MPS2026 Speaker: Hector Del Castillo

Maryland Product Symposium 2026 / Hector Del Castillo

Hector Del Castillo

On-demand speaker

Hector Del Castillo

Chief Product Officer · Byond


From Product Discovery to Investor Confidence: The Perfect Pitch Toolkit for Healthtech and Medtech Growth

Product Growth, Marketing & Market Adoption
Available on demand beginning October 15, 2026 · Online

About the session

From Product Discovery to Investor Confidence: The Perfect Pitch Toolkit for Healthtech and Medtech Growth

Learn how to turn product discovery into the customer, adoption, and commercial evidence needed to make better roadmap decisions, align cross-functional teams, build investor confidence, and scale.

Are you building a healthtech or medtech product, but struggling to turn early interest into adoption, commercial traction, and investor confidence?

Many early-stage companies face this challenge. Their technology may solve an important clinical, operational, or technical problem, but the team lacks the customer, adoption, commercial, regulatory, reimbursement, and financial proof needed to grow. A compelling solution can earn a first meeting. Evidence that customers will adopt, buyers will pay, and the company can scale earns investor confidence.

The Perfect Pitch Toolkit was developed using modern product-discovery and business-building methods and tested through anonymized early-stage medtech and healthtech cases. The cases examined how teams used customer, clinical, buyer, workflow, commercial, regulatory, reimbursement, and financial learning to make product and market decisions. Teams made stronger progress when they surfaced high-risk assumptions, tested them with the right stakeholders, and tied the resulting evidence to clear growth milestones.

The toolkit helps founders and product managers close this evidence gap. It provides a structured approach to define the customer problem, clarify the clinical user and economic buyer, sharpen market positioning, validate differentiated value, and reduce execution risk.

Why You Should Attend:

Decide what to build, validate, defer, or stop when customer demand, clinical workflow, buyer priorities, and commercialization constraints conflict.

Align product, clinical, commercial, regulatory, and finance stakeholders around the assumptions most likely to limit adoption and growth.

Turn customer, clinical, workflow, and buyer learning into evidence that informs roadmap, positioning, go-to-market, and funding decisions.

What You’ll Get:

A practical evidence map for assessing customer pain, target-market fit, user and buyer alignment, workflow fit, adoption readiness, and commercial scalability.

Two anonymized case examples showing how early-stage teams uncovered untested assumptions and changed product or market decisions.

A repeatable method for moving from early validation to repeatable market adoption.

Use the Perfect Pitch Toolkit to move beyond a promising technology story. Learn how product managers can build the market proof, execution capability, and milestone-based growth narrative that helps early-stage medtech, healthtech, and deep-tech companies secure capital and scale.

What you will take away

  • Connect product discovery to customer, adoption, commercial, regulatory, reimbursement, and financial evidence.
  • Surface and test the high-risk assumptions most likely to limit adoption and growth.
  • Use evidence to make clearer roadmap, positioning, go-to-market, and funding decisions.

Session details

AvailableBeginning October 15, 2026

FormatOn-demand

AccessOnline

ProgramOn-Demand Library

About the speaker

About Hector

Hector Del Castillo is Chief Product Officer at Byond and an evidence-led product and growth leader who helps early-stage medtech, digital health, healthtech, and deep-tech teams connect customer learning to product strategy, adoption, and commercial execution. He has led product organizations and product-practice transformation across enterprise software, communications, medical devices, and technology services. His work helps founders and product leaders identify critical assumptions, align cross-functional teams, and build the market proof required to scale and attract aligned investment.

Why this session

Evidence from the work itself

Hector’s session is built around anonymized healthtech and medtech cases and a practical evidence map. It connects discovery to the market proof needed to make product decisions, align stakeholders, and show that a product can move from early validation toward repeatable adoption.

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Explore this session as part of the Maryland Product Symposium on-demand library.