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Nanotech: From Promise to Reality
1st Annual Conference, IEEE SF Bay Area Nanotechnology Council
Wednesday, May 18, 2005

8:30-9:15 am Registration

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Nanotech: What's happening now?

9:15-10:15 am Nanotechnology Today: the Reality and the Promise (download PDF)
Dr. Lawrence Dubois
Vice President
SRI International
10:15-10:30 am Break
10:30-11:30 am Funding of Nano- electronics Companies in the SBIR/STTR Program at the NSF
Dr. James Rudd
SBIR Program Manager
National Science Foundation
11:30 am to 12:15 pm Nanofabrication and Directed Self-Assembly
Dr. Alex Liddle
Materials Science Division
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
12:00 to 1:15 pm Lunch with remarks from Avo Kanadjian, VP Marketing, Nantero, and Dr. Pushkar Apte, Vice-President of Technology Programs, Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)

Nanotech: Where are we headed?

1:15 to 2:15 pm Architectonics
Dr. Stanley Williams
Senior HP Fellow and Director of Quantum Science Research
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
2:15 to 3:15 pm Nanotech-What Lies Ahead
Shyam Venkatesh
Director of Partnerships
NASA Ames Research Center
3:15 to 3:30 pm Break

Nanotech: How do you get involved?

3:30 to 4:30 pm Nanomaterials: Synthesis and Deposition, An Overview of Nanogram's Platform
Dr. Nobuyuki Kambe
Vice President and Chief Technical Officer
Nanogram
4:30 to 5:30 pm Industry Panel: Starting a Nano Startup
Dr. Christopher Hamlin
Sr. Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, LSI Logic
Dr. William Miller
Chairman, Founder, Nanostellar
Dr. Katherine Tynan
formerly Vice President
Vitra Biosciences
Dr. Chuck Shaper
CEO, Transfer Devices
Bala Padmakumar
President, Nanoconduction
5:30 to 7:00 pm Networking for Opportunities and Information



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