PROGRAM

8:45am - 9:00am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:00pm - 9:45pm

Keynote - Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report

9:45am - 10:00am

Keynote - Congressional Nanotechnology Keynotes

11:15am - 12:00pm

Track B

The Economy’s effect on Nanotech

12:00pm - 12:45pm

Track B

Managing IP During Uncertain Times - A Roundtable Discussion

12:45pm - 1:15pm

Lunch

1:15pm - 2:00pm

Keynote - Technology and Economics of Nanomanufacturing in Semiconductor Markets

2:00pm - 2:45pm

Track B

Nano-convergence.  Commercializing Nanotechnology from the Bottom Up

2:45pm - 3:30pm

Track B

Weathering the Storm

3:30pm - 4:15pm

Track B

Adapting your IP Strategy to the New Economic Environment

5:45pm - 6:00pm

Reception Keynote - Warren Ribley

8:25am - 8:30am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:30am - 9:15am

Keynote - 2009 Investment Strategies

9:15am - 10:00am

Keynote - The Digital Society of the 21st Century

The Power of Photonics, Electronic, MEMS and Biology and Their Impact on Connecting People to the Digital World

10:00am - 10:30am

Keynote - Nanoscience at the Intersection of Technology, Business and Strategy

10:30am - 11:15am

Track B

Leveraging The Distressed Market:  Opportunity or Disaster?

12:00pm - 12:45pm

Track B

Patent Reform:  Debating Who Should Hear Patent Cases.

Todd Vare, a partner in the Intellectual Property Department of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, will moderate a highly entertaining debate between members of the Purdue University debate team over whether patent cases should be heard by juries or by a professional panel of patent experts.

The Purdue Speech and Debate Team is a nationally competitive team of undergraduate students from all disciplines of study at Purdue. The team is renowned for having a highly diverse collection of creative and committed individuals. All team members compete in organized debate where they and their partner are offered a topic and after 15 minutes of preparation will engage in a 45 minute debate with a team from another university. The topics can range from ideas for reforming social security to the validity of militarily engaging a foreign country to revoking the pear tax in Paraguay. They also all compete in individual speech events where they prepare a program of speeches, monologues, and plays from which they competitively speak off of. Both of these forms of competition require a mastery of a wide range of topics with a depth of knowledge that they can use to critically analyze the issues.

10:30am - 12:30pm

Track E

Getting Your Innovations Reviewed/Approved by EPA:

This simulation will familiarize you with the Premanufacture Notice (PMN) review process, and identify what EPA looks for in PMN submissions for new nanoscale products that must be considered by EPA before commercialization.

The NanoBusiness Alliance (NBA) recognizes that environmental, health, and safety (EHS) issues are of paramount importance and is committed to ensuring that its members are fully aware of and engaged in emerging legal and regulatory EHS issues pertinent to their operations.  We are especially pleased this year to offer a full EHS Track presented by a faculty of distinguished EHS professionals from around the country.

Instead of presenting EHS developments in a more traditional panel discussion format, NBA is pleased to offer two “mock” EHS experiences designed to emulate real-world experiences—a simulated discussion with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the imminent submission of a Premanufacture Notification (PMN) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), and a simulated Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspection. As importantly, you will have fun and enjoy yourself witnessing EHS experts make fools of themselves role-playing and trying to act!

Followed by a lively Q&A session.

10:30am - 12:00pm

Track W

Water Showcase

10:00 - 10:30: John Rowland: Working with the state and federal government, opportunities and challenges!  John Rowland is a former Governor, Congressman and now Economic Development Coordinator, Waterbury, CT.

Moderator: Griff Kundahl - University of Denver
10:30 - 10:45: John Barelli, Surplus Management, Inc.
10:45 - 11:00: Tripat Mangat, Water Resources Management Corporation
11:00 - 11:15: Jeff Mosher, Executive Director, National Water Research Institute
11:15 - 11:30: Michael Gallagher, President & Chief Executive Officer, OpenCEL
11:30 - 11:45: Elsie Mann, Optimatics
11:45 - 12:00: Peter Martinek - MWM-Martinek Water Management GmbH

12:00pm - 12:45pm

Track W

Keynote - WaterCAMPWS Center

12:45pm - 1:30pm

Lunch

2:00pm - 2:30pm

Track W

Ethanol and the Future of Bio Fuels: an ADM Perspective

3:00pm - 4:30pm

Track W

Investing in Water

4:30pm - 5:00pm

Keynote - Lux Research

5:00pm - 5:30pm

Keynote - Jump the Curve: 50 Essential Strategies to Help Companies Deal with Emerging Technologies

5:30pm - 7:30pm

Reception

8:15am - 8:30am

Opening Remarks

8:30am - 9:00am

Keynote - The Small Difference:  How nanotechnology enables new business

9:30am - 10:00am

Keynote

10:00am - 11:30am

Track W

Water & Energy

11:30am - 12:15pm

Track W

Challenges Facing Water Start-Ups

10:00am - 11:30am

Track W

Drinking Water Panel

11:30am - 12:15pm

Track W

Water & Energy: Addressing Climate Change

12:15pm - 12:45pm

Lunch

12:45pm - 1:15pm

Luncheon Keynote - EPA

2:15pm - 2:45pm

Track A

Baxter Healthcare Corporation

1:15pm - 1:45pm

Track W

Keynote - American Water

1:45pm - 3:15pm

Track W

Water IT Panel

3:15pm - 3:45pm

Track W

Keynote - Becatech Security Solutions & Technologies

5:00pm - 5:30pm

Track W

Closing Keynote - Water Innovations Alliance

5:30pm - 7:00pm

Reception