Join us for an engaging talk with SYDE alum Dylan Horvath (BASc '97).
Dylan will share his path from graduation to starting Cortex Design, a medical device design and development firm, and the power of design thinking in creating solutions that are responsive to human need, and the experience of starting a music-technology startup, Lumatone and his work with the Ontario and federal design associations.
All are welcome—students, researchers, and anyone curious about medtech, design thinking, and life as a startup founder!
About Dylan Horvath
Dylan holds a degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, class of 1997. He founded Cortex Design in 1999 to create impactful designed experiences that substantially improve human quality of life. In his time growing Cortex into a leading ISO-13485:2016 medical device design and production company within Canada, Dylan has worn almost every hat in the organization — from industrial designer to embedded systems engineer to mechatronics designer to international production liaison on dozens of overseas production visits. Today, Dylan provides leadership and coaching to the team, sets strategic objectives, and provides a positive work culture within which the staff can succeed. Through coaching, mentorship and guidance, Dylan is accountable for delivering great project outcomes to clients. Dylan is a co-inventor on 11 utility patents (and counting) and has won numerous awards including the Bold Epic Innovator X-Prize for Cloud DX’s Vitaliti Tricorder “Doctor in a box”. His work has appeared in Popular Science, The Huffington Post, The Globe and Mail, Forbes, and Canadian Business’s Fastest Growing Companies. In addition to leading Cortex, Dylan is the co-president of the Association of Canadian Industrial Designers, the Vice President of the Association of Chartered Industrial Designers of Ontario, and a regular speaker at events where he advocates for the power of design to expand human capability.