2011 Program

Sunday, September 25, 2011
6:00-7:30 Opening Reception
Jeffrey Morse, Managing Director, National Nanomanufacturing Network
Vincent Caprio, Executive Director, NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
Monday, September 26, 2011
8:25 Opening Remarks
Jeffrey Morse, Managing Director, National Nanomanufacturing Network
Vincent Caprio, Executive Director, NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
8:30-9:00 Keynote: Senator Scott Brown – (R)-MA (Invited)
9:00-9:30 Keynote: National Nanotechnology Initiative: Positioning the NNI for Its Second Decade
Sally Tinkle, PhD, Acting Director & EHS Coordinator, NNCO
9:30-10:00 Keynote: Nanotechnology and the Shift from Technology Innovation to Revolution
George Thompson, PhD, Government Programs Manager, Intel
10:00-10:30 Keynote: Lux Research
Ross Kozarsky, Analyst, Lux Research
Parallel Tracks
What's up with EPA and NIOSH and NANO: An Interactive Discussion with EHS Experts A New Patent Era! Reform and Recent Court Decisions Impacting IP Strategy and Valuation
10:30-12:30 Session Chair: Lynn L. Bergeson, Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

The NIOSH Approach to Supporting Nanomaterial Commercialization
Charles Geraci, PhD, Coordinator, Nanotechnology Research Center, NIOSH

Kenneth T. Moss, Nanotech Team Leader, USEPA, New Chemicals Management Branch, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics

Managing NanoEHS: Moving from the Lab to the Plant
Mark A. Banash, PhD, Vice President of Quality and Regulatory Affairs, Nanocomp Technologies, Inc.

10:30-11:30 Moderator: J. Steven Rutt, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP
Nina Pearlmutter, Qteros
Julie Heinrich, Plextronics
Henning Richter, Nano-C
Nanomanufacturing - Emerging Technologies
11:30-12:00 Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Nanostructured Materials and Devices
James Watkins, Director, NSF Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing, University of Massachusetts Amherst
12:00-12:30 Rethinking Manufacturing; Nanomaterials Based Nanomanufacturing of Energy, Medical and Electronic Devices
Ahmed Busnaina, Director, NSF Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing, Northeastern University
 
12:30-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:00 Keynote: Peter L. Antoinette, President & CEO, Nanocomp Technologies, Inc.
Parallel Tracks
Nanomedicine and NanoDiagnostics: Innovation, Regulation, and Investment High Performance Green Nanomaterials for Electronics & Industrial Applications
2:00-4:00 Session Chair: Mostafa Analoui, PhD, Head of Healthcare & Life Sciences, Livingston Securities
Nanomedicine and NanoDiagnostics: Innovation, Regulation, and Investment

Drug Delivery and Nanostructuring: Divergent Effects
Hong Guo, VP of Research, pSivida

Cancer Nanotechnology - Opportunities and Challenges
Piotr Grodzinski, PhD, Director of NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, National Cancer Institute

High-Precision Therapeutics through Medicinal Nanoengineering
Scott Minick, CEO and President of Bind Biosciences

Nanotechnology and Regulatory Science in FDA
Subhas Malghan, PhD, FDA, Deputy Director in the Office of Science and Eng Lab, Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH)

Harris & Harris Group
Misti Ushio, PhD, Managing Director, Harris & Harris

Nanoviricides: Novel Antiviral Nanomedicines
Anil Diwan, PhD, Chairman & President, Nanoviricides, Inc

2:00-3:00 Vision and Opportunities for Translating Green Nano to Manufacturing
Doug Keszler, Founder/CSO of Inpria Corp., Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Oregon State University

David C. Johnson, Rosaria Haugland Foundation Chair in Pure & Applied Chemistry, University of Oregon

GOAL: Sustainable Materials Commercialization and Innovator Preparation
Judy Giordan, Partner, ecosVC

High Performance Nanomaterials for Electronic and Industrial Applications
Skip Rung, President & Executive Director, ONAMI (Moderator)

Regulating Tiny Technology: Big Impact on Innovation and Commercialization
3:00-4:00 Regulating Tiny Technology
Fern O'Brian, Partner, Thompson Hine LLP
John Mitchell, Partner, Thompson Hine LLP
Troy Prince, Associate, Thompson Hine LLP
 
