Platinum Sponsors
Abbott Medical Optics (AMO) is focused on providing the full range of advanced refractive technologies and support to help eye care professionals deliver optimal vision and lifestyle experiences to patients of all ages. With our innovations, eye care professionals can optimize visual function based on each patient’s individual need. AMO is dedicated to improving the quality of vision—and life—for others.
Allergan is a global, technology-driven multi-specialty healthcare company pursuing therapeutic advances to help patients live life to their fullest potential. In making this commitment, we work to develop an unparalleled level of insight into patients’ wants and needs—and into the priorities and concerns of the medical specialists who treat them.
Chapman University, founded in 1861, is one of the oldest, most prestigious private universities in California. Chapman’s picturesque campus is located in the heart of Orange County—an exciting center of arts, business, science, and technology—and draws outstanding students and faculty from across the United States and around the world.
At Covidien, we’re passionate about making doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other medical professionals as effective as they can be. Through ongoing collaboration with these medical professionals and healthcare organizations, we identify clinical needs and translate them into proven products and procedures. Our industry-leading brands – including Kendall, Mallinckrodt, Nellcor, Puritan-Bennett and Valleylab – are known and respected worldwide for uncompromising quality.
Over the years, we’ve pioneered a number of medical advances, including contrast media delivery, pulse oximetry, electrosurgery, surgical stapling, laparoscopic instrumentation and embolization devices. This extensive product line, spanning medical devices, pharmaceuticals and medical supplies, enables us to serve healthcare needs in hospitals, long-term care and alternate care facilities, doctors’ offices, pharmacies and in the home.
DevicePharm is an Irvine, California-based provider of marketing strategy and integrated marketing communications solutions for organizations serving medical professionals and healthcare consumers. Our clients include medical device, biotech, life science, and pharmaceutical firms ranging from investor-backed start-ups to established market leaders.
Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring.
Edwards Lifesciences leverages its research, design, development, and marketing expertise to produce products that address specific cardiovascular opportunities including heart valve disease, vascular disease and critical care technologies.
Emulex is the leader in converged networking solutions for the data center. Our Connectivity Continuum architecture provides intelligent networking services that transition today’s infrastructure into tomorrow’s unified network ecosystem.
Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. Worldwide, our 152,000 people are united by our shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients, and our wider communities achieve their potential.
Experian is the leading global information services company, providing data and analytical tools to clients in more than 90 countries. The company helps businesses to manage credit risk, prevent fraud, target marketing offers and automate decision-making. Experian also helps individuals to check their credit report and credit score and protect against identity theft.
Fleishman-Hillard International Communications, one of the world’s leading strategic communications firms, has built its reputation on creating integrated solutions that deliver what its clients value most: meaningful, positive and measurable impact on the performance of their organizations. The Fleishman-Hillard Orange County office offers full-service communications to clients in the technology, healthcare, corporate services, clean technology/green energy, and financial services sectors. The firm operates throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa and Latin America through its 80 owned offices. For more information, visit the Fleishman-Hillard website at www.fleishmanhillard.com.
K & L Gates represents leading global corporations, growth, and middle-market companies, capital markets participants, and entrepreneurs in every major industry group as well as public sector entities, educational institutions, philanthropic organizations, and individuals.
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, currently the third largest IP firm nationwide, is a law firm practicing exclusively in the area of intellectual property law including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, rights of publicity, unfair competition, and related litigation and licensing. Services are provided to clients throughout the United States and the world in a broad spectrum of intellectual property matters.
Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) is a global medical technology company that develops and manufactures innovative noninvasive patient monitoring technologies, including medical devices and a wide array of sensors. A key medical technology innovator, Masimo is responsible for the invention of award-winning noninvasive technologies that are revolutionizing patient monitoring, including Masimo SET® pulse oximetry, Masimo rainbow® SET Pulse CO-Oximetry and new Masimo noninvasive and continuous total hemoglobin (SpHb®) monitoring technology. These new rainbow® technologies are expected to open new markets and significantly expand the company’s growth opportunities.
