NANOTECH COMMERCIALIZATION CONFERENCE
April 9-10, 2013
Wake Forest Biotech Place
Winston-Salem, NC
The Early Bird Registration fee is $150.00
Student Rgistration fee is $75.00 (Student status will be verified at conference registration desk.)
To register, fill out the form below. After submitting the form, you will be directed to pay for your registration via PayPal.
For questions about the event, please contact Vincent Caprio at vincent@nanobca.org.
2013 Keynotes & Speakers
Click on photos to read bios.
For a list of the 2012 Speakers with Bios, click here.
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| Jim Phillips Chairman /CEO NanoMech |
Robert Burns Senior Vice President Harris & Harris Group, Inc |
Scott Rickert President Co-Founder & CEO |
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| Prof. David L. Carroll, Ph.D. Director, Nanotechnology & Molecular Materials Wake Forest University |
Scott Livingston Chairman & CEO Livingston Securities |
Dr. Mihail C. Roco Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology, National Science Foundation |
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| Travis Earles Nanotech Initiatives, Lockheed Martin |
Anthony Atala, M.D. Director, Professor and Chair Wake Forest University |
Governor George Allen |
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| David N. Himebaugh, COO & President, North America, Blue Nano Inc | Vincent Caprio Exec. Director NanoBusiness Commercialization Association |
Griffith A. Kundahl Exec. Director COIN |
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| Jack B. Hicks Partner, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP |
Lynn L. Bergeson Bergeson & Campbell P.C. |
John Hardin Exec. Director Science & Technology NC Dept. Commerce |
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| Timothy M. Persons, Ph.D. Chief Scientist United States Government Accountability Office |
Benjamin S. Harrison, PhD, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine | Dr Ginger Rothrock Program Manager, Emerging Technologies, RTI International |
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| Dr. Gilberto M. (Ybet) Villacorta Partner Foley & Lardner LLP |
Paul S. Clayson President & CEO HzO |
Lifeng Zhang, Ph.D. Asst Prof. of Nanoengineering, Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering |
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| Dr. Sunit Talapatra Senior Counsel Foley & Lardner LLP |
Manish Mehta, Ph.D., Executive Director, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) | Stephen R. Waite Managing Partner SoundView Technology Group |
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| Keith Blakely CEO The InVentures Group |
Alan Rae B.Sc., Ph.D., M.B.A. M.R.S.C. C.Chem., CEO, NanoMaterials Innovation Center |
Dr. Sumit Gangwal VP Research & Development Xanofi |
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| Prof. Jagannathan Sankar, Ph.D. Distinguished Univ. Prof.; White House Millennium Researcher, Dir. NSF-ERC & CAMSS, NCA & TSU |
James G. Ryan, Ph.D. Founding Dean, Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering |
Nan Marie Jokerst Distinguisted Prof., Electrical & Computer Engineering Duke University |
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| Dr. Behnam Pourdeyhimi Executive Director, Nonwovens Institute |
Joseph Piché CEO & Founder, Eikos | Gregory D. Cooper, CTO/Founder, Pixelligent Technologies |
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| Douglas DuFaux CTO, Alfie Technology Corp. |
Johnny Rodrigues Chief Commercialization Officer, Xemerge |
Michael Sullivan Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP |
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| Alexander (Sasha) V. Kabanov, Ph.D., Dr.Sc., Director, UNC Center for Nanotechnology |
Richard Czerw, Ph.D. CEO, NanoTechLabs, Inc. |
Roger Cubicciotti, Ph.D. President/CEO & Science Advisor, NanoMedica LLC |
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| Harry Bushong, President & Co-founder, nanoTox, Inc. | Daniel Joseph Christian Herr, Ph.D., Professor & Nanoscience Department Chair, Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering | Russell L. Jones MBA, Summers Thompson Lowry, Inc. |
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| Dr. Michele Ostraat, Senior Director, Center for Aerosol & Nanomaterials Engineering, RTI International | Dr. Jeffrey Morse, Managing Director, National Nanomanufacturing Network | Ken Russell, Ph.D., Director, Enterprise Strategy, CISCO |
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| Allen Gelwick, Executive Vice President, Lockton Companies | Edward Olivares, Federal Business Group | Scott Bryant, President, Nano-Network of New Mexico |
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| Peter Seoane, NSF Engineering Research Center for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials, North Carolina A&T State University | Dr. Veena Misra, Director, NSF ERC ASSIST Nanosystems Center, NCSU | Fern O'Brian Partner Thompson Hine LLP |
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| Steve Peterson, CEO, Trana Discovery | Edward Miles, Chief Financial Officer – Carolina Seed Investors | W. Bennett Love, VP, Co-founder, Synereca Pharmaceuticals |