Day 2 | African Medtech

Agenda - Day 2

Theme: Solutions for Today, Strategies for Tomorrow

8:00 am - 9:00 am

Registration

Meet innovators, investors, and policymakers

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Presentation (10 minutes)

Moving Innovations to Market (Preliminary)

Carolyne Njuguna

Day 2 Plenary Session - 360° MedTech Deep Dive

Panel Title: Fast-Tracking Africa’s MedTech Future

Session Purpose:

This session convenes leaders across the MedTech value chain—entrepreneurs, policymakers, distributors, manufacturers, and investors—to identify actionable ways to accelerate the African MedTech industry. The goal is to move from fragmented, underfunded efforts to a connected, self-sustaining ecosystem.

Session Objectives:

Start by painting a picture of the desired future
Identify pathways to scale from Innovation to economic & social Impact
Highlight innovation scaling barriers in African MedTech and ways to mitigate them
Generate actionable collaboration among stakeholders

Moderator:

Wambui Nyabero

Speakers:

Innovator: Krista Donaldson
Manufacturer: Laud Anthony
Distributor: Titus Munene
Customer/ End User: Stanley Aruyaru

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Fireside Chat

The role of academia in advancing in MedTech in the focus in regulatory sector in manufacturing

Facilitator:

Ken Iloka
Williams Baah
Prof Nazir

11:00 am - 11:30 am

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Networking Break

TED Talk in manufacturing companies

What has worked and what has not worked in Africa

The perspectives of the manufacturing companies that are not manufacturing here and are doing great here in Africa

To have the manufacturing companies tell their stories and entrepreneurs to interact with them

Session Title: Unlocking Medical Device Manufacturing in Africa: Barriers, Opportunities, Trends and the Road Ahead

Objectives:

Highlight practical experiences and challenges faced in manufacturing across different levels.
Offer inspiration and actionable advice to entrepreneurs trying to scale MedTech solutions.
Explore possibilities for partnership, R&D investment, and acquisition.
Generate insight and momentum for improving the enabling environment for medtech manufacturing.

Facilitator:

Maryanne Muriuki

Speakers

Roneek Vora
Laud Anthony Basing
Rob Miros
Dr. Alex Oketch

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Lunch Break

Engage Sessions - Breakout into the 4 tracks- Part 2

Participants choose from four rotating tracks. Break into pre-assigned groups to co-create actionable plans

Note: Results to be shared on Day 3

UGHE Session: Laying the Foundation: Needs Identification and Risk Management in Product Development

Structured process to maximize impact and de-risk solutions. This will be led by the East Africa Biodesign (UGHE) with Stanford University

Introduce participants to the Biodesign framework, focusing on needs finding and needs criteria.
Guide teams to map out patient-centered impact metrics and identify key risks for their MedTech concepts.
Enable participants to create a practical risk-impact roadmap and take-home toolkit for their ventures

Objectives

Session Facilitator:

Krista Donaldson

EAB Fellows

Lisa Nzau
Timothy Kintu

Session Title: Making the Case for MedTech Investment in Africa

Session objectives:

Explore key challenges and opportunities in healthcare and MedTech investing in Africa
Understand why investors do or don’t invest in MedTech
Identify what’s needed to unlock more catalytic capital for the MedTech sector
Hear directly from MedTech founders about their fundraising experiences
Encourage actionable connections between funders and founders

Moderator:

Sewu-Steve Tawia

Andrew Gwadiva
Florent Nduwayezu
Masoud Mnonji
Emmanuel Kamuhire
Dr. Salsawit Tesfaye Yigrem

Panelists:

Title: Understanding the Government Lens: Market Landscape Analysis

Session Objective: To present and gather feedback on the ongoing market landscape analysis with a focus on government engagement. Participants will review the Malawi prototype and co-create refinements.

Video Presentation

Why government is the focal point of the landscape

Presentation/TED Talk

Raphael Kayambankadzanja

Presentation of methodology and approach:

Chikumbutso Walani

Title: Accelerating MedTech Innovation in East Africa: Strengthening Regulatory Ecosystems for Impact

Objective:

Map out the regulatory frameworks for medical devices and diagnostics across the East African region, highlighting commonalities, gaps, and progress toward alignment.
Identify real-world regulatory barriers that medtech innovators face in navigating approvals, clinical validation, and market access.
Explore how regional tools and platforms can help countries fast-track approvals through regulatory reliance, mutual recognition, and harmonised standards.
Discuss mechanisms for earlier engagement between regulators and innovators, such as pre-submission consultations, innovation-friendly pathways, and regional sandboxing.

Moderator:

Prof Jeremmy Okonjo

Mr Kibassa
Paul Loomis
Dr Benjamin Djoudalbaye
Paul Kahara
Ms Adella

Panelists:

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Networking Break

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Engage Sessions - Breakout into the 4 tracks- Part 3

Participants choose from four rotating tracks. Break into pre-assigned groups to co-create actionable plans

Note: Results to be shared on Day 3

Financial Management in MedTech Product Development

Four working groups will be created.

Objectives

Enhance financial literacy among MedTech Innovators
Provide tools and frameworks for budget planning, fund allocation and reporting
Share lessons from startups founders on financial management successes and failures
Prepare innovators to align financial strategy with product development milestones

Finance is a a product tool: The CFO mindset (20 minutes)

Dr Ahmed

Four Group Exercise:

Burn rates and Budgeting: what founders often get wrong (40 minutes)

To be held as a workshop with the created working groups

We had the money…. Then what? With a 3 case narratives (20 minutes)

Each group will come up with a narrative to present

Sharing tools and follow up resources

Wrap - Up

Session Title: De-Risking MedTech Investment in Africa: Smarter Capital, Stronger Capacity

Session objectives:

Reframe capacity building as a strategic enabler of investment
Explore models that combine funding with technical and regulatory support
Share investor perspectives on who should fund what and why
Equip participants with tools to design blended capital and support strategies

Moderator:

Rob Beyer

Dr Kennedy Opondo
Prof Nazir Ismail
Dr. Emily Njuguna
Tau Tsibela
Prof Dinar Kale

Panelists:

Session Title: Looking Ahead: Defining Our Collective Agenda

Structure:

Opening remarks: Vision for the MedTech Association and the role of the track

Recap of conference insights and key themes

Group work: Co-creating the roadmap

What should be our top 3 priorities in the next 12 months?

What partnerships or platforms are essential?

What are critical policy or funding milestones?

Outputs:

Draft workplan for the next year
Strategic priorities aligned with MedTech Association goals
Commitment list of partners and stakeholders to engage

Moderator:

Khatuchi/Maureen

Group presentations

Session Title: "Africa’s EvolvingRegulatory Ecosystem: Updates fromContinental and National Actors"This session convenes continental andnational regulatory leaders to explore:

The roadmap foroperationalizing AMA
Updates on the AU Model Law,regulatory reliancemechanisms, and theintroduction of the ContinentalListing
How countries like Kenya andSouth Africa are interpretingand potentially applying relianceon continental registrationdecisions
Innovations such as AIguidance and inter-agencycollaboration across borders

Moderator:

Esther Anyango

Proposed Speakers

1. Dr Benjamin

2. Lerato Moeti

3. Dr. Paulyne Wairimu

4. Dr. Dimakatso Mathibe