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MicroVention is a rapidly growing medical device company that has pioneered the development of catheter-based, minimally invasive, neuroendovascular technologies that provide therapeutic advantages for cerebral aneurysms and other neurovascular diseases. The Company dedicates significant resources to support Research & Development, with an emphasis on innovative endovascular technologies that provide a meaningful improvement in patient lives.
Moss Adams is the 11th largest accounting and consulting firm in the United States and the largest headquartered in the Western United States. Moss Adams provides accounting, tax, and consulting services to midsize domestic- or foreign-owned public, private, and not-for-profit enterprises in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, telecommunications, energy, technology, and health care.
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ industry-focused professionals deliver assurance, tax, human resources, transaction, performance improvement and IT strategy, planning, and implementation support to clients throughout the globe.
Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth is a leading business law firm. Known as the “go-to” firm for emerging growth companies in California, Stradling offers an extensive array of legal and advisory services in corporate and securities, complex business litigation, tax, employment, and intellectual property. No law firm has helped launch more companies in Southern California than Stradling.
TechSpace delivers flexible, on-demand “alternative office space” and integrated technology and business services that give today’s small- to mid-sized businesses a powerful platform from which to operate. TechSpace serves both on-site and virtual clients with an innovative business solution that relies on centralized outsourcing.
TriNet delivers HR outsourcing services that help small companies contain HR costs, minimize employer-related risk, and relieve the administrative burden of HR. Thousands of organizations have turned to TriNet for humanresources, benefits, payroll, workers compensation, and strategic human capital services. As their trusted HR advisor, TriNet helps these companies contain HR costs, minimize employer-related risk, and relieve the administrative burden of HR.
University of California, Irvine is among the fastest-growing UC campuses, is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU), and is consistently ranked among the nation’s best universities, public and private. UCI’s goal of promoting diversity among faculty, students, and staff shapes endeavors in teaching, research, and public service.
Gold Sponsors
Aptiv Solutions is a full-service international CRO with proven expertise in supporting global clinical trials for biopharmaceutical and medical device companies. Our well-designed trials span the development lifecycle from first-in-human through regulatory approval and beyond.
CresaPartners provides an array of integrated corporate services and work to align your real estate needs with your business plans. Our advisors and project managers form partnerships with our clients, providing ongoing service that goes beyond the deal. We are North America’s largest corporate real estate firm that exclusively represents tenants.
Deloitte has a single focus: serving our clients and helping them solve their toughest problems. We work in four key business areas—audit, financial advisory, tax, and consulting—but our real strength comes from combining the talents of those groups to address clients’ needs.
Devon & Devon unites talent with opportunities and believes there is a job that fits every person and a person that fits every job. We strive to surpass the expectations of employers, jobs seekers, and our team members.
Dorsey & Whitney is a business law firm, applying a business perspective to clients’ needs. We make it our first priority to know the context in which you do business—your market, your competitors, your industry. With offices on four continents, Dorsey offers access to native legal experience virtually anywhere in the world.
With a heritage serving business customers since 1994, Latisys is quickly becoming the hosting provider of choice for companies looking to achieve a better return on their IT infrastructure investment.
Latisys was founded in June, 2007 by three highly experienced industry executives and in conjunction with Great Hill Partners and Catalyst Investors – with a mission to deliver industry-leading colocation, managed hosting and managed services to small-, medium- and enterprise-class businesses alike.
Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor solutions for: aerospace, defense and security; enterprise and communications; and industrial and alternative energy markets. Products include high-performance, high-reliability analog and RF devices, mixed-signal and RF integrated circuits, customizable SoCs, FPGAs, and complete subsystems. Microsemi is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif., and has approximately 3,000 employees globally.
Mindspeed Technologies designs,develops, and sells semiconductor solutions for communications applications in the wireline and wireless network infrastructure. We serve our markets with innovative solutions for converging enterprise, broadband access, metropolitan, and wide-area networks.
SVB Financial Group provides diversified financial services to emerging, growth and established technology companies and the life science, cleantech, venture capital, private equity and premium wine markets. Through its focus on specialized markets and extensive knowledge of the people and business issues driving them, SVB Financial Group provides a level of service and partnership that measurably impacts its clients’ success.
Southern California Edison is the product of more than a century of providing reliable electric service to central, coastal, and southern California.
