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Schedule
We will meet in the conference center of our main sponsor, Chadbourne & Parke, located at 30 Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan, to hear panels and individual breakouts from leading Fortune 500 companies, mid and small cap leaders, promising private companies and leading research institutions on topics that are compelling to those who follow todays investment and world news.
Topics will range from advanced energy/power applications such as batteries, solar and other renewables, cleantech/greentech, advanced defense and homeland security applications, bridges, roads and other green building materials, the open IPO window and changing face of finance, personalized medicine, MEMS and post-silicon electronics, and success stories from America's leading nano states.
Breakout sessions will highlight individual companies and provide attendees with opportunities to learn more detail about topics of interest to our network, including updates from key players in Washington DC , the national security aspects of energy independence, and the space elevator.
8:30 - 9:00 am |
Registration |
9:00 - 9:15 am |
Welcoming remarks Scott Livingston, Chief Executive Officer, Livingston Securities |
9:15 - 10:00 am |
Panel 1 – Solar 2.0 Moderator – Jack Hidary, Chairman, Samba Energy and NREL Board Member; Frank Yang, Senior Director, Business Development, Stion Corp ; Chris Norris, President & CEO, Alta Devices |
10:00 - 10:45 am |
Panel 2 – Nanotechnology & the Built Environment David Paratore , Chief Executive Officer, Nanosteel Corp; Jim Fugitte , Chief Executive Officer, Wind Energy Corp; Glen Finkel, Chief Executive Officer, Pureti Corp. |
10:45 - 11:15 am |
Interview Karen Lightman, Managing Director, MEMS Industry Group |
11:15 - 12:00 pm |
Panel 3 – Companies to Watch- 2012 IPO Candidates Earl Charles, Chief Financial Officer, Aoptix Corp; Peter Antoinette, Chief Executive Officer, NanoComp; Paul Woods, Chief Executive Officer, Algenol Biofuels; Allen Ruszkowski, Chief Executive Officer, CVAC Systems |
12:00 - 12:45 pm |
Panel 4 – Nanotechnology & Economic Development– Focus on Key States Griff Kundahl, Executive Director, North Carolina Center for Innovation in NanoBiotechnology; Anthony Green, Vice President for Commericalization, Ben Franklin Technology Center; J. Michael Bowman, Executive Director, Delaware Technology Park; Joseph Garone, Chairman, Long Island Forum for Technology |
12:45 - 1:00 pm |
Lunch Keynote , Scott Livingston, Chief Executive Officer, Livingston Securities |
1:00 - 1:45 pm |
Panel 5 – Nanotechnology & Venture Capital – Focus on Investments Joel Serface , Managing Director, Clean Range Ventures; Michael Gurau, Managing Director, CEI Community Ventures;
Patti Glaza, Principal, Arsenal Venture Partners; William Reinisch, Managing Director, Paladin Capital |
1:45 - 2:15 pm |
Keynote – Innovation in the Built Environment Andreas Schierenbeck, President, Siemens Industries |
2:15 - 3:00 pm |
Panel 6 – Scaling Up & Selling Revolutionary New Materials Robert Miller, Chief Executive Officer, Abakan Inc.; Gavin Rezos, Chairman, Alexium Corp; David Arthur, Chief Executive Officer, Southwest Nanotechnologies Inc.; Karl Heinz Strobl, Vice President, Business Development, CVD Equipment Corp. |
3:00 - 3:45 pm |
Panel 7 – Nano Enabled Revolutionary Energy Technologies Rahul Iyer, Senior Director, Corporate Development, Siluria Technologies;
PJ Piper, Chief Executive Officer, QM Power Corp;
David Shrier , Entrepreneur in Residence, Ernst & Young
Jon Myers , CEO, Graphene Technologies Inc |
3:45 - 4:00 pm |
Keynote Interview – Healthcare 2.0
Mostafa Analoui , Head of Healthcare, Livingston Securities;
Jeffrey Kraws , Chief Executive Officer, Crystal Research Associates |
4:00 - 4:45 pm |
Panel 8 – Innovation Strategies in America's Blue Chip Companies
Bob Prieto , Senior Vice President, Fluor Corp.;
Pulakesh Mukherjee, Principal, BASF Venture Capital;
Brad Pietras , Director, Lockheed Martin Corp Corporate Engineering & Nanotechnology;
Peter Bastien, Technology Business Development, Toyota Tsusho America |
4:45 - 5:30 pm |
Panel 9 – Water Innovations
Hu Fleming , Global Director, Hatch Water;
Richard Stuebi, Managing Director, Early Stage Partners;
Kevin McGovern, Chairman, The Water Initiative;
Jonathan Hoopes, Chief Executive Officer, GreenHunter Energy;
Vincent Caprio , Executive Director, Water Innovations Alliance |
5:30 - 6:00 pm |
Cocktails and Networking |
Agenda: Breakout Room
Breakout rooms will be available for followup conversations with panelists after their panels, and/or for one-on-one meetings with investors. In addition, we will cover a few topics of interest to our clients during the breakout session
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10:30 - 11:00 am |
Set America Free
Frank Gaffney;
President, Center for Security Policy and Founding Member, Set America Free Coalition
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11:00 -11:30 am |
Rethinking Manufacturing; Nanomaterials Based Nanomanufacturing of Energy, Medical and Electronic Devices
presented by Ahmed Busnaina, Director, The NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing - Northeastern University
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11:30 - 12:00 am |
Update on Fuel Cells
Reid Hislop;
Vice President, Investor Relations, Plug Power Corp
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12:00 - 12:30 pm |
The Drive Towards Algae Commercialization
Jerome Ringo ,
Chief Business Officer, BARD Holdings, former President, Apollo Alliance, Former Chairman, National Wildlife Federation
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12:30 - 01:00 pm |
Innovation Agenda in Washington, DC
Morris Reid ,
Managing Director – BGR Group
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1:00 - 1:30 pm |
Manufacturing Lightweight Vehicles with Next Generation Nanomaterials
Manish Mehta ;
Executive Director – Sustainability, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences
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1:30 - 2:00 pm |
The Space Elevator
Michael Laine ;
The Liftport Group
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