26 May 09 June 19, 2009 – INpact Meeting
What: INpact Monthly Meeting
When: June 19, 2009 from 11:00 – 1:00
Where: Bingham-McHale (2700 Market Tower, 10 W. Market Street, Indy)
RSVP: jspeer@creoquality by June 17, 2009
During June’s meeting, we will focus on networking and continue to learn how our businesses can help one another and medical device companies. As we get closer, an agenda will be finalized. We will cover the following:
- Advisory Board updates
- Status of open house event
- INpact member Product Development matrix
Begin sharing INpact with others in the medical device community. Let’s try to get a few of our “customers” in attendance. In fact, here is an offer to them: attend the event for FREE.
We will be accepting 2009 membership dues of $150 at the June meeting. The fee covers your lunches for the rest of the year, along with being listed on INpact’s website and being an official member of the organization.
Not interested in being a member? You can still attend for the cost of $20.
Make checks out to INpact, Inc.
14 May 09 15MAY2009 – The Agenda & Notes (updated)
Here is the agenda for the 15MAY2009 INpact meeting:
- Networking
- Survey Results (Jon Speer)
- INpact structure – NFP Trade Organization (Jeremy Hill / Jon Speer)
- 501(c)6 – Not for Profit trade organization documentation submitted
- We will have a bank account. All payments to be made out to “INpact, Inc.”
- Advisory Board – The Founders (Jon Speer)
- Pete Kissinger – Prosolia / Phlebotics
- Larry O’Cull – Priio
- Tom Gardner – RND Group
- Ryan Wolfinbarger – Catalyst PDG
- Jerry McColgin – Insight2
- Jon Speer – Creo Quality
- Open House (Jena Ring0)
- Event likely to take place in August 2009
- Planning underway
- Will coordinate with Marketing / PR resources
- Will work with resources from Bingham-McHale
- If you signed up, you will be contacted soon
- Marketing / PR (Tammy Bedinghaus)
- Does INpact have a market?
- How will INpact reach its “customer”?
- How does INpact become the “go to” resource?
- Levels of Engagement:
- Level 1 – Defining INpact (mostly done): mission, purpose; network of service providers support med device product development
- Level 2 – Website (in process): each member identifies where they fit within product development phases
- Level 3 – Tangible & Organized Deliverable: structured forum(?), panel meeting with investors(?)
- Website (Jim Bartek)
- Emissaries (Greg Day / Jerry McColgin)
- forward contacts for technology parks, incubators, technology transfer
- Will be visiting these soon
- INpact CRM (Jon Speer)
- Will ONLY be used for event purposes
- Members would like there to be a single admin for the CRM
12 May 09 INpact Is A Tribe
Check out this TED video by Seth Godin on Tribes.
INpact is a tribe. We are CHALLENGING the status quo to build a CULTURE and are COMMITTED to the cause.
INpact is telling a story to connect a tribe by leading a movement to make change.
Keep up the good work!
08 May 09 Items of Interest
I’m sharing some information provided by Duane Mattern:
Related to INpact, I’ve found a couple of things in which INpact.org members might have some interest:
1) Google Health extends to medical devices. IBM software extracts data from personal medical devices and streams them directly into a patient’s Google Health account. http://www.devicelink.com/mddi/archive/09/04/012.html
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/26603.wss
2) NI $25K Medical Grants, (details below);
Who is Eligible? This grant is available for anyone who is interested in evaluating National Instruments hardware for use in a medical device.
How do I apply?
Step1. Find a sponsor. To do so, contact your local field engineer or call 
(888) 280-7645
.
Step2. Download and complete the application (linked below).
Step3. Email the completed application to medicalgrant@ni.com.
NI is accepting applications for the grant program until November 30, 2009
ftp://ftp.ni.com/pub/devzone/tut/2009_med_grant.pdf
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/7151
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/8509
08 May 09 Reminder: INpact Meets Again on May 15, 2009
As a reminder, INpact meets again on May 15, 2009 from 11:00 to 1:00. Here are the meeting details.
Behind the scenes, quite a bit has been happening since our last meeting in April. Here are some of the updates:
- INpact member survey conducted with 24 respondents.
- Working with Bingham-McHale to form a 501(c)6 – Not For Profit Trade Association.
- Early stages of forming an advisory board.
- Team working on updating website.
- Team working on open house event planning.
- Team working on marketing / PR initiatives.
- Volunteer emissaries to spread the word.
News is starting to spread about INpact. We’ve received quite a few requests to join. An ad hoc advisory board has been reviewing this requests. Most are not focused on INpact’s scope of medical device product development.
I expect quite a bit more to happen in the next few days too.
If you plan to come to the May 15, 2009, please RSVP to me at jspeer@creoquality.com by close of business on May 13, 2009.
Cost $20.
