Ready to Commercialize 2006
Thursday, October 12, 2006
The Four Seasons Hotel, Austin, TX

The 2006 Ready to Commercialize Conference was a sold-out success! Fast-paced sessions combined with deep technology perspectives and compelling presentations that are relevant to the issues facing tech commercialization today: new models, industry trends, unlikely deals, "linking" within the tech ecosystem, and more. Whether you're starting a new company or looking for the product to bring in your next million in sales, you can jumpstart the process by commercializing university-based technology.

Speakers

	Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More and editor-in-chief of Wired magazine
	Peter Lewis, Senior Editor, Personal Technology, FORTUNE magazine

Agenda

8:30am	Welcome Juan Sanchez, Ph.D., Vice President for Research Office of Technology Commercialization, The University of Texas at Austin
	Remarks Neil Iscoe, Ph.D., Director Office of Technology Commercialization, The University of Texas at Austin
	Keynote: Just in from Asia—products about to be released Peter Lewis, Senior Editor, Personal Technology, FORTUNE magazine Peter Lewis shows the end results of technology commercialization. Flying in from Japan's CEATEC, Asia's largest technology event, he gives us a glimpse of the products and gadgets that may or may not reach the United States.
	Invention speed views The Invention Speed View sessions feature inventors who, in just over 100 seconds each, present compelling reasons to visit their kiosks and learn more about their inventions. Richard Crooks Copy machine for DNA microarrays: Novel methods for the parallel copying of DNA arrays dramatically reduce costs and increase device availability. Daniel Miranker A method for real-time search of protein and small compound libraries: facilitating drug discovery research and protein identification Bruce Porter Knowledge machine (KM): In Vulcan's test, KM outscored all competitors and passed the AP Chemistry test. Brian Stankiewicz Navigation aid where GPS can't reach—inside buildings Yuyu Sun The anti-microbial treatment that doesn't wash off: bonds chlorine to virtually anything
9:45-10:15am	Break/inventor kiosks In order to give attendees more time to talk to inventors and to drill down into invention details, inventors show their technologies at "electronic poster" kiosks. (Inventors are available at kiosks through 11:15am.)
10:15am	The economics of "free": The university and open source software Open source software is becoming a major economic force and a major platform for technology innovation. The university can actively support open source publication and revenue generation at the same time. In this session, UT Austin's dual-track licensing model is presented, followed by a panel that explores the issues involving successful open source projects in university environments. Moderator: Richard Friedman, Licensing Specialist, Software & Open Source, The University of Texas at Austin Alan W. Black, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, Cepstral LLC; Associate Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Michael Coté, Industry Analyst, RedMonk Chris DiBona, Open Source Program Manager, Google Harry Weller, Partner, New Enterprise Associates
9:45-10:15am	Break/inventor kiosks In order to give attendees more time to talk to inventors and to drill down into invention details, inventors show their technologies at "electronic poster" kiosks. (Inventors are available at kiosks through 11:15am.)
	National Academies: Goverment-university-industry research roundtable "University-Industry Demonstration Partnership Albert Johnson, Senior Analyst, Science and Technology, Corning Inc. The University-Industry Demonstration Partnership is forming a coalition of participants to engage in a series of collaborative experiments to demonstrate new approaches to sponsored research and the broader strategic elements of a healthy, long-term university-industry relationship. The initiative focuses on advancing competitiveness and innovation in the U.S. economy, maintaining research infrastructure, and educating highly skilled scientists, engineers, teachers, and workforce. The inaugural demonstration effort, "Turbo Negotiator," is scheduled to kick-off on December 13, 2006.
	Invention speed views More 100-second inventor presentations Benny Freeman Fresh water for the masses: maintenance-free reverse osmosis membranes Mohamed Gouda Systematic, error-free firewall programming: A mathematically based system can form a new basis for enterprise firewall management. Arumugam Manthiram Low-cost membranes to make fuel cells work at high temperature, low humidity, and low methanol crossover Ed Marcotte Massively parallel cell-based assays on a microchip: Drug discovery is one of many applications. TACC/Kazushige Goto GotoBLAS: the world's fastest linear algebra software for supercomputers
