To kick off the morning, Ryan discussed his background in document management and how he got into healthcare entrepreneurship. He shared his experience in building a startup that had a meaningful impact on humankind and how it led him to start Florence Healthcare with his co-founders.

Florence Healthcare advances cures for disease by enabling clinical trial sites to do their best work. Florence’s Site Enablement Platform brings sponsor-site collaboration to life. By designing a platform around sites’ needs and enabling them to do their best work, Florence frees clinical trials from bottlenecks, so they can accelerate and scale.

• Pick an idea where you have domain expertise and can have an impact
• Find co-founders who are passionate about the idea and can sell or code
• Vet an idea in customer discovery by playing back their problem and asking if they have budget; prove Product-Market Fit by being able to generate a sales pipeline with defined and reasonable conversion metrics

• Etizaz Shah: Looking to connect with founders who moved from out of state.
• Fernando Gamez: Looking for new opportunities.
• Hope Winograd: Needs CTO help.
• Miranda Baras: Needs CTO/Developer for health tech startup.
• Sergio Garcia: Seeking potential opportunities to offer consulting services as a Robotics Software Engineer.
• Tamara Lambert: Looking to get feedback on the direction of her startup.

• Cristian Bullokles: Can help Healthcare Startups based on Big Data / AI to launch MVP starting from idea in 6 months.
• Daemon Whittenburg: Offering to help with Product and Engineering Strategy/Execution.
• Eddie Lai: Offering to connect with companies looking to grow or scale in Atlanta (specifically around employee/workforce growth and physical space).
• Hal Schlenger: If you're looking for help hiring and attracting quality employees, I'm available to share thoughts + Sailing opportunity: Any company that has revenue and looking to talk about getting to the next level, this is an opportunity for afternoon sail and discussion. No cost for the boat.
• John Gutmann: Can help with prototypes
• Leon Darghosian: Happy to support.
• Mark Badia: Hi I am a consultant focused on business transformation, Enterprise Architecture and Product Management and glad to help.
• Natosha Boyd: I can help with mapping out day-to-day operations, creating written procedure manuals, and automating repetitive tasks.
• Shade Reid: Offering healthcare expertise to make sure your product/service will actually fill the gap to impact patient care outcomes.
• Steve Dwire: Offering professional coaching to help healthcare technology leaders/managers with the mindset/identity shift that's crucial for their success as they level up in leadership / entrepreneurial skills.