Silver Sponsors
Aubrey Group is a contract product development and manufacturing company using state-of-the-art technologies to develop new medical devices and biotech instruments. Our expertise is designing and engineering innovative solutions for clients in the therapeutic, surgical, patient monitoring, and diagnostic industries.
Global intelligence is the ability to view the world as a whole, to see connections as well as differences and to understand how leverage in one area can change the outcome worldwide. Bingham delivers this kind of intelligence with approximately 1,000 lawyers in offices on three continents, anchored by major commitments in the world’s key financial centers. Our lawyers understand how capital markets fit together, how taxes shape global financial policy, how regulations compete and conflict, how litigation integrates with business objectives, and how cross-border legal strategies must coordinate. Bingham links you to a wide and deep bench of talent spanning multiple legal strengths and geographies. You benefit from a range of integrated perspectives from experienced, on-the-ground practitioners, broader analyses, and end-to-end solutions, worldwide.
BioQuest is a retained executive search firm focused exclusively on recruiting senior professionals for the life science industry. Our clients range from VC-backed start-ups to midsized public companies across the broad spectrum of the life sciences industry, focusing on the top two management tiers: CEO and all functional VPs, in addition to board searches.
Since 1958, Brandman University has been serving the unique needs of adults by providing students access to a quality education consistent with the needs of their busy lives. Brandman University offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, certificates, teaching credentials and extended education programs online and at campuses throughout California and Washington. Over 6,000 students per session enjoy convenient class times, exceptional faculty and unparalleled student service.
The Consulate General of Canada in Los Angeles is responsible for enhancing Canada’s economic relationships with Southern California, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico through promoting, trade, investment and science and technology. The Consulate General has helped to build strong ties between world class academics, research institutions and the biomedical industries in Canada and California. Canada’s highly diversified medical device manufacturing and development industry encompasses more than 1,000 firms that are well positioned to leverage innovative research being conducted in Canadian universities, research institutions and hospitals to offer cost effective and patient centric healthcare solutions.
The people in the independent firms of Grant Thornton International Ltd provide personalized attention and the highest quality service to public and private clients in more than 100 countries. Grant Thornton LLP is the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd, one of the six global audit, tax and advisory organizations. Grant Thornton International Ltd and its member firms are not a worldwide partnership, as each member firm is a separate and distinct legal entity.
For more than 127 years, companies around the world have depended on Intertek to ensure the quality and safety of their products, processes and systems.We go beyond testing, inspecting and certifying products; we help customers improve performance, gain efficiencies in manufacturing and logistics, overcome market constraints, and reduce risk. We’ve earned a reputation for helping our customers increase the value of their products, gain competitive advantage, and develop trusted brands. Through our services we help our clients to minimise the adverse health and environmental impact of their products and processes for the benefit of society as a whole.
Intralign is a specialty healthcare services company offering an integrated suite of services to the orthopedic provider. Intralign’s orthopedic solutions provide data-driven efficiency tools, care-centered design processes and clinical support services to healthcare providers, enabling them to better control both the economics and quality of major joint replacement.
Knee and hip replacements are a substantial and growing burden on our healthcare system. Due to increased demand and changing reimbursement models, providers are seeking to transition their care-delivery approach. Intralign delivers novel and action-oriented solutions to help providers understand cost drivers, improve operational control, coordinate processes, and consistently manage spend and quality in this critical area.
Jones Lang LaSalle is a financial and professional services firm specializing in commercial real estate services and investment management. Our more than 40,000 people in 1,000 locations in 70 countries serve the local, regional and global real estate needs of those clients, growing our company in the process. In response to changing client expectations and market conditions, we assemble teams of experts who deliver integrated commercial real estate services built on insight and foresight, sound market research and relevant knowledge. We attract, develop and reward the best, and most diverse, people in our industry, challenging them to develop enduring client relationships built on quality service, collaboration and trust.
KPMG operates as an international network of member firms offering audit, tax and advisory services. We work closely with our clients, helping them to mitigate risks and grasp opportunities.
