Dr. Arshad Quadri Interviewed at Cardiovascular Tech Forum

Hey, I'd like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres. And if you'd like to apply to be a guest on the show, just head on over to missionmatters. com and click on be our guest to apply. All right. So today I am in Newport beach and I am at the I'm with Dr. Arshad Quadri and one of the co founders of this event. And I guess first off, just to say welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. All right, so correct me if I'm wrong, I think we're in the third year of the cardiovascular tech forum. Am I off on that? I think that's what I heard this morning. No, that's, that's accurate. They started it three years ago. Yeah. And actually the little story behind it, we had, this conference was not non existent in, in this place. So we were having lunch at the, one of the medical meetings, LSI, and I was introduced to Octane and Cheryl and the IP persons were there. And we got chatting and it said, why don't we have a conference in a place that cardiovascular innovation happens? Mm. And so we decided we'd give it to go and it's the third year. Yeah. So what was the original vision? I like having a founder of a conference because a lot of different conferences, a lot of different visions, like what was the vision originally? So my vision for this was to get people together of certain interests. So. For me, cardiovascular innovation is very important and I'm very involved in that. And I know the intricacies, so it is a place that we could get the physicians with ideas. Cardiac surgeons, cardiologists, general physicians, all are welcome. And then we get the engineers that wants to team up with a physician to come up with an idea and the investing community, the VC's. So to get these three people in the room and kind of start up a conversation so that the new ideas can come out and new companies can be created. So that was the goal. And because I know innovation when you start, it's such a vast space and your ideas. Is so small in that space. How do you, how do you get ahead and how do you make contacts and who you go to? And so that's how that's, that was the goal. And so today, you know, we have. That goal somewhat achieved? Yeah, I mean, I was listening to it earlier, and I know that Octane was talking, so the CEO from Octane was here, and he was talking in the morning, and he was talking about like year over year, like the conference growth, and third year in, and this is packed, man. What, what do you attribute some of the success of the conf, of the conference overall to, and why are people so attracted to it? I, I think the, the whole mission is attractive. I don't think there is a conference. That focuses on the three elements of innovation that I just mentioned. And so I have people come from cardiac surgeons, come over from Europe. I met a couple of people. You know what? I met a couple of people from Europe today. Yeah. When I was talking, I was shocked and they're like, they're like, Oh yeah. And I'm like, well, welcome. I guess I was complaining. Cause I came all the, not complaining, but I was, I came all the way from downtown LA. No, that would be me. So they're here. My industry partners are here. The big, big players, all of them. And I think it's just word to mouth, good PR from the Octane team. We have a very strong advisory board and, and so we chose the right topics and we worked through it years, all year to get the conference going. So, I think it's taken off. Yeah. I think it's going to be a good conference and it's, it's local physicians and they bring some great ideas, some great knowledge. Yeah. Engineers that want to. create devices, but they need a physician partner, VC, so it's, it's all working out. Yeah, and all of that intersection of everybody that you just named, whether it was VCs, physicians, the engineers, the med tech community, just, just in general, the device community in general. Yeah. Like, talk about the word maybe collaboration or what that means, because I'm seeing meetings happening, like I keep on hearing everything, they're like, they're meeting and everybody, what, what is it, how is this collaboration? Talk to me about that. It's networking. Yeah. So I have to put it into perspective. When I started my innovation for my mitral valve way back when I started as a cardiac surgeon, I had the time, did not have the time, but has interest in developing it. So I started the garage thing, you know, you make things, you go to Home Depot, you bring parts and you And the collaboration was not there. Yeah. I really had to go to the local, local machine shops. Hold on, really? Like, this is really happening? Like, I thought you were joking for a second, like, as an example. But no, you were really, like You have to get into it. And the guy that was doing this, I used to buy, I used to buy nitinol wires. Yeah. Which you could get on the internet. And then I used to twist it around, turn it around, it's kind of like liquid nitrogen, all of that.

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