A non-profit founded in 1967, AAMI is recognized globally as a leader of medical device standards; conducts cutting-edge training programs, conferences, and webinars; and advances the profession through certification programs, benchmarking, and online networking forums. For more information, visit www.aami.org

Anson provides pre-market commercialization and on-going compliance expertise for companies developing and marketing medical products in the areas of Drugs and Biologics, Medical Devices, Combination Products, and Connected Health Technology.  Anson’s seasoned staff and extensive network of consultants provide deep world-class experience, and knowledge in all aspects of healthcare and life science related technologies.
 
From its inception, Anson has believed that clients’ business objectives and requirements should drive their regulatory strategy,  and every service delivered by Anson is designed to assist our clients in enhancing the value of medical technology.   The Anson Group is a woman-owned enterprise headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The organization currently operates in over 70 countries and supports the work of over 2,000 social entrepreneurs, elected as Ashoka Fellows. Ashoka creates what are called “mosaics” of best practices that map the commonalities and intersections of key principles that guide Fellows’ individual solutions. Ashoka’s initiatives include Changemakers, Youth Venture, and Full Economic Citizenship.

Taking healthcare mobile presents both distinct challenges and endless opportunities. On the healthcare management side, protecting the privacy and security of patient records is the main concern. In contrast, telemedicine's top priority demands the interoperability of mobile-enabled healthcare provider systems for remote patient monitoring, exams and diagnosis. B2 Group helps guide organizations in making their healthcare applications, data, and patients mobile in regards to the services that they offer and while giving their patients and clients innovative ways to view, use, and engage with health information. Guiding clients in how to prepare their wireless health solutions for market and then assisting them in finding channels for these solutions and helping them build profitable partnerships. Where Preparation Meets Opportunity, You Will Find B2 Group!

Worldwide, 38 companies have responded to the BCtA by making commitments to improve the lives and livelihoods of millions through commercially viable business ventures that engage low-income people as consumers, producers, suppliers, and distributors of goods and services. Participating companies benefit from the BCtA’s ability to provide:

• A global leadership platform and opportunities to share expertise, knowledge, and best practices for market-based approaches to development;
• Initiative development advice and assistance; and
• Linkages with companies, donors, and other key stakeholders.

BCtA member initiatives include pledges to promote improved health care outcomes for 24.7 million, create access to banking and financial services for more than 10.1 million people, reduce information asymmetry for 6 million people, and enhance access to clean energy for 3 million.

Actively involved in sponsored research, the Center evaluates new technologies and programs and develops and executes feasibility studies and randomized controlled clinical trials. It has generated over 100 scholarly publications and helped over 30,000 patients.

What unites these efforts is an emphasis on practical innovations that make a difference in peoples' lives. Guided by a relentless focus on what works and what doesn't, the Center aims to change the way doctors and nurses deliver services even as it expands the ability of patients to manage their own health. Its staff serves on government advisory committees and corporate boards and are active speakers.

Annually, the Center convenes a Symposium attracting over 1,100 thinkers, innovators and funders from all over the world. The meeting has become the pre-eminent global conference of ideas about healthcare, technology and policy.

As an independent, nonprofit organization established by Congress, we offer individuals and organizations a powerful way to participate in CDC's mission. We unite a wide range of private sector partners with CDC scientists to achieve common goals. The CDC Foundation currently manages more than 200 programs in the United States and in 40 countries around the world.

Continua and its 240 member companies around the world is enabling a marketplace of interoperable devices that enable better care, empower consumers and connect healthcare providers to their patients. The Alliance focuses on three key domains: Health and Wellness, Condition Management, and Living Independently.

To address this need, CTIS' informatics solutions converge health sciences, information technology, process reengineering, total quality management, and organizational effectiveness in order to optimize the capture, storage, and use of information in health and biomedical sciences.

CTIS’ leadership is at the forefront of national discussions in development of programs that are defining the next generation of biomedical, clinical research, translational research, personalized medicine, comparative effectiveness research, performance-driven healthcare, health disparities, elder care, and chronic disease management programs that will not only provide better patient care but also meet the cost management goals of the health industry. For more information, visit http://www.ctisinc.com/

These efforts required strategically planned and implemented communications programs that reached multiple stakeholder communities — health professionals, consumers, policymakers and the business community — in ways that built their brands and their businesses, and, ultimately, fostered the well-being of their constituents. Equally important is understanding of the convergence of doing well and doing good: that social responsibility and relevance begins with marketing, and that breakthrough marketing has a strong vein of societal value.

