PROVIDENCE – MedMates is kicking off its “For the Love of Entrepreneurship” workshop series Oct. 8 at Betaspring.
MedMates, a health care technology network group, will feature six regional health-tech leaders discussing their own personal experiences involved with starting their businesses. This is the first of seven monthly workshops, and will provide an overview of the entire series.
The workshop series aims to help attendees understand how to bring a health-tech startup from concept to reality.
Students from Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design, Johnson & Wales University, Roger Williams University and Bryant University are encouraged to attend, as are school faculty, entrepreneurs, business leaders, investors and professional service providers.
Nick Adams, co-founder and president of Care Thread, Inc. in Providence, a company that provides secure mobile messaging and team-based solutions to improve communications and productivity among providers, will moderate the event.
Featured speakers are:
David Goldsmith co-founded MedMates last year, and also is the co-founder and director of Aspiera Medical, an emerging health-tech company. Goldsmith said MedMates has more than 500 members, and has grown rapidly in the past year.
“At the end of the day it’s about making the ground in Rhode Island more fertile for the growth of existing companies and the launch of new healthcare tech companies,” Goldsmith said.
He said MedMates has a broad agenda to stimulate the launch of “many, many more companies in Rhode Island as well as to facilitate stronger collaboration between companies.”
“It’s about creating growth in Rhode Island,” Goldsmith said.
The free event begins at Betaspring’s headquarters at 95 Chestnut St. at 5:30 p.m. Pre-registration is encouraged; visit www.medmates.org.