Marcum LLP is one of the largest independent public accounting and advisory services firms in the nation. Ranked within the top 15 firms by Inside Public Accounting and Accounting Today, Marcum offers the resources of more than 1,100 professionals, including more than 150 partners, in 23 offices throughout the U.S., Grand Cayman, China and Hong Kong.
Sequent Medical Inc. is a privately held, development-stage medical device company in Aliso Viejo , CA that was established in August 2007. The company is dedicated to the development of innovative devices to advance the endovascular treatment of neurovascular disease conditions.
Syprosoft Engineering provides R&D services, including software, electrical, mechanical, optics and systems engineering. We design products, build prototypes, perform V&V, and support production launch. Experience includes medical devices, biotechnology, industrial and consumer products. Specializations include lasers, fluorescence, x-ray, CT, MRI, microprocessors, DSP, image and signal processing, algorithm development, modeling, simulation, GUI design, machine design, portable systems, surgical systems and catheters. Located in Irvine, California, we have been growing steadily since our founding in 2002. As an extension of our clients’ engineering departments, we provide the critical skills at the right time to achieve product development goals. More information is available at www.syprosoft.com.
Vertos Medical Inc. is a medical device company committed to developing innovative, minimally invasive treatments for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). Its proprietary technologies include mild®, which offers a safe, outpatient, minimally invasive, fluoroscopically guided therapeutic LSS treatment that requires no general anesthesia, no implants, and no stitches. LSS is primarily a degenerative, age-related narrowing of the lower spinal canal that causes symptoms of pain and numbness in the lower back, legs, or buttocks. mild® treats this condition by restoring space in the spinal canal using specialized mild® devices to remove hypertrophic ligamentum flavum through a 5.1 mm treatment portal. Clinical studies show that mild® can help LSS patients stand longer and walk farther with less pain1, and no major complications related to the devices or the procedure have been reported.2
Witt/Kieffer serves hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers and other health-related organizations; life sciences companies including pharmaceutical, biotech, diagnostics and medical device corporations; colleges and universities and not-for-profit community service organizations and foundations. Our clients have relied on Witt/Kieffer for 40 years to identify leaders with the best mix of skills, experience, vision and character to fulfill their missions. For them and for us, executive search is about much more than filling a chair — It’s about bringing great leadership to your organization.
Venture Capital Firm Members
Fjord takes a fundamentally different approach than traditional venture capital. We rely on true aligned incentives among entrepreneurs, management, limited partners and money managers to drive value creation in our portfolio. The Fjord Ventures accelerator provides a highly capital efficient shared infrastructure to Portfolio companies and offers a dedicated funding source through Fjord Capital Partners. The portfolio is managed by Fjord’s seasoned team, which has over 50 years of combined operating experience.
Where healthy ideas become medical products!
Miramar Venture Partners invests in early stage information technology opportunities, with an emphasis on projects based in Southern California. We partner with leading entrepreneurs to transform game changing ideas into capital efficient, profitable businesses.
Okapi Venture Capital provides long-term capital and management support to start-ups. We take pride in partnering with exceptionally talented entrepreneurs and operational executives to develop their emerging businesses.
As a lifestyle healthcare-focused growth equity firm, Strathspey Crown is the catalyst in groundbreaking technology development and commercialization, ensuring tremendous growth and prosperity for our stakeholders. As such, we uniquely partner with specialty physicians to build highly innovative lifestyle healthcare technologies and services that provide life enhancement and wellness to patients worldwide.
With our collective expertise and experience from diverse industries, we deliver outstanding and exclusive opportunities for the discerning, intellectual investor.
Versant Ventures is a leading healthcare-focused venture capital firm specializing in early stage investments in medical devices, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, healthcare services, and healthcare information technology.
Start-Up Company Members
Based in Irvine, California, AcuFocus is an early stage medical device company that developed a product for presbyopia, the AcuFocus Corneal Inlay. The goal of the AcuFocus Corneal Inlay is to reduce the need for reading glasses. The corneal inlay device, is an investigational device in the United States and is under IDE (Investigational Device Exemption) status. Clinical studies are underway throughout the world.
