Hydrix Webinar: De-Risking Through Prioritisation
Hydrix Welcomes Heart Hackathon Student Teams
Calling all Heart Hackathon teams! Whether you’re an engineer, marketer, designer, coder, or simply full of ideas, this webinar is for you. Regardless of your background or experience, you're invited to join a practical, interactive session filled with expert insights and collaborative discussion to help your project succeed.
The session will be hosted by Hydrix, a global leader in developing high-performance medical technologies. With deep expertise in cardiac innovation, systems engineering, and human-centered design, our team is here to help you take your hackathon project to the next level.
What to Expect:
A dynamic main session focused on real-world strategies to help reduce risk in early-stage product development.
Live Q&A where you'll connect with industry mentors and dive into specific topics.
We Want to Hear From You!
When you register, tell us about the biggest technical challenge your team is facing. We’ll use your input to shape the panel discussion, making sure it's directly relevant to the issues that matter most to you.
This is your chance to:
✅ Learn something new (from industry experts)
✅ Get answers to your toughest questions
✅ Walk away with insights you can apply right now
Main Session
Title: De-Risking Development Through Prioritisation
Presenter: Pauline Newlove
Duration: 30 minutes
This 30 minute presentation will explore practical strategies to reduce risk during early-stage product development. You'll learn how to:
Identify and prioritise the most critical requirements for key concept decisions
Make meaningful progress towards milestones, even when they’re outside your direct control
Scale development efforts effectively to match your team’s size and resources
Panel Sessions
Following the main presentation, join us for a live expert panel discussion.
This interactive session brings together a cross-functional team from Hydrix to explore the key challenges and opportunities in medical device development — all in one conversation. Drawing from their individual topic areas, our panelists will share practical strategies, answer your questions live, and dive deeper into the issues that matter most to you.
Pauline Newlove, Project Manager, Hydrix
Pauline is a Program Manager with over 15 years of experience in product development and project management, primarily in the medical device industry. She has worked across both product development consulting and in-house R&D teams, delivering products for medical, industrial, and consumer markets globally. Pauline has extensive experience guiding complex product developments from concept through to market launch, with particular expertise in applying structured innovation and engineering processes. She holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Design, and Innovation from the Technical University of Denmark and is listed as an inventor on multiple patents related to product development.
Graeme Robertson, Project Management Office Director, Hydrix
Project Manager with 20+ years in medical, diagnostic, and healthcare instrumentation. Expertise in Class III Mechanical Circulatory Support systems and Therapeutic Focused Ultrasound for dementia research. Background in digital electronics design, including research-grade spectrometers and high-speed communication test equipment.
Alan Morris, Group Marketing Director, Hydrix
Alan has 30 years’ experience in new product development consulting, with expertise in disruptive innovation, new and emerging technologies, and driving marketing strategies for the MedTech and biomedical consulting markets. His experience includes marketing and development roles for more than 20 years with Invetech, a global leader in IVD and Cell Therapy product innovation.
David Pritchard, Functional Group Manager (Industrial Design), Hydrix
Responsible for providing both Industrial Design and Human Factors Engineering expertise across multiple programs and business lines, as well as providing direction for the ID&HFE functional group. With over 25 years’ experience in product development consulting, more than 15 in IVD and medical device development, David brings deep insight into the value of good design and usability on successful product outcomes.
Dean Troake, Principal Software Engineer, Hydrix
Dean has more than 20 years Software Engineering experience in safety-critical Software Development across Medical, Aerospace, Mining and Defence markets. In the more than six years that Dean has been with Hydrix, he has worked on a number of FDA Class II and Class III Medical Devices, specialising in Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (VAD, TAH) including leading the design of Ludo – a total artificial heart development platform. Ludo helps researchers develop their technologies with greater certainty, from the lab bench to animal studies, and to first-in-human implants.