Edelman was named Advertising Age’s top-ranked PR firm of the decade and one of its “2010 A-List Agencies” and “2010 Best Places to Work;” PRWeek’s “2011 Large PR Agency of the Year;” European Excellence Awards’ “2010 Agency of the Year;” Holmes Report’s “Agency of the Decade”; and among Glassdoor’s top five “2011 Best Places to Work.” Edelman owns specialty firms Blue (advertising), StrategyOne (research), Ruth (integrated marketing), DJE Science (medical education/publishing and science communications), and MATTER (sports, sponsorship, and entertainment).

G3ict relies on an international network of ICT accessibility experts to develop practical tools, evaluation methods and benchmarks for States Parties, Disabled Persons Organizations and corporations. Since inception in 2006, G3ict has organized or contributed to more than 80 awareness raising and capacity building programs for policy makers in cooperation with international organizations such as the ITU, UNESCO, UNITAR and the World Bank on all continents. G3ict co-produces with ITU the e-Accessibility Policy Toolkit for Persons with Disabilities — www.e-accessibilitytoolkit.org — which is widely used by policy makers involved in the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

G3ict is funded through voluntary contributions from corporations, disabled persons organizations and foundations. Its programs are hosted by international organizations, governments, universities and foundations around the world.

GBCHealth also manages the private sector delegation to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, serving as an entry-point for corporate collaboration and engagement with the Fund and its recipients worldwide. GBCHealth has offices in New York, Johannesburg, Beijing, Nairobi and Moscow.  For more information on GBCHealth, please visit www.gbchealth.org

MDISS is focused on optimizing the relationship between the quality of health care and the process of assessing and ensuring that medical devices and systems are secure and functioning in a safe and efficacious manner. We are a collaborative and inclusive nonprofit public-private partnership that is committed to advancing quality health care with a focus on the safety and security of medical devices. We serve the broad medical device stakeholder community including healthcare delivery organizations, payers, manufacturers, universities, government agencies, technology companies, individuals, patients, patient advocates and associations.

Since 2006, dcMoMo has connected mobile enthusiasts and subject-matter experts for roundtables, events and virtual networking through social media. Founded in Helsinki, Finland in 2000, Mobile Monday has grown to over 120 chapters worldwide.

dcMoMo is funded by companies that understand the power of individual inspiration and collaboration. Our partners include Research in Motion (RIM), Nokia, the American Marketing Association (DC Chapter), Potomac Tech Wire, Conceivium Business Solutions, PointAbout Inc. and the mHealth Summit.

Projects in the Pioneer Portfolio are future-oriented and look beyond conventional thinking to explore solutions at the cutting edge of health and healthcare. For more information, visit our website at www.rwjf.org/pioneer.

Dedicated to accelerating mobility, Qualcomm is transforming the way people live, learn, work and play. Qualcomm is included in the S&P 500 Index and is a FORTUNE 500® company traded on the NASDAQ.

To realize this vision, the Foundation seeks to achieve two fundamental goals in our work. First, we seek to build resilience that enhances individual, community and institutional capacity to survive, adapt, and grow in the face of acute crises and chronic stresses. Second, we seek to promote growth with equity in which the poor and vulnerable have more access to opportunities that improve their lives. In order to achieve these goals, the Foundation constructs its work into time-bound initiatives that have defined objectives and strategies for impact. These initiatives address challenges that lie either within or at the intersections of five issue areas: basic survival safeguards, global health, environment and climate change, urbanization, and social and economic security. For more information, please visit www.rockefellerfoundation.org

Through campaigns and partnerships, the organization connects people, ideas and resources to help the UN solve global problems. The campaigns reduce child mortality, empower women and girls, create a new energy future, secure peace and human rights, and promote technology innovation to improve health outcomes. www.unfoundation.org

Founded in March 2009 by the Gary and Mary West Foundation, the nonprofit Institute is dedicated to innovating, validating, advocating for, investing in and commercializing the use of wireless technologies to transform medicine. Its mission is to lower health care costs by accelerating the availability of wireless medical technology. The Institute is based in San Diego, California, the global center for healthcare innovation.

The WLSA hosts two annual conferences: the Convergence Summit draws global representation from senior executives, investors, and entrepreneurs, while the Wireless Health Academic/Industry Conference series convenes the vanguard international research communities in wireless health and medical technology. Headquartered in San Diego, California, the WLSA is the only trade organization focused exclusively on identifying collaboration opportunities within the wireless health sector.