
Cassi Janakos
Healthy Horizons
Topic: The Usability Gap: Aligning Breast Pump Innovation with Human Reality
Priya Balachandran, PhD
Huddl Health
Topic: Driving Diagnostics - Velocity versus Validation in the Age of AI
Barry Schnur
David Schnur Associates
Topic: Bringing Medical Devices to Market in 2026
SESSION 4:
Translational Biomedical Research
Location: Studio Room 1
Alexander Payumo, PhD
San Jose State University Biology
Topic: Hormonal regulation of heart muscle proliferation and regeneration
Kristin Sellers, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Topic: Deep Brain Stimulation for Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Adaptive devices to new indications
Onur Dur, PhD
Elixir Medical
Topic: Bioadaptive Coronary Angioplasty - Clinical Rationale, Mechanistic Insights, and Contemporary Outcomes
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
6:30 PM
Break II
Industry Panel
Dr. Annette Teng — Moderator, IEEE Electronics Packaging Society
Dr. Marco Rolandi — University of California, Santa Cruz — Co-Founder and CSO, CruzFoam
Dr. Chris Danek — CEO, Bessel
Dr. Hualiang Shi — Meta
Alumni Showcase
Anitha Achyutha — Vice President of Clinical Affairs, ALPFA Medical
Mike Passaglia — President, Passaglia Quality Consulting
Hoang Nguyen — Manufacturing Engineer, Molecular Devices
Poster Competition Awards & Closing
Reception
End