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Upcoming Event at the Silicon Valley Chapter: Upcoming Events | Prior Events Luncheon Event Topic: From within the hallowed walls of corporate R&D, the incentives are to create the new products of tomorrow. Everyone wins if they are successful, but who loses if they are not? Outside the secure surroundings in a corporate R&D facility lies a wide open environment of potential targets for technology transfer and licensing. Finding such potential targets, negotiating for the rights and bringing them into the fold are the subject of this luncheon presentation. How do you find the corporation that is not exclusively wedded to internal product development and is interested in legitimately acquiring your IP? Speaker Introductions: Panelists: Location: Meeting Format:
Registration: *Members of the following organizations will receive the LES Member rate: *PLEASE NOTE*
For questions about registration please contact Curtis Gore at LES headquarters: Curtis Gore Pay by check Sponsored by:
Speaker Bios: Andrew Chung joined Lightspeed in 2006 and focuses on investments in cleantech, Internet, digital media and software. He has over eight years of investing, consulting and operating experience. Andrew helped initiate Lightspeed's investment program in cleantech and currently observes the boards of Coaltek, Exclara, Friends for Sale and Stion. Andrew has been an invited cleantech and Internet panelist at a number of industry events, including TiEcon, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Growth Forum, the World Affairs Council Summit, the Social Gaming Summit, Stanford Energy Crossroads, and the Berkeley Energy Resource Collaborative. He co-chairs the Cleantech Advisory Board for the Indus Entrepreneurs Technology Association, and was a selection committee member for the Cleantech Venture Forum. Dr. Martha Krebs is Deputy Director for Energy Research and Development for the California Energy Commission. The Energy Research and Development Division is responsible for the Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program, which conducts research that seeks to improve the quality of life for California citizens by developing next generation environmentally sound, reliable and affordable electricity and natural gas services and products. Before coming to the Energy Commission, she was President of Science Strategies, an analysis and consulting firm that works with public and private organizations to identify critical issues and opportunities in science and technology. Prior to establishing Science Strategies, she was an Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California at Los Angeles. She came to UCLA as the founding Institute Director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), where she was responsible for establishing the initial leadership, strategic direction and administration of the Institute. The Institute is focused on the understanding and design of nanostructures and their integration into complex systems with new properties beyond those already found in nature. Earlier, Dr. Krebs was a senior Fellow at the Institute for Defense Analysis, where she led studies in R&D management, planning and budgeting. From 1993 to 2000, Dr. Krebs served as Assistant Secretary and Director of the Office of Science at the Department of Energy, responsible for the $3.5 billion basic research program that underlay the Department's energy, environmental and national security missions. She also had the statutory responsibility for advising the Secretary on the broad R&D portfolio of the Department and the institutional health of its National Laboratories. During her tenure, she built international collaborations in particle physics, strengthened interagency collaborations for human genome sequencing, synchrotron radiation and global climate research, and oversaw the advocacy and successful construction of eight major scientific user facilities. She served on the National Science and Technology Council's Interagency Committee on Science and its Committee on the Environment. From 1983-1993, she served as an Associate Director for Planning and Development at the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she was responsible for strategic planning for research and facilities, Laboratory technology transfer, and science education and outreach. From 1977-1983, she served on the House Committee on Science first as a Professional Staff Member and then as Subcommittee Staff Director, responsible for authorizing DOE non-nuclear energy technologies and energy science programs. Dr. Omkaram (Om) Nalamasu is the Vice President of Advanced Technologies and Deputy CTO at Applied Materials. Dr. Nalamsu leads Applied's research and innovation efforts through the funding/incubation of long term R&D/product development activities, spearheads investments into global academia and consortia, and guides Applied Ventures' investments into start-ups. Prior to this, he was the Vice President of Research and NYSTAR Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering as well as Chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Professor Nalamasu was the director of the Center for Integrated Electronics, and founding director and PI of Center for Future Energy Systems, a center funded with $20 MM of state, industry and federal dollars to help NY state meet 25% of its energy needs from renewable resources by year 2012. Professor Nalamasu conceived and founded CCNI (Center for Computational Nanotechnology Innovations), a $100 MM program established in partnership with NY state, and IBM to establish world's fastest university based supercomputing center at RPI. Prior to RPI, Dr. Nalamasu was the chief technical officer of the New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium, a public/private nonprofit enterprise he co-founded to foster nanotechnology partnerships across academia, industry, and government using Bell's Labs' $400 M device fabrication facilities in Murray Hill, NJ. Dr. Nalamasu received his Ph.D in chemistry from the University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada. Tod Perry is a Commercialization Mentor at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He joined the lab from Harvard Business School where he was researching science-based businesses and technology commercialization, with a particular emphasis on clean and sustainable technologies. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and helped found two start-ups, including a company that developed low-energy solutions for water demineralization. Dr. Keshav Prasad is the Vice President of Business Development at Signet Solar and Managing Director of Signet Solar in India. He joined Signet Solar from Applied Materials, Inc. a global leader in nanomanufacturing technology solutions, where he was most recently the Managing Director of Applied Materials' subsidiary in India. While at Applied Materials, Dr. Prasad served in multiple executive management positions spanning semiconductor manufacturing equipment design and development, product engineering, product support, global operations, and business transformation. Prior to this, Dr. Prasad was a scientist at IBM's Advanced Packaging Technology Development Center in New York. He earned both his Master's and doctorate degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University and attended the Stanford Executive Management Program. Stuardo Robles is a Sr. Manager in the Strategic Licensing Group (SLG) at Applied Materials. He has contributed to SLG in the multiple roles of identifying, negotiating and closing licensing transactions. Applied's SLG has built a pipeline of over 30 technologies, has closed 14 licenses in the past 18 months and is currently closing another six licenses. Prior to SLG, Mr. Robles served in various marketing roles at Applied Materials such as Chief Marketing Officer of the Foundation Engineering Group, Strategic Marketing Manager, and Global Product Manager. He has implemented competitive intelligence assessments, developed risk/reward profiles, identified new business opportunities, and released and launched Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) products such as the Producer CVD. Mr. Robles joined Applied Materials in 1989 as an R&D Process Engineer in the Applied Deposition Technology group. He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and participated in The Berkeley Executive Leadership Program. Mr. Robles has presented and published papers on various types of CVD hardware and processes, holds 13 US patents, and has been a member of Licensing Executive Society (LES) since 2006. For more information or questions, please visit: Julie Alsing – LES-SVC Coordinator
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