Workshop Agenda

8:30

Pastries, Juice & Coffee, Registration, Pre-Networking

9:00

Welcome

Jarett Rodriguez, Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute of LSU 

9:10

About NCIIA

Patricia Boynton, Invention to Venture Program Associate, NCIIA

9:15

Is Technology Entrepreneurship for You?

Dr. Hector Alila, President & Founder of Esperance Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

10:00

Idea Validation and Opportunity Assessment

Mr. Lee Pryor, Chief Executive Officer of Flying Fish Creative Services 

10:45

Break

11:00

Marketing and Sales for Early Stage Companies

Mr. Jon Cato of Object9 

11:45

Building the Team

Mr. Thomas Anderson, Interim Executive Director & Director of Development of Stephenson Disaster Management Institute 

12:30

Lunch & Networking

1:30

Issues in Intellectual Property

Dr. Jeanne Davis, Partner of Taylor Porter 

2:15

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

Bryan Greenwood, Director, LSBDC Technology Center at LSU

3:00

Break

3:15

Finding the Money

Bryan Greenwood, Director, LSBDC Technology Center at LSU

Mr. Richard Montgomery IV, General Partner of VCE Capital 

Todd Zirkle, Vice President of Business Services, Campus Federal Credit Union  

4:00

Ending Remarks

Jarett Rodriguez, Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute of LSU 

4:15

Adjourn