The application period is now open.

Application Deadline: August 1
Application Fee: $150 (applied to conference registration fee if you are selected to present).

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Registration requirements

Please provide information about your company via our online application.

About the Innovation Expo & Technology Showcase

ADA Forsyth dentech® 2025 will host a live presentation session where selected presenters will have the stage to showcase their exciting new technology or pitch their business cases to conference attendees, including ADA Forsyth’s partners in the oral health innovation ecosystem (i.e., angel investors, venture capitalists and industry partners). ADA Forsyth dentech® 2025’s technology focus areas are:

• • • Diagnostics
    • Therapeutics
    • Devices
    • Software as a service (SaaS)
    • Business-to-Business (B2B) solutions

Presenters will have opportunities to engage with ADA Forsyth’s technology development team and its ecosystem partners to deepen their networks, fine-tune their business plans and explore potential seed funding. Each participant selected to present must register for the conference. If selected, your application fee will be applied to your registration fee. 

All presenters will be invited to participate in the Poster Session at ADA Forsyth dentech® 2025, unless otherwise determined by Forsyth. Applicants to the ADA Forsyth dentech® 2025 Presentation Competition who were not selected to present may also be invited to participate in the Flash Talk session, or the Poster Session depending on space availability.

General Rules and Submission Eligibility

• Only applications related to oral health innovation will be considered
• Applications may be entered by individuals or teams
• Applicants may enter multiple innovations as separate entries
• Applications must be the original work of the applicant
• Applicants must disclose if any funding has already been received at the time of registration, including any angel, venture capital or other dilutive funding for the innovation being presented and the amount of funding (disclosure of the funding source is not required)
• Innovations submitted must be mature enough that steps for development and commercialization can begin immediately upon receiving funds from an investor.
• Applicant grants to ADA Forsyth a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use the Applicant’s application materials for the purpose of building, promoting and maintaining the ADA Forsyth dentech® conferences and the Forsyth oral health ecosystem.
• ADA Forsyth dentech’s® conference panel reserves the right to disqualify any entry in its sole discretion. Conference panel will take into consideration: technical merit, commercial viability, potential for impact on human health and relevance to dentistry and oral care
• Nothing contained in these General Rules requires either party hereto to proceed with submitting, or selecting for presentation, an application, or any other business relationship
• Applicants, including Presenters gives Forsyth permission to: (a) contact applicant or Presenters via email; (b) use Applicants’ and Presenters’ name, contact information, images, company logo and marks, video and voice recordings taken at an ADA Forsyth dentech® conference, and any other information submitted by Applicant or Presenter to ADA Forsyth, including the application itself, in ADA Forsyth reports, presentations, marketing, communications, directories or materials related to Forsyth’s activities in the oral health innovation ecosystem. Applicants and Presenters acknowledge and agree that ADA Forsyth may make the list of applicants and Presenters available to participants at ADA Forsyth dentech® conferences.
• Late submissions may not be accepted.
• Applicants who are selected to present at ADA Forsyth dentech® must be available to participate in-person at the conference
• By submitting the application, you represent and warrant to ADA Forsyth that you have all rights, title and/or interest in the application submitted and the information it contains is accurate and complete, and that by submitting the document to ADA Forsyth you are not and will not be violating any contract or third party rights including any patent, copyright, trade secret, proprietary or confidential information, trademark, publicity or privacy right.
• By submitting the application, you represent that the information contained in your presentation is not confidential in nature. No confidential information should be incorporated in the Presentation Competition materials.
• ADA Forsyth dentech 2025’s Presentation general rules and eligibility guidelines may change at any time and from time to time at the sole discretion of conference organizers. Please check back on our website for any updates in these rules and regulation.
• In consideration of your submission of your application to ADA Forsyth dentech® 2025 Presentation Competition and the mutual promises set forth in these General Rules and other good and valuable consideration, you grant ADA Forsyth the right in perpetuity to use, copy, display, edit and distribute your name, biography, voice, image, likeness, video recording, and conference presentation in connection with ADA Forsyth’s activities, including, but not limited to, advertising and publicizing ADA Forsyth dentech® conferences and Forsyth oral health innovation ecosystem. In the event you are providing an application on behalf of a company, you grant Forsyth such rights on behalf of the company and yourself, including granting Forsyth the right to use the company’s name, logo, marks, and you represent and warrant that you have the authority to do so.

