The VM MIW luncheon’s keynote speaker, Dr. Simone Ahuja, a best-selling author, Harvard Business Review contributor and business school advisor, spoke about innovation and "intrepreneurship."
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| Formula 1 motorsport racing legend Sebastien Bourdais (l) was on hand to sign autographs at the Shamir booth as Shamir’s Phil Pasit cheered him on.
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| InflammX Therapeutics took home the first ever Ocular Horizons award on Friday afternoon as the EYEnovate program came to an end. The company won for their presentation made by CEO Brian Levy, OD, MSc, titled Novel Platform Technology Targeting the Pathological NLRP3 Inflammasome in Retinal /Kidney Disease. InflammX Therapeutics’ Brian Levy, OD, second from right, with the EYEnovate judges (l to r) Susy Yu, OD, Ashley Mills and James Rosin.
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Kristin Siddall (c), Advanced Family Eyecare, Lavista, Neb., accepted the ABO-NCLE Patient Choice Award. Looking on were Carri Rivera, Bausch + Lomb Specialty Vision Instruments (l) and Curt Duff, Tinder Krauss Tinder.
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| Showing off Safilo’s new open-concept booth are Alessandro Tropeano, Vittorio Verdun, Elisabeth Morikawa, Roberto Genovese and Paolo Bizzotto.
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| The Contact Lens Institute—in partnership with The Vision Council—presented a sneak peek of its forthcoming report, The Culture Calculation: Data-Backed Behaviors for Contact Lens Success. (L to R) The presenting panel included Lisa Hornick, Stanford Ranch Optometry; Charissa Lee, OD, Johnson & Johnson Vision; Sabrina Gaan, Eyes on Plainville; Alysse Henkel, The Vision Council; and Shelby Brogdon, McFarland Eye Care.
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