Invention to Venture Agenda

Friday, April 29, 2011

8:00am - 4:15pm

8:00 ~ 8:30am      Registration

                               Continental Breakfast

                               Pre-Networking

8:30 ~ 8:45am     Welcome & about NCIIA

Mary Secor

 

8:45 ~ 9:45am     Session1: Technology Entrepreneurship

Bob Connolly

Bill Kalivas

Jim Schlosser

9:45 ~ 10:00 am             Break

10:00~ 10:45 am   Session 2: Idea Validation

Norm Leatha       Aziz Makhani

10:45 ~ 11:30 am   Session 3: Marketing & Sales for Early Stage Companies

Tyler Lafferty

Don Tilton

11:30 am ~ 12:15 pm   Session 4: Intellectual Property Licensing

Sean Clark 

Lewis Lee                                                                                           

12:15 ~ 1:15 pm     Networking Lunch

Short Presentations

from SIRTI  & McKinstry

1:15 ~ 2:00 pm    Session 5: Building the Team

Chris Majer

2:00 ~ 2:45 pm    Session 6: Perfect Pitch

Rebecca Lovell

2:45 ~ 3:00 pm    Break

3:00 ~ 4:00 pm   Session 7: Finding the Money: lecture on different types of money, then panel discussion on different types of investors

Tom Simpson

David Tilton

Peter G. Sutherland

4:00-4:15 pm     Ending remarks & Adjourn