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TUESDAY•Job Fair10:00 am to 5:00 pm · Location: Exhibit Hall FWhether you’re looking for a better job, re-entering the workforce orjust starting out, plan to visit the Job Fair at DSS - come prepared todiscuss your skills and talents with industry leaders. Resume printingavailable.TEDCO Workshop on Commercialization10:30 am to 12:30 pmLocation: Industry Events Room, Exhibit Hall DTEDCO: Photonics in the Mid-Atlantic and Moving to CommercializationModerator: Stephen Auvil, Sr. Vice President TechnologyTransfer and Commercialization, Maryland TechnologyDevelopment Corp. (TEDCO)STEP ONE: Transferring Technology from the LaboratorySpeakers: Stephen Auvil and Ronald KaeseThis talk will provide companies and entrepreneurs with insight intothe university/federal laboratory technology transfer process includingwhat it is, why it is done, and what kind of opportunity it representsfor commercial partners and entrepreneurs. An understanding of themotivations of universities and federal laboratories and what they areseeking from commercialization partners will be discussed. The mechanismsby which industry can work with labs will be described (researchagreements, CRADAs, etc.) and a discussion of the license negotiationprocess will be included.STEP TWO: Getting a Technology to MarketSpeaker: Ronald KaeseThis talk will describe the various stages of commercializing a technologyfrom a university or federal laboratory and what it takes to besuccessful. This includes the types of funding and other resources thatare generally available and appropriate at each stage of the company’sproduct development. Specific examples of funding programs and otherresources in Maryland will be used as examples of typical state-basedresources for early-stage companies.INDUSTRY PANEL: Commercialization StoriesModerator: Stephen AuvilA panel of entrepreneurs who are commercializing non-defense, photonics-relatedtechnologies licensed from universities or federal laboratorieswill share their experiences with the commercialization process.Each entrepreneur will give a brief introduction to their story followedby a question-and-answer session led by the moderator. Audience participationwill be encouraged.MIRTHE Workshop on Early-StageTechnology Commercialization1:00 to 2:30 pm · Location: Industry Events Room, Exhibit Hall DPanelists from U.S. government laboratories, venture capital community,and industry discuss ways to speed the commercialization and deploymentof early-stage Defense and Homeland Security applicationsfocused on mid-infrared technologies. Listen and interact with the leadersin the IR community, and come to share your ideas.Moderator: Joseph X. Montemarano, Executive Director,MIRTHE, Princeton Univ.PANELISTS:Ralph Taylor-Smith, General Partner of Battelle Venturesand Innovation Valley PartnersBill Seng, Sandia National LaboratoriesJeff Anderson, Teledyne Nova SensorsPetros Kotidis, Block EngineeringABOUT THE ORGANIZERSJoseph Montemarano has been involved in state-of-the-art researchand commercialization efforts related to health-care, defense andhomeland security, advanced materials, computer science and photonicapplications throughout his career. Mr. Montemarano has helped largeand small companies, and government researchers access emergingtechnologies, faculty and other university resources resulting in a significantincrease in sponsored research, the launch of several spin-offcompanies, and successful technology commercialization and fieldedapplications. He joined Princeton University in July 1994, and currentlyserves as Executive Director for the NSF-Engineering Research Centeron Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and Environment (MIRTHE) ledby Princeton University, and Director for Industrial Enterprise for thePrinceton Institute for Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM).About MIRTHE: MIRTHE is an Engineering Research Centerfor Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and the Environmentsponsored by NSF. MIRTHE invents, developsand commercializes high-performance, cost-effectiveand market-ready mid-infrared trace gas sensor systemsbased on new technologies such as quantum cascade lasers in closecollaboration with industry, practitioners, academic institutions andgovernment laboratories for applications in health, environment andhomeland security. To learn more go to www.mirthecenter.org+1 360 676 3290 · help@spie.org · (Twitter) #DSS 17