A FORUM FOR THE MINDS SHAPING HEALTH INNOVATION
FocalPoint is an Australian premier health innovation and investment forum, bringing together a curated group of Australian leaders in health and life sciences alongside global experts. With the goal to build a stronger, more connected, collaborative, and elevated Australian health and biotech ecosystem.
Our previous years FocalPoint’s have featured the likes of:
Date: Monday, 19th October
Time: 8.30am - 5pm
Location: Mondrian Gold Coast, 3 First Ave, Burleigh Heads QLD 4220
FocalPoint’s day program will be followed by The Healthtech Muster, an ecosystem networking and celebration event hosted in partnership with Brandon Capital Partners.
Time: 8.30am - 5pm
Location: Mondrian Gold Coast, 3 First Ave, Burleigh Heads QLD 4220
FocalPoint’s day program will be followed by The Healthtech Muster, an ecosystem networking and celebration event hosted in partnership with Brandon Capital Partners.
PROGRAM
8:00 AM
Registrations
Gift bags brought to you by EndPoints Capital
9:00 AM
Opening Remarks & Welcome to Country
9:30 AM
AI: The New Biology Stack
AI has evolved at a light speed pace with everyman and his dog now entering the race. What’s the latest in the intersection of AI and biology? Where are the actual use cases? What can we expect in the future? And how can we capitalise on this?
10:45 AM
Morning Tea
Brought to you by WEHI Ventures
11:15 AM
CARDIOMETABOLICS: Cutting the fat | what’s next in metabolic health?
Separating hype from breakthrough after GLP-1’s. GLP-1s have rewritten expectations for obesity treatment, investment and healthcare. As the dust settles, where is innovation focusing next and what does the next frontier in metabolic medicine look like?
12:30 PM
Lunch & Networking
Brought to you by Prime Financial
1:30 PM
WOMEN'S HEALTH: Similar Pathways, Different Phenotypes | Why WH has been hard to translate.
Many high-burden WH diseases are grounded in familiar biological pathways, but gaps in mechanism, classification, data and trial design have constrained translation into investable and scalable therapeutics.
3:00 PM
PRECISION THERAPEUTICS: Engineering Where, When, and How Drugs Act in Solid Tumors.
An evolving category with lots of interest – how do we improve efficacy while reducing systemic toxicity? What are some of the leading innovations? And what’s the commercial considerations.
3:30 PM
Afternoon Tea
4:00 PM
PRECISION THERAPEUTICS: Research presentations from leaders in the space.
4:30 PM
Keynote
5:15 PM
Closing Remarks
6:00 PM
The Healthtech Muster
Co-hosted with Brandon Capital Partners
A part of Australia’s biggest week in Biotech