By submitting my application to ADA Forsyth dentech® 2025, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to these General Rules and Submission Eligibility Guidelines.

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Are you interested in sponsoring ADA Forsyth dentech?

AFI is now accepting sponsorships for dentech 2025. For more information, please email events@forsyth.org or call 617.892.8320.

Sponsorship opportunities

Platinum sponsorship- $100,000

• Company video shared at the conference
• Sponsor spotlight social media post
• Spotlight use of the company logo on all event email marketing and select social media materials and high visibility on both days of the event
• Sponsorship of reception after Day 1 of event or Sponsorship of the VIP Dinner
• Mentioned in a dentech Facebook + Instagram Story
• Company description and logo on the conference website
• Invitation to attend the pre-event cocktail party
• Included in Sponsor highlight post on social media
• Six tickets to attend the event in person
• Invitation to VIP dinner (up to six guests)

Gold sponsorship – $50,000

• First right to sponsor booth (after Platinum)
• Custom social media message and quote
• Company video shared at the conference
• High visibility on all event materials and on both days of the event.
• Sponsorship of one of the following (please choose):
  • Pre-event VIP Reception
  • Luncheon
  • One day of the Technology Showcase and Innovation Expo
• Mentioned in a dentech Facebook + Instagram Story
• Company description and logo on the conference website.
• Invitation to attend the pre-event cocktail party
• Included in Sponsor highlight post on social media
• Four tickets to attend the event in person.
• Invitation to VIP dinner (up to four guests)

Silver sponsorship – $25,000

• Mentioned in a dentech Facebook + Instagram Story
• Company Logo on the conference website and event materials
• Invitation to attend the pre-event cocktail party
• Included in sponsors highlight post on social media
• Three tickets to attend the event in person
• Invitation to VIP dinner (up to three guests)

Bronze sponsorship – $10,000

• Invitation to attend the pre-event cocktail party
• Included in sponsors highlight post on social media
• Company logo on the conference website and event materials
• Two tickets to attend the event in person

Friends of Forsyth – $5,000

• Included in sponsors highlight post on social media
• Company Logo on the conference website and event materials
• One ticket to attend the event in person

Dentech 2025 will take place at ADA Forsyth’s new headquarters in Somerville, MA. The state-of-the-art headquarters provides ADA Forsyth with top-level research facilities and expands the organization’s capacity for scientific exploration.

The ADA Forsyth Institute completes its move from Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA, to the Somverville’s Brickbottom district in spring 2025.

Transportation/Directions

The ADA Forsyth Institute is located at 100 Chestnut St, Somerville, MA.

Parking

A parking garage is on-site at AFI Headquarters.

Lodging

Hotels near AFI Headquarters:

Holiday Inn Express & Suites Boston – Cambridge, an IHG hotel (1 mile, 5-min drive, 9-min transit, 19-min walk)

250 Monsignor O’Brien Highway, Cambridge, MA 02141

Boston Marriott Cambridge (1.4 miles, 11-min drive, 30-min transit, 33-min walk)

50 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142

Royal Sonesta Boston (1.4 miles, 12-min drive, 31-min walk)

40 Edwin H Land Blvd, Cambridge, MA 02142

The Kendall Hotel (1.5 miles, 11-min drive, 25-min transit, 35-min walk)

350 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02142

Kimpton Marlowe Hotel, Cambridge (1.7 miles, 10-min drive, 21-min transit, 29-min walk)

25 Edwin H Land Blvd, Cambridge, MA 02141

Cambria Hotel Boston Somerville (1.8 miles, 9-min drive, 15-min transit, 30-min walk)

515 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, 02143