Lead With The Need: BioInnovate for Medtech Innovators, Webinar December 16th, 2025

This informational webinar introduced the 'Lead with the Need: BioInnovate 101' programme from Irish Medtech Skillnet, where participants will learn to identify unmet medical needs and develop commercially viable solutions using the BioDesign process.

Learn more about this programme here: https://irishmedtechskill.net/LeadWit...

Featuring These Industry Leaders:
🔹 Dr. Ann O'Connell
Network Manager for Irish Medtech Skillnet | Head of Funded Projects for Medtech and Engineering at Ibec
Dr Ann O’Connell PhD is a visionary leader, a dynamic collaborator. As Head of Funded projects for Medtech and Engineering Skills with Ibec, Ann is responsible for funding, development and delivery of over 100 professional upskilling programmes ranging from 1-day webinars to 2-year Master's programmes. Ann’s programme portfolio is wide ranging and comprehensive, covering Research & Development, Manufacturing & Digitalisation, Quality & Regulatory, Sustainability, and Management & Leadership, and she specialises in piloting and launching new programmes to meet emerging needs.

🔹 Camille O’Malley
CTO & Co-Founder, Xtremedy Medical | MIT Innovator Under 35 | BioInnovate Fellow/BioInnovate Ireland Industry Training Manager
Recognised globally as one of MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35, Camille is a rare hybrid of scientist, entrepreneur, and innovation evangelist. She’s a former R&D chemist turned medtech founder whose journey through the BioInnovate programme led her to co-create a company tackling post-surgical infection with groundbreaking technologies. In this webinar, she will speak candidly about the role of executive innovation training in scaling solutions from concept to market.

🔹 Lead with the Need: BioInnovate 101 Alumni will share their first-hand experience of the programme and outline how their learnings helped accelerate innovation in Luminate and Alcon.
Alice Shaughnessy, Engineer and expert in early stage and proof of concept prototyping at Luminate Medical.
Barry Walsh, Seed Fund and Senior Principal Engineer (R&D) at Alcon.

🎯 Who Should Watch
This webinar is suitable for a broad range of disciplines including, R&D Engineers, Software Engineers and Data Scientists; Quality and Regulatory affairs professionals; Marketing and Post-market surveillance professionals; Healthcare Professionals and beyond.C-level executives, senior R&D leaders, and strategic business decision-makers.

Recording date
🗓️ 16th December, 2025
🕒 Time: 10.00 - 11.00am

ABOUT BioInnovate Ireland:

Founded in 2011, BioInnovate is a world-leading innovation hub, educating the next generation of healthcare visionaries and entrepreneurs to positively impact lives everywhere.