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Final Agenda
Speaker slides can be found below under the speaker's name, where available.
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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1, 2008
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| 6:00- 8:00 pm | OPENING RECEPTION at the Embassy of Greece [Capacity limit is 200 conference attendees] |
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THURSDAY OCTOBER 2, 2008
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| 7:30-8:15 am | Registration/Breakfast |
| 8:15-8:30 am | Conference Opening and Welcome
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| 8:30-8:45 am | David Lerner (Columbia University, Co-Host) |
| 8:45-9:00 am | Allen Dines (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Co-Host) Lorrie Keating Heinemann (Wisconsin Cabinet Secretary, Financial Institutions) Click Here for Lorrie Keating Heinemann's Slides |
| 9:00-9:15 am | Timothy Tong (President-elect, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; former SEAS dean George Washington University) |
| 9:15-9:30 am | Mark Heesen (President, National Venture Capital Association-NVCA) |
| 9:30-10:30 am | VC Panel: General Early Stage Capital
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| 10:30-10:45 am | Break |
| 10:45-11:00 am | Krisztina "Z" Holly (Vice Provost for Innovation, University of Southern California / Executive Director, USC Stevens Institute for Innovation) Click Here for Krisztina Holly's Slides |
| 11:00-12:00 pm | VC Panel: Improving the VC-University Startup Process
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12:00-2:00 pm | Lunch and Select University Startup Presentations |
| 2:00-2:20 pm | Charles Wessner
( Director of the Program on Technology, Innovation, and
Entrepreneurship, The National Academies ) Click Here for Charles Wessner's Slides |
2:20-3:15 pm |
Angel Panel: What Angels look for to invest in university startups
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3:15-3:45 pm |
Wisconsin Angel Panel: Jumpstarting statewide angel investing with governor’s leadership, legislative action and private participation Click Here for Wisconsin Angel Panel's (1) Slides Click Here for Wisconsin Angel Panel's (2) Slides
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3:45-4:30 pm |
Corp VC Panel: What do corporations want from university startups
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| 4:30-4:45 pm | JP Kim (Director
& Policy Officer, Division of Extramural Inventions &
Technology Resources (DEITR), Office of Policy for Extramural
Research Administration (OPERA), Office of Extramural Research (OER),
National Institutes of Health) Click Here for JP Kim's Slides |
4:45-6:00 pm |
NSF SBIR Panel: SBIR funding university startups with SBIR program managers and VCs who have been reviewers
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6:00-7:30 pm |
Reception |
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2008
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| 8:30-9:30 am | Registration/Breakfast |
9:30-9:45 am |
George Vradenburg (Vice Chairman, The Chesapeake Crescent, former Strategic Advisor, AOL Time Warner) Click Here for George Vradenburg's Slides |
9:45-10:00 am |
Bob Litan (Vice President of Research and Policy, Kauffman Foundation) |
10:00-10:15 am |
Kesh Narayanan (Director, Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships, National Science Foundation-NSF) Click Here for Kesh Narayanan's Slides |
10:15-10:30 am |
Joanne Goodnight (SBIR/STTR Program Coordinator, Director, Division of Special Programs Office of Extramural Programs, National Institutes of Health - NIH) Click Here for Joanne Goodnight's Slides |
10:30-10:45 am |
Michael Weingarten (Director, NCI SBIR and STTR Small Business Programs, National Institutes of Health - NIH) Click Here for Michael Weingarten's Slides |
10:45-11:00 am | Break |
11:00-11:45 am | Univ Panel: Validation funding and internal incubatory activities to commercialize university inventions
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11:45-12:30 pm | Embassy Panel: Working with International Universities to build a global university startups innovation community
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12:30-1:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30-2:00 pm | Univ Panel: Entrepreneur-in-Residence programs and other ways to bring outside experts to help create and fund university startups
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2:00-2:45 pm | Univ Panel: Thoughts and experiences of university experts in creating and funding university startups
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2:45-3:30 pm | Univ Panel: Thoughts and experiences of university experts in creating and funding university startups
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3:30-4:15 pm | NIH Panel: Thoughts and experiences of experts in creating and funding start-ups by federal scientists or from federal labs
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4:30 pm | Conference ends |