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From Innovation to Real-World Impact: Enabling Market Access Through Partnerships

Name: From Innovation to Real-World Impact: Enabling Market Access Through Partnerships
Start: 2026-09-22T10:00:00.000-06:00
End: 2026-09-22T11:00:00.000-06:00
Location: Edmonton Unlimited

Life Sciences Week

Edmonton Unlimited

Edmonton, Canada

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How do health innovations move beyond pilots and toward real-world impact?

This panel will showcase a unique partnership between Alberta Innovates and Alberta Blue Cross designed to connect health innovations with real world needs and enable their testing and evaluation. Through this collaboration, participating organizations gained valuable insights into product-market fit, evidence generation, and potential pathways to adoption.

Panelists will share key lessons learned from this partnership and how health system partnerships can help inform pathways toward broader adoption. Attendees will also learn about additional opportunities to engage through Alberta Innovates funding opportunities that support the testing, implementation, and adoption of innovative health solutions

Moderator: Muna Sabouny, Business Partner, Care Delivery Innovation, Alberta Innovates

Speakers:

Alberta Innovates – Nancy Walter, Director (acting), Care Delivery Innovation

Alberta Blue Cross – Charlene Mo, Manager, Wellness Partnerships & Innovation

ATB - Mark McConnell, Senior Manager, Corporate Wellness

Spartan Controls - Suzanne Shelton, Customer First Lead

My Viva Inc. – Nathanial Maeda, Director of Product

Optimity – Jane Wang, CEO & Co-Founder

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