Workshop Agenda

8:00

Continental Breakfast, Registration, Pre-Networking

8:30

Welcome

8:45

About NCIIA

Tom Porter, NCIIA

9:00

Is Technology Entrepreneurship for You?

Dale Flanders, Axsun Technologies

9:45

Break

10:00

Idea Validation and Opportunity Assessment

Mickey Shattow, consultant

10:45

Marketing and Sales for Early Stage Companies

John Karp, Cost Recovery Services

11:30

Issues in Intellectual Property

Todd Keiller, Maine Medical Center

Chris Caseiro, Verrill Dana

 Jake Ward, University of Maine

Leonard Agneta, University of Maine School of Law Center for Law & Innovation

12:15 - 1:15

Lunch & Networking

1:15

Building the Team

Pete Chavonelle, consultant

2:00

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

Deb Neuman, University of Maine

2:45

Break

3:00

Finding the Money

Peter Moore, Corporate Finance Associates

Betsy Biemann, Maine Technology Institute

Erik Hayward, Libra Future Fund

Chris Frank, Intelligent Spatial Technologies

4:00

Ending Remarks

4:15

Adjourn