Workshop Agenda

8:00

Continental Breakfast, Registration, Pre-Networking

9:00

Welcome

9:10

About NCIIA

9:15

Is Technology Entrepreneurship for You?

Jeff Holden, CEO, pelago, inc.; former Senior Vice President, Amazon.com

10:00

Idea Validation and Opportunity Assessment

Anupama Varadharajan 

10:45

Break

11:00

Marketing and Sales for Early Stage Companies

Rhiannon Clifton & Curley Lee, co-instructors, TEC's Sales & Marketing for Engineers course

11:45

Building the Team

Tim Hoerr, CEO, iCyt

12:30

Lunch & Networking

1:30

Panel Discussion: Issues in Intellectual Property

Marvin Benn, MuchShelist (Chair)

Alan Singleton, Singleton Law Firm, PC

Lesley Millar, Office of Tecnology Management

Jed Taylor, Cleanmake, Inc.

2:15

The perfect business plan, slide show, & "elevator speech"

Harlee Sorkin, Principal, Mentor Management, LLC

3:00

Break

3:15

Panel Discussion: Finding the Money

James Keating, IllinoisVENTURES

Joel Oschwald, First State Bank

David Carroll, CU Aerospace

Brian Lilly, Adjunct Associate Professor, TEC; serial entrepreneur

4:00

Ending Remarks

4:15

Adjourn