Logo for Advanced Wound Care Summit featuring four red icons: a balance scale with dollar sign, heart with heartbeat line, network with three people, and a rocket. Text reads "Advanced Wound Care Summit," organized by Kernexus in cooperation with SmartTRAK.

The business summit for advanced wound care.

Investors, growth-stage companies and global strategics come together with clinical and policy expertise to explore how wound care technologies reach the market.

A room built for progress.

Investment

Explore the technologies, evidence and commercial questions behind the next stage of growth.

Partnerships

Connect with founders, strategics and specialists who can help move an idea forward.

Market access

Share perspectives on regulation, reimbursement and adoption with the people navigating them.

Before the pitch

Hear the questions innovators need to consider as they move toward investment and market access.

Promotional interviews and perspectives from previous AWCS events.

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Find your place in the conversation.

Investors, founders, multinational companies, distributors, academics and clinical research organisations bring different perspectives to the same challenge: making innovation work in practice.

See why people attend

Designed for dialogue.

Challenge ideas

Debates, symposia and expert panels create space to ask questions and compare approaches.

Work through decisions

Roundtables put business challenges into a focused discussion with peers.

Build relationships

Structured networking helps connect people with shared investment and partnership interests.

Meet the community.

Explore previous AWCS contributors and the organisations represented across the summit. The 2027 speaker line-up will be published when confirmed.

Explore speakers · Meet the partners

Created by Kernexus.

Kernexus brings events, medical communications and publishing together to connect scientific discussion with education and shared understanding.

Contact the organising team

Be part of AWCS in Austin.

Explore the ideas, people and commercial questions shaping the next stage of wound care. Join the summit as an attendee, or discuss how your organization can take part.

Original website information · Reference

The Definitive Business Summit for Advanced Wound Care

The Advanced Wound Care Summit is a high‑impact event brings together investors, growth‑stage companies, global strategics, clinicians, and policy experts in an environment built for real dialogue - not passive listening. It is a chance to pressure‑test technology, sharpen go‑to‑market strategies, and build relationships that can materially influence your next stage of growth.

The Summit’s interactive format includes high‑energy debates, rapid‑fire symposia, expert panels, and sessions focused on reimbursement, regulatory shifts, commercialization pathways, and market access.

A major differentiator of the Advanced Wound Care Summit is its intentional focus on high‑value networking. Attendees are surrounded by individuals actively seeking partnerships, technologies, and investment opportunities.

Industry‑Leading Speaker Faculty

The Summit is anchored by a strong lineup of confirmed speakers representing leadership across innovation, investment, policy, and clinical practice, including:

  • Carrie Power – Chief Executive Officer, Reprise Biomedical, Inc.

  • Melissa Bailey – Digital Integration Sales and Marketing, US & Asia, Mölnlycke Health Care

  • Preeya Pinto – Partner, DLA Piper LLP

  • Nick Frame – Life Sciences Investment Banking, Mirus Capital Advisors

  • Dr. Thomas Serena – Founder & CEO, Serena Group

  • John C. Lantis II, MD – Mount Sinai

  • Kris Flinn – SmartTRAK

  • Mitch Sanders – CEO, ProDevLabs

  • John Fritz – Director of Government Affairs, Reimbursement, and Health Economics,Mölnlycke 

  • Bent von Eitzen – CEO, GCRI

  • Zwelithini Tunyiswa – CEO, Open Wound Research

  • Chris Mortimer – Chief Executive Officer, Hybrisan

Why Attend

The Advanced Wound Care Summit is where business strategy meets clinical reality and market execution. It offers a focused environment to gain actionable insight, build high‑value relationships, and stay ahead of market, reimbursement, and regulatory shifts shaping wound care. Whether you are scaling innovation, expanding portfolios, evaluating investment opportunities, or strengthening market position, the Summit provides direct access to the ideas, people, and partnerships that drive sustainable growth.

Secure your place at the Advanced Wound Care Summit - book your ticket today and save 20% by using code SMART20 at registration: https://www.trspring.com/awcs-tickets

For sponsorship, exhibition and speaking enquiries contact anthony.kerr@kernexus.org