Alternative Technology Solutions helps customers to increase their ERP investments while reducing their implementation costs. With a customer-centric philosophy that begins with a deep dive into understanding your business, Alternative reduces the decision-making effort by implementing the core functionality required, leaving only the fine-turning up to the customer. When companies engage Alternative, they put their ERP investment in our hands and trust our process and results. We don’t take that trust for granted, and we deliver.
Andrew Technologies, LLC, is a medical technology company committed to improving patients’ lives through body aesthetics. We are preparing to launch our first product, HydraSolve™ lipoplasty system, in the US in early 2012.
Headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, Arkami, Inc. recognized a familiar pain point in most digital users’ lives and manufactured a simple password management device. myIDkey is the first fingerprint, voice-search, secure Bluetooth / USB drive that displays passwords and ID on the go as well as works with smart mobile devices and personal computers. Now passwords and account information is at the tip of your finger.
BioPhotas, Inc. has developed innovative and technically advanced BioPhotonic products based on NASA’s research, which offer safe, natural and non-invasive treatments for skin rejuvenation and muscle and joint pain. BioPhotonic Therapy utilizes BioPhotas’ innovative combination of LED light energy and proprietary photo-modulation technologies to adjunctively treat acne, aesthetic, inflammation, muscle and joint pain conditions.
Founded in 2011, Blockade Medical is a privately held company dedicated the development of catheter based therapeutic devices for the treatment of cerebral aneurysms. The Blockade Management team has a combined 65+ years in the neurovascular field. The Company is committed to bringing products to market that are not only current standards of care in the neuro interventional field but also innovative next generation solutions to complex interventional nuerovascular procedures. Blockade Medical is headquartered in Irvine, CA. The Companys products are also designed and manufactured in California. The Company received CE Mark for its Barricade Coil System in July of 2012
Breathe Technologies, Inc. is a developer and manufacturer of innovative therapeutic respiratory systems and is dedicated to helping people with compromised lung function breathe, move and live.
Bulzī supplies advanced metrics data services to Out Of Home (OOH) advertising networks which improve media credibility and enable new micro-targeted ad models.
In the world of distributed data, cloud computing and big data there is a need to access any data, anywhere, at any time without having to be a programmer or DBA. Cirro is disrupting traditional data analytic approaches by empowering non-technical analysts to perform complex analysis on big data and traditional data sources with the simplicity of Excel or other in-house business intelligence tools. This type of analysis can be done without the complexity of dealing with multiple environments and languages. Users are free to ‘ask questions about their data’ with unparalleled access to any data regardless of the platform or environment for faster, more-informed data exploration and decision-making.
As a leading developer of highly integrated single chip CMOS ICs for high performance networking applications, ClariPhy offers the industry’s first seamless path from today’s 10 Gb/s networks to tomorrow’s 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s solutions. The company combines its extensive mixed-signal processing (MXSP) expertise with ultra high speed analog functions and complex DSP capabilities in a single scalable CMOS architecture.
Compellon’s mission is to enable data scientists, analysts and business users to quickly and easily discover the truth hidden within diverse data sets. The result of 20 years of research in advance information theory, Compellon’s breakthrough analysis engine simplifies traditional data analytics by eliminating the trial-and-error methodology of testing data against multiple statistical models.
Corent Technology is a leading provider of SaaS enablement software. Corent’s SaaS-Cockpit™ is a comprehensive operations and management platform for SaaS providers. Corent’s Multi-Tenant Server™ provides a software “plug-in” approach to instant transformation of conventional, single-tenant software applications into robust elastic, multi-tenant, cloud-ready SaaS solutions. Corent SaaS Enablement Platform was named the “2012 Cloud Product of the Year” at the TechAmerica’s 19th Annual High-tech Innovations Awards. Corent is managed by a team of Silicon Valley veterans from companies such as Apple, IBM, HP, Oracle, Sun and Sybase.
Daily Balance is a virtual accounting service that provides daily transactional bookkeeping for business and nonprofit clients, as well as preparation and analysis of financials, all under the supervision of a 30-year veteran CPA.
