Agenda Overview

12:00 – 2:00 PM | Inspiration Hall
Explore 50+ CU ventures and innovation programs. Meet founders, discover resources, and get inspired.

12:00 – 12:50 PM | From Lab to Launch: How to De-Risk an Early-Stage Idea (34 select PIs)
Clayton Smith, MD and Sristy Agrawal, PhD Moderator: Brad Bernthal

12:30 – 1:50 PM | VIP Lunch -CU Campuses to Community: Building a World-Class Innovation Ecosystem (85 guests - Elected officials, business leaders, donors, VCRs, Chancellors, Provosts) 
Hosted by CU President Todd Saliman
Panelists: Eve Lieberman, Bryn Rees, and Kimberly Muller

2:00 – 3:30 PM | Keynote + Entrepreneur Showcase
Rapid-fire talks + live Q&A with standout CU entrepreneurs
Keynote: Vik Bebarta, MD + other campus speakers + MC Matt Ridenour, Head of Startups Google US

3:30 – 5:00 PM | Happy Hour + Innovation Mixer
Drinks, bites, and deeper connections with founders, funders, and faculty.

Register here.

CU Anschutz Highlights

VIP Lunch Panelist

• Kimberly Muller

Bench to Breakthrough Speaker

• Clayton Smith

Inspiration Hall 

A Better Byte: Advancing Digital Dentistry Through Multimaterial Inkjet 3D Printing

Multi‑Material 3D Dental Printing

Jeffrey Stansbury

https://www.colorado.edu/chbe/jeffrey-w-stansbury 

AI in ophthalmology (CU Ophthalmology)

VisionAI: Rapid Disease Diagnosis

Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer

Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM), CCPM biobank

Genomics Powering Precision Health

Casey Greene, Elise Shalowitz and team

https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/ccpm  

HepQuant DuO Test

Human-Centered Tools for Liver Disease Management

Roger Harrison

hepquant.com  / https://www.linkedin.com/company/hepquant/ 

Kidney In A Bag

Portable Dialysis Revolution

Heiko Yang

https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/surgery/research/faculty-conducting-research/yang-lab 

NERD CO

Listening to Neurons, Engineering New Cures.

Daniel R. Kramer

https://www.neuralengineeringresearchdesign.com/ 

OncoPatch, Inc.

Skin‑Patch Chemotherapy

David Westerly

https://oncopatch.net/ 

Rheumagen

Curing Major Autoimmune Diseases with a New Class of Therapeutics

Brian Freed

www.Rheumagen.com 

University of Colorado Department of Orthopedics

Next‑Gen Limb Restoration

Evalina Burger + Tara Bisel

https://www.cuanschutz.edu/ 

University of Colorado Medicine and Aerospace Engineering

Leading Space Medicine Program

Arian Anderson

https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/emergency-medicine/major-programs/medicine-and-aerospace-engineering 

Vināśa Oncology Inc

Precision Therapy for Pediatric Rare Tumors

Sujatha Venkataraman

https://vinasaoncology.com

Center for Innovative Design and Engineering + Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities

Skywalker: Innovations in Mobility.

Cathy Bodine, Dr. Ismael Sanchez-Osorio, Dr. Yeongdae Kim, Sarah Walker

https://www.cu.edu/coleman  & https://www.ucdenver.edu/center-for-innovative-design-and-engineering 

CU Innovations + CU Healthcare Innovation Fund

Capital for Life‑Saving Tech

Gali Baler

https://www.cuvcfund.com/