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Medical devices is a diverse sector that includes diagnostic and therapeutic apparatus like prosthetics, lasers, software, medical imaging, and even wheelchairs.

It’s an increasingly vibrant industry in the state, with about 300 companies employing more than five thousand people, mostly clustered around the I91 corridor.

One of the aims of the MEDi conference is to make people in the broader industry aware of the manufacturing expertise in Connecticut.

Joseph Bronzino is head of BEACON, a Hartford based non-profit agency that promotes the sector.

“One of the things that we want to do is showcase, number one, the assets in precision manufacturing that are present in the I91 corridor for those who may be elsewhere and inventing and innovating different devices. Our mantra to our colleagues at MIT is you can innovate, you can create, but let us manufacture it along the I91 corridor.”

Bronzino says the other main thrust of the conference will be to interest investors who might be willing to sink cash into Connecticut’s emerging medical device companies. He says with industry-wide profitability growing between nine and ten percent over the last eight years, it should be an attractive investment.