GMIS-2026 Speakers and Panelists

our speakers and panelists

Alessandro Piga

Panelist / Investor Judge

Co-founder and Managing Director of TechWald Holding S.p.A.

Dr. Alex Rothman

Speaker / Panelist / Physician Judge

Consultant cardiologist and clinical academic at the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, United Kingdom

Anna Nikitina

Speaker / Panelist

Head of Business Development and Legal, Clinical Accelerator

Bibi Sattar Marques

Speaker / Panelist / Investor Judge

Partner at Buenavista Equity Partners

Prof. Bruno Scheller

Speaker / Panelist / Physician Judge

Professor of Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Saarland University and Director of Clinical and Experimental Interventional Cardiology at the University Hospital of Saarland, Germany

Dr. Christian Wende

Speaker

Partner at Wende IP

Prof. Christos Bourantas

Speaker / Panelist / Physician Judge

Professor of Cardiology at Barts Heart Centre Device and Innovation Centre, William Harvey Research Institute Queen Mary University London

Dr. Daniel Burkhoff

Panelist

Director, Heart Failure, Hemodynamics and MCS Research, Cardiovascular Research Foundation

Dr. Daniel O'Mahony

Panelist / Investor Judge

Partner at Seroba.

David St. Dennis

Speaker / Panelist / Investor Judge

Board Member | President and Director of Anteris Technologies

David Uffer

Panelist / Investor Judge

Managing Director, MedTech, Trinity LifeSciences

Florian Ludwig

Investor Judge

Venture Partner at Thuja Capital and CEO of CardiacBooster

Dr. Gagan Singh

Speaker / Panelist / Physician Judge

Director of Structural Heart Program & Professor, UC Davis Health, California, USA

Gowri Raman

Panelist / Investor Judge

VP, Venture Capital at Medtronic

Henk Westendorp

Panelist / Investor Judge

Venture Partner, Cardiovascular & IGT at NLC Health Ventures

Prof. Horst Sievert

Speaker / Panelist / Physician Judge

Director at CardioVascular Center Frankfurt CVC, Germany

Dr. James Udelson

Speaker / Panelist / Physician Judge

Interim Chief Physician Executive, CardioVascular Center; Chief, Cardiology at Tufts Medical Center and professor at Tufts University School of Medicine

Dr. Katherine Kumar

Speaker

Senior Executive Vice President at 4C Medical Technologies

Prof. Klaus Witte

Speaker / Panelist / Physician Judge

Consultant Cardiologist and Professor at the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine, United kingdom

Laura Bergmans

Speaker

Global MedTech Expert, QARA & Clinical Director of Electroducer

Lauren Baker

Speaker

Founder, President and CEO of Insight Medical Consulting

Lorraine Rusch

Speaker

CEO & President of Cardiovascular Clinical Sciences (CCS)

Dr. Luca Baldetti

Speaker / Panelist / Physician Judge

Consultant Cardiologist at San Raffaele University Hospital, Milan, Italy

Luca Binda

Investor Judge

Managing Partner & Head of Investments, TechWald Holding S.p.A.

Dr. Luiz Sampaio

Investor Judge

Senior Medical Director, Edwards Lifesciences

Dr. Marat Fudim

Speaker / Panelist / Physician Judge

Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, USA

Dr. Marek Ehrlich

Speaker / Panelist / Physician Judge

Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna; Director, Aortic and Atrial Fibrillation Program, University Hospital Vienna, Austria

Dr. Michael Lichtenberg

Speaker / Panelist / Physician Judge

Chief of the Arnsberg Vascular Center at Alexianer Klinikum Hochsauerland, Germany

Dr. Nicolo Piazza

Speaker / Panelist

Interventional Cardiologist at McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Canada

Dr. Nikolai Nikitin

Speaker / Panelist

CEO and Founder, Clinical Accelerator

Nino Kapanadze

Speaker

Head of Georgian Office, Clinical Accelerator

Nitin Salunke

Speaker

President, CEO & Board Member - Supira Medical

Dr. Ori Ben-Yehuda

Speaker / Panelist / Physician Judge

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, University of California, San Diego, USA

Dr. Paolo Denti

Speaker / Panelist

Progressive Cardiac Surgeon at San Raffaele University Hospital, Milan, Italy

Rick Geoffrion

Investor Judge

President & CEO of Cyrano Therapeutics

Dr. Simon Sonntag

Speaker

Co-Founder & CEO, Virtonomy

Dr. Tai Pham

Speaker

Interventional Cardiologist at UC Davis Health, California, USA

Dr. Thomas Waggoner

Panelist

Director Structural Heart Program & Director Cardiovascular Research at Tucson Medical Center, USA

Dr. Tyler Hayes

Panelist / Investor Judge

Investment Director at Philips Ventures

Prof. Ulrich Schaefer

Speaker / Panelist

Cardiovascular Center Bad Bevensen, Germany

Dr. Valavanur Subramanian

Speaker / Panelist

Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, USA

Varun Turlapati

Panelist / Investor Judge

Managing Director of Chanakya Capital

Virginia Giddings

Panelist / Investor Judge

Vice President of Exploration at Edwards Lifesciences

Dr. William Abraham

Speaker / Panelist / Physician Judge

Professor of Internal Medicine, Physiology and Cell Biology and College of Medicine Distinguished Professor at The Ohio State University, USA

Dr. Yuval Binur

Speaker / Panelist / Investor Judge

Managing Partner at Accelerated Technologies