11:45am	Lunch Visit inventor kiosks Inventors are available at kiosks through 1:30pm.
12:30pm	Lunch Panel: Building a robust and sustainable ecosystem for commercialization Like a biological ecosystem, it is the robustness and complexity of relationships—the links between the players—that makes the ecosystem work. Similarly, the ecosystem of government, university, and industry can be both robust and sustainable and potentially provide enough inventions for U.S. entrepreneurs and corporations to turn into products. What we do in the next decade is crucial; be sure to hear this impactful discussion. Moderator: Pike Powers, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP; Chair, Texas Technology Initiative Robert Barnhill, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor, Research and Technology Transfer, The University of Texas System Kevin Boyack, Ph.D., Principal Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories Clinton Bybee, President of the Texas Venture Capital Association; Co-founder and Managing Director, ARCH Venture Partners Juan Sanchez, Ph.D., Vice President for Research, The University of Texas at Austin Phil Wilson, Deputy Chief of Staff, The Office of Texas Governor Rick Perry
1:30pm	The technology ecosystem in action These sessions present an insider's view of the technology commercialization ecosystem from the perspective of active deals.
	The Molecular Imprints Story A "behind the scenes" view of an innovative deal that has raised over $90M of university, industry, federal, state, and VC funding to commercialize a radically disruptive technology that is changing lithography and semiconductor manufacturing. Daniel Leff, Ph.D., Executive VP, Harris & Harris Group, Inc. Mark Melliar-Smith, CEO, Molecular Imprints Norm Schumaker, Ph.D., Founder, Molecular Imprints David Spencer, CEO, Mandelbrot Ventures, Inc.; Chair, The Texas Emerging Technology Fund S.V. Sreenivasan, Ph.D., Founder, Molecular Imprints; Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin Marc Stanley, Director, Advanced Technology Program, National Institute of Standards and Technology
	Technology update Updates of technologies that are changing the world.
	Preview: LabNow Rick Hawkins, CEO
	Invention speed views More 100-second inventor presentations Ray Chen Optical interconnect technology to replace copper on printed circuit boards: less heat, faster data transfer Andrew Ellington Ultra-sensitive methods for detection of pathogens and cancer cells: an order-of-magnitude improvement over existing approaches George Georgiou Antibody discovery and efficacy improvement: making good antibodies great via affinity maturation Glenn Lightsey "Attitude on a chip": replaces large, expensive hardware now used with GPS for attitude determination. Satellite launch scheduled within months. John X.J. Zhang Nanoscale real-time microscope: an eye on a fingerpoint that can see a single molecule
2:45-3:30pm	Break/inventor kiosks Inventors are available at kiosks through 4:30pm.
3:30pm	New rules for industry Universities and large companies share a common characteristic: inertia that makes change difficult. This panel discusses new approaches to technology commercialization. W. George Coyle, Venture Executive, Chevron Technology Ventures Abha Divine, President & CEO, AT&T Knowledge Ventures Albert Johnson, Senior Analyst, Science and Technology, Corning Inc. Louis Masi, Director, Worldwide University & Innovation Programs, IBM
4:30pm	Keynote speaker Chris Anderson, Author, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More UT Austin has a treasure trove of "long tail inventions." The author discusses ways to connect people with products normally hidden under the Long Tail.
5:30-7:00pm	"The Long Tail" book signing: conference room Networking reception: cocktails on the lawn

Reasons to Attend

Ground-breaking technologies • Major deal opportunities • National leaders & experts

• Deal flow from leading-edge technology that is ready for licensing, partnering, or commercializing into profitable products and services
• Insights into the current emerging technology trends from top technologists, entrepreneurs, investors, speakers, and panelists
• Networking with venture capitalists, corporate investors, angels, CXOs, and growth company management

Who'll Be There

• VCs/angels looking for investment opportunities
• CXOs looking for their next company
• Corporate investors looking for blockbuster technologies
• Research professionals/faculty looking for research collaborators

Last year's Ready to Commercialize Conference was a sold-out, standing-room-only crowd (300+ attendees) representing a convergence of industry sectors, research partners, investors, and venture capitalists. View 2005 conference.

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