Workshop Agenda

8:30a

Pastries, Juice and Coffee

Registration, Pre-Networking

9:00

Welcome

Dr. Mark Weaver, Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute of LSU

9:10

About NCIIA

Katie Lecesse, NCIIA

9:15

Is Technology Entrepreneurship for You?

Randall Nachman, ATLOS, LLC

10:00

Idea Validation and Opportunity Assessment

Pat Dickson, Entrepreneurship & Strategic Management Faculty, Wake Forest University

10:45

Break

11:00

Marketing and Sales for Early Stage Companies

Shelly Dupré, Object9

11:45

Building the Team

Thomas Anderson, President & Chief Executive Officer, First Responders Systems & Technology, Inc.,

12:30

Lunch & Networking

1:30

Issues in Intellectual Property

Jim Pelton, Retired from Dow Chemical as Senior Counsel

2:15

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

Pat Dickson, Entrepreneurship & Strategic Management Faculty, Wake Forest University

3:00

Break

3:15

Finding the Money

Arthur Cooper, Executive Director, Louisiana Emerging Technologies Center

Terry Jones, Dean Capital

Joseph F. Lovett, Managing General Partner, Louisiana Fund I

4:15

Ending Remarks

Bryan Greenwood, Assistant Director, Louisiana Business & Technology Center

4:30

Adjourn