InVita's iTx2025 Global Partner Conference for Donation-Transplant brought together donation-transplant leaders united by one mission: to amplify innovation in organ, tissue, birth tissue, and eye donation and transplantation.
InVita proudly hosted the iTx2025 Global Partner Conference at the iconic Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego, CA earlier this month. The event, held over three content-packed days, had 200+ attendees and included 27 thought-provoking sessions including insightful presentations from 26 industry experts. Sessions included targeted user groups, workshops, expert panel discussions, team competitions, and countless networking opportunities — all focused on maximizing the use and efficiencies of iTransplant® and progressing forward key innovations to amplify the saving and healing more lives through the incredible gift of donation and transplantation.
Amongst the many highlights:
- Two Powerful Voices Inspire with Stories of Resilience, Courage, and Connection. Two remarkable Connect-to-Purpose speakers shared deeply personal stories with us. Their heartfelt messages highlighted the profound impact of donation and transplantation, both professionally and personally:
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- Courtney Tillotta, Manager of Aftercare Support at Indiana Donor Network, shared her story as both a recipient family member through her mother Lynda and a donor family member through her stepfather Bill - and how donation and transplant, life and death, and grief and hope have profoundly inspired her career and has shaped her with resiliency and empathy, inspiring us all to be the bright light in someone else’s dark moments.
- Kira Newkirk, Vice President of Business Operations at Indiana Donor Network, shared how her unwavering belief in the mission of donation empowers her every day. This belief not only fuels her professional work but also inspired her to take the life-changing step of becoming a living kidney donor, amplifying her purpose into something even more deeply personal. Her courageous journey is a testament to the transformative positive power of saving lives through donation, with inspiration for all.
- Courtney Tillotta, Manager of Aftercare Support at Indiana Donor Network, shared her story as both a recipient family member through her mother Lynda and a donor family member through her stepfather Bill - and how donation and transplant, life and death, and grief and hope have profoundly inspired her career and has shaped her with resiliency and empathy, inspiring us all to be the bright light in someone else’s dark moments.
- A Fireside Chat with Dr. Vincent Vanek of Bon Secours Mercy Health who provided invaluable insight into launching iReferral® across a multi-DSA hospital system in tight collaboration with OPOs and InVita and shared his perspective as a physician at the intersection of medicine and technology.
- A brief look-back + exciting look-ahead by Aditi Srinivasan (InVita’s Vice President & General Manager, Donation & Transplant) and Wade Liu (President, Human Biologics) describing InVita’s focus and expanded commitment to continue to safeguard and drive key innovations to amplify performance across the donation-transplant ecosystem. This included live demos of several exciting iTransplant innovations:
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- Christian Rivas (Director of Products & Services) demonstrated the new iChart interoperability, which amplifies already high-impact iReferral interfaces with continuous EMR data syncs, saving even more time for staff, further reducing documentation errors, and ultimately helping focus resources on saving and healing more lives.
- Andrew Kaufman (Senior Manager of Products & Services) walked us through the power and flexibility of iTransplant’s AI Chart Analysis Tool, which opens up a world of possibilities within iTransplant leveraging the transformative power of AI (donor eligibility recommendations, QA chart review assistance, prediction support, and so much more), all guided by InVita’s AI Core Principles.
- Christian Rivas (Director of Products & Services) demonstrated the new iChart interoperability, which amplifies already high-impact iReferral interfaces with continuous EMR data syncs, saving even more time for staff, further reducing documentation errors, and ultimately helping focus resources on saving and healing more lives.
- Core Aftercare, Birth Tissue, Data, Executive, Eye Banking, Hospital Development, iReferral, Organ Procurement, Referral Management, 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.
- 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, and interactive demos.
- A Battle of the Bands Competition, where attendees were banded together and earned points throughout the conference by successfully solving scavenger hunt clues revealed throughout the sessions! Congratulations to our iTx2025 winning band: Melodic Mayhem!
And to complement the focused and intensely productive work across the iTx2025 sessions, InVita hosted two lively and fun evening networking receptions including a rock concert on the aptly named Woodstock lawn complete with rock attire, tattoos, and music from an incredible band — and even surprise guest performances from some of our very own!
We at InVita would like to thank all who attended and made iTx2025 possible. “With each iTransplant Global Partner Conference, we are driven to tailor the agenda and experience to make the most of every in-person moment we have together,” said Aditi Srinivasan. “This year was no different and once again provided an invaluable opportunity for face-to-face, focused, real-time collaboration, innovation, and knowledge sharing across the iTransplant community. The insights from the iTransplant community that came out of these three days — the ideas, decisions, action items, points of feedback, etc. — will become the compass by which our team navigates the future evolution of the iTransplant platform, and will help ensure that we are calibrated to continue in the right direction — as always, pointed directly towards advancing solutions that will amplify the critical mission of saving and healing more lives.”
