2007 Invention to Venture Agenda

8:00

Continental Breakfast, Registration, Pre-Networking

8:30

Welcome and About UST School of Engineering

Dr. Ron Bennett, Dean, School of Engineering

Welcome and About NCIIA

Jennifer Keller Jackson, Grants Manager, NCIIA 

9:00

Why Attorneys Make People Wine (Whine)

Kyle Peterson, Attorney at Patterson, Thuente, Skaar and Christensen/Winemaker

9:45

Break

10:00

Idea Validation and Opportunity Assessment

Jay Schrankler 

10:45

Marketing and Sales for Early Stage Companies

Chris Berghoff, CEO, Control Products and Protected Home 

11:30

Issues of Intellectual Property Licensing

Mark Deffner, Attorney, Pauly, DeVries Smith & Deffner, L.L.C.
Greg Mowry, Engr. Professor

12:15

Lunch & Networking

1:15

Building the Team

Steve Case, Chairman, CyberOptics Corporation

2:00

The perfect business plan, slide show, & "elevator speech"

Steve Pederson, Managing Director, Concerto Venture Partners

2:45

Break

3:00

Finding the Money

Joe Phillips, Aethlon Capital

Barbara Hensley, Founder, Hope Chest for Breast Cancer

4:00

Ending Remarks

4:15

Adjourn