EIN-SOF is a leading provider of end-to-end IT services and solutions for both local and global companies. The company has a client-centric engagement model that combines local, senior, on-site resources with the cost, scale and quality advantages of off-shore operations. We adopt best practices methodologies to include V Cycle for software development and ISO 9001 for quality management. Our technical center has been assessed at CMMI level 3, indicating that all standard processes have been defined and documented. These certifications and practices provide a qualified foundation for all EIN-SOF service offerings and enable our clients to benefit internally.
Enmotus enables fast and simple integration of SSDs and hard drives in servers and server centric distributed storage environments. Utilizing automated data migration and storage virtualization technology normally associated with expensive enterprise storage, we have created an easy path to scalable SSD adoption. Our MicroTiering™ creates a new class of affordable tiered storage that combines the capacity of hard drives with the performance of SSDs. The Enmotus solution responds in seconds to rapidly changing access patterns, ensuring that your SSD storage contains only that data that you need.
Evantix’s vision is to provide this missing market mechanism. A vendor risk reporting, monitoring, and management portal. The Evantix Risk & Compliance Portal transforms companies from “data gatherers” to “Risk Intelligence” enterprises that quickly measure vendor risk and take action with tools that connect them directly to the vendor.
EyeOnJewels Corp. blends leading edge technologies with out-of-the-box innovation to help consumers connect with the jewelry and watch markets globally.
FUGU is the one-stop source for the production and distribution of interactive training and shows targeted to a consumer audience. The content is delivered in an immersive fashion that entangles the viewer in a compelling and participatory experience far removed from the traditional, passive media experience.
Gate 5 Energy Partners’ advanced and innovative technologies profitably produce a sustainable fuel out of sludge and other natural waste products and as a result eliminate associated health and environmental problems.
GenieDB is a geo-diverse, fully-replicated datafabric for enterprises who host multi-location apps demanding global consistency, user-data proximity, availability or scalability over very wide areas.
GluMetrics is a medical device company applying patented technology to create tools that enable clinicians to successfully implement a new care paradigm for critically ill patients.
Founded by Jerry Mezger who has spent the past 30 years as a medtech executive. Founded or restarted several catheter and several heart valve companies now part of Boston Scientific, Medtronic, Radiometer, and others. Most recently turned around NeoMend, Inc. which now has the fastest growing surgical sealant in the U.S.
Edwards Lifesciences is the leading xenograft technology company in the world. In our strategic partnership, Harbor gained exclusive rights to patented technology for creating xenograft products with unique properties for supporting wound healing.
The HEROware Partner Program is designed to help you create opportunities that grow your business while providing necessary and useful business continuity products and services to your clients.
All Authorized Resellers are provided with the expertise to sell, integrate, and manage the complete line of HERO-Defender™ and HERO Secure-Cloud™ Backup & Disaster Recovery Appliances and Solutions.
Hitachi Chemical is promoting a “Material System Solution” that provides customers with solutions to problems in product development from a comprehensive point of view regarding materials and technologies.
TECHNOLOGY ENABLED REMOTE REAL ESTATE INVESTING
HomeUnion offers an innovative technology platform for remotely investing in High-yield Real Estate. Most real estate investors lack visibility and often miss out on the best deals that may be in another part of the country. In addition, they do not have an effective way to manage these remote properties. HomeUnion provides investors transparent visual access to the best national Cash Flow Real Estate investment opportunities. The HomeUnion platform brings together a supply chain of Property Providers that it Certifies through an extensive due diligence process. The Providers sell fully tenanted properties to investors and stay on as Managers thereby providing a one-stop shop. This platform will also allow crowdfunding of real estate portfolios once the JOBS act goes into effect.
Identity Metrics (IDM) is an identity analytics software company focused on developing behavioral-biometric based technologies and solutions for authenticating and characterizing users in online environments.
If you have an idea for a truly ground-breaking medical device, we want to talk. We can offer you the opportunity to enhance the probability of you idea becoming a reality while reducing the risks associated with developing you idea yourself. From concept to commercialization, Inceptus Medical can provide experienced technical and managerial expertise to build quality products and a successful company.
Ivantis, Inc. is a company dedicated to the development of new and innovative solutions for glaucoma. Current therapies for primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) include eye drops, laser therapy, and surgery. But each of these has its limitations. Glaucoma remains the leading cause of blindness worldwide, in need of better treatment alternatives. It is our goal to develop new and effective solutions for ophthalmology specialists and the 70 million people worldwide who are affected by this debilitating and sight-stealing disease.
