Origin Stories - Exploring Entrepreneurship
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6th annual Origin Stories – Exploring Entrepreneurship
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FREE Webinar.
Sponsor this Webinar & a bonus seminar. Invest a very modest % of your marketing budget*
Origin Stories of the following Companies:
ATLANT 3D Nanosystems – Founder & CEO Maksym Plakhotnyuk; Rapid atomic layer prototyping and manufacturing. MEMS and Integrated Sensors, Microfluidics and Lab-on-Chip, RF-devices, Optical and Photonic Devices, Quantum and Energy-Harvesting/Storage Devices can be developed with ATLANT3D™ technology with previously impossible functionality and speed at a fraction of a cost.
Cardea Bio – Co-Founder & CTO Brett Goldsmith; First and only mass produced BPU's (Biosignal Processing Unit) offer direct communication with biology by translating near real-time streams of multi-omics signals into digital information. Graphene enabled BPU platform opens a new generation of innovations, applications, devices, and products in and around life science. Already finding applications in medicine, agriculture, and genomics.
Smartlens – Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer Murat Baday; Integrated contact lens manufacturing, microfluidics & nanofabrication technologies enable accurate, affordable, ultra-sensitive measurements of (IOP) eye pressure. Helps improve early diagnosis of disease, thus reducing prevalence of blindness and glaucoma treatment costs. Related applications are being studied monitoring Intracranial Pressure (ICP) associated with neurological disorders and cancers.
PsiQuantum – Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer Pete Shadbolt; Building a general-purpose useful silicon photonic quantum computer.
Origin Stories – Exploring Entrepreneurship
>> What is an Origin Story?
“Teenager is bitten by a mutant spider... Gains super powers!”
– Spiderman’s Origin Story
>> What is an Origin Story for a Nanotechnology company?
Come hear Nanotechnology company Origin Stories told by the people who lived the stories!
Have you ever started a business?
- Have you wondered how you would do it?
Have you ever worked at a technology start-up?
- Have you wondered what it would be like?
SFBA Nano‘s “Origin Stories” event basics:
Each "Origin Story Lightning Talk" will be:
10-minute-long presentation - 1/2 technology & 1/2 business.
+ 4 minutes of Q & A will follow each presentation.
Panel Discussion (~ 80 minutes)
Agenda (California Time)
3:30 – 4:00 pm – Check-in
4:00 – 4:15 pm – Welcome
4:15 – 5:25 pm – Lightning Presentations by Company Founders
5:30 – 7:00 pm – Panel Discussion - Glenn Friedman, moderator; Chair SFBA Nano
*Sponsorship opportunities
Invest a very modest % of your marketing budget! Purchase a $100 Sponsor Ticket .
1. Logo and link on event promotional materials;
2. Sponsor logo and link on ieee.org/nano website.
3. Logo, up to 3 links, and 1/4-page ad in digital program.
4. Sponsor acknowledgement at beginning of event.
Ask about additional benefits, custom sponsorships
5. BONUS: Sponsor benefits for 1 single speaker seminar during 2022
Includes (at sponsor’s option) 1 or 2 dedicated “breakout rooms” available for 45 minutes following the seminar’s conclusion, Suggested use: product presentations, meet with potential or current customers.
Single speaker seminars on a variety of topics are/will be scheduled throughout the year.
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SFBA Nano is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit organization. Contact SFBA Nano for details about benefits; receipt and tax documentation.
San Francisco Bay Area Nanotechnology Council’s events provide a forum for networking and the exchange of information among local academics, engineers, early-stage venture capitalists and entrepreneurs - all interested in nanotechnology.
IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Nanotechnology Council
2020, 2017 & 2014 Best Chapter IEEE Nanotechnology Council (worldwide)
2019, 2016 & 2014 Best Chapter IEEE Santa Clara Valley (USA)