AGENDA: Day 1: Thursday, April 2, 2009

10:00am - 12:30pm  Check in, Poster Set Up, Lunch (at 11:30am)

1:00pm     Session I: Introductions and Overview

1:30pm     Session II: Participant expectations 

Determine 3 main outcomes you and your teammates will work to gain for your CCI during this workshop based on the Agenda 

1:45pm     Session II (continued): Participant expectations

Post results and report out (speed pitch by each team) 

2:15pm      Break

2:30pm     Session III: The Global Enterprise in the 21st Century:

Aligning Value Chains, Chemical Sectors and Your Center's Research

•    Background: What is a sector, what is a value chain, what is a technology platform, and the implications for your Center?

•    Exercise: Determine the sector(s) where your technology links and why you think it links as the basis for tech translation

•    Report out: Sector alignment with the research at the Center. (Speed pitch by Center Teams) (What is the technology their Center? What problems are being addressed. Define up to 3 sectors for which your technology has relevance and why.

4:15pm     Break 

4:30pm     Session III (continued):

Know Thyself...Know Thy Team... Know Thy Role

•    The Center Team and you - Teams, Center success; It's all about the people!

•    Situational Leadership Assessment

o    Setup for and Conduct Assessment

o    Report Out (selected participants)

- What would be your personal challenges:

As a member of a Venture Team?

In the sector(s) and value chain involving you?

•    Employers: Who are they, where are they and what do they want?

6:00 - 8:30pm     Session IV: Dinner and posters  

AGENDA: Day 2: Friday, April 3, 2009

7:30am     Participants have breakfast at hotel 

8:30am     Overview of Schedule and Logistics 

Session VI. It's Venturing No Matter How You Slice It:

Start-ups, Licensing, Partnering and More

NOTE: each part of Session VI will include a panel discussion, Q&A, and a rapid pitch style report out from each Center Team on new awareness, findings, implications of this topic for their Center from each Panel topic.

9:00am     Session VI (part 1): Panel: Idea Validation and Opportunity Assessment

10:30am     Session VI (part 2): Panel: Finance

12:00pm     Lunch 

12:45pm     Session VI (part 3): Panel: Intellectual Property -

What Is It and Implications for Technology Translation

2:15pm     Session VI (part 4): Panel: Team Development 

3:45pm     Break 

4:00pm     Session VI (part 5): Panel: The Global Enterprise -

Enabling Global Collaboration and Problem Solving 

5:30pm     Session VII: Framework for Homework and Pitch for Tomorrow

Homework: Prepare a PowerPoint presentation to accompany a Pitch using the framework provided. Use no more than 7 slides. If there is a venture, include 5 venture slides and 2 slides on dissemination back at the CCI. If there is no venture, focus the presentation on dissemination and use 5 - 7 slides.

6:00pm     Working Dinner with Q&A on Homework and Pitch for Tomorrow 

7:00+     Teamwork on building and practicing pitches

AGENDA: Day 3: Saturday, April 4, 2009 

7:00am     Participants have breakfast at hotel

8:00am     Logistics and Kick Off

Session VIII: What's Your Plan?  

Report Out: Each team will present a dissemination plan or a venture plan. For each team, allow a total of 10 minutes for the Pitch and 5 minutes for Q&A.

8:15am     Session VIII (part 1): First 4 Teams 

10:00am     BREAK 

10:15am     Session VIII (part 2): Next 4 Teams 

11:35am     Box Lunch and Final Comments,

Wrap Up and Survey 

12:45pm     Adjourn  

**This is a private, invitation-only event for NSF CCI centers.  Please return to the I2V calendar to view open-to-the-public workshops**