Jointly is the first Big Data Analytics and Closed-Loop Decision Platform for Remote Patient Monitoring. Working in partnership with Qualcomm Life, Jointly provides an end-to-end remote patient monitoring solution unlike anything on the market. The first application of Jointly is to help our customers massively reduce preventable hospital admissions and preventable disease progression.
Jointly works by continuously identifying high-risk patients, determining which physiological sensors, human observations and contextual metadata are required to manage each patient’s condition, monitors patients and identifies personal patterns indicative of a preventable hospital admission or disease progression. Jointly then alerts the most appropriate person on the member’s care team to take the action or intervention most likely to prevent the hospital admission or disease progression. Depending on the pattern detected and the healthcare organization’s policies, the alert may go to the member, the member’s care network, the disease/case manager and/or the member’s doctor.
LightWorks Optics is a premier solutions provider for the design, development, and production of integrated optical systems for advanced applications. From prototypes to production, we design, manufacture, assemble, and test precision optical systems and components-including visible, infrared, and laser-based systems and subassemblies. Combining specialized expertise, leadership, and cutting-edge technology, we develop, analyze, and select the best optical solution, then define the most readily producible system design. The result: an unprecedented performance record of 100% on-time delivery and 99% quality satisfaction. When you need a reliable partner for precision optical systems, look to LightWorks Optics to deliver. If we can’t do it, nobody can.
M2Catalyst. We make mobile apps, devices and services work: for developers, for mobile carriers, for device manufacturers. In this frenetic new market, we identify and hone the best of the best. Our quality control process takes your apps and services to the next level. Our marketers deliver them to boardrooms and the masses. M2Catalyst apps and services integrate seamlessly with carrier networks and handsets, and increase revenue for all involved. M2Catalyst. We set mobile markets in motion. All the way to the bank.
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is a consortium of 26 cities and water districts that provides drinking water to nearly 19 million people in parts of Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties.
The mission of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is to provide its service area with adequate and reliable supplies of high-quality water to meet present and future needs in an environmentally and economically responsible way.
Metropolitan currently delivers an average of 1.7 billion gallons of water per day to a 5,200-square-mile service area.
My Open Road is a revolutionary new geo-location travel game for smartphones. It rewards users in a positive reinforcement manner to be safe drivers, and reduce global warming by using alternate forms of transportation to conserve energy.
Driver safety is accomplished by encouraging drivers to use any type of hands free system when behind the wheel. The My Open Road’s patent-pending technology can detect and reward drivers for using Bluetooth speakerphones, headsets, and ear buds or wired headsets.
My Open Road participates in reducing global warming by encouraging and rewarding users when they use different means of getting around other than driving. They can take public transportation, trains, carpool, even cycling and running will be supported.
Gamification is accomplished by rewarding points for every mile traveled, and a “social good” score based on the user’s means of travel. The safer a driver is, or the more energy conscious the mechanism of travel, the more points are earned and the higher the users “social good” score becomes. Users compete in a “leader board” system with friends or other users in their state, county, or city for bragging rights.
Nant, short for Nantan, is an Apache/Native American name meaning ‘he who speaks for the people.’ NantWorks mission is to activate and build actionable content important to you at your point of engagement, transforming how we interact with the world and with each other – changing the way we live, work and play.
NantWorks is a convergence of next generation machine vision, object and voice recognition technologies, ultra-low power semiconductors, supercomputing, and advanced networks for the purpose of bringing the digital revolution to healthcare, commerce and digital entertainment to an entirely new level.
Bloggers, Content Providers, SEO Professionals, Advertisers and Corporate Marketing Managers use OnlyWire to submit millions of posts each day. Social Media Professionals use OnlyWire to launch, update and analyze social media campaigns.
Pivotshare’s mission is simple: to provide a world-class platform that enables content creators and publishers to profit off their hard work, that in turn entertains, informs, and delights their audiences.
We promise to build and maintain an infrastructure that supports publishers of all sizes, and to always listen to our customers as well as their customers.
