Hosts and Collaborators
The Pearl
The Pearl is a regional catalyst for innovation and entrepreneurship, where startups, healthcare leaders, and innovators can come together to shape the future of healthcare.
Kepler Team
Digital health innovation lab specializing in rapid product development and EHR integrations. From prototypes to complicated enterprise-level systems, we build solutions for healthtech transformers who seek to better people’s lives through technology.
Innovate Charlotte
Innovate Charlotte helps to strengthen and grow Charlotte’s innovation-driven entrepreneurial ecosystem. We do this by supporting founders directly, convening the community, and connecting startups with the talent, capital, and corporate partners they need to scale.
Connect Labs by Wexford
A flexible, scale-in-place lab and innovation infrastructure for emerging and growth companies in the life sciences, computational, engineering, and energy industries. Connect Labs by Wexford is intentionally designed for innovative companies, entrepreneurs, and researchers, who are looking for a ’ready-now’ environment that can help advance their discoveries along the commercialization and capitalization pathway.
Medipreneurs
Medipreneurs is a network of health professional entrepreneurs and intrapraneurs who gather to support each other and learn in areas of business/practice development and growth, decreased loneliness, and the pursuit of supporting each other across professional and other lines.
Northeastern University
Northeastern University in Charlotte is home to Northeastern's Center for Health Sciences and is one of the few R1 research universities in Charlotte. The campus offers programs in health sciences including nursing (ABSN, DNP), MS in Speech-Language Pathology, MS in Applied Behavior Analysis, and Master of Public Health. With Northeastern's renowned experience-powered approach to learning, students benefit from expert faculty with extensive professional experience, strong partnerships across Charlotte's growing health sector, and access to Northeastern's global network of 14 campuses and 3,800+ employer partners. The campus serves as a hub for health sciences education, research, and innovation, leveraging deep connections across industry, government, and community organizations to accelerate healthcare advancement in the Charlotte region.
North Carolina Biotechnology Center
We create North Carolina’s competitive advantage in the life sciences by engaging partners, maximizing opportunities, and delivering solutions to accelerate innovation, investment, and job creation. The Greater Charlotte Region office contributes to the region’s innovation ecosystem by connecting stakeholder needs with resources and promotes NCBiotech’s programs and services to foster life sciences research, business, education, and strategy.
Lighthouse Leadership Consultants
Lighthouse Leadership Consultants helps executives and teams lead with credibility and cohesion, so innovation moves from idea to implementation faster.
TechCXO
TechCXO is the original fractional C-suite firm, founded in 2003 and pioneering the model that has helped thousands of high-growth companies access enterprise-level leadership without the cost of full-time hires. With deep expertise across Finance, Technology, Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Human Capital, including a dedicated Healthcare & Life Sciences practice, TechCXO's network of experienced executives embeds directly with teams to drive strategy and deliver measurable results. From funded startups to established companies, TechCXO brings the leadership that health innovators need to scale with confidence.