2025 Innovation Nexus Boot Camp Agenda
2025 Program Agenda
Friday, September 26, 2025
Day 1 - Strategy, Market Entry, and Funding
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| 8 – 9 a.m. |
Registration and Networking Breakfast Start the day with a light breakfast and informal networking. Meet fellow startups, investors and industry mentors. |
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9 – 9:30 a.m. |
Welcome and Opening Remarks |
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| 9:30 –10:45 a.m. |
Ignite Pitches Each startup will give an initial pitch to a select group of innovation experts and investors. This will provide mentors with a baseline of where a startup is in the innovation continuum and how they can best support them during the two-day Boot Camp. |
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| 10:45 – 11:15 a.m. | Networking Coffee Break |
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| 11:15 a.m. – 12 p.m. |
What I Wish I Had Known When I Started Engage with a panel of highly successful entrepreneurs and get a peek behind the process – lessons learned, mistakes made, and how they managed past the challenges to emerge successful. |
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| 12 – 12:45 p.m. |
Lunch |
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| 12:45 – 1:30 p.m. |
Fundraising and Investor Readiness Fireside Chat This is a focused discussion with investment leaders on understanding what investors look for at different funding stages, crafting an effective pitch and data-driven investor deck, and alternative funding sources. |
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Founders’ Circle Roundtable Industry strategics will share what they look for in startups and how partnerships take shape. The discussion will cover signals that catch their attention, common pitfalls, and what makes collaborations succeed. Startups will gain practical advice for positioning themselves to work effectively with strategics. |
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| 1:30 – 2 p.m. |
Founders’ Circle Roundtable, Part 1 |
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| 2 – 2:30 p.m. |
Founders’ Circle Roundtable, Part 2 |
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| 2:30 – 3 p.m. |
Networking Coffee Break |
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| 3 – 6 p.m. |
Mentoring Roundtables: Pressure Testing Business Models Startups rotate through small-group discussions with experts on diverse topics critical to being successful as an innovator. All seven roundtables will run simultaneously. There will be three 50-minute sessions. Participants have been given recommended sessions to attend based on their Boot Camp objectives, but any participant is welcome to participate in any roundtable.
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| 6 –7 p.m. | Networking Dinner Sponsored by Polsinelli
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Saturday, September 27, 2025
Day 2 – Execution and Growth
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| 8 – 8:30 a.m. |
Breakfast and Networking Start the day with a light breakfast and informal networking. Meet fellow startups, investors, and industry mentors. |
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8:30 – 10:30 a.m. |
Mentoring Roundtables: Pressure Testing Business Models Startups rotate through small-group discussions with experts on diverse topics critical to being successful as an innovator. All seven roundtables will run simultaneously. There will be two 50-minute sessions. Attendees are welcome to participate in any roundtable.
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| 10:30 – 11 a.m. | Networking Coffee Break | |
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11 – 12:30 p.m |
Nexus Connection A 90-minute networking session for all the founders, investors, clinicians, and industry leaders to build relationships, exchange ideas, and explore new opportunities in urologic innovation. |
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| 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
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1:30 – 3:30 p.m. |
Next Steps & Needs: Startup Milestones Session In this two-hour session, each startup has 5 minutes to share who they are, what they do, why they do it, what’s next and what they need. Founders highlight key milestones, upcoming goals, and the resources they need, sparking meaningful dialogue. |
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| 3:30 – 4 p.m. | Closing Remarks | |
Agenda as of August 8, 2025. Program subject to change.