Predixion Software, Inc. is the leading provider of collaborative predictive analytics solutions that are fully integrated with Microsoft Corp.’s BI platform – which has the largest install base across the business intelligence landscape.
In the heart of Orange County lies Rancho Santiago Community College District, home of one of the state’s oldest community colleges, Santa Ana College, and also one of its newest, Santiago Canyon College. Centered in a growing and dynamic area, the district serves a population of more than 700,000 residents in the communities of Anaheim Hills, Garden Grove, Irvine, Orange, Santa Ana, Tustin and Villa Park.
SourceThought provides the tools and talent to process ETL natively in Hadoop. Hadoop is the platform of choice for big data, but Hadoop is just the starting point. Data must be migrated, profiled, cleansed, transformed, integrated, enhanced, managed and tracked. That is where SourceThought comes in. SourceThought’s team of ETL and EDW experts are trained to use SourceThought tools and Hadoop to deliver turn key ETL and big data processing solutions to the enterprise.
Tellus Technology, Inc. is an environmental technology innovator committed to bringing biochemical and renewables-based manufacturing processes to the chemical and fuel industries that are transformative, sustainable, and highly profitable.
We are currently focused on the global commercialization of a innovative waste-to-value technology that upcycles used tires into widely accepted commercial products. The net result of the Tellus Process is the upcycling of millions of scrap tires per year, the recovery and reintroduction of tens of millions of pounds of petroleum-based chemicals and fuels into manufacturing industries, and the sequestration of hundreds of thousands of pounds of Green House Gas emissions.
TrafIQ greatly increases capacity on overloaded wireless networks. Wireless operators are struggling to handle the explosive growth in data traffic on their networks. TrafIQ accurately predicts network performance at future traffic levels, allowing wireless network operators to determine precisely when and where capacity (new cell sites, radio equipment, spectrum) will need to be added or removed from their networks, far more accurately than existing planning and optimization methods. With TrafIQ, operators can identify simple, low cost ways to squeeze more capacity from their existing network assets. These changes can be made proactively before the customer experiences any degradation due to increasing traffic.
Our Mission is to develop growth and innovation in collaboration with like-minded partners, transforming healthcare by “doing more, with less, for more people.” Our Vision is to create a significant and successful independent vehicle that forms a collaborative partnership among leading health systems. This platform will enable innovation of high-quality, cost-effective solutions and growth of new revenue sources that address the reimbursement “gap” on behalf of our Members.
The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at UC Irvine is a multidisciplinary research institute that develops information technology-based innovations. By integrating academic research with industry experience, the institute seeks to benefit society, incubate new technology companies and ignite economic development. Calit2 focuses on the digital transformation of healthcare, energy, the environment and culture. More than 150 UCI faculty, 250 students and 70 industry partners are actively engaged in Calit2 research activities.
The UCI Office of Technology Alliances (OTA) exists to foster faculty/industry alliances and commercialization of UC Irvine technology for the broad public benefit. OTA emphasizes accessibility, timeliness, and flexibility in its operations and negotiations to ensure that the federal, state and private investment in UCI research has the greatest possible positive impact on people and the economy.
VertiFlex is a privately held medical device company dedicated to the advancement of minimally invasive solutions for the treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis(LSS), which is the leading cause of spinal surgery in the elderly. Our focus is to resolve the pain of LSS, helping patients regain active and productive lifestyles.
Vubiq’s vision is to utilize our expertise in millimeter wave wireless to create disruptive applications for markets in which enormous bandwidths, low power consumption, and low cost are key considerations.
WaveTec Vision is a small company with a big idea – and the ability and the team to achieve it. Our proprietary intraoperative aberrometer system ORange® , will transform and advance the emerging convergence of refractive and cataract surgery. For demanding patients, and the skilled surgeons who serve them, ORange delivers the potential for optimal results.
We build communication apps and services for smart phones! Our secret sauce is our proprietary, massively scalable, hosted communication platform and a collection of APIs and web services that speed mobile development. Our flagship product is YouMail™’s Visual Voicemail, a state-of-the-art mobile voicemail service, with applications available for Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Palm, and Windows Phone 7 platforms.
