Event Schedule

Wednesday, Sept. 20 | Corporate Nano Strategies

8:00 AM - 6:30 PMRegistration
9:00 AMWelcome
9:10 AMPartnering for Market Leadership: Case Study from the Plastic and Coatings Markets
Speaker: Thomas Sawitowski, Manager of Nanotechnology, Altana Chemie/BYK Chemie
9:55 AMLife of a Serial Nano Entrepreneur
Speaker: David Soane, Founder & Chairman, Alnis Biosciences
10:40 AMNano: Visions of Global Change
Speaker: Wilbur Ross, CEO & Chairman, W.L. Ross & Co

Introduction by Scott Livingston, Managing Director, The Livingston Group, Axiom Capital Management
11:20 AMLunch - Exhibit Hall
1:00 PMNanotechnology: Big Potential for American Competitiveness
Richard Russell, Associate Director, Office of Science & Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President
1:45 PMNano Policy
Moderator: Scott Mize, Former President, Foresight Nanotech Institute

Speakers:
John Howard, Director, NIOSH

Gwen Ruta, Director, Corporate Partnerships, Environmental Defense Fund

Clayton Teague, Director, National Nanotechnology Coordination Office

Dale Didion, CEO, Didion Group

Nano Transportation (Aerospace, Automotive, Military)

Moderator: Edward K. Moran, Director of Product Innovation, Leader, Nanotech Industry Practice, Deloitte Services

Speakers:

Leonard Chen, Director, CRAD Pursuits, Raytheon

Sharon Smith, Director, Advanced Technology, Lockheed Martin

Mark Verbrugge, General Motors, Director, Materials & Processes Laboratory, General Motors Research and Development Center

Pankaj Dhingra, President & CEO, Nanostellar, Inc.

3:00 PMBreak
3:15 PMNano Materials
Moderator: Mike Thompson, Business Development Manager, Nanotechnology, FEI Company

Speakers: Joe Cross, CEO, Nanophase Technologies

Rich Stromback, CEO, Ecology Coatings

Ralf Anselmann, Head of Exploration & Validation Nanotronics, Creavis Technologies & Innovation

Peter Krueger, Head of the Bayer Working Group Nanotechnology, Bayer MaterialScience AG,
3:30 PM

Applications Showcase (in Exhibit Hall)

3:30 PM AcryMed Inc.

3:50 PM Nanomix, Inc.

4:10 PM Authentix

4:30 PM Carbon Nanoprobes

5:10 PM MagForce Nanotechnologies AG
4:30 - 6:30 PMReception in Exhibit Hall

Thursday, Sept. 21 | Bringing Ideas to Market

8:00 AM - 7:00 PMRegistration
8:30 AMNanotechnology: Current Applications and Trends within the Automotive Industry
Mark Verbrugge, Director, Materials & Processes Laboratory, General Motors Research and Development Center
9:00 AMDriving Nano Innovation
Speaker: Carl Kohrt, President & CEO, Battelle
9:45 AMBuilding Successful R&D Collaboration between Industry & Institution
Speakers: David Gusdorf, Director of Development, Washington Technology Center

Don Montgomery, President & CEO, Nanomaterials Discovery Corporation
10:30 - 11:30 AMBreak - Exhibit Hall
11:30 AMIntellectual Property Issues
Moderator: Michael Lefenfeld, CEO, SiGNa Chemistry, LLC

Speakers: Kieran Drain, President & CEO, NanoGram

Mike Slessor, Assistant Director of the Office of Technology Transfer, California Institute of Technology

Brian Johnston, Kodak External Alliances, Eastman Kodak Company

Robert Shaddox, Shareholder & Chair, Nanotechnology Practice, Winstead Sechrest & Minick PC

12:15 PMSmall Times Best of Small Tech Awards Luncheon
2:00 PM
Perpective of the Global NanoEconomy
Matt Harris, Vice President Worldwide Marketing, FEI Company

Nano Energy
Moderator: Lynn Foster, Emerging Technologies Director, Greenberg Traurig L.L.P.

Speakers: Eric Burnett, CEO, Applied NanoWorks

Alan Gotcher, President & CEO, Altairnano

Paul Burrows, Laboratory Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Kevin Maloney, President & CEO, QuantumSphere, Inc.

Barry Park, COO, Oxonica Materials

2:45 PMApplications of Nano for Telecommunications
Iwona Turlik, Corporate Vice President of Motorola Technology, Motorola Inc.
3:15 PMBreak
3:30 PMNano Electronics
Moderator: Thomas Magnussen, Co-Founder & CEO, Atomistix A/S

Speakers: Jia Chen, Researcher, IBM

Greg Schmergel, President & CEO, Nantero

Om Nalamasu, Vice President of Advanced Technologies, CTO New Business and New Products Group, Applied Materials

Iwona Turlik, Corporate Vice President of Motorola Technology, Motorola Inc.

Moving beyond the basics: leveraging the legal system to maximize company value
Moderator: Aatish Salvi, Vice President, NanoBusiness Alliance

Speakers:
Chinh Pham, Chair of the Nanotechnology Practice Group, Greenberg Traurig, LLP

R. Mark Halligan, Principal, Welsh & Katz, Ltd.

Erik Flom, Principal, Welsh & Katz, Ltd.

Micah Stolowitz, Attorney, Stoel Rives LLP

Kevin McGann, White & Case LLP

Research Showcase (in Exhibit Hall)
3:30 PM Wayne State University

3:50 PM Boston College

4:10 PM Integran Defense Systems

4:30 PM Nanoliter

4:50 PM NeoPhotonics
4:45 - 7:00 PMReception - Exhibit Hall

Friday, Sept. 22 | Technology Leadership

8:00 AM - 11:00 AMRegistration
9:00 AMLearning from Biotechnology: Insights and Lessons for the coming Nanobiotechnology Revolution

Speaker: G. Steven Burrill, President & CEO, Burrill & Company

9:45 AMNanoBio panel discussion

Moderator: G. Steven Burrill, President & CEO, Burrill & Company

Speakers:
Andreas Jordan, CEO, MagForce Nanotechnologies AG

David Macdonald, CEO, Nanomix

Balu Karandikar, Senior Research Scientist, AcryMed, Inc.

David J. Dykeman, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, LLP

10:45 AMThe Sarbanes Oxley Act: Does it Change the Nanotech Funding Environment?

Speaker: Doug Jamison, President, COO, & CFO, Harris & Harris
11:00 AM
Going Public?

Moderator: Andrew Wahl, Managing Director, IG Partners

Speakers: Mark Campion, CFO, PolyFuel

Doug Jamison, President, COO & CFO, Harris & Harris

John Roy, Nanotechnology Analyst, WR Hambrecht

Early Stage Funding
Moderator: Kent Murphy, CEO, Luna Innovations

Speakers: Warren Packard, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Vinie Zhang, Vice President, Hitachi Corporate Ventures

Marco Beckmann, Nanostart AG

Shez Bandukwala, Partner, ThinkEquity Partners
12:30 PMConference Ends