Workshop Agenda

Talks will be held in Room 442, 444 Curry

Lunch will be held in Room 440 Egan 

8:00 - 8:30

Continental Breakfast, Registration, Pre-Networking

8:30 - 8:45

Welcome & Introduction

Paul Zavracky, Dean, School of Technology Entrepreneurship

Mary Secor, NCIIA

8:45 - 9:45

Is Technology Entrepreneurship for You?

David Luzzi, Dean of Engineering 

9:45 - 10:00

Break

10:00 - 10:45

Idea Validation and Opportunity Assessment

Mark Basler, Vice President, Worldwide Business Development, Azuki Systems

10:45 - 11:30

Building the Team

Tim Coleman, President & CEO, Nemucore Medical Innovations

Vladimir Torchilin, Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences 

11:30 - 12:30

Finding the Money

George Caledonia, past President & CEO, Physical Sciences Inc (SBIR)

Jeff McCarthy, Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners (VC) 

Abbot Gilman, serial entrepreneur and investor (Angel) 

12:30 - 1:30

Networking Lunch

Richard Klein, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Mycosol Inc

Jeff McCarthy, Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners

Mark McWilliams, CEO, Medipacs, Inc

Abbot Gilman, serial entrepreneur and investor (Angel)

Chris Dippel, Venture Mentoring Services 

1:30

Marketing Technology & Sales

Bruce Lampert, Vice President, Marketing & Business Development, North End Technologies Inc 

2:15

The Perfect Business Plan, Slide Show, & "Elevator Speech"

Rana Gupta, CEO, HistoRx

3:00 - 3:15

Break

3:15 - 4:00

Intellectual Property/Licensing

Panel:

Moderator: Susan Riley Keyes, Technology Transfer Executive, Division of Technology Transfer

Shann Kerner, PhD, Partner, Intellectual Property, WilmerHale, Boston

Abi Barrow, Director, Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center
Jeffrey Kosiba, Intellectual Property Manager, Division of Technology Transfer

Constantinos Mavroidis, PhD, Professor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University 

4:00

Ending Remarks

4:15

Adjourn