A record number of companies applied to PitchRounds this year, with nearly 60 companies looking for slots at the SEMDA Conference. We’ve selected the best of the bunch from states across [...]

On September 24th, 2016, Dean Otto was paralyzed from the waist down when he was hit by a truck riding his bike in Charlotte, NC. “I heard brakes, I felt the impact, and immediately, I was just [...]

Much has been made of Chattanooga’s rising prominence as a hub for entrepreneurial innovation across multiple industry sectors. Inc. reported in 2018 Chattanooga created $1.8 billion in startup [...]

Birmingham has a long history of industrial manufacturing. As the legacy steel factories and iron smelters give way to modern facilities, including brownfield reclamation that includes population [...]

With Shyam Parekh, Ph.D., Director, Strategy & Business Development, Avanos Medical. Inc.. Shyam Parekh’s role, as part of the Avanos’s corporate strategy group is to support the senior [...]

The Conference Steering Committee is preparing outstanding content for the 2019 SEMDA Medtech Conference. Below are summaries for currently ‘known’ panels. More details on the way [...]

As we recently recognized in a conversation with Florence Hudson, there is a LOT to unpack when it comes to blockchain in health care. But the industry has definitely taken notice of Patientory, [...]

SEMDA Webinar: An interview with Dune Medical CEO Lori Chmura, Medtech Women @ SEMDA 2018 Woman of the Year “The learning at the ground level is what prepared me for being a CEO,” Lori told [...]