November 18-19, 2026
Santa Clara Convention Center
Silicon Valley, CA
November 18-19, 2026
Santa Clara Convention Center
Silicon Valley, CA
#MEDeviceSiliconValley
MEDevice Silicon Valley’s 2026 Keynotes open each day with forward-looking perspectives from leading voices in medical device development and innovation. Each session is built around a specific, timely topic that engineers, R&D leaders, and MedTech professionals need to understand today to stay ahead of what comes next.
Explore how indirect procurement is redefining operational excellence in MedTech—moving beyond the bill of materials to unlock the logistics, digital platforms, and critical services that enable products to scale, deliver care, and respond to disruption. Discover what leaders need to understand about elevating procurement from transactional to strategic today.
Discover how early-stage medtech founders are redefining the path from invention to scale—moving beyond "raise, spend, raise bigger" to build flexibility, aligned partnerships, and strategic resilience in an unforgiving funding landscape. Learn what operators need to understand about avoiding startup purgatory and building companies built to last.
Speaker announcements are coming soon. Check back for updates and join us for two sessions built not just to inform, but to change how you think about what comes next.
Wednesday, November 18, 2026 | 9:15 – 10:15 a.m.
In MedTech, direct materials get the attention—but indirect procurement drives how efficiently you operate, scale, and respond to disruption. This session reveals how elevating indirect procurement from transactional to strategic unlocks resilience, agility, and competitive advantage.
Start treating indirect procurement as a core operational lever, not an afterthought, to drive efficiency and scalability.
Audit your logistics, digital platforms, and critical services to uncover where operational bottlenecks are slowing product delivery and market responsiveness.
Build cross-functional alignment to unlock workforce productivity, supply chain agility, and faster decision-making.
Develop a framework that positions indirect procurement as a competitive advantage, enabling your organization to respond faster to disruption and scale more effectively.
Speaker announcement for this session will be shared as soon as it is confirmed. Check back for updates.
Thursday, November 19, 2026 | 9:15 – 10:15 a.m.
The hardest question for early-stage medtech isn't whether you can build a novel device—it's whether you can survive long enough to prove it. Drawing from FastWave Medical's experience, Scott Nelson shares how founder-led companies can build flexibility, preserve optionality, and use aligned partnerships to avoid startup purgatory. Learn a constructive operator's framework for building medtech companies resilient enough to scale.
Learn how to structure capital raises and partnerships that preserve optionality rather than locking you into rigid growth trajectories.
Understand how dependency on narrow funding sources can threaten survival and discover strategies to diversify your capital base.
Replace the "raise, spend, raise bigger" playbook with a sustainable approach that positions your company to scale through uncertainty and disruption.
Develop aligned partnerships that help you move from prototype to market validation without burning through runway.
Speaker announcement for this session will be shared as soon as it is confirmed. Check back for updates.