InVita's iTx2024 Global Partner Conference for Donation-Transplant brought together industry experts to a place where innovation creates magic in organ, tissue, birth tissue, and eye donation-transplantation.
InVita proudly hosted the iTx2024 Global Partner Conference at the Hilton Universal City in Los Angeles, CA, with innovation and inspiration in abundance. Over three days, the 200+ attendees were treated to 27 thought-provoking sessions - including presentations from 33 donation-transplant and hospital leaders, focused user groups and design workshops, expert panel discussions, team competitions, and countless networking opportunities – all focused on maximizing use of iTransplant® and progressing forward key innovations focused on saving and healing more lives through the miracles of donation and transplantation.
Amongst the many highlights:
- Three incredible Connect-to-Purpose presentations that provided all attendees with inspiration from directly within our community:
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- Sara Huffman, Chief Quality and Compliance Officer at Lifeline of Ohio, spoke about her father’s passing & how his gift of organ donation impacted her family and led her to a multi-faceted career in donation-transplant
- David Moder shared his personal journey of heart failure and receiving the miracle of a heart transplant - and how this altered the course of his life and led him to join Gift of Life Michigan, where he is now the Director of Donation Authorization
- Luis Mayen, Vice President of External Affairs & Strategic Partnerships at Donor Network West, shared about his motivation, heroic decision, and experiences with recently becoming a living kidney donor.
- A brief look-back + exciting look-ahead by Wade Liu, InVita’s Chief Product Officer and General Manager, Donation & Transplant, describing InVita’s focus and expanded commitment to continue to drive key innovations to elevate performance across the ecosystem of donation-transplant. This included a live demo by Andrew Kaufman, InVita’s Manager of Partner Success and Product Manager, unveiling the new iTransplant AI Chatbot, as well as the introduction of InVita’s new secure Machine Learning (ML) Platform for predictive analytics – all as guided by InVita’s AI Core Principles.
- Expanded core Aftercare, Authorization, Birth Tissue, Data, Executive, Eye Banking, Hospital Development, Logistics, Organ Procurement, Tissue Screening & Recovery, & Usability User Group sessions facilitated by members of InVita’s expert Product Team - where super users took a deep dive alongside peers to learn from one another and collaboratively discuss, prioritize, and design key new innovations and enhancements.
- A diverse 12-member iReferral Panel of hospital and donation experts from across the country who shared their detailed experiences, lessons learned, and key benefits gained – including bottom-line increases in transplants – via their implementations of iReferral® to automate and streamline the critical donor referral process.
- Insightful expert user community showcase presentations demonstrating successes in achieving strategic goals and enabling key operational gains, efficiencies, data-driven decision making, and process improvements.
- Always-popular Maximizing Use of iTransplant and “Ask Me Anything” sessions, focused on providing attendees tools to fully leverage all iTransplant has to offer – with thought-provoking partner presentations, interactive demos, and an Enchanted Feature Quest Competition to boot!
- And a special House Cup Team Competition, where attendees earned points throughout the conference by successfully navigating iTransplant-themed challenges and quests, presenting, answering polls, submitting scavenger hunt photos, and even dressing up in theme! Congratulations to our iTx2024 House Cup winners: the Bouncing Broomsticks!
InVita sincerely thanks all who attended and made iTx2024 possible. “With every iTransplant Global Partner Conference we host, we’re always inspired to execute an agenda and experience that maximizes and honors every invaluable in-person moment we have together as a community,” said Wade Liu. “This is key because the collaboration, innovations, and ideas from the conference directly fuel the community-driven evolution of the iTransplant platform and helps ensure we continue to drive forward impactful solutions to support the critical mission of saving and healing more lives.”
