Workshop Agenda

7:30

Continental Breakfast, Registration, Pre-Networking

8:00

Welcome and About NCIIA - Santiago Ibarreche, UTEP KCI, and Patricia Boynton, NCIIA

8:15

Is Technology Entrepreneurship for You? - Leo Gemoets, UTEP Department of Information and Decision Sciences

8:45

Break

9:00

Ribbon Cutting - Barbara Walker, CISCO Systems, Inc., and Peter Cooper, El Paso County

9:30

Idea Validation and Opportunity Assessment - Beto Pallares, RCIC

10:00

Marketing and Sales for Early Stage Companies - Robin Grambling, UTEP Department of Maketing and Management

11:00

Issues in Intellectual Property Licensing - Eli Velazquez, RCIC

11:45

Executive Luncheon at BizTech & Networking - Al Martinez-Fonts, Department of Homeland Security

1:15

Building the Team - Mike Adkins, Currey Adkins

2:00

The perfect business plan, slide show, & "elevator speech" - Pat McNamara, Slide12 Group

2:45

Break

3:00

Finding the Money - John Gale, Taligo, LLC

4:00

Ending Remarks - Santiago Ibarreche, UTEP KCI, and Patricia Boynton, NCIIA

4:15

Adjourn