Workshop Agenda 

8:00

Continental Breakfast, Registration, Pre-Networking

9:00

Welcome

9:10

About NCIIA

9:15

Is Technology Entrepreneurship for You?

Eric Janszen, Founder of i-tulip

10:00

Idea Validation and Opportunity Assessment

Dev Gupta, Founder, Chairman, CEO of Newlans 

10:45

Break

11:00

Marketing and Sales for Early Stage Companies

Joseph Bohan, CEO of SciDose, LLC 

11:45

Building the Team

Michael Giles, Founder of Otalo

12:30

Lunch & Networking

1:30

Issues in Intellectual Property

Speaker & Moderator: Robert Hunt, Wolf Greenfield

Panel:

Henry Gibson, SABIC Innovative Plastics

Gerard O'Connor, Foley Hoag 

Rob Tosti, Cooley Godward Kronish

2:15

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

Murray Berkowitz,  CTO Services

3:00

Break

3:15

Finding the Money

Moderator:  Gerard O'Connor, Foley Hoag 

Panel:

Michael Giles, Founder of Otalo

Tripp Peake, Long River Venture

Joseph Stokes, UMass Amherst

4:00

Ending Remarks

4:15

Adjourn