Invention to Venture: Affordable
Technology
Agenda
May 5, 2007
| 9:30 |
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Continental Breakfast, Registration, Pre-Networking |
| 10:00 |
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Welcome
Iqbal Quadir, Conference Co-Chair
Director, MIT Program in Developmental
Entrepreneurship
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| 10:15 |
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Is Technology Entrepreneurship
for you?
Harish Hande, Managing Director,
SELCO-INDIA
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| 11:00 |
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Idea Validation and
Protection
Daniel Dardani, Associate Technology
Licensing Officer, M.I.T.’s
Technology Licensing Office
Sandy Pentland, Director, MIT Program in Developmental
Entrepreneurship
Amy Smith, International Development Initiative at MIT
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| 12:00 |
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Networking Lunch |
| 1:00 |
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Building the Team
and Methods to Market
Panel Chair: Abigail Barrow, Founding
Director of the Massachusetts
Technology Transfer Center (MTTC)
David Grosof, President, OptiOpia,
Inc.
Jhonatan Rotberg, Telmex, New Ventures Group
Colin Bulthaup, Squid
Labs
|
| 2:00 |
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Perfect Pitch and Finding the Money
Jose Gomez-Marquez, Co-Inventor
and Founder, Aerovax
Charles Lacy, President, Barred Rock Fund |
| 3:00 |
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Closing Remarks and Adjourn |
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