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Goal:
The purpose of this workshop is to inspire and motivate students, research faculty, and local entreprenours into developing their ideas into successful commercial products.
Key Values of Workshop:
- Updates on new opportunities to support the development of new businesses and innovations into successful commercial products
- Case study presentations by national-recognized innovators on how they developed their business ideas into commercial products.
- Update on current research and academic topics on innovation-based manufacturing.
- Virginia Tech students will present selected business ideas as part of the student innovation competition.
Date
November 7, 2013. 8:30 am-2:00 pm.
Tentative agenda:
- 8:00 am-8:15 am. Welcome and overview.
- 8:15 am-9:00 am. Current research in innovation-based manufacturing topics. Dr. Elisabeth Reynolds, MIT Industrial Performance Center.
- 9:00 am-9:45 am. State support programs for innovation-based manufacturing. Mr. Robert Brooke. SBIR/STTR
- 9:45 am-10:00 am. Break
- 10:00 am-10:45 am. Case study 1: Chad Schlaepfer. AMP Americas.
- 10:45 am-11:30 am. Case study 2. Robert Sturges. Arc Ablation, Virginia Tech.
- 11:30 am-12:00 pm. Round panel discussion, all speakers.
- 12:00-1:00 pm. Lunch
- 1:00 pm-2:00 pm. Student Innovation Competition. See guidelines here.
- 2:00 pm- 2:10 pm. Closing comments and adjourn
Who should attend:
- Virginia students and faculty interested in commercializing their ideas into successful products, small and medium entrepreneurs, county and state agents supporting economic development, product development engineers and process engineers of large corporations.
- Anybody who is interested in innovation and manufacturing.
Investment:
Free for Virginia Tech affiliates. $50 for members of other organizations.
Venue:
The Inn at Virginia Tech
901 Prices Fork
Blacksburg, VA, 24061
Phone – (540) 231-8000
Registration:
To register, please follow this link. If you have any questions or need more details please contact contact Dr. Henry Quesada at quesada@vt.edu.
If you are a person with a disability and desire any assistive devices, services or other accommodations to participate in this activity, please contact Dr Henry Quesada at (540 231 0978) during business hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. to discuss accommodations 5 days prior to the event. TDD number is (800) 828-1120.