Get
prepared to find funding
opportunities from government and other sources by attending SBIR04.
SBIR04 is a 2-day seminar and
workshop geared towards engineers, entrepreneurs, and small business
executives who wish to learn how to “read between the lines” of
government solicitations and how to win SBIR grants and
contracts.
FUNDING and assistance to small
businesses for R&D projects is available from the US government and
other domestic agencies under various programs. Grants from tens to
hundreds of thousands of dollars are available for work on topics
ranging from nanotechnology to astronomy. Successful “fund
seekers” are those companies who develop useful technology ideas and
are successful in conveying their benefits in solving government
problems. Learn the do’s and don’ts of cultivating these
opportunities from the agencies that provide them. The
competitive advantage you gain will help support efforts towards a
sustainable start-up business model, reducing the rate of loss of
investment cash, equity, and IP.
WORKSHOP sessions (day one) will be
a one-stop shop for information on major SBIR and STTR fund
availability. You will receive timely program announcements, schedules,
and selection criteria from major federal R&D funding agencies such
as DARPA, NASA, and Department of Defense. Prime contractors and
laboratory institutions will discuss resource and partnership
opportunities relative to their existing programs.
TUTORIAL sessions (day two) are
designed to provide logistical hands-on knowledge of applying for and
managing SBIR grants. You will be given insight from vastly
successful “fund seekers” as well as prime contractors and
administrators. You will also hear from a diverse forum of VCs
and industry executives via a panel discussion.
IEEE SCV-LEOS Chapter is a Silicon
Valley-based non-profit organization of IEEE (Institute for Electrical
& Electronic Engineers) whose charter is to advance the
Electro-optics field in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are
sponsoring this workshop in cooperation with various government and
private agencies to provide information about available small business
funding to both IEEE members and the general public.
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