4:00-4:30 Keynote: Scott Livingston, Chairman & CEO, Livingston Securities
4:30-5:00 Keynote: Transformative Nanotechnology Companies
Doug Jamison, CEO & Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group
5:00-7:00 Reception
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
8:25 Opening Remarks
Vincent Caprio, Executive Director, NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
Griffith Kundahl, Executive Director, Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology (COIN)
Session Chair: Laura Faulconer, PhD, Director of Innovation Projects, Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology (COIN)
8:30-8:40 Keynote: Doug Jamison, CEO & Managing Director, Harris & Harris Group
8:40-9:05 Keynote: Dispatches from the Nano Age: Six Signposts to Success
Scott Rickert, Co-Founder, President & CEO, NanoFilm
9:05-9:30 Keynote: Nanotechnology from Discovery to Socio-economic Projects: 2000-2020
Dr. Mihail C. Roco, Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology, National Science Foundation
9:30-10:00 Keynote: How Do You Create and Build a Nanotechnology Company?
Jim Hussey, CEO, NanoInk
10:00-10:30 Keynote: David Arthur, CEO, SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc.
Parallel Tracks
2011 Nanotechnology Commercialization Cleantech
10:30-11:00 Commercializing Nano-Enabled Products
Jess Jankowski, President & CEO, Nanophase
10:30-11:00 Reshaping Portable Power
T. Joseph Fisher, III, CEO, Contour Energy
11:00-11:30 DOE User Programs: Opportunities for Commercialization
David A. Bunzow, User Facilities Program Mgr., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
11:00-11:30 Lab to Fab: Path to Commercialization
Jill Becker, Founder, Cambridge NanoTech (invited)
2011 Nanotechnology Commercialization Pharma IP Evergreening Strategies (i.e., Patent Extension) Using Nanotechnology
11:30-12:00 Ajay Malshe, Founder & EVP/Chief Technology Officer (CTO), NanoMech LLC 11:30-12:30 Pharma IP Evergreening Strategies Using Nanotechnology
Jeffrey Rosedale, PhD, Attorney, Woodcock Washburn
12:00-12:30 Pixelligent
Craig Bandes, CEO, Pixelligent Technologies
 
12:30-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:00 Keynote: Jim Phillips, CEO, NanoMech
Parallel Tracks
2011 Nanotechnology Commercialization
2011 Nanotechnology Commercialization
2:00-2:30 Commercializing Nanotechnology - The Benefits of the Split Plasma Technique
Michael Foley, Founder/President, Cheap Tubes Inc.
2:00-2:30 Quantum Dot Commercialization Opportunities
Frank Ignazzitto, Vice President, Government Business, QD Vision, Inc
2:30-3:00 Best Practices of Commercializing Nanotechnology in EU & Case Finland
Dr. Eeva Viinikka, Business Director, Programme Director of National Nanotechnology Cluster Programme, Culminatum Innovation Ltd Oy
2:30-3:00 Plasmonic Nanomanufacturing
Cheng Sun, NSF Center for Scalable and Integrated Nanomanufacturing
Healthcare Advancements in NanoManufacturing Enabled by NIST and TIP Partnerships
3:00-3:30 Metabolon - Mike Milburn, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Metabolon 3:00-4:00 Moderator: Christopher Soles, Ph.D., Group Leader, Electronics Materials Group, Polymers Division, NIST
Derek A. Schorzman, Ph.D., Principal Process Engineer, Liquidia Technologies, Inc.
Jayesh Doshi, eSpin Technologies, Inc.
3:30-4:00 Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials – Current and Emerging Markets
Dr. Thomas Abraham, Innovative Research and Products, Inc.
 
4:00-4:30 2011-2012 Legislative Update
Moderator: Philip Lippel, PhD, Nanotechnology Consultant
Joe Piche, CEO, Eikos
Vincent Caprio, Executive Director, NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
4:30-5:00 Keynote: Carrie Freeman, Director, Sustainable Business Innovation, Intel
5:00-5:30 Keynote: William Wescott, Vice President, Innovation-Americas, Veolia Environnement North America Operations LLC
5:30-7:00 Reception and Poster/Exhibitor Session
Workshop on Nanofabrication Technologies for Roll-to-Roll Processing
An Academic-Industry Workshop on Technologies for American Manufacturing Competitiveness
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
5:00-6:30 Reception
6:30-8:30 Introductory Remarks and Workshop Overview
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
8:30-2:00 Invitee Presentations
2:00-4:30 Discussion and Conclusions