2011 PROGRAM
Tuesday, October 25, 2011:
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
The conference will be held in the Student Center in the Grand Ballroom, Ballroom D&E and Room 236. The Student Center is located on 16th Street between Elm and Maple.

8:45-9:00

Opening Remarks
Vincent Caprio, Executive Director, NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
Griffith A. Kundahl, Executive Director, Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology (COIN)

9:00-9:30

Keynote
Keith Blakely, CEO – R3 Fusion, Inc.

9:30-10:00

Keynote
Joel Serface, Clean Range Ventures

10:00-10:30

Keynote
Jess Jankowski, President & CEO, Nanophase

10:30-11:30

Panel – Solar
Nanotechnology’s Role in Commercializing Solar Power
Moderator: Alan Rae, Technical Editor - Global Solar Technology
Bettina Weiss, Executive Director, PV Group
Jim Egerton, Executive VP, Product Development, Magnolia Solar Corp.

11:30-12:30

Panel – Biofuels
Moderator: Steve Waite, Partner, Research 2.0 and NanoBusiness Commercialization Association’s Director of Strategy and Research
Haig Keledjian, CEO, VG Energy
Dr. M. Karen Newell-Rodgers, Director of the Texas A&M Health Science Center, Chief Scientist, Viral Genetics/VG Energy

12:30-1:15

Lunch

1:15-2:00

Luncheon Keynote
Scott Livingston, Chairman & CEO, Livingston Securities LLC

2:00-2:30

Innovations in Water Technologies
Andrew Logan, VP Research and Development, Oberon FMR, Inc.

2:30-3:00

EH&S Update
Don Ewert, IH, Field Services Director, nanoTox, Inc.; Past-Chair, AIHA Nanotechnology Working Group

Panel –Promising Nanotechnologies for Renewable Energy
Moderator: Lino S. Lipinsky de Orlov, Partner, McKenna, Long & Aldridge
Seth Finley, MemPro
Karen Buechler, Co-Founder, President and CTO, ALD Nanosolutions
Alan W. Weimer, Executive Director, Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels (C2B2), University of Colorado (Boulder)

4:00-4:30

New change to the patent law and its effects on R&D
George C. Lewis, P.E., Copyright and Trademark Law, Merchant & Gould P.C.

4:30-5:00

Keynote
Kenneth E. Russell, PhD, Enterprise Strategy, CISCO

5:00-5:30

Keynote
The Honorable Kelly H. Carnes, President & CEO, TechVision21

5:30-7:00

Reception

Wednesday, October 26, 2011:
NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Golden, CO

9:00-10:00

Panel
Moderator: Laura Faulconer, PhD, Director of Innovation Projects, Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology (COIN)
Richard Adams, Manager, NREL Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, NREL

NREL

10:00-11:00

Panel
Moderator: Jim Hurd, Director, GreenScience Exchange
Robert Tenent, Senior Scientist, Chemical and Materials Science, NREL
Robert Guglielmetti , Research Engineer, Commercial Buildings Group Electricity, Resources, and Buildings Integration Center (ERBSIC)

NREL

11:00-1:00

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