Workshop Agenda

8:00 - 8:30
Continental Breakfast, Registration, Pre-Networking

8:30 8:45
Welcome & About NCIIA

Joseph Steig, NCIIA

8:45 - 9:45
What is Technology Entrepreneurship Anyway?
Is Technology Entrepreneurship for You?

Darlene Ryan, Executive Director, TECH Fort Worth and the City of Fort Worth

9:45 - 10:00
Break

10:00 - 10:45
Idea Validation & Opportunity Assessment

David Humphrey, COO, Oklahoma Equity Partners
Felipe Matos, Instituto Inovação

10:45 - 11:30
Marketing & Sales for Early Stage Companies

Michael Levin, Ml Levin & Associates
Lance Manning, Prenosis

11:30 - 12:15
Issues in Intellectual Property Licensing

Mark Shaffer of Shaffer, Bock & Antonoplos, P.L.L.C.

12:15 - 1:15
Networking Lunch

1:15 - 2:00
Building the Team

David M. Shaw, President, Global Uni-Docs Corporation
Lonnie Roberts, Partner, The Allen Austin

2:00 - 2:45
The Perfect Business Plan, Slide Show, & "Elevator Speech"

Jimmy Lewin, Director of WBTshowcase and Team Leader, NSF SBIR/STTR Commericalization Planning
Eliza Evans, Center for Economic Development, Innovation and Commercialization (CEDIC)

2:45 - 3:00
Break

3:00 - 4:00
Finding the Money

Fred Patterson, President and CEO, The Commercialization Funding Coach, Inc.
John Adler, Silver Creek Ventures

4:00 - 4:15
Ending Remarks & Adjourn