Keynote Sessions

Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Wilbur Ross
Chairman & CEO
WL Ross & Company
Vision of Global Change
Wilbur Ross is best known outside nano as one of the world¿s most successful turnaround financiers. But inside the nanotech sector, he is recognized for purchasing Burlington Industries in 2003 in part because it owned Nano-Tex LLC, the maker of nano-enabled fabric enhancements. Since then he formed a nanotechnology investment partnership with Masters Capital Management.
Mr. Ross will share his thoughts on why nanotechnology is important to his business strategy and his vision of how nanotechnology will affect our world.
Thomas Sawitowski
Manager of Nanotechnology, Altana Chemie/BYK Chemie
Partnering for Market Leadership: Case Study from the Plastic and Coatings Markets
The application of nanotechnology is creating significant interest in the global paint and plastic markets. In order to shorten innovation cycles and time-to-market and to maintain a leading position in the market ALTANA Chemie AG and Nanophase Technology Corporation entered into a strategic, global alliance more than 2 years ago. This partnership has strengthened both companies in their position as leading companies for specialty chemicals, as well as tailor-made nanomaterials and nanomaterials dispersions. This presentation will give insights into the strategic relationship, lessons learned, and opportunities that the partnership created.
David Soane
Founder & Chairman
Alnis Biosciences
Life of a Serial Nano Entrepreneur
David Soane is renowned for his innovations in nanotechnology. He has founded companies including Aclara, Nano-Tex, Innovative Construction and Building Materials, Soane Labs and Cosmetica. Mr. Soane will discuss his latest efforts at Alnis Biosciences and share his thoughts on what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur.
Richard Russell
Associate Director, Office of Science & Technology Policy
Executive Office of the President
Nanotechnology: Big Potential for American Competitiveness
The President¿s 2007 Budget provides over $1.2 billion for nanotechnology research¿nearly tripling the annual spending since the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) was begun in FY 2001. Implementation of the President¿s American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) will provide continued strong support for basic research at the nanoscale. The ACI also aims to promote private sector R&D, improve math and science education, increase workforce training, and attract and retain the best and the brightest from around the world to learn and work in the United States. Together, the NNI and the ACI will enable the United States to remain a world leader in nanotechnology research and to reap the benefits to our economy, security, and quality of life.

Thursday, September 21, 2006
Carl Kohrt
President
CEO Battelle
Driving Nano Innovation
Battelle, a global science and technology enterprise, sees its commitment to nanotechnology as a logical extension of its research and development experience and its history of innovation. Battelle President and CEO Carl Kohrt will discuss how his organization fosters and manages science- and technology-based innovation, and how it helps bring emerging technologies to the marketplace. The complete cycle of innovation – from concept to commercialization – and the practical decisions necessary along the way will also be explored.
Don Montgomery
President & CEO
Nanomaterials Discovery Corporation
David Gusdorf
Director of Development
Washington Technology Center
Building Successful R&D Collaboration between Industry and Institution
Washington Technology Center and Nanomaterials Discovery Corporation have developed a strong collaboration working together on a chip to support electrodeposited nano materials research. You’ll hear from both organizations about the advantages of collaborative research, as well as the compromises they had to make to maintain the relationship.
Mark Verbrugge
Director, Materials & Processes Laboratory
General Motors Research & Development Center
Nanotechnology: Current Applications and Trends within the Automotive Industry
We overview a variety of nanotechnologies and associated opportunities relevant to automotive applications. A significant challenge for the automotive industry is to produce vehicles of higher energy efficiency while continuing to improve vehicle functionality. One can divide the vehicle system into body and powertrain subsystems. This talk overviews recent developments and open questions associated with currently employed structural materials for body subsystems and promising electronic materials for energy storage and transfer.
Iwona Turlik
Corporate Vice President of Motorola Technology,
Motorola Inc.
Applications of Nano for Telecommunications
This session will concentrate on new developments of Nano-system technologies and how they play a key role in today's product development. We¿ll focus on ultra-sensitive sensors and incorporation of high-performance materials and information control into wearable electronic devices and SMART systems for enhanced communications.

Friday, September 22, 2006
G. Steven Burrill
President & CEO
Burrill & Company
Learning from Biotechnology: Insights and Lessons for the Coming Nanobiotechnology Revolution
The combination of biotechnology and nanotechnology presents huge opportunities to revolutionize drug delivery, therapeutics, diagnostics, agriculture, industrial processing and much more. It holds the promise of significantly increasing the quality and longevity of human life. Several similarities are emerging between the development of biotechnology in the 70s, 80s and 90s and the development of nanotechnology. What insights and lessons can be gained by the nanotechnology community from this 30-year case study? How should these insights and lessons impact the focus and priorities of nanobiotechnology company executives?
Doug Jamison
President, COO & CFO
Impact of Sarbanes Oxley
The IPO frenzy of the dot-com era is a thing of the past. Technology companies now think twice about going public, weighing the benefits of investor cash inflow against the costs of meeting Sarbanes Oxley requirements. If they do decide to take the plunge, they need to know which stock market is best to enter, and what approach is likely to reap the largest reward.