About ADA Forsyth dentech
ADA Forsyth dentech® is the leading oral health technology innovation conference. Convening thought leaders from research, industry, academia, and venture capital, ADA Forsyth dentech® aims to accelerate innovation and launch new ventures in the oral health space.
ADA Forsyth dentech® 2024 will be held on October 24-25, 2024 at the Norton’s Woods Conference Center at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA.
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Register for ADA Forsyth dentech 2024
Registration is now open for Forsyth dentech 2024!
In person registration fee: $500
Virtual registration fee: $100
Dentech 2024 Progam
Find out what’s new at dentech 2024!
Thursday, October 24, 2024
7:00 AM | General Breakfast (All attendees) |
8:00 AM | Conference Opening |
8:15 AM | Welcome |
8:30 AM | Keynote Speaker #1: TBD |
9:00 AM | Panel #1: The New ADA & AFI: Empowering Innovation |
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10:00 AM | General Networking |
10:30 AM | Keynote Speaker #2: TBD |
11:00 AM | Panel #2: Q&A with the FDA |
Panel members: TBD | |
12:00 PM | Networking Lunch (All attendees) |
1:30 PM | Day 1 Start-up Company Pitch Presentation & Competition (with breaks) |
4:30 PM | Evening Reception and Poster Session |
Friday, October 25, 2024
7:00 AM | General Breakfast (All attendees) |
8:00 AM | Keynote Speaker #3: TBD |
8:30 AM | Panel #3: Developing a National Oral Health Initiative |
Panel members: TBD | |
9:15 AM | Coffee Break (all Attendees) |
9:30 AM | Day 2 Start-up Company Pitch Presentation & Competition (with breaks) |
12:00 PM | The Closing Panel: Global innovation and investment |
Panel members: TBD | |
12:30 PM | Conference Closing Awards & Remarks |
Sponsorships
Are you interested in sponsoring Forsyth dentech?
AFI is now accepting sponsorships for dentech 2024. 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
- Company description and logo on the conference website
- Guaranteed sponsor booth
- Invitation to attend the pre-event cocktail party
- Six tickets to attend the event in person
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:
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- Pre-event VIP Reception
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- Luncheon
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- One-day of the pitch competition
- Company description and logo on the conference website.
- Invitation to attend the pre-event cocktail party
- Four tickets to attend the event in person.
Silver sponsorship – $25,000
- First right to sponsor booth (after Platinum and Gold).
- Custom social media message and quote
- Company Logo on the conference website and event materials
- Invitation to attend the pre-event cocktail party exclusively for sponsors and start-ups
- Three tickets to attend the event in person
Bronze sponsorship – $10,000
- Invitation to attend the pre-event cocktail party exclusively for sponsors and start-ups
- Sponsor 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
- Sponsor highlight post on social media
- Company Logo on the conference website and event materials
- One ticket to attend the event in person
Pitch Competition
The application period is now open.
Application Deadline: The selection committee will begin reviewing applications on a rolling base August 1. Priority given to early submissions.
Application Fee: $100 (applied to conference registration fee if you are selected to present).
Registration requirements
Your written application must be accompanied by a video-recorded “elevator pitch” to serve as a preview of what the judges can expect to see if you take the stage at dentech 2024. The video presenter should be the same person who will present during the competition.
About the Pitch Competition
ADA Forsyth dentech® 2024 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® 2024’s technology focus areas are:
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- Diagnostics
- Therapeutics
- Devices
- Software as a service (SaaS)
- Business-to-Business (B2B) solutions
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Each participant selected to present must register for the conference. If selected, your application fee will be applied to your registration fee.
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. Two winners will receive a monetary prize and trophy, and the exclusive opportunity to pitch to dentists at ADA’s annual conference, SmileCon 2025.
Selected presenters and other applicants who were not selected to present may also be invited to participate in the poster session or the flash talk session at ADA Forsyth dentech® 2024.
General Rules and Submission Eligibility
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- 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 ADA 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 ADA 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
- Check the box below to opt out of having your personal information (name and personal cell phone, if provided) included in the ADA Forsyth dentech® directory. Note that this “opt out” does not apply to Company information.
- 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 2024’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® 2024 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 ADA 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 ADA Forsyth the right to use the company’s name, logo, marks, and you represent and warrant that you have the authority to do so.
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By submitting my application to ADA Forsyth dentech® 2024, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to these General Rules and Submission Eligibility Guidelines.
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