Mike Hanuschik
CEO
Stealth-mode startup
Mike Hanuschik is currently the CEO of a stealth-mode startup and previously led design and product management at Intuitive Surgical, the makers of the da Vinci Surgical System. He is passionate about developing complex technologies to enable products that have a meaningful impact on society. Hanuschik enjoys exploring frontiers and extremes, ancient forests, cooking, songwriting, robotics, raising his son and meeting people who are driven to do extraordinary things.
True Innovation is Disruptive
Mike Hanuschik will discuss the development and launch of the latest generation of the da Vinci Surgical System and the efforts that were made to incorporate design into an engineering-driven culture. Hanuschik does not propose to have all the answers but will share a little of the good, the bad and the ugly in developing an incredibly complex, safety critical, device in a